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:
Mawson Station, Mac Robertson Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica

mindat Locality ID: 204248
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-204248.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mawson Station, Mac Robertson Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Unnamed Pegmatite

Latitude: 67°35'59"S
Longitude: 62°52'59"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -67.599722222222,62.883055555556

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.

Beryl	Chevkinite	None	Pyroxene	Quartz	Sapphirine	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 Ce Fe Mg O Si Ti Zr

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Beryl Chevkinite None Pyroxene Quartz Sapphirine Zircon

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Cordierite ()*	Enstatite ()*	Perrierite-(Ce) ()*	Quartz ()*	Sapphirine ()*
Zircon ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cordierite ()*	Beryl	Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈	0		1008
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	0		944
Perrierite-(Ce) ()*	Chevkinite	Ce₄MgFe³⁺₂Ti₂O₈(Si₂O₇)₂	1	1699	46
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	1699	61156
Sapphirine ()*	Sapphirine	Mg₄(Mg₃Al₉)O₄[Si₃Al₉O₃₆]	0		129
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	1699	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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