Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India

mindat Locality ID: 11322
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-11322.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Ajantha (Ajanta)
Aurangabad
Bambori Well
Bidkin
Ellora
Kannad
Soygaon
Vaijapur

Latitude: 20°3'8"N
Longitude: 75°14'54"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 20.052222222222,75.248333333333

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.

Apophyllite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Fluorite	Heulandite	Mica	Mordenite	Natrolite	None
Not in a structural group	Quartz	Scheelite	Stilbite	Thomsonite

Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celadonite ()*	Epistilbite ()*	Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*
Fluorite ()*	Heulandite-Ca ()*	Laumontite ()*	Mesolite ()*	Mordenite ()*
Powellite ()*	Quartz ()*	Stellerite ()*	Stilbite-Ca ()*	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 Ba C Ca F Fe H K Mg Mo Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ba Ca H Mo Na O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apophyllite Baryte Calcite Clay Fluorite Heulandite Mica Mordenite Natrolite None
Not in a structural group Quartz Scheelite Stilbite Thomsonite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	0		11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	66459	27770
Celadonite ()*	Mica Clay	KMgFe³⁺Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	66459	309
Epistilbite ()*	Mordenite	Ca₃[Si₁₈Al₆O₄₈]·16H₂O	1	66461	138
Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Apophyllite	KCa₄Si₈O₂₀F·8H₂O	1	66459	303
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	66455	9617
Heulandite-Ca ()*	Heulandite	(Ca,Na,K)₅(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·26H₂O	1	66463	246
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	66461	1271
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	1	66461	425
Mordenite ()*	Mordenite	(Na₂,Ca,K₂)₄(Al₈Si₄₀)O₉₆·28H₂O	1	66461	405
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)	0		494
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	66455	61156
Stellerite ()*	Stilbite	Ca₄(Si₂₈Al₈)O₇₂·28H₂O	1	66461	189
Stilbite-Ca ()*	Stilbite	NaCa₄(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·28H₂O	1	66463	268
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	0		452

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R061064	Ellora, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India	https://rruff.info/R061064

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