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:
Edmonson Co., Kentucky, USA

mindat Locality ID: 214097
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-214097.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Edmonson Co., Kentucky, USA": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 12

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Bee Spring Quarry
Dismal Creek Eastwall Clay Pit
Dismal Creek Quarry
Dismal Creek West Clay Pit
Gully Clay Prospect
Johnson Mine Clay Pit
Kyrock Quarry
Mammoth Cave National Park
Park City Quarry (Park City No. 4 Quarry And Mill; State Contracting And Stone Company; Medusa Aggregates)
Vincent Prospect Pit

Latitude: 37°13'58"N
Longitude: 86°14'33"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.232777777778,-86.2425

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	Calcite	Epsomite	Gypsum	None	Pyrite	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: C Ca Fe H Mg N Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Calcite Epsomite Gypsum None Pyrite Quartz

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epsomite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Mirabilite ()*	Nitratine ()*	Nitrocalcite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	2	215742,215743	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	215741,215742,215743,215744	27770
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	215744	9895
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	215743	484
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	3	215741,215742,215743	6890
Mirabilite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)·10H₂O	1	215743	223
Nitratine ()*	Calcite	Na(NO₃)	1	215743	91
Nitrocalcite ()*	None	Ca(NO₃)₂·4H₂O	1	215743	46
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	215743	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	215744	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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