Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Kettle Point, Bosanquet Township, Lambton Co., Ontario, Canada

Oldest recorded age at locality: 383
Youngest recorded age at locality: 359

mindat Locality ID: 159580
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-159580.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kettle Point, Bosanquet Township, Lambton Co., Ontario, Canada": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 43°12'44"N
Longitude: 82°1'21"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 43.212222222222,-82.0225

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.

Calcite	Epsomite	Gypsum	Humboldtine	None	Oxalate	Pyrite

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: C Ca Fe H Mg O S

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Epsomite Gypsum Humboldtine None Oxalate Pyrite

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Epsomite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Humboldtine ()*	Pyrite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	383	359	27770
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	383	359	484
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	383	359	6890
Humboldtine ()*	Humboldtine Oxalate	Fe²⁺(C₂O₄)·2H₂O	383	359	27
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	383	359	39462

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Michelle_844	Humboldtine occurs in fossiliferous concertions found at Kettle Point, on the shores of Lake Huron in southern Ontario. The Kettle Point Formation is Upper Devonian in age, containing large concretions hosted in deformed organic rich shale.

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
	Michelle_844	383	359	Upper Devonian		Age of the Kettle Point Formation							Humboldtine, Pyrite		159580	Kettle Point, Bosanquet Township, Lambton Co., Ontario, Canada	Kettle Point	Coniglio and Cameron (1990)		BCPG38_64	Age of the Kettle Point Formation. "Kettle" concretions occurred early in diagenesis.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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