Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Roadcuts, Kalama Area, Cowlitz Co., Washington, USA

mindat Locality ID: 14993
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-14993.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Roadcuts, Kalama Area, Cowlitz Co., Washington, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Interstate 5 Roadcuts

Latitude: 46°0'30"N
Longitude: 122°50'39"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.008333333333,-122.84416666667

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.

Analcime	Aragonite	Calcite	Chabazite	Clay	Copper	Mica	Mordenite	Natrolite	None
Not in a structural group	Quartz	Thomsonite

Analcime ()*	Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celadonite ()*	Chabazite-Ca ()*
Copper ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epistilbite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Mesolite ()*
Mordenite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*

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: Al C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Na O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Fe H K Mg Na O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Aragonite Calcite Chabazite Clay Copper Mica Mordenite Natrolite None
Not in a structural group Quartz Thomsonite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	3	283964,283966,283968	1627
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	283966	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	283964,283967	27770
Celadonite ()*	Mica Clay	KMgFe³⁺Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	0		309
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	1	283964	310
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	2	283965,283968	3846
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	0		9895
Epistilbite ()*	Mordenite	Ca₃[Si₁₈Al₆O₄₈]·16H₂O	1	283964	138
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	0		1271
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	1	283964	425
Mordenite ()*	Mordenite	(Na₂,Ca,K₂)₄(Al₈Si₄₀)O₉₆·28H₂O	2	283966,283967	405
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	283964,283966,283967	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	0		6417
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	0		452

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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