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:
Güntersen, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 286281
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-286281.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Güntersen, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Backenberg

Latitude: 51°31'59"N
Longitude: 9°43'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 51.533055555556,9.7166666666667

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.

Clay	Corundum	None	Pyroxene	Serpentine	Spinel	Tridymite

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 H K Mg Na O Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Corundum None Pyroxene Serpentine Spinel Tridymite

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Antigorite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Diopside ()*	Hercynite ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Nepheline ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Antigorite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	59711	708
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	59711	951
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	59711	4135
Hercynite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Al₂O₄	1	59711	407
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	59711	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	59711	14899
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)	1	59711	884

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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