Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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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:
Vágar Island, Faroe Islands, Denmark

mindat Locality ID: 130742
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-130742.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Vágar Island, Faroe Islands, Denmark": 14
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Fútaklettur
Gásadalur Tunnel
Gasafelli
Lidarhamar
Miðvágur
Oyrargjogv
Sandavágur
Sørvágs
Sørvágur
Vágar Tunnel (Vága)

Latitude: 62°3'22"N
Longitude: 7°9'14"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 62.056111111111,-7.1538888888889

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.

Analcime	Calcite	Chabazite	Gyrolite	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group

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 H Na O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Calcite Chabazite Gyrolite Natrolite None Not in a structural group

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Analcime ()*	Calcite ()*	Chabazite-Ca ()*	Gyrolite ()*	Laumontite ()*
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	48294	1627
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	48283,48289	27770
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	1	48282	310
Gyrolite ()*	Gyrolite	NaCa₁₆(Si₂₃Al)O₆₀(OH)₈·14H₂O	2	48289,48295	142
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	2	48282,48284	1271
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	4	48286,48289,48294,48295	425
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1	48292	1236

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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