Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Dome Fuji Station, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica

Oldest recorded age at locality: 0.025
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0.025

mindat Locality ID: 232672
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-232672.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Dome Fuji Station, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 77°19'"S
Longitude: 39°42'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -77.316666666667,39.7

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.

None	Not in a structural group

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 H Mg O S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C H Mg O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
None Not in a structural group

2 IMA Minerals at location:

Ernstburkeite ()*	Meridianiite ()*

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
Ernstburkeite ()*	None	Mg(CH₃SO₃)₂·12H₂O	0.025	0.025	0		1
Meridianiite ()*	Not in a structural group	Mg(SO₄)·11H₂O	0.025	0.025	0		3

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Michelle_0055	Ernstburkeite found in ice core at a depth of 576.5 m existing as small (~5 micron) methanesulphonate inclusions in ice. Ice core was retreived by Dome-F Deep Coring Group.

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_0055	0.025	0.025	0.025	Ice core	Age of mineralization									232672	Dome Fuji Station, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica	Dome Fuji station	Güner et al. (2013)	10.1127/0935-1221/2013/0025-2257	EJM25_78	Mineral inclusions found in ice core were located at a depth associated with the Last Glacial Maxiumum, approximately 25,000 years ago.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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