Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania, USA

mindat Locality ID: 23522
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-23522.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania, USA": 15
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Boiling Springs
Carlisle
Cooke Township
Mechanicsburg Area
Mount Holly Springs
Shippensburg

Latitude: 40°7'13"N
Longitude: 77°10'37"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.120277777778,-77.176944444444

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Beraunite	Calcite	Clay	Coronadite	Corundum	Diaspore	Fluorite	Kaolinite
Lepidocrocite	None	Quartz	Rutile	Turquoise	Wavellite	Zircon

Alunite ()*	Cacoxenite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Cryptomelane ()*
Dolomite ()*	Eleonorite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Goethite ()*	Hematite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Lepidocrocite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*	Strengite ()*
Strontianite ()*	Turquoise ()*	Variscite ()*	Wavellite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn O P S Si Sr Zr

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Beraunite Calcite Clay Coronadite Corundum Diaspore Fluorite Kaolinite
Lepidocrocite None Quartz Rutile Turquoise Wavellite Zircon

20 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	262800	966
Cacoxenite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂₄AlO₆(PO₄)₁₇(OH)₁₂·75H₂O	1	262798	280
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	262802	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	262802	1252
Cryptomelane ()*	Coronadite	K(Mn⁴⁺₇Mn³⁺)O₁₆	3	262789,262793,262798	599
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	0		9895
Eleonorite ()*	Beraunite	Fe³⁺₆(PO₄)₄O(OH)₄·6H₂O	1	262798	51
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	262802	9617
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	4	262789,262793,262795,262798	7437
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	262795	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	262795,262798	5591
Lepidocrocite ()*	Lepidocrocite	Fe³⁺O(OH)	1	262789	581
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	2	262789,262798	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	262793,262795,262796,262798	61156
Strengite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	262798	263
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	1	262802	589
Turquoise ()*	Turquoise	CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	1	262798	484
Variscite ()*	None	Al(PO₄)·2H₂O	2	262792,262798	301
Wavellite ()*	Wavellite	Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₃·5H₂O	1	262798	374
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	262793	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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