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:
Mono Lake, Mono Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 0.01967
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0.01949

mindat Locality ID: 29781
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29781.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mono Lake, Mono Co., California, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Eastern Edge Of Mono Lake
Paoha Island
Rancheria Gulch
South Shore

Latitude: 38°0'15"N
Longitude: 119°2'53"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.004166666667,-119.04805555556

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.

Andalusite	Aragonite	Calcite	Gypsum	None	Rocksalt	Struvite

Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Gaylussite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*
Hanksite ()*	Hazenite ()*	Ikaite ()*	Libethenite ()*	Lüneburgite ()*
Mirabilite ()*	Monetite ()*	Newberyite ()*	Struvite ()*	Trona ()*

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: B C Ca Cl Cu H K Mg N Na O P S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca H Na O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Aragonite Calcite Gypsum None Rocksalt Struvite

15 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
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	0.01967	0.01949	1	164369	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	0.01967	0.01949	1	164369	27770
Gaylussite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂·5H₂O	0.01967	0.01949	0		57
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	0.01967	0.01949	0		6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	0.01967	0.01949	1	164366	1398
Hanksite ()*	None	KNa₂₂(SO₄)₉(CO₃)₂Cl	0.01967	0.01949	1	164366	12
Hazenite ()*	Struvite	KNaMg₂(PO₄)₂·14H₂O	0.01967	0.01949	1	164369	1
Ikaite ()*	None	Ca(CO₃)·6H₂O	0.01967	0.01949	0		12
Libethenite ()*	Andalusite	Cu₂(PO₄)(OH)	0.01967	0.01949	1	164368	234
Lüneburgite ()*	None	Mg₃[B₂(OH)₆(PO₄)₂]·6H₂O	0.01967	0.01949	1	164367	14
Mirabilite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)·10H₂O	0.01967	0.01949	0		223
Monetite ()*	None	Ca(PO₃OH)	0.01967	0.01949	1	164367	21
Newberyite ()*	None	Mg(PO₃OH)·3H₂O	0.01967	0.01949	1	164367	24
Struvite ()*	Struvite	(NH₄)Mg(PO₄)·6H₂O	0.01967	0.01949	1	164367	30
Trona ()*	None	Na₃(HCO₃)(CO₃)·2H₂O	0.01967	0.01949	1	164366	129

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Michelle_0064	Ikaite precipitates on the south shore of Mono Lake during the winter due to spring water mixing with the alkaline/hypersaline lake water. First known non-marine occurence of Ikaite.

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
	Michelle_0064	0.01967	0.01949	0.01958±0.00009	14C	Age of ikaite		ikaite				Ikaite			29781	Mono Lake, Mono Co., California, USA	Mono Lake	Bischoff et al. (1993)	10.1016/0016-7037(93)90339-X	GCA57_3855	Age of ikaite from tufa. Varying levels of 14C in source springs yield unpredictable results.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R100029	Mono Lake, Mono Co., California, USA	https://rruff.info/R100029
R070259	Paoha Island, Mono Lake, Mono Co., California, USA	https://rruff.info/R070259

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