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:
Napier Complex, Enderby Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica

Oldest recorded age at locality: 2485
Youngest recorded age at locality: 496

mindat Locality ID: 26154
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-26154.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Napier Complex, Enderby Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 12

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Casey Bay
Tula Mts

Latitude: 67°5'2"S
Longitude: 49°53'32"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -67.083888888889,49.892222222222

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.

Andalusite	Apatite	Beryl	Clay	Corundum	Dumortierite	Feldspar	Garnet	Mica	Milarite
Monazite	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Sapphirine	Spinel	Wagnerite
Zircon

Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Andalusite ()*	Beryl ()*	Chlorapatite ()*
Chrysoberyl ()*	Cordierite ()*	Corundum ()*	Dumortierite ()*	Enstatite ()*
Fluorapatite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hercynite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Khmaralite ()*
Kyanite ()*	Magnesiotaaffeite-6N'3S ()*	Magnetite ()*	Microcline ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*
Muscovite ()*	Osumilite-(Mg) ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Pyrope ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Sapphirine ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Spinel ()*	Surinamite ()*
Wagnerite ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*	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 Ca Ce Cl F Fe H K Mg Na O P Si Ti Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Be Ca Cl Fe H K Mg O P Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Apatite Beryl Clay Corundum Dumortierite Feldspar Garnet Mica Milarite
Monazite None Not in a structural group Olivine Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Sapphirine Spinel Wagnerite
Zircon

33 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)	2464	2448	4	1689,1691,1692,1695	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	2464	2448	3	1681,1683,1691	2353
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	2464	2448	1	1687	1310
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	2485	2485	0		4286
Chlorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃Cl	2485	496	0		203
Chrysoberyl ()*	Olivine	BeAl₂O₄	2485	2448	2	1682,1683	321
Cordierite ()*	Beryl	Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈	2464	2448	6	1681,1687,1690,1691,1692,1694	1008
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	2464	2448	1	1691	1797
Dumortierite ()*	Dumortierite	AlAl₆BSi₃O₁₈	2464	2448	1	1683	231
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	2464	2448	3	1690,1691,1695	944
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	2464	2448	1	1681	2740
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2485	496	0		14640
Hercynite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Al₂O₄	2485	496	0		407
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	2464	2448	1	1691	5433
Khmaralite ()*	Sapphirine	Mg₄(Mg₃Al₉)O₄[Si₅Be₂Al₅O₃₆]	2485	2448	2	1682,1683	2
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	2464	2448	1	1687	1507
Magnesiotaaffeite-6N'3S ()*	None	Mg₂BeAl₆O₁₂	2485	2448	2	1682,1683	9
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2464	2448	1	1681	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	2464	2448	2	1681,1683	4924
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	2464	2448	1	1683	945
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2485	496	0		17380
Osumilite-(Mg) ()*	Milarite	KMg₂Al₃(Al₂Si₁₀)O₃₀	2464	2448	6	1689,1690,1691,1692,1694,1695	42
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	2485	496	0		2273
Pyrope ()*	Garnet	Mg₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	2464	2448	1	1692	341
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2464	2448	8	1683,1687,1689,1690,1691,1692,1694,1695	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	2464	2448	6	1683,1689,1690,1691,1692,1695	5614
Sapphirine ()*	Sapphirine	Mg₄(Mg₃Al₉)O₄[Si₃Al₉O₃₆]	2464	2448	4	1686,1690,1691,1694	129
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	2485	2448	10	1681,1682,1683,1686,1687,1689,1691,1692,1694,1695	1516
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	2464	2448	3	1683,1691,1692	1934
Surinamite ()*	Sapphirine	Mg₃Al₃O(Si₃BeAlO₁₅)	2485	2448	4	1681,1682,1683,1687	8
Wagnerite ()*	Wagnerite	Mg₂(PO₄)F	2464	2448	2	1681,1687	61
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	2485	2485	1	1682	939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2485	2448	8	1681,1682,1689,1690,1691,1692,1694,1695	5251

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID
Bradley_2012_096	2464	2448	2456±8	U/Pb		zircon	Zircon			26154	Napier Complex, Enderby Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica	[Ayatollah Island]	McCauley and Bradley (2014)	10.3749/canmin.52.2.183	CM52_183
Be-00030	2485	2485	2485		high			Khmaralite, Magnesiotaaffeite-6N3S, Surinamite	Be	10483	Pegmatite Outcrop, Khmara Bay, Casey Bay, Napier Complex, Enderby Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica		Hokada and Harley (2004)	10.2465/jmps.99.180	JMPS99_180
Bradley_2012_047	500	496	498±2	Pb/Th		monazite				266144	Tonagh Island, Amundsen Bay, Tula Mts, Napier Complex, Enderby Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica	[Tonagh Island]	McCauley and Bradley (2014)	10.3749/canmin.52.2.183	CM52_183

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
FKM-212	Northern Face, Mt. Riiser-Larsen, Tula Mts, Napier Complex, Enderby Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica	https://www.rockptx.com/fkm-201-to-fkm-225/#FKM-212

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