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Locality Name:
Brenk, Brohltal, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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

mindat Locality ID: 283232
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-283232.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Brenk, Brohltal, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Schellkopf

Latitude: 50°25'57"N
Longitude: 7°9'59"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.4325,7.1663888888889

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	Apatite	Apophyllite	Aragonite	Calcite	Cancrinite	Cancrinite-sodalite	Chabazite	Clay	Corundum
Ettringite	Feldspar	Fluorite	Gyrolite	Harmotome	Hydrotalcite	Natrolite	None	Pyroxene	Serpentine
Smectite-vermiculite	Sodalite	Spurrite-Afwillite	Thomsonite	Titanite	Tridymite

Aegirine ()*	Aegirine-augite ()*	Afwillite ()*	Analcime ()*	Aragonite ()*
Brenkite ()*	Calcite ()*	Carnotite ()*	Chabazite-Ca ()*	Davyne ()*
Ettringite ()*	Fedorite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Fluorite ()*
Gibbsite ()*	Gonnardite ()*	Hydrotalcite ()*	Hydroxylapatite ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Leucite ()*	Lizardite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Nepheline ()*	Nosean ()*
Paranatrolite ()*	Phillipsite-K ()*	Phillipsite-Na ()*	Sanidine ()*	Thaumasite ()*
Thénardite ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Titanite ()*	Vandermeerscheite ()*	Zeophyllite ()*

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 F Fe H K Mg Na O P S Si Ti U V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Apatite Apophyllite Aragonite Calcite Cancrinite Cancrinite-sodalite Chabazite Clay Corundum
Ettringite Feldspar Fluorite Gyrolite Harmotome Hydrotalcite Natrolite None Pyroxene Serpentine
Smectite-vermiculite Sodalite Spurrite-Afwillite Thomsonite Titanite Tridymite

35 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
Aegirine ()*	Pyroxene	NaFe³⁺Si₂O₆	354	248	1	61012	1022
Aegirine-augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Na)(Fe³⁺,Mg,Fe²⁺)Si₂O₆	354	248	1	61012	286
Afwillite ()*	Spurrite-Afwillite	Ca₃[SiO₄][SiO₂(OH)₂]·2H₂O	354	248	1	61012	41
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	354	248	1	61012	1627
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	354	248	1	61012	3250
Brenkite ()*	None	Ca₂(CO₃)F₂	354	248	1	61012	4
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	354	248	1	61012	27770
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	354	248	1	61012	1184
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	354	248	1	61012	310
Davyne ()*	Cancrinite Cancrinite-sodalite	[(Na,K)₆(SO₄)_0.5Cl][Ca₂Cl₂][(Si₆Al₆O₂₄)]	354	248	1	61012	17
Ettringite ()*	Ettringite	Ca₆Al₂(SO₄)₃(OH)₁₂·27H₂O	354	248	1	61012	93
Fedorite ()*	Gyrolite	(K,Na)_2.5(Ca,Na)₇Si₁₆O₃₈(OH,F)₂·3.5H₂O	354	248	1	61012	5
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	354	248	1	61012	2740
Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Apophyllite	KCa₄Si₈O₂₀F·8H₂O	354	248	1	61012	303
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	354	248	1	61012	9617
Gibbsite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	354	248	1	61012	504
Gonnardite ()*	Natrolite	(Na,Ca)₂(Si,Al)₅O₁₀·3H₂O	354	248	1	61012	167
Hydrotalcite ()*	Hydrotalcite	Mg₆Al₂CO₃(OH)₁₆(H₂O)₄	354	248	1	61012	87
Hydroxylapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃OH	354	248	1	61012	367
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	354	248	1	61012	5433
Leucite ()*	Analcime	K(AlSi₂O₆)	354	248	1	61012	233
Lizardite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	354	248	1	61012	359
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	354	248	1	61012	1508
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)	354	248	1	61012	884
Nosean ()*	Sodalite Cancrinite-sodalite	Na₈(Si₆Al₆)O₂₄(SO₄)·H₂O	354	248	1	61012	75
Paranatrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	354	248	1	61012	19
Phillipsite-K ()*	Harmotome	K₆(Si₁₀Al₆)O₃₂·12H₂O	354	248	1	61012	71
Phillipsite-Na ()*	Harmotome	Na₆(Si₁₀Al₆)O₃₂·12H₂O	354	248	1	61012	27
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	354	248	1	61012	598
Thaumasite ()*	Ettringite	Ca₃Si(OH)₆(CO₃)(SO₄)·12H₂O	354	248	1	61012	183
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	354	248	1	61012	299
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	354	248	1	61012	452
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	354	248	1	61012	4899
Vandermeerscheite ()*	None	K₂[(UO₂)₂V₂O₈]·2H₂O	354	248	1	61012	1
Zeophyllite ()*	None	Ca₁₃Si₁₀O₂₈(OH)₂F₈·6H₂O	354	248	1	61012	18

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
FKM-7	Schellkopf, Brenk, Brohltal, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany	https://www.rockptx.com/fkm-1-to-fkm-25/#FKM-7
R060247	Schellkopf, Brenk, Brohltal, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany	https://rruff.info/R060247

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