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:
Willow Creek, Cape San Martin, Plaskett, Los Burros District, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), Monterey Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 209797
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-209797.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Willow Creek, Cape San Martin, Plaskett, Los Burros District, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), Monterey Co., California, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Axinite-Epidote Occurrence
Unnamed Cliff North Of Willow Creek Mouth
Unnamed Jade Occurrence (1)
Willow Creek Prospects (Willow Creek Prospect)

Latitude: 35°53'23"N
Longitude: 121°27'14"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.889722222222,-121.45388888889

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.

Aragonite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	None	Serpentine

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 Fe H Mg O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Clay Clinozoisite Epidote None Serpentine

3 IMA Minerals at location:

Aragonite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Epidote ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	164832	3250
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	164834	951
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	164831	8173

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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