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:
Agaete, Gran Canaria, Las Palmas Province, Canary Islands, Spain

mindat Locality ID: 209944
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-209944.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Agaete, Gran Canaria, Las Palmas Province, Canary Islands, Spain": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Barranco De Guayedra
Barranco Del Risco
Montaña Blanca
Risco Faneque

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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	Aragonite	Calcite	Chabazite	Fluorite	Mordenite	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group
Quartz

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 F H K Na O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Analcime Aragonite Calcite Chabazite Fluorite Mordenite Natrolite None Not in a structural group
Quartz

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Analcime ()*	Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite-Na ()*
Epistilbite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Mesolite ()*	Opal ()*
Quartz ()*	Scolecite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	2	108937,108941	1627
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	108937	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	6	108935,108937,108939,108940,108941,108942	27770
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	1	108939	310
Chabazite-Na ()*	Chabazite	(Na₃K)[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·11H₂O	1	108937	66
Epistilbite ()*	Mordenite	Ca₃[Si₁₈Al₆O₄₈]·16H₂O	1	108939	138
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	108942	9617
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	108940	1271
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	1	108937	425
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	108935	2994
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	108935,108939	61156
Scolecite ()*	Natrolite	Ca(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	1	108939	390

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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