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:
Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 244793
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-244793.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Einhausen
Großer Dolmar

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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	Beryl	Calcite	Clay	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pseudobrookite
Pyroxene	Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Tridymite

Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Cordierite ()*	Diopside ()*	Fayalite ()*
Montmorillonite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Nepheline ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Pseudobrookite ()*
Rutile ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Strontianite ()*

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 Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Sr Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Beryl Calcite Clay Mica None Not in a structural group Olivine Pseudobrookite
Pyroxene Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Tridymite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	63710,63711	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	63710	1252
Cordierite ()*	Beryl	Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈	1	63711	1008
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	63711	4135
Fayalite ()*	Olivine	Fe²⁺₂(SiO₄)	1	63711	371
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	63711	1508
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	63711	17380
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)	1	63711	884
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	63711	2273
Pseudobrookite ()*	Pseudobrookite	(Fe³⁺₂Ti)O₅	1	63711	164
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	63711	5614
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	63711	1516
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	1	63710	589

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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