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:
Meru County, Kenya

mindat Locality ID: 192778
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-192778.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Meru County, Kenya": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Mount Kenya
Mount Kenya National Park

Latitude: 0°-10'0"N
Longitude: 37°17'58"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -0.16666666666667,37.299444444444

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	Beryl	Calcite	Cancrinite-sodalite	Feldspar	Natrolite	None	Olivine	Pyroxene	Sapphirine
Sodalite	Spinel	Thomsonite	Tridymite

Aegirine ()*	Aegirine-augite ()*	Aenigmatite ()*	Albite ()*	Analcime ()*
Augite ()*	Beryl ()*	Calcite ()*	Fayalite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Nepheline ()*	Sanidine ()*	Scolecite ()*	Sodalite ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*

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 Be C Ca Cl Fe H K Mg Na O Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Be O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Beryl Calcite Cancrinite-sodalite Feldspar Natrolite None Olivine Pyroxene Sapphirine
Sodalite Spinel Thomsonite Tridymite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aegirine ()*	Pyroxene	NaFe³⁺Si₂O₆	1	77719	1022
Aegirine-augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Na)(Fe³⁺,Mg,Fe²⁺)Si₂O₆	1	77719	286
Aenigmatite ()*	Sapphirine	Na₄[Fe²⁺₁₀Ti₂]O₄[Si₁₂O₃₆]	1	77719	133
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	77719	8803
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	77719	1627
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	77719	2060
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	0		4286
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	77719	27770
Fayalite ()*	Olivine	Fe²⁺₂(SiO₄)	1	77719	371
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	77719	14899
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)	2	77719,77720	884
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	77719	598
Scolecite ()*	Natrolite	Ca(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	1	77719	390
Sodalite ()*	Cancrinite-sodalite Sodalite	Na₄(Si₃Al₃)O₁₂Cl	1	77719	444
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	1	77719	452

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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