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:
Altoona, Wahkiakum Co., Washington, USA

mindat Locality ID: 287762
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-287762.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Altoona, Wahkiakum Co., Washington, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Curved Quartz Roadcut
Roadcuts
Unnamed Basalt Quarry (Columbia River Dikes)

Latitude: 46°16'4"N
Longitude: 123°39'16"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.267777777778,-123.65444444444

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.

Aragonite	Calcite	Clay	Dachiardite	Ferrierite	Heulandite	Mordenite	None	Quartz	Smectite-vermiculite

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 Fe H K Mg Na O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Calcite Clay Dachiardite Ferrierite Heulandite Mordenite None Quartz Smectite-vermiculite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Clinoptilolite-Ca ()*	Dachiardite-Ca ()*	Dachiardite-Na ()*
Ferrierite-Na ()*	Mordenite ()*	Nontronite ()*	Quartz ()*	Saponite ()*
Siderite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	286248	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	286247,286248,286249	27770
Clinoptilolite-Ca ()*	Heulandite	Ca₃(Si₃₀Al₆)O₇₂·20H₂O	2	286248,286249	33
Dachiardite-Ca ()*	Dachiardite	Ca₂(Si₂₀Al₄)O₄₈·13H₂O	2	286248,286249	13
Dachiardite-Na ()*	Dachiardite	Na₄(Si₂₀Al₄)O₄₈·13H₂O	2	286248,286249	22
Ferrierite-Na ()*	Ferrierite	(Na,K)₅(Si₃₁Al₅)O₇₂·18H₂O	2	286248,286249	6
Mordenite ()*	Mordenite	(Na₂,Ca,K₂)₄(Al₈Si₄₀)O₉₆·28H₂O	2	286248,286249	405
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	286248	471
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	286247,286248,286249	61156
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	286249	301
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	2	286248,286249	6417

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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