Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Puy De Tunisset, Saint-Ours-les-Roches, Pontgibaud, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

mindat Locality ID: 43977
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-43977.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Puy De Tunisset, Saint-Ours-les-Roches, Pontgibaud, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 45°51'17"N
Longitude: 2°57'52"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.854722222222,2.9644444444444

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.

Amorphous	Amphibole	Aragonite	Calcite	Cancrinite	Cancrinite-sodalite	Corundum	Feldspar	Garnet	Mica
Natrolite	None	Olivine	Pseudobrookite	Pyroxene	Spinel	Titanite	Tridymite

Andradite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Augite ()*	Calcite ()*	Diopside ()*
Enstatite ()*	Fluoro-edenite ()*	Fluorophlogopite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Hematite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Microsommite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Opal ()*	Pseudobrookite ()*
Sanidine ()*	Titanite ()*	Tridymite ()*

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 Cl F Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Amphibole Aragonite Calcite Cancrinite Cancrinite-sodalite Corundum Feldspar Garnet Mica
Natrolite None Olivine Pseudobrookite Pyroxene Spinel Titanite Tridymite

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1534
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	3250
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	2060
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	4135
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	944
Fluoro-edenite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂Mg₅(Si₇Al)O₂₂F₂	27
Fluorophlogopite ()*	Mica	KMg₃(Si₃Al)O₁₀F₂	47
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1188
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	14899
Microsommite ()*	Cancrinite-sodalite Cancrinite	[(Na,K)₆(SO₄)][Ca₂Cl₂][(Si₆Al₆O₂₄)]	7
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1236
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	2994
Pseudobrookite ()*	Pseudobrookite	(Fe³⁺₂Ti)O₅	164
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	598
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	4899
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	458

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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