Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 467
Youngest recorded age at locality: 225

mindat Locality ID: 24899
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24899.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 23

Number of Child Localities: 11
Child Localities:
Birch Mountain Road
Blumenthal Prospect
Brooks Quarry
Carini Quarry
Diamond Lake Locality
East Glastonbury
Hale's Quarry
Knob Hill Quarry
Paxton Way
South Glastonbury
Spinelli Prospect (Spinelli Quarry)

Latitude: 41°40'58"N
Longitude: 72°32'35"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.682777777778,-72.543055555556

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.

Amorphous	Apatite	Autunite	Beryl	Bismutite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite
Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Garnet	Kaolinite	Meta-autunite	Mica	Molybdenite	Monazite
None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rhabdophane	Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel	Staurolite	Stibnite
Titanite	Tourmaline	Zircon

Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Annite ()*	Autunite ()*	Beryl ()*
Bismuthinite ()*	Bismutite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Columbite-(Fe) ()*
Cookeite ()*	Dickite ()*	Dravite ()*	Elbaite ()*	Epidote ()*
Ferrimolybdite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Gahnite ()*	Goethite ()*
Grayite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Meta-autunite ()*	Metatorbernite ()*
Microcline ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*
Orthoclase ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Samarskite-(Y) ()*
Schorl ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Spessartine ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Staurolite ()*
Strengite ()*	Thorite ()*	Titanite ()*	Torbernite ()*	Uraninite ()*
Uranophane-α ()*	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 B Be Bi C Ca Ce Cu F Fe H K Li Mg Mn Mo Na Nb O P Pb S Si Sn Th Ti U Y Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Apatite Autunite Beryl Bismutite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Columbite
Diaspore Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Garnet Kaolinite Meta-autunite Mica Molybdenite Monazite
None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rhabdophane Rutile Sphalerite Spinel Staurolite Stibnite
Titanite Tourmaline Zircon

47 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	467	225	18	198853,198856,198857,198859,198860,198861,198863,198864,198865,198866,198867,198868,198869,198870,198871,198872,198873,198874	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃			9	198850,198854,198864,198866,198867,198868,198869,198872,198874	2353
Annite ()*	Mica Clay	KFe²⁺₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂			7	198864,198867,198868,198869,198870,198873,198874	356
Autunite ()*	Autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O			5	198866,198868,198869,198872,198874	1272
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈			10	198853,198856,198859,198863,198866,198867,198868,198869,198872,198873	4286
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃			1	198872	1935
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)			2	198869,198872	716
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂			2	198856,198866	5171
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			1	198872	27198
Columbite-(Fe) ()*	Columbite	Fe²⁺Nb₂O₆			3	198868,198872,198874	518
Cookeite ()*	Chlorite Clay	(Al,Li)₃Al₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₈			2	198856,198872	181
Dickite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	198858	651
Dravite ()*	Tourmaline	NaMg₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)			1	198858	648
Elbaite ()*	Tourmaline	Na(Al_1.5Li_1.5)Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)			3	198856,198866,198872	520
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	198864	8173
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O			3	198860,198864,198869	345
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F			8	198859,198860,198863,198866,198868,198869,198872,198874	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂			1	198866	9617
Gahnite ()*	Spinel	ZnAl₂O₄			1	198866	445
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)			1	198872	7437
Grayite ()*	Rhabdophane	(Th,Pb,Ca)(PO₄)·H₂O			1	198872	17
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	198856	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			2	198861,198874	14899
Meta-autunite ()*	Meta-autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·6H₂O			2	198868,198872	388
Metatorbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·8H₂O			2	198868,198872	443
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	467	225	14	198856,198857,198861,198863,198865,198866,198867,198868,198869,198870,198871,198872,198873,198874	4924
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂			4	198860,198864,198868,198869	5800
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)			2	198867,198874	945
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	467	225	17	198851,198853,198856,198857,198859,198861,198863,198865,198866,198867,198868,198869,198870,198871,198872,198873,198874	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O			5	198859,198866,198867,198868,198872	2994
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)			1	198859	2349
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			2	198868,198872	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	467	225	19	198851,198853,198856,198857,198859,198860,198861,198863,198864,198865,198866,198867,198868,198869,198870,198871,198872,198873,198874	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂			1	198866	5614
Samarskite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	YFe³⁺Nb₂O₈			4	198868,198869,198872,198874	353
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)			8	198851,198859,198863,198866,198868,198869,198872,198874	2705
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅			1	198858	1516
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃			4	198856,198861,198863,198872	1214
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS			2	198860,198861	21482
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)			3	198850,198854,198856	978
Strengite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(PO₄)·2H₂O			1	198858	263
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)			1	198872	1006
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O			1	198864	4899
Torbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·12H₂O			3	198868,198869,198872	1059
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂			3	198859,198868,198872	2718
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O			1	198868	890
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)			3	198864,198872,198874	5251

16 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Sample Source	Dated Mineral	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Reference	Reference ID
USGS-Rb-Sr-05765	393	225	309±84	Rb-Sr	whole rock		233235	East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA	USGS-Rb-Sr	USGS-Rb-Sr
USGS-Rb-Sr-05766	455	295	375±80	Rb-Sr	whole rock		233235	East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA	USGS-Rb-Sr	USGS-Rb-Sr
USGS-Rb-Sr-05735	393	225	309±84	Rb-Sr	whole rock		235883	East Glastonbury Quarry (Curtis Quarry), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA	USGS-Rb-Sr	USGS-Rb-Sr
USGS-Rb-Sr-05736	455	295	375±80	Rb-Sr	whole rock		235883	East Glastonbury Quarry (Curtis Quarry), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA	USGS-Rb-Sr	USGS-Rb-Sr
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01151_206_238	429	429	429	206_238	zircon	Zircon	235883	East Glastonbury Quarry (Curtis Quarry), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01151_207_206	445	445	445	207_206	zircon	Zircon	235883	East Glastonbury Quarry (Curtis Quarry), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01151_207_235	431	431	431	207_235	zircon	Zircon	235883	East Glastonbury Quarry (Curtis Quarry), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01152_206_238	431	431	431	206_238	zircon	Zircon	235883	East Glastonbury Quarry (Curtis Quarry), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01152_207_206	467	467	467	207_206	zircon	Zircon	235883	East Glastonbury Quarry (Curtis Quarry), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01152_207_235	436	436	436	207_235	zircon	Zircon	235883	East Glastonbury Quarry (Curtis Quarry), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01153_206_238	430	430	430	206_238	zircon	Zircon	235883	East Glastonbury Quarry (Curtis Quarry), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01153_207_206	453	453	453	207_206	zircon	Zircon	235883	East Glastonbury Quarry (Curtis Quarry), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01153_207_235	433	433	433	207_235	zircon	Zircon	235883	East Glastonbury Quarry (Curtis Quarry), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01154_206_238	417	417	417	206_238	zircon	Zircon	235883	East Glastonbury Quarry (Curtis Quarry), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01154_207_206	451	451	451	207_206	zircon	Zircon	235883	East Glastonbury Quarry (Curtis Quarry), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01154_207_235	422	422	422	207_235	zircon	Zircon	235883	East Glastonbury Quarry (Curtis Quarry), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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