Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Palmdale, Los Angeles Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 217474
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-217474.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Palmdale, Los Angeles Co., California, USA": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Fire Pulp Plaster Company Mine (Alpine Plaster Company)
Hunt Canyon
Ritter Ridge
West Of Palmdale

Latitude: 34°33'55"N
Longitude: 118°7'52"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.565277777778,-118.13111111111

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	Cristobalite	Garnet	Gypsum	Mordenite	None	Rhodonite

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 Ca H K Mn Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Cristobalite Garnet Gypsum Mordenite None Rhodonite

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Cristobalite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Mordenite ()*	Opal ()*	Rhodonite ()*
Spessartine ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cristobalite ()*	Cristobalite	SiO₂	1	161271	453
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	161269	6890
Mordenite ()*	Mordenite	(Na₂,Ca,K₂)₄(Al₈Si₄₀)O₉₆·28H₂O	1	161271	405
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	161271	2994
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	1	161273	969
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	161274	1214

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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