Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Pointe Du Van, Cléden-Cap-Sizun, Cape Sizun, Finistère, Brittany, France

mindat Locality ID: 300094
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-300094.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Pointe Du Van, Cléden-Cap-Sizun, Cape Sizun, Finistère, Brittany, France": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 48°3'46"N
Longitude: 4°42'44"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 48.062777777778,-4.7122222222222

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	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz
Spinel	Staurolite	Titanite	Zircon

Albite ()*	Andalusite ()*	Epidote ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Microcline ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Quartz ()*	Sillimanite ()*
Staurolite ()*	Titanite ()*	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 Ca Fe H K Na O Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Fe H K Na O Si Ti Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote Feldspar Mica None Not in a structural group Quartz
Spinel Staurolite Titanite Zircon

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	8803
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	1310
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	8173
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	2349
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1516
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)	978
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

All locality data graciously provided by mindat.org

All age data...