Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Wadi El-Natrun Depression (Wadi El Natroun), Beheira, Egypt

mindat Locality ID: 156789
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-156789.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Wadi El-Natrun Depression (Wadi El Natroun), Beheira, Egypt": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
El-Beida Lake
El-Fazda Lake
El-Gaâr Lake
El-Hamra Lake
El-Khadra Lake
Ruzounia Lake (Razunia Lake)
Umm Risha Lake
Zug Lake

Latitude: 30°23'35"N
Longitude: 30°18'10"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 30.393055555556,30.302777777778

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Diaspore	Gypsum	None	Northupite	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz
Rhabdophane	Rocksalt

Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bassanite ()*	Burkeite ()*
Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Dolomite ()*	Gaylussite ()*	Goethite ()*
Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*	Mirabilite ()*	Nahcolite ()*	Natron ()*
Northupite ()*	Pirssonite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Thénardite ()*
Thermonatrite ()*	Trona ()*

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: Ba C Ca Cl Fe H Mg Na O S Si Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ba C Ca Cl Fe H Mg Na O S Si Sr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Diaspore Gypsum None Northupite Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz
Rhabdophane Rocksalt

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	0		1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	0		3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	0		11547
Bassanite ()*	Rhabdophane	Ca(SO₄)·0.5H₂O	0		82
Burkeite ()*	None	Na₄(SO₄)(CO₃)	4	49134,49135,49136,49140	47
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	0		27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	0		1252
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	0		9895
Gaylussite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂·5H₂O	0		57
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	0		7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	0		6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	8	49133,49134,49135,49136,49137,49138,49139,49140	1398
Mirabilite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)·10H₂O	0		223
Nahcolite ()*	None	NaH(CO₃)	0		78
Natron ()*	None	Na₂(CO₃)·10H₂O	2	49134,49140	51
Northupite ()*	Northupite	Na₃Mg(CO₃)₂Cl	0		31
Pirssonite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂·2H₂O	0		19
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	0		39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0		61156
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	4	49133,49134,49136,49140	299
Thermonatrite ()*	None	Na₂(CO₃)·H₂O	0		64
Trona ()*	None	Na₃(HCO₃)(CO₃)·2H₂O	2	49134,49135	129

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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