Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Bad Breisig, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Oldest recorded age at locality: 354
Youngest recorded age at locality: 248

mindat Locality ID: 214708
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-214708.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bad Breisig, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Brohl-Lützing

Latitude: 50°28'34"N
Longitude: 7°17'51"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.476111111111,7.2975

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.

Analcime	Aragonite	Calcite	Cancrinite-sodalite	Chabazite	Chalcopyrite	Corundum	Diaspore	Feldspar	Garnet
Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pseudobrookite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Sodalite	Spinel	Tridymite
Zircon

Analcime ()*	Andradite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Augite ()*	Azurite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Goethite ()*
Haüyne ()*	Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Nepheline ()*
Pseudobrookite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sanidine ()*	Tridymite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 Cu Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Aragonite Calcite Cancrinite-sodalite Chabazite Chalcopyrite Corundum Diaspore Feldspar Garnet
Malachite None Not in a structural group Olivine Pseudobrookite Pyroxene Quartz Sodalite Spinel Tridymite
Zircon

20 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	354	248	2	61008,61009	1627
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	354	248	1	61008	1534
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	354	248	1	61008	3250
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	354	248	1	61008	2060
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	354	248	1	61007	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	354	248	1	61008	27770
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	354	248	1	61008	310
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	354	248	2	61007,61008	27198
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	354	248	1	61009	1188
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	354	248	1	61008	7437
Haüyne ()*	Sodalite Cancrinite-sodalite	Na₃Ca(Si₃Al₃)O₁₂(SO₄)	354	248	1	61008	158
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	354	248	1	61008	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	354	248	2	61008,61009	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	354	248	2	61007,61008	12537
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)	354	248	1	61008	884
Pseudobrookite ()*	Pseudobrookite	(Fe³⁺₂Ti)O₅	354	248	1	61008	164
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	354	248	2	61007,61008	61156
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	354	248	1	61008	598
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	354	248	1	61008	458
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	354	248	1	61009	5251

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Hg-00059	354	248		?-?						Yes		Cinnabar, Corderoite, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Moschellandsbergite, Perroudite, Poyarkovite, Shakhovite, Tiemannite, Eglestonite	Hg	14243	Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany		Krupp (1984); Krupp et al. (1989)

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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