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Locality Name:
Meteor Crater Area, Coconino Co., Arizona, USA

mindat Locality ID: 279237
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-279237.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Meteor Crater Area, Coconino Co., Arizona, USA": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Canyon Diablo Meteorite
Meteor Crater

Latitude: 35°1'40"N
Longitude: 111°1'20"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.027777777778,-111.02222222222

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.

Amorphous	Amphibole	Auricupride	Barringerite	Calcite	Corundum	Cristobalite	Cubanite	Diamond	Diaspore
Feldspar	Haxonite	Hydrotalcite	Iron	Milarite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Perovskite
Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sapphirine	Scacchite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Sulphur	Wurtzite

Alabandite ()*	Albite ()*	Awaruite ()*	Barringerite ()*	Calcite ()*
Carlsbergite ()*	Chromite ()*	Coesite ()*	Cohenite ()*	Cristobalite ()*
Daubréelite ()*	Diamond ()*	Enstatite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Goethite ()*
Graphite ()*	Haxonite ()*	Hematite ()*	Iron ()*	Isocubanite ()*
Kosmochlor ()*	Krinovite ()*	Lawrencite ()*	Lechatelierite ()*	Lonsdaleite ()*
Mackinawite ()*	Maghemite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Moissanite ()*	Nickelphosphide ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Reevesite ()*	Richterite ()*	Roaldite ()*
Roedderite ()*	Rutile ()*	Schreibersite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stishovite ()*
Sulphur ()*	Taenite ()*	Tetrataenite ()*	Trevorite ()*	Troilite ()*
Wüstite ()*

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 Cr Cu Fe H K Mg Mn N Na Ni O P S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Amphibole Auricupride Barringerite Calcite Corundum Cristobalite Cubanite Diamond Diaspore
Feldspar Haxonite Hydrotalcite Iron Milarite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Olivine Perovskite
Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sapphirine Scacchite Sphalerite Spinel Sulphur Wurtzite

46 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
Alabandite ()*	Rocksalt	MnS	4620	4480	1	137863	312
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	4620	4480	1	137863	8803
Awaruite ()*	Auricupride Perovskite	Ni₃Fe	4620	4480	1	137863	166
Barringerite ()*	Barringerite	(Fe,Ni)₂P	4620	4480	1	137863	22
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4620	4480	1	137863	27770
Carlsbergite ()*	Rocksalt	CrN	4620	4480	1	137863	26
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	4620	4480	1	137863	3902
Coesite ()*	Not in a structural group	SiO₂			1	137864	77
Cohenite ()*	Perovskite	CFe₃	4620	4480	1	137863	77
Cristobalite ()*	Cristobalite	SiO₂	4620	4480	1	137863	453
Daubréelite ()*	Spinel	FeCr₂S₄	4620	4480	1	137863	157
Diamond ()*	Diamond	C	4620	4480	1	137863	697
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	4620	4480	1	137863	944
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	4620	4480	1	137863	1188
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	4620	4480	1	137863	7437
Graphite ()*	None	C	4620	4480	1	137863	2812
Haxonite ()*	Haxonite	(Fe,Ni)₂₃C₆	4620	4480	1	137863	26
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	4620	4480	1	137863	14640
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	4620	4480	1	137863	1089
Isocubanite ()*	Sphalerite Cubanite	CuFe₂S₃	4620	4480	1	137863	191
Kosmochlor ()*	Pyroxene	NaCr³⁺Si₂O₆	4620	4480	1	137863	13
Krinovite ()*	Sapphirine	Na₄[Mg₈Cr³⁺₄]O₄[Si₁₂O₃₆]	4620	4480	1	137863	2
Lawrencite ()*	Scacchite	FeCl₂	4620	4480	1	137863	30
Lechatelierite ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂			1	137864	62
Lonsdaleite ()*	None	C	4620	4480	1	137863	13
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	4620	4480	1	137863	451
Maghemite ()*	Spinel	(Fe³⁺_0.67 _0.33)Fe³⁺₂O₄	4620	4480	2	137863,137864	229
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	4620	4480	1	137863	14899
Moissanite ()*	Wurtzite	SiC	4620	4480	1	137863	57
Nickelphosphide ()*	None	Ni₃P	4620	4480	1	137863	19
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	4620	4480	1	137863	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			1	137864	61156
Reevesite ()*	Hydrotalcite	Ni₆Fe³⁺₂(CO₃)(OH)₁₆·4H₂O	4620	4480	1	137863	48
Richterite ()*	Amphibole	Na(NaCa)Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	4620	4480	1	137863	148
Roaldite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)₄N	4620	4480	1	137863	3
Roedderite ()*	Milarite	KNaMg₂(Mg₃Si₁₂)O₃₀	4620	4480	1	137863	30
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	4620	4480	1	137863	5614
Schreibersite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)₃P	4620	4480	2	137863,137864	374
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4620	4480	1	137863	21482
Stishovite ()*	Rutile	SiO₂			1	137864	26
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	4620	4480	1	137863	2045
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	4620	4480	1	137863	703
Tetrataenite ()*	None	FeNi	4620	4480	1	137863	116
Trevorite ()*	Spinel	NiFe³⁺₂O₄	4620	4480	1	137863	17
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	4620	4480	2	137863,137864	1044
Wüstite ()*	Rocksalt	FeO	4620	4480	1	137863	74

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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