Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

mindat Locality ID: 107949
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-107949.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Cozes
Jonzac
Montguyon
Plassay
Saint-Denis D'Oléron
Saint-Palais-sur-Mer
Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron

Latitude: 45°45'3"N
Longitude: 0°-58'-23"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.750833333333,-0.97305555555556

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.

Andalusite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar
Kaolinite	Marcasite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel
Staurolite	Titanite	Zircon

Anatase ()*	Andalusite ()*	Anorthite ()*	Augite ()*	Baryte ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Corundum ()*	Epidote ()*	Gibbsite ()*
Goethite ()*	Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Kyanite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pigeonite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Staurolite ()*	Titanite ()*
Troilite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 Cu Fe H K Mg O S Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Diaspore Epidote Feldspar
Kaolinite Marcasite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Spinel
Staurolite Titanite Zircon

27 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	3	54581,54582,54589	2162
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	1	54589	1310
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)	1	54579	1036
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	54589	2060
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	54582	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	54585	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	54581,54582	27198
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	54589	1797
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	54589	8173
Gibbsite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	2	54581,54582	504
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	54582	7437
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	54582,54589	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	54579	5433
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	54581,54582	5591
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	54589	1507
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	54589	14899
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	54581	5674
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	54582	17380
Pigeonite ()*	Pyroxene	(Mg,Fe,Ca)₂Si₂O₆	1	54579	303
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	54581,54582	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	54577,54579,54581,54582	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	3	54581,54582,54589	5614
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	54589	1516
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)	1	54589	978
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	54589	4899
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	54579	1044
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2	54579,54589	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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