Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Washington Co., Kansas, USA

mindat Locality ID: 130771
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-130771.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Washington Co., Kansas, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Farmington Meteorite

Latitude: 39°45'0"N
Longitude: 97°1'58"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.75,-97.032777777778

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.

Baryte	Cerite	Copper	Corundum	Cristobalite	Cubanite	Feldspar	Iron	None	Pyroxene
Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel

Albite ()*	Celestine ()*	Chromite ()*	Copper ()*	Cristobalite ()*
Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Iron ()*	Isocubanite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Merrillite ()*	Rutile ()*	Spinel ()*	Taenite ()*
Troilite ()*

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 Cr Cu Fe Mg Na Ni O P S Si Sr Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca Mg O S Sr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte Cerite Copper Corundum Cristobalite Cubanite Feldspar Iron None Pyroxene
Rutile Sphalerite Spinel

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	215315	8803
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	0		1252
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	215315	3902
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	215315	3846
Cristobalite ()*	Cristobalite	SiO₂	1	215315	453
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	215315	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	0		9895
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	215315	5433
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	215315	1089
Isocubanite ()*	Sphalerite Cubanite	CuFe₂S₃	1	215315	191
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	215315	14899
Merrillite ()*	Cerite	Ca₉NaMg(PO₄)₇	1	215315	230
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	215315	5614
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	215315	1934
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	215315	703
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	215315	1044

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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