Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Westfjords, Iceland

mindat Locality ID: 253360
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-253360.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Westfjords, Iceland": 37
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Árneshreppur
Bolungarvíkurkaupstaður
Ísafjarðarbær
Kaldrananeshreppur
Reykhólahreppur
Strandabyggð
Súðavíkurhreppur
Vesturbyggð

Latitude: 65°48'43"N
Longitude: 22°24'7"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 65.811944444444,-22.401944444444

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.

Analcime	Aragonite	Calcite	Gismondine	Lévyne	Natrolite	None	Quartz	Spinel	Thomsonite

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 Na O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Aragonite Calcite Gismondine Lévyne Natrolite None Quartz Spinel Thomsonite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Analcime ()*	Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cowlesite ()*	Garronite-Ca ()*
Lévyne-Ca ()*	Magnetite ()*	Mesolite ()*	Quartz ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	65991	1627
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	65972	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	65980,65982,65984,65987,65991	27770
Cowlesite ()*	None	Ca(Al₂Si₃)O₁₀·5-6H₂O	1	65993	84
Garronite-Ca ()*	Gismondine	Ca₃(Al₆Si₁₀O₃₂)·14H₂O	1	65993	66
Lévyne-Ca ()*	Lévyne	Ca₃(Si₁₂Al₆)O₃₆·18H₂O	2	65976,65995	42
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	65999	14899
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	2	65982,65991	425
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	65973,65987	61156
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	3	65975,66001,66003	452

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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