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:
Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia Region, Turkey

Oldest recorded age at locality: 419
Youngest recorded age at locality: 359

mindat Locality ID: 146205
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-146205.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia Region, Turkey": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Kiranardi
Tomarza
Yahyalı

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Alluaudite	Calcite	Corundum	None	Not in a structural group	Orpiment	Rutile	Spinel	Tridymite

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: As C Cr Fe H Mg Na O S Si Sn Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alluaudite Calcite Corundum None Not in a structural group Orpiment Rutile Spinel Tridymite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Cassiterite ()*	Chromite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Orpiment ()*	Realgar ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Tridymite ()*
Yazganite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂			1	116522	5171
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄			1	116524	3902
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			1	116522	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	419	359	1	116526	1689
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	419	359	1	116526	1066
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			1	116522	14899
Orpiment ()*	Orpiment	As₂S₃			1	116522	511
Realgar ()*	None	AsS			1	116522	712
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	419	359	1	116526	2473
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂			1	116522	458
Yazganite ()*	Alluaudite	NaMgFe³⁺₂(AsO₄)₃·H₂O			1	116522	1

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	sedexmvt-00219	419	359	Devonian		host rock age									264386	Yahyalı, Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia Region, Turkey	Yahyali	Taylor et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009_1297

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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