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:
Falls Of Schuylkill, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania, USA

mindat Locality ID: 166605
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-166605.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Falls Of Schuylkill, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

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.

Amphibole	Analcime	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote	Epsomite	Feldspar	Fluorite
Garnet	Halotrichite	Mica	Natrolite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Titanite

Actinolite ()*	Almandine ()*	Alunogen ()*	Analcime ()*	Calcite ()*
Epidote ()*	Epsomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Halotrichite ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Kyanite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Microcline ()*	Muscovite ()*	Natrolite ()*
Orthoclase ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sillimanite ()*
Titanite ()*	Zoisite ()*

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 F Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca F Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Analcime Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote Epsomite Feldspar Fluorite
Garnet Halotrichite Mica Natrolite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Titanite

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	3419
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	2353
Alunogen ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂(SO₄)₃(H₂O)₁₂·5H₂O	272
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1627
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	8173
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	484
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	9617
Halotrichite ()*	Halotrichite	Fe²⁺Al₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	409
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	5433
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1507
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1271
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	17380
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1236
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	2349
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1516
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	4899
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1025

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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