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:
Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica

mindat Locality ID: 241862
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-241862.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Merrick Mts
Orville Coast

Latitude: 75°'29"S
Longitude: 71°46'29"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -75.008055555556,-71.774722222222

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.

Alunite	Andalusite	Aragonite	Atacamite	Beryl	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite
Epidote	Gypsum	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Plancheite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel
Titanite

Alunite ()*	Andalusite ()*	Antlerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Atacamite ()*
Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cordierite ()*	Epidote ()*
Fibroferrite ()*	Graphite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Jarosite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Natrojarosite ()*	Plancheite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Thénardite ()*	Titanite ()*

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 Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Andalusite Aragonite Atacamite Beryl Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite
Epidote Gypsum Mica None Not in a structural group Plancheite Pyrite Quartz Rutile Spinel
Titanite

23 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	1917	966
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	1	1915	1310
Antlerite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu²⁺₃(SO₄)(OH)₄	1	1917	246
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	1917	3250
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	1	1917	544
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	1917	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	1915,1917	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	1916,1918	27198
Cordierite ()*	Beryl	Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈	1	1915	1008
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	1918	8173
Fibroferrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Fe³⁺(SO₄)(OH)·5H₂O	1	1917	107
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	1915	2812
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	1917,1918	6890
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	1918	2228
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	1916,1918	14899
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	1915	17380
Natrojarosite ()*	Alunite	NaFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	1917	254
Plancheite ()*	Plancheite	Cu₈(Si₄O₁₁)₂(OH)₄·H₂O	1	1917	74
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	1916,1918	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	1916,1918	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	1916	5614
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	1	1917	299
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	1918	4899

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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