Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Morcles, Vaud, Switzerland

mindat Locality ID: 288145
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-288145.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Morcles, Vaud, Switzerland": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Gré Delley

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Chlorite	Clay	Descloizite	Feldspar	Mica	Mixite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Rutile	Zircon

Agardite-(Y) ()*	Albite ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Coffinite ()*	Galena ()*
Kainosite-(Y) ()*	Mottramite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*	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 As C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Na O P Pb S Si Ti U V Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chlorite Clay Descloizite Feldspar Mica Mixite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Rutile Zircon

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Agardite-(Y) ()*	Mixite	YCu²⁺₆(AsO₄)₃(OH)₆·3H₂O	1	115372	90
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	115372	8803
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1	115372	1756
Coffinite ()*	Zircon	U(SiO₄)·nH₂O	1	115372	566
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	115372	24243
Kainosite-(Y) ()*	None	Ca₂Y₂(SiO₃)₄(CO₃)·H₂O	1	115372	99
Mottramite ()*	Descloizite	PbCu(VO₄)(OH)	1	115372	362
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	115372	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	115372	2349
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	115372	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	115372	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	115372	5614
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	1	115372	939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	115372	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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