Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
San Bernardino Mts, Riverside Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 209975
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-209975.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "San Bernardino Mts, Riverside Co., California, USA": 47
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 38

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Whitewater (White Water)

Latitude: 33°58'30"N
Longitude: 116°39'35"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.975,-116.65972222222

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.

Apatite	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Coronadite	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Garnet	Mica
None	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel	Titanite

Albite ()*	Calcite ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*	Hematite ()*
Hollandite ()*	Hydroxylapatite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Microcline ()*
Muscovite ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Piemontite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
Spessartine ()*	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 Ba C Ca Fe H K Mg Mn Na O P Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Coronadite Corundum Epidote Feldspar Garnet Mica
None Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Spinel Titanite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	169797	8803
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	169798	27770
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	169798	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	169798	8173
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	169790,169796,169798	14640
Hollandite ()*	Coronadite	Ba(Mn⁴⁺₆Mn³⁺₂)O₁₆	1	169798	243
Hydroxylapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃OH	1	169798	367
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	2	169797,169798	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	169790	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	169798	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	169790,169796,169798	17380
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	169798	2273
Piemontite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂(Al₂Mn³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	169795,169798	260
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	169790,169796,169797,169798	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	169798	5614
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	169798	1214
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	2	169797,169798	4899

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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