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:
Santorini Caldera, Santorini Island, Thira, South Aegean, Greece

mindat Locality ID: 274910
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-274910.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Santorini Caldera, Santorini Island, Thira, South Aegean, Greece": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Nea Kammeni Island

Latitude: 36°23'44"N
Longitude: 25°27'33"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.395555555556,25.459166666667

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.

Alunite	Amorphous	Clay	Coquimbite	Corundum	Cristobalite	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Mordenite	Nolanite
None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sulphur	Tamarugite	Titanite

Alunite ()*	Alunogen ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Coquimbite ()*	Cristobalite ()*
Epistilbite ()*	Ferrihydrite ()*	Giorgiosite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*
Hematite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Natroalunite ()*	Opal ()*
Quartz ()*	Rhomboclase ()*	Sulphur ()*	Tamarugite ()*	Titanite ()*

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 Cl Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Fe H O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amorphous Clay Coquimbite Corundum Cristobalite Gypsum Kaolinite Mordenite Nolanite
None Not in a structural group Quartz Rocksalt Sulphur Tamarugite Titanite

20 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	64464	966
Alunogen ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂(SO₄)₃(H₂O)₁₂·5H₂O	1	64464	272
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	64465	1588
Coquimbite ()*	Coquimbite	AlFe₃(SO₄)₆(H₂O)₁₂·6H₂O	1	64464	136
Cristobalite ()*	Cristobalite	SiO₂	1	64464	453
Epistilbite ()*	Mordenite	Ca₃[Si₁₈Al₆O₄₈]·16H₂O	1	64465	138
Ferrihydrite ()*	Nolanite	Fe³⁺₁₀O₁₄(OH)₂	0		86
Giorgiosite ()*	None	Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·5H₂O	1	64465	13
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	64464	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1	64465	1398
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	64464	14640
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	64464	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	64464	5591
Natroalunite ()*	Alunite	NaAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	64464	128
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	64464	2994
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	64464	61156
Rhomboclase ()*	Not in a structural group	(H₅O₂)Fe³⁺(SO₄)₂·2H₂O	1	64464	53
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	64464	2045
Tamarugite ()*	Tamarugite	NaAl(SO₄)₂·6H₂O	1	64464	87
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	64465	4899

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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