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Locality Name:
Hurchas (Hurchus), Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

Oldest recorded age at locality: 55
Youngest recorded age at locality: 4.5

mindat Locality ID: 156998
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-156998.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hurchas (Hurchus), Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 35°31'20"N
Longitude: 75°42'5"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.522222222222,75.701388888889
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 B Ca Fe H Mg Na O Si Ti 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al B Ca Fe H Mg Na O Si Ti 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ClinozoisiteEpidoteNonePyroxeneTitaniteTourmaline

4 IMA Minerals at location:
Diopside  (*)Epidote  (*)Schorl  (*)Titanite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Diopside  (*)PyroxeneCaMgSi2O6554.504135
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)554.508173
Schorl  (*)TourmalineNaFe2+3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)554.502705
Titanite  (*)TitaniteCaTi(SiO4)O554.504899


Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:
Age IDLocality Notes
AJG8_9877_001The Dassu orthogneiss hosts many pegmatites, Gilgit is the location of several of these pegmatites
AJG8_9877_002The Dassu orthogneiss hosts many pegmatites, Gilgit is the location of several of these pegmatites
AJG8_9877_003Shigar Valley pegmatites


3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
AJG8_9877_0017.46.87.1±0.3     Yes  2530Gilgit, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, PakistanDassu orthogneissAgheem et al. (2015)10.1007/s12517-015-1900-xAJG8_9877The age of the pegmatites is younger than the Dassu orthogneiss which hosts them, there is no metamorphic overprint on the pegmatites
AJG8_9877_0024.94.54.7±0.2     Yes  2530Gilgit, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, PakistanDassu orthogneissAgheem et al. (2015)10.1007/s12517-015-1900-xAJG8_9877The age of the pegmatites is younger than the Dassu orthogneiss which hosts them, there is no metamorphic overprint on the pegmatites
AJG8_9877_003555055-50 age of collision   Yes  2530Gilgit, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, PakistanShigar Valley pegmatitesAgheem et al. (2015)10.1007/s12517-015-1900-xAJG8_9877Trace elements variations place the Shigar Valley pegmatites into syn-collision granite domain. This collision-related magmatism took place when Indian plate collided with the Eurasian plate ~55 to 50 Ma ago (e.g., Molnar and Tapponnier 1975; Petterson and Windley 1985; Beck et al. 1995; Rowley 1996; Bignold and Treloar 2003; Rehman et al. 2011)

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