Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Baringo County, Kenya

mindat Locality ID: 301378
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-301378.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Baringo County, Kenya": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Lake Bogoria (Hannington Lake)

Latitude: 0°14'11"N
Longitude: 36°6'15"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0.23638888888889,36.104166666667

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.

Amorphous	Analcime	Apatite	Calcite	Fluorite	None

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 F H Na O P Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Analcime Apatite Calcite Fluorite None

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Analcime ()*	Calcite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Kanemite ()*
Magadiite ()*	Nahcolite ()*	Opal ()*	Thermonatrite ()*	Trona ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	77637	1627
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	77637	27770
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	77637	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	77637	9617
Kanemite ()*	None	NaSi₂O₄(OH)·3H₂O	1	77637	4
Magadiite ()*	None	Na₂Si₁₄O₂₈(OH)₂·8H₂O	1	77637	11
Nahcolite ()*	None	NaH(CO₃)	1	77637	78
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	77637	2994
Thermonatrite ()*	None	Na₂(CO₃)·H₂O	1	77637	64
Trona ()*	None	Na₃(HCO₃)(CO₃)·2H₂O	1	77637	129

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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