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:
Surtsey Island, Vestmannaeyjar Archipelago (Westman Islands), Vestmannaeyjar, Southern Region, Iceland

mindat Locality ID: 206687
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-206687.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Surtsey Island, Vestmannaeyjar Archipelago (Westman Islands), Vestmannaeyjar, Southern Region, Iceland": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Grillid (Cave S-4)

Latitude: 63°17'58"N
Longitude: 20°34'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 63.299444444444,-20.583055555556

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.

Amorphous	Analcime	Aphthitalite	Blödite	Calcite	Carnallite	Chukhrovite	Fluorite	Gypsum	Kieserite
None	Not in a structural group	Pyrochlore	Rocksalt	Sulphur	Tobermorite

Analcime ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Aphthitalite ()*	Blödite ()*	Calcite ()*
Carnallite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galeite ()*	Glauberite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Halite ()*	Hydrokenoralstonite ()*	Kainite ()*	Kieserite ()*	Löweite ()*
Meniaylovite ()*	Opal ()*	Sulphur ()*	Thénardite ()*	Tobermorite ()*
Xonotlite ()*

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 Cl F H K Mg Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca F H O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Analcime Aphthitalite Blödite Calcite Carnallite Chukhrovite Fluorite Gypsum Kieserite
None Not in a structural group Pyrochlore Rocksalt Sulphur Tobermorite

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	65926	1627
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	65926	1588
Aphthitalite ()*	Aphthitalite	K₃Na(SO₄)₂	1	65926	77
Blödite ()*	Blödite	Na₂Mg(SO₄)₂·4H₂O	1	65926	130
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	65926	27770
Carnallite ()*	Carnallite	KMgCl₃·6H₂O	1	65926	132
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	65926	9617
Galeite ()*	None	Na₁₅(SO₄)₅ClF₄	1	65926	3
Glauberite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(SO₄)₂	1	65926	137
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	65926	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1	65926	1398
Hydrokenoralstonite ()*	Pyrochlore	₂Al₂F₆(H₂O)	1	65926	56
Kainite ()*	None	KMg(SO₄)Cl·2.75H₂O	1	65926	50
Kieserite ()*	Kieserite	Mg(SO₄)·H₂O	1	65926	80
Löweite ()*	None	Na₁₂Mg₇(SO₄)₁₃·15H₂O	1	65926	28
Meniaylovite ()*	Chukhrovite	Ca₄AlSi(SO₄)F₁₃·12H₂O	0		7
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	65926	2994
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	65926	2045
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	1	65926	299
Tobermorite ()*	Tobermorite	Ca₄Si₆O₁₇(H₂O)₂·(Ca·3H₂O)	1	65926	114
Xonotlite ()*	None	Ca₆Si₆O₁₇(OH)₂	1	65926	109

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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