Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Playa Oum El Krialate, Tataouine, Tunisia

mindat Locality ID: 300198
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-300198.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Playa Oum El Krialate, Tataouine, Tunisia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 32°48'0"N
Longitude: 10°56'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 32.8,10.933333333333

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.

Carnallite	Chalcanthite	Hexahydrite	Kieserite	None	Rhabdophane	Starkeyite

Bassanite ()*	Burkeite ()*	Carnallite ()*	Gaylussite ()*	Glauberite ()*
Hexahydrite ()*	Kainite ()*	Mirabilite ()*	Nahcolite ()*	Pentahydrite ()*
Pirssonite ()*	Polyhalite ()*	Rozenite ()*	Starkeyite ()*	Szomolnokite ()*
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: C Ca Cl Fe H K Mg Na O S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca Cl Fe H K Mg Na O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Carnallite Chalcanthite Hexahydrite Kieserite None Rhabdophane Starkeyite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Bassanite ()*	Rhabdophane	Ca(SO₄)·0.5H₂O	82
Burkeite ()*	None	Na₄(SO₄)(CO₃)	47
Carnallite ()*	Carnallite	KMgCl₃·6H₂O	132
Gaylussite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂·5H₂O	57
Glauberite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(SO₄)₂	137
Hexahydrite ()*	Hexahydrite	Mg(SO₄)·6H₂O	251
Kainite ()*	None	KMg(SO₄)Cl·2.75H₂O	50
Mirabilite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)·10H₂O	223
Nahcolite ()*	None	NaH(CO₃)	78
Pentahydrite ()*	Chalcanthite	Mg(SO₄)·5H₂O	32
Pirssonite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂·2H₂O	19
Polyhalite ()*	None	K₂Ca₂Mg(SO₄)₄·2H₂O	102
Rozenite ()*	Starkeyite	Fe²⁺(SO₄)·4H₂O	293
Starkeyite ()*	Starkeyite	Mg(SO₄)·4H₂O	79
Szomolnokite ()*	Kieserite	Fe(SO₄)·H₂O	139
Trona ()*	None	Na₃(HCO₃)(CO₃)·2H₂O	129

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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