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:
Cape San Martin, Plaskett, Los Burros District, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), Monterey Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 218736
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-218736.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cape San Martin, Plaskett, Los Burros District, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), Monterey Co., California, USA": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Jade Cove
Unnamed Beach North Of Willow Creek
Willow Creek

Latitude: 35°54'12"N
Longitude: 121°27'44"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.903333333333,-121.46222222222

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.

Amphibole	Aragonite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	None	Rhodonite	Serpentine

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 Fe H Mg Mn O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Aragonite Clay Clinozoisite Epidote None Rhodonite Serpentine

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Actinolite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Clinozoisite ()*	Epidote ()*
Rhodonite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	164827	3419
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	164832	3250
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	164834	951
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	164829	1025
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	164831	8173
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	1	164828	969

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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