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Locality Name:
Niederkirchen, Otterbach-Otterberg, Kaiserslautern District, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Oldest recorded age at locality: 354
Youngest recorded age at locality: 248

mindat Locality ID: 271164
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-271164.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Niederkirchen, Otterbach-Otterberg, Kaiserslautern District, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Ölsberg Quarry
Rauschermühle Quarry
Rothenberg Quarry (Sattelberg Quarry; Kohlenwald)

Latitude: 49°34'46"N
Longitude: 7°41'43"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 49.579444444444,7.6952777777778

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	Apophyllite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Gadolinite	Gypsum
Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Pectolite	Prehnite	Pumpellyite	Quartz	Spinel

Albite ()*	Analcime ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Datolite ()*
Epidote ()*	Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Gypsum ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Julgoldite-(Fe²⁺) ()*
Laumontite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Pectolite ()*	Prehnite ()*
Pumpellyite-(Mg) ()*	Quartz ()*

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 C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Apophyllite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote Feldspar Gadolinite Gypsum
Natrolite None Not in a structural group Pectolite Prehnite Pumpellyite Quartz Spinel

17 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)	354	248	1	61408	8803
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	354	248	2	61408,61409	1627
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	354	248	2	61408,61409	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	354	248	2	61408,61409	27198
Datolite ()*	Gadolinite	CaB(SiO₄)(OH)	354	248	2	61408,61409	498
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	354	248	1	61408	8173
Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Apophyllite	KCa₄Si₈O₂₀F·8H₂O	354	248	1	61408	303
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	354	248	2	61408,61409	6890
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	354	248	1	61409	5433
Julgoldite-(Fe²⁺) ()*	Pumpellyite	Ca₂Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂(Si₂O₇)(SiO₄)(OH)₂·H₂O	354	248	1	61408	15
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	354	248	1	61408	1271
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	354	248	1	61409	14899
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	354	248	2	61408,61409	1236
Pectolite ()*	Pectolite	NaCa₂Si₃O₈(OH)	354	248	2	61408,61409	363
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	354	248	3	61407,61408,61409	1898
Pumpellyite-(Mg) ()*	Pumpellyite	Ca₂MgAl₂(Si₂O₇)(SiO₄)(OH)₂·H₂O	354	248	1	61408	106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	354	248	1	61409	61156

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	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	Age Notes
	Hg-00059	354	248		?-?						Yes		Cinnabar, Corderoite, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Moschellandsbergite, Perroudite, Poyarkovite, Shakhovite, Tiemannite, Eglestonite	Hg	14243	Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany		Krupp (1984); Krupp et al. (1989)

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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