Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Pajarito Mountain, Otero Co., New Mexico, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 2500
Youngest recorded age at locality: 541

mindat Locality ID: 49331
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-49331.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Pajarito Mountain, Otero Co., New Mexico, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Amphibole	Elpidite	Eudialyte	Fluorite	None	Pyroxene	Rutile	Thortveitite	Titanite	Zircon

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Ca Cl F Fe H Na O Si Th Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca Cl F Fe H Na O Si Th Ti Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Elpidite Eudialyte Fluorite None Pyroxene Rutile Thortveitite Titanite Zircon

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Aegirine ()*	Arfvedsonite ()*	Elpidite ()*	Eudialyte ()*	Fluorite ()*
Gittinsite ()*	Riebeckite ()*	Rutile ()*	Thorite ()*	Titanite ()*
Zircon ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Aegirine ()*	Pyroxene	NaFe³⁺Si₂O₆	2500	541	1022
Arfvedsonite ()*	Amphibole	NaNa₂(Fe²⁺₄Fe³⁺)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2500	541	295
Elpidite ()*	Elpidite	Na₂ZrSi₆O₁₅·3H₂O	2500	541	50
Eudialyte ()*	Eudialyte	Na₁₅Ca₆Fe₃Zr₃Si(Si₂₅O₇₃)(O,OH,H₂O)₃(Cl,OH)₂	2500	541	182
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2500	541	9617
Gittinsite ()*	Thortveitite	CaZrSi₂O₇	2500	541	11
Riebeckite ()*	Amphibole	Na₂(Fe²⁺₃Fe³⁺₂)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2500	541	375
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	2500	541	5614
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	2500	541	1006
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	2500	541	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2500	541	5251

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	ree-00673	2500	541	Proterozoic											49331	Pajarito Mountain, Otero Co., New Mexico, USA	Pajarito Mountain	Orris and Grauch (2002)		USGSOFR02_189

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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