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:
Nordkapp, Finnmark, Norway

mindat Locality ID: 194893
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-194893.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Nordkapp, Finnmark, Norway": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Magerøya Island

Latitude: 70°57'9"N
Longitude: 25°49'39"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 70.9525,25.8275

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	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar	Mica	Natrolite
None	Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Sapphirine	Stilbite	Titanite	Tourmaline

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Analcime ()*	Calcite ()*	Epidote ()*
Goethite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Prehnite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Sapphirine ()*	Schorl ()*
Stellerite ()*	Titanite ()*

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 C Ca Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Analcime Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Diaspore Epidote Feldspar Mica Natrolite
None Not in a structural group Prehnite Pyrite Quartz Rutile Sapphirine Stilbite Titanite Tourmaline

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	91551	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	91555	8803
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	2	91549,91554	1627
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	91550	27770
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	91550	8173
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	91551	7437
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	91552	1271
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	91555	17380
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	2	91549,91550	1236
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	91549,91550,91554	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	91550,91554	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	91549,91553,91554,91555	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	91555	5614
Sapphirine ()*	Sapphirine	Mg₄(Mg₃Al₉)O₄[Si₃Al₉O₃₆]	2	91554,91555	129
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	2	91554,91555	2705
Stellerite ()*	Stilbite	Ca₄(Si₂₈Al₈)O₇₂·28H₂O	1	91550	189
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	2	91551,91554	4899

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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