Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Silica, Sylvania Township, Lucas Co., Ohio, USA

mindat Locality ID: 247662
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-247662.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Silica, Sylvania Township, Lucas Co., Ohio, USA": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Centennial Quarry
Fossil Park (Medusa Portland Cement Co. "North-north" Quarry; Yates Quarry)
France Stone Co. "North" Quarry (Medusa Portland Cement Co. "North" Quarry)
Hanson Aggregates Midwest Inc. Sylvania "East" Quarry (France Stone Co. "East" Quarry)
Hanson Aggregates Midwest Inc. Sylvania "West" Quarry (France Stone Co. "West" Quarry"; Medusa Portland Cement Co. "South" Quarry; Sandusky Cement Co. Quarry)
Toledo Stone And Glass Sand Quarry

Latitude: 41°41'59"N
Longitude: 83°44'39"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.699722222222,-83.744166666667

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	Calcite	Fluorite	None	Pyrite	Sphalerite

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: Ba C Ca F Fe Mg O S Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Fluorite None Pyrite Sphalerite

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Strontianite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	254044,254045	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	254042,254044,254045,254046,254047	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	2	254044,254046	1252
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	254044	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	254045	9617
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	254044	39462
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	254044	21482
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	1	254044	589

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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