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Locality Name:
Seccarezze Quarries, Luserna Stone Quarries, Luserna Valley, Pellice Valley, Metropolitan City Of Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Oldest recorded age at locality: 40
Youngest recorded age at locality: 35

mindat Locality ID: 240992
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-240992.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Seccarezze Quarries, Luserna Stone Quarries, Luserna Valley, Pellice Valley, Metropolitan City Of Turin, Piedmont, Italy": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 44°45'45"N
Longitude: 7°12'1"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.7625,7.2002777777778
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Ce F Fe H Nb O S Si Th Ti Y 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Ce F Fe H Ln Nb O S Si Th Ti Y 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AeschyniteAmorphousCalciteFluoriteNoneNot in a structural groupPyrite

7 IMA Minerals at location:
Aeschynite-(Y)  (*)Calcite  (*)Fluorite  (*)Lusernaite-(Y)  (*)Opal  (*)
Pyrite  (*)Synchysite-(Ce)  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Aeschynite-(Y)  (*)Aeschynite(Y,Ln,Ca,Th)(Ti,Nb)2(O,OH)640350141
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)4035027770
Fluorite  (*)FluoriteCaF2403509617
Lusernaite-(Y)  (*)Not in a structural groupY4Al(CO3)2(OH,F)11·6H2O403502
Opal  (*)AmorphousSiO2·nH2O403502994
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS24035039462
Synchysite-(Ce)  (*)NoneCaCe(CO3)2F40350232


Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:
Age IDLocality Notes
Michelle_289Lusernaite-(Y) is found in late stage hydrothermal fractures related to the Alpine tectono metamorphic events. Seccarezze Quarry is an important quarry in the mining of the leucocratic orthogneiss known as "Luserna Stone."


1 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
Michelle_289403535-40Ar-ArCooling agephengite     240992Seccarezze Quarries, Luserna Stone Quarries, Luserna Valley, Pellice Valley, Metropolitan City Of Turin, Piedmont, ItalySeccarezze QuarriesBiagioni et al. (2013)10.2138/am.2013.4366AM98_1322Age of late stage fractures during the tertiary Alpine tectono metamorphic events. 35-40 ma is described as being the time that the greenschist facies overprinted an earlier eclogite facies during the exhumation of the Dora-Maira Massif and period of cooling after peak thermal conditions.

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