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:
Minamisouma City, Fukushima, Japan

mindat Locality ID: 235362
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-235362.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Minamisouma City, Fukushima, Japan": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Jisabara
Odaka Town

Latitude: 37°32'38"N
Longitude: 140°58'58"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.543888888889,140.98277777778

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.

Epsomite	Gypsum	Hexahydrite	Langbeinite	Mordenite	None	Not in a structural group	Rocksalt	Starkeyite	Syngenite

Alunogen ()*	Epsomite ()*	Glauberite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hexahydrite ()*
Hydroglauberite ()*	Jurbanite ()*	Kogarkoite ()*	Langbeinite ()*	Löweite ()*
Mirabilite ()*	Mordenite ()*	Starkeyite ()*	Sylvite ()*	Syngenite ()*
Thénardite ()*

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 Ca Cl F H K Mg Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Epsomite Gypsum Hexahydrite Langbeinite Mordenite None Not in a structural group Rocksalt Starkeyite Syngenite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alunogen ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂(SO₄)₃(H₂O)₁₂·5H₂O	1	74352	272
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	74352	484
Glauberite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(SO₄)₂	1	74352	137
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	74352	6890
Hexahydrite ()*	Hexahydrite	Mg(SO₄)·6H₂O	1	74352	251
Hydroglauberite ()*	None	Na₁₀Ca₃(SO₄)₈·6H₂O	1	74352	16
Jurbanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al(SO₄)(OH)·5H₂O	1	74352	7
Kogarkoite ()*	None	Na₃(SO₄)F	1	74352	14
Langbeinite ()*	Langbeinite	K₂Mg₂(SO₄)₃	1	74352	43
Löweite ()*	None	Na₁₂Mg₇(SO₄)₁₃·15H₂O	1	74352	28
Mirabilite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)·10H₂O	1	74352	223
Mordenite ()*	Mordenite	(Na₂,Ca,K₂)₄(Al₈Si₄₀)O₉₆·28H₂O	1	74351	405
Starkeyite ()*	Starkeyite	Mg(SO₄)·4H₂O	1	74352	79
Sylvite ()*	Rocksalt	KCl	1	74352	275
Syngenite ()*	Syngenite	K₂Ca(SO₄)₂·H₂O	1	74352	44
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	1	74352	299

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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