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:
Mount Caliella, Palagonia, Northern Iblean Plateau, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 224747
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-224747.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mount Caliella, Palagonia, Northern Iblean Plateau, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 37°18'42"N
Longitude: 14°43'35"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.311666666667,14.726388888889

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	Chabazite	Ettringite	Gismondine	Gmelinite	Harmotome	Natrolite	None
Olivine	Pyroxene	Tobermorite

Analcime ()*	Aragonite ()*	Augite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chabazite-Ca ()*
Chabazite-Na ()*	Forsterite ()*	Gismondine ()*	Gmelinite-Ca ()*	Gmelinite-Na ()*
Natrolite ()*	Phillipsite-Ca ()*	Phillipsite-K ()*	Phillipsite-Na ()*	Tacharanite ()*
Thaumasite ()*	Tobermorite ()*

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 K Mg Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Fe H K Mg Na O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Aragonite Calcite Chabazite Ettringite Gismondine Gmelinite Harmotome Natrolite None
Olivine Pyroxene Tobermorite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1627
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	3250
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	2060
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	310
Chabazite-Na ()*	Chabazite	(Na₃K)[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·11H₂O	66
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1188
Gismondine ()*	Gismondine	Ca₂(Si₄Al₄)O₁₆·8H₂O	128
Gmelinite-Ca ()*	Gmelinite	Ca₂(Si₈Al₄)O₂₄·11H₂O	20
Gmelinite-Na ()*	Gmelinite	Na₄(Si₈Al₄)O₂₄·11H₂O	25
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1236
Phillipsite-Ca ()*	Harmotome	Ca₃(Si₁₀Al₆)O₃₂·12H₂O	75
Phillipsite-K ()*	Harmotome	K₆(Si₁₀Al₆)O₃₂·12H₂O	71
Phillipsite-Na ()*	Harmotome	Na₆(Si₁₀Al₆)O₃₂·12H₂O	27
Tacharanite ()*	None	Ca₁₂Al₂Si₁₈O₃₃(OH)₃₆	47
Thaumasite ()*	Ettringite	Ca₃Si(OH)₆(CO₃)(SO₄)·12H₂O	183
Tobermorite ()*	Tobermorite	Ca₄Si₆O₁₇(H₂O)₂·(Ca·3H₂O)	114

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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