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:
Executive Committee Range, Marie Byrd Land, Western Antarctica, Antarctica

mindat Locality ID: 279299
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-279299.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Executive Committee Range, Marie Byrd Land, Western Antarctica, Antarctica": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Mount Sidley

Latitude: 77°1'59"S
Longitude: 126°5'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -77.033055555556,-126.09972222222

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.

Amphibole	None	Olivine	Sapphirine	Spinel

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 Ca Fe Mg Na O Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole None Olivine Sapphirine Spinel

4 IMA Minerals at location:

Forsterite ()*	Kaersutite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Rhönite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	1941	1188
Kaersutite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂(Mg₃AlTi⁴⁺)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂O₂	1	1941	179
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	1941	14899
Rhönite ()*	Sapphirine	Ca₄[Mg₈Fe³⁺₂Ti₂]O₄[Si₆Al₆O₃₆]	1	1941	47

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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