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:
New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, USA

mindat Locality ID: 236323
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-236323.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Sullivan Quarries

Latitude: 41°39'18"N
Longitude: 70°57'23"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.655,-70.956388888889

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.

Apatite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Kaolinite	Mica	None	Quartz
Spinel	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 Ca F Fe H K O P Si Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Clay Clinozoisite Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Kaolinite Mica None Quartz
Spinel Zircon

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Microcline ()*	Muscovite ()*	Quartz ()*	Zircon ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	219278	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	219278	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	219278	9617
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	219278	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	219278	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	219278	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	219278	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	219278	61156
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	219278	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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