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Locality Name:
Trèves, Gard, Occitanie, France

Oldest recorded age at locality: 198
Youngest recorded age at locality: 41.2

mindat Locality ID: 155632
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-155632.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Trèves, Gard, Occitanie, France": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Fournels Valley
Mas Aubert

Latitude: 44°7'21"N
Longitude: 3°26'21"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.1225,3.4391666666667

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	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chloritoid	Clay	Corundum	Feldspar	Fluorite	Gypsum
Iron	Marcasite	Mica	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile
Sphalerite	Spinel

Albite ()*	Analcime ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Graphite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Hemimorphite ()*	Hercynite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Iron ()*	Magnetite ()*
Marcasite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Ottrélite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Sphalerite ()*

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 F Fe H K Mg Mn Na O Pb S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chloritoid Clay Corundum Feldspar Fluorite Gypsum
Iron Marcasite Mica Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile
Sphalerite Spinel

23 IMA Minerals at location:

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
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	198	182	1	55406	8803
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	198	182	1	55406	1627
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	59.2	41.2	1	55404	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	59.2	41.2	1	55404	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	59.2	41.2	1	55404	4979
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	59.2	41.2	1	55404	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	59.2	41.2	1	55404	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	59.2	41.2	1	55404	24243
Graphite ()*	None	C	198	182	1	55406	2812
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	59.2	41.2	1	55404	6890
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	59.2	41.2	1	55404	1689
Hercynite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Al₂O₄	198	182	1	55406	407
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	198	182	1	55406	5433
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	198	182	1	55406	1089
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	198	182	1	55406	14899
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	59.2	41.2	1	55404	5674
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	198	182	1	55406	17380
Ottrélite ()*	Chloritoid	Mn²⁺Al₂O(SiO₄)(OH)₂	198	182	1	55406	59
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	198	41.2	2	55404,55406	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	198	182	1	55406	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	198	41.2	2	55404,55406	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	198	182	1	55406	5614
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	59.2	41.2	1	55404	21482

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Sample Source	Dated Mineral	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference ID
sedexmvt-00120	59.2	41.2	Late Paleocene to Early Eocene (paleomagnetism)	paleomag				105652	Trèves Mine, Fournels Valley, Trèves, Gard, Occitanie, France	Treves	Taylor et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009_1297
sedznpb-00202	56	41.2	Early-Middle Eocene					105652	Trèves Mine, Fournels Valley, Trèves, Gard, Occitanie, France	Trèves	Singer et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009-1252
Giersdorf_00000844	198	182	190±8		uraninite	Uraninite	U	49063	La Pierre Plantée Pass, Mas Aubert, Trèves, Gard, Occitanie, France	La Pierre Plantée	Carrat & Kosztolanyi (1987)	CRSAS305_89

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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