Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Kings Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 5.3
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0

mindat Locality ID: 29180
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29180.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kings Co., California, USA": 40
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 28

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Avenal Creek
Corcoran
Diablo Range
Reef Station
Zwang Peak

Latitude: 35°57'55"N
Longitude: 119°56'26"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.965277777778,-119.94055555556

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	Epsomite	Gypsum	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Serpentine
Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Spinel

Anapaite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chromite ()*	Chrysotile ()*
Cinnabar ()*	Eglestonite ()*	Epsomite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Magnesite ()*
Marcasite ()*	Mercury ()*	Metacinnabar ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Montroydite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Terlinguaite ()*

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 Cl Cr Fe H Hg Mg Na O P S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Calcite Clay Epsomite Gypsum Marcasite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Serpentine
Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Spinel

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anapaite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca₂Fe²⁺(PO₄)₂·4H₂O			1	160507	25
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)			1	160513	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5.3	0	1	160522	27770
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	5.3	0	3	160527,160531,160534	3902
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	5.3	0	1	160526	951
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	5.3	0	8	160516,160517,160518,160520,160522,160524,160528,160543	2600
Eglestonite ()*	None	([Hg¹⁺]₂)₃OCl₃(OH)	5.3	0	1	160522	36
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O			1	160543	484
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			6	160511,160513,160536,160537,160538,160539	6890
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	5.3	0	4	160521,160529,160530,160532	1487
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	5.3	0	1	160524	5674
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	5.3	0	2	160522,160524	397
Metacinnabar ()*	Sphalerite	HgS	5.3	0	3	160518,160522,160524	255
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O			3	160511,160512,160537	1508
Montroydite ()*	None	HgO	5.3	0	1	160522	29
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5.3	0	1	160524	39462
Terlinguaite ()*	None	Hg₂OCl	5.3	0	1	160522	22

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Hg-00131	5.3	0		?-?								Cinnabar, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Montroydite, Terlinguaite, Eglestonite	Hg	210466	Parkfield District, Diablo Range, Kings Co., California, USA	California Mercury Occurrences	Studemeister (1984)	10.1007/BF00199786	MD19_202

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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