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:
Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben, Südwestpfalz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Oldest recorded age at locality: 354
Youngest recorded age at locality: 248

mindat Locality ID: 305575
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-305575.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben, Südwestpfalz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Krähenberg

Latitude: 49°19'36"N
Longitude: 7°27'51"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 49.326666666667,7.4641666666667

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.

Cerite	Copper	Corundum	Cubanite	Iron	None	Pyroxene	Sphalerite	Spinel

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: Ca Cr Cu Fe Mg Na Ni O P S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Cerite Copper Corundum Cubanite Iron None Pyroxene Sphalerite Spinel

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Chromite ()*	Copper ()*	Diopside ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Iron ()*
Isocubanite ()*	Merrillite ()*	Taenite ()*	Troilite ()*

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
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	354	248	1	61659	3902
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	354	248	1	61659	3846
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	354	248	1	61659	4135
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	354	248	1	61659	5433
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	354	248	1	61659	1089
Isocubanite ()*	Sphalerite Cubanite	CuFe₂S₃	354	248	1	61659	191
Merrillite ()*	Cerite	Ca₉NaMg(PO₄)₇	354	248	1	61659	230
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	354	248	1	61659	703
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	354	248	1	61659	1044

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-00059	354	248		?-?						Yes		Cinnabar, Corderoite, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Moschellandsbergite, Perroudite, Poyarkovite, Shakhovite, Tiemannite, Eglestonite	Hg	14243	Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany		Krupp (1984); Krupp et al. (1989)

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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