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:
Bristol Co., Rhode Island, USA

mindat Locality ID: 28626
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-28626.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bristol Co., Rhode Island, USA": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Barrington
Bristol
Warren

Latitude: 41°39'18"N
Longitude: 71°14'49"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.655,-71.246944444444

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	Apatite	Aragonite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Mica
None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel	Titanite	Zircon

Albite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*
Graphite ()*	Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Microcline ()*
Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
Titanite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Apatite Aragonite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote Feldspar Mica
None Pyrite Quartz Rutile Spinel Titanite Zircon

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	263389	8803
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	263387	3250
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	2	263386,263388	1756
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	263389	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	263389	2740
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	263388	2812
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	263388,263389,263391	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	263389	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	263387	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	2	263389,263391	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	263385,263388,263389	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	263386	2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	263385,263389	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	263386,263387,263388,263389,263390,263391	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	263389	5614
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	263389	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	263389	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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