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:
Northern Iblean Plateau, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 283797
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-283797.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Northern Iblean Plateau, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Palagonia

Latitude: 37°18'40"N
Longitude: 14°43'35"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.311111111111,14.726388888889

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	Aragonite	Calcite	Chabazite	Ettringite	Gismondine	Gmelinite	Harmotome	Mordenite
Natrolite	None	Olivine	Pyroxene	Tobermorite	Vivianite

Analcime ()*	Aragonite ()*	Augite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chabazite-Ca ()*
Chabazite-Na ()*	Epistilbite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Gismondine ()*	Gmelinite-Ca ()*
Gmelinite-Na ()*	Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) ()*	Natrolite ()*	Phillipsite-Ca ()*	Phillipsite-K ()*
Phillipsite-Na ()*	Tacharanite ()*	Thaumasite ()*	Tobermorite ()*	Vivianite ()*

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 F Fe H K Mg Na O P S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Apophyllite Aragonite Calcite Chabazite Ettringite Gismondine Gmelinite Harmotome Mordenite
Natrolite None Olivine Pyroxene Tobermorite Vivianite

20 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	2	71763,71764	1627
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	2	71763,71764	3250
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	2	71763,71764	2060
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	71763,71764	27770
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	2	71763,71764	310
Chabazite-Na ()*	Chabazite	(Na₃K)[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·11H₂O	2	71763,71764	66
Epistilbite ()*	Mordenite	Ca₃[Si₁₈Al₆O₄₈]·16H₂O	1	71763	138
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	2	71763,71764	1188
Gismondine ()*	Gismondine	Ca₂(Si₄Al₄)O₁₆·8H₂O	1	71764	128
Gmelinite-Ca ()*	Gmelinite	Ca₂(Si₈Al₄)O₂₄·11H₂O	2	71763,71764	20
Gmelinite-Na ()*	Gmelinite	Na₄(Si₈Al₄)O₂₄·11H₂O	2	71763,71764	25
Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) ()*	Apophyllite	KCa₄Si₈O₂₀(OH,F)·8H₂O	1	71763	85
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	2	71763,71764	1236
Phillipsite-Ca ()*	Harmotome	Ca₃(Si₁₀Al₆)O₃₂·12H₂O	2	71763,71764	75
Phillipsite-K ()*	Harmotome	K₆(Si₁₀Al₆)O₃₂·12H₂O	2	71763,71764	71
Phillipsite-Na ()*	Harmotome	Na₆(Si₁₀Al₆)O₃₂·12H₂O	2	71763,71764	27
Tacharanite ()*	None	Ca₁₂Al₂Si₁₈O₃₃(OH)₃₆	2	71763,71764	47
Thaumasite ()*	Ettringite	Ca₃Si(OH)₆(CO₃)(SO₄)·12H₂O	2	71763,71764	183
Tobermorite ()*	Tobermorite	Ca₄Si₆O₁₇(H₂O)₂·(Ca·3H₂O)	2	71763,71764	114
Vivianite ()*	Vivianite	Fe²⁺₃(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	71763	636

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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