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:
Sutton Co., Texas, USA

mindat Locality ID: 250561
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-250561.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sutton Co., Texas, USA": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Edwards Plateau

Latitude: 30°33'17"N
Longitude: 100°48'42"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 30.554722222222,-100.81166666667

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	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Fritzscheite	Gypsum	None

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: C Ca H Mg O S Si Sr U V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Aragonite Baryte Calcite Fritzscheite Gypsum None

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Dolomite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Metatyuyamunite ()*	Opal ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	271012	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	271012	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	271012	1252
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	271012	9895
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	271012	6890
Metatyuyamunite ()*	Fritzscheite	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	1	271012	129
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	271012	2994

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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