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:
Durham, Durham Co., North Carolina, USA

mindat Locality ID: 270468
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-270468.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Durham, Durham Co., North Carolina, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Durham Quarry

Latitude: 36°4'14"N
Longitude: 78°53'24"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.070555555556,-78.89

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.

Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corrensite	Epidote	Ettringite	Gyrolite	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group
Prehnite	Quartz	Tobermorite

Calcite ()*	Corrensite ()*	Epidote ()*	Gyrolite ()*	Laumontite ()*
Natrolite ()*	Okenite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Quartz ()*	Reyerite ()*
Rosenhahnite ()*	Thaumasite ()*	Tobermorite ()*	Xonotlite ()*

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 K Mg Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Corrensite Epidote Ettringite Gyrolite Natrolite None Not in a structural group
Prehnite Quartz Tobermorite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	250536	27770
Corrensite ()*	Corrensite Clay	(Ca,Na,K)_1-x(Mg,Fe,Al)₉(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₁₀·nH₂O	1	250536	49
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	250536	8173
Gyrolite ()*	Gyrolite	NaCa₁₆(Si₂₃Al)O₆₀(OH)₈·14H₂O	1	250536	142
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	250536	1271
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1	250536	1236
Okenite ()*	None	Ca₁₀Si₁₈O₄₆·18H₂O	1	250536	71
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	250536	1898
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	250536	61156
Reyerite ()*	Gyrolite	Na₂Ca₁₄Al₂Si₂₂O₅₈(OH)₈·6H₂O	1	250536	8
Rosenhahnite ()*	None	Ca₃Si₃O₈(OH)₂	1	250536	8
Thaumasite ()*	Ettringite	Ca₃Si(OH)₆(CO₃)(SO₄)·12H₂O	1	250536	183
Tobermorite ()*	Tobermorite	Ca₄Si₆O₁₇(H₂O)₂·(Ca·3H₂O)	1	250536	114
Xonotlite ()*	None	Ca₆Si₆O₁₇(OH)₂	1	250536	109

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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