Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
São Paulo Island (Challenger Island; Southeast Island), São Pedro E São Paulo Archipelago, Pernambuco, Brazil

mindat Locality ID: 185537
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-185537.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "São Paulo Island (Challenger Island; Southeast Island), São Pedro E São Paulo Archipelago, Pernambuco, Brazil": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°55'1"N
Longitude: 29°20'43"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0.91694444444444,-29.345277777778

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	Apatite	None	Olivine	Pyroxene	Spinel	Zircon

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 Ca Cl Fe H K Mg Na O P Si Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Cl Fe H K Mg Na O P Si Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Apatite None Olivine Pyroxene Spinel Zircon

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Forsterite ()*	Hercynite ()*	Hydroxylapatite ()*	Jadeite ()*	Potassic-chloro-hastingsite ()*
Zircon ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1188
Hercynite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Al₂O₄	407
Hydroxylapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃OH	367
Jadeite ()*	Pyroxene	NaAlSi₂O₆	154
Potassic-chloro-hastingsite ()*	Amphibole	KCa₂(Fe²⁺₄Fe³⁺)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂Cl₂	9
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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