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Locality Name:
Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK

Oldest recorded age at locality: 0
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0

mindat Locality ID: 225714
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-225714.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Mill Of Johnston

Latitude: 57°18'31"N
Longitude: 2°42'25"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 57.308611111111,-2.7069444444444

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.

Humboldtine	None	Oxalate	Pyroxene

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 O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca Fe Mg O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Humboldtine None Oxalate Pyroxene

2 IMA Minerals at location:

Augite ()*	Glushinskite ()*

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
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	0	0	0		2060
Glushinskite ()*	Humboldtine Oxalate	Mg(C₂O₄)·2H₂O	0	0	1	122100	5

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Michelle_596	Glushinskite, a dihydrate of magnesium oxalate, occurs at the lichen/rock interface on serpentinite colonized by Lecanora atra at Mill of Johnstone, near Insch in north-east Scotland

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
	Michelle_596	0	0	Recent		Age of glushinskite	high						Glushinskite		145515	Mill Of Johnston, Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK	Mill Of Johnstone	Wilson et al. (1980)		MM43_837	Age of lichen/mineralization

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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