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Locality Name:
Santa Barbara Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 165
Youngest recorded age at locality: 165

mindat Locality ID: 30702
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-30702.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Santa Barbara Co., California, USA": 191
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 139

Number of Child Localities: 27
Child Localities:
Azur Mts
Big Pine Mountain
Buellton
Carpinteria
Channel Islands
Coyote Station
Gaviota
Guadalupe
Hope Ranch
Las Cruces
Lompoc
Los Olivos
Los Prietos District
Mission Hills
New Cuyama
Orcutt
San Emigdio Mts
San Marcos Pass Quarry
San Rafael Mts
Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Islands
Santa Maria
Santa Ynez
Santa Ynez Mts
Sisquoc
Solvang
Vandenberg Air Force Base

Latitude: 34°38'33"N
Longitude: 120°6'2"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.6425,-120.10055555556

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	Aragonite	Baryte	Blödite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper
Cristobalite	Epidote	Epsomite	Garnet	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Lawsonite	Malachite	Marcasite	Melanterite
Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Pectolite	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel
Stilpnomelane	Sulphur	Talc	Titanite	Vivianite	Zircon

Almandine ()*	Analcime ()*	Antlerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Augite ()*
Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Blödite ()*	Boothite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cassiterite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Cristobalite ()*
Dickite ()*	Enstatite ()*	Epidote ()*	Epsomite ()*	Gold ()*
Gypsum ()*	Hercynite ()*	Hydromagnesite ()*	Kalinite ()*	Lawsonite ()*
Magnesiochromite ()*	Magnesite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*
Natrolite ()*	Opal ()*	Pectolite ()*	Platinum ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rosickýite ()*	Salammoniac ()*	Spinel ()*	Stilpnomelane ()*
Sulphur ()*	Talc ()*	Titanite ()*	Vivianite ()*	Xonotlite ()*
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 Au Ba C Ca Cl Cr Cu Fe H Hg K Mg N Na O P Pt S Si Sn Ti Zr

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Analcime Aragonite Baryte Blödite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper
Cristobalite Epidote Epsomite Garnet Gypsum Kaolinite Lawsonite Malachite Marcasite Melanterite
Natrolite None Not in a structural group Pectolite Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Spinel
Stilpnomelane Sulphur Talc Titanite Vivianite Zircon

46 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
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃			1	175986	2353
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O			1	175860	1627
Antlerite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu²⁺₃(SO₄)(OH)₄			1	175922	246
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)			2	175869,175933	3250
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆			1	175860	2060
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			1	175972	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			1	175965	11547
Blödite ()*	Blödite	Na₂Mg(SO₄)₂·4H₂O			1	175907	130
Boothite ()*	Melanterite	Cu(SO₄)·7H₂O			1	175931	18
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			2	175838,175869	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	165	165	1	175915	5171
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			2	175898,175922	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄			9	175840,175862,175865,175921,175928,175933,175937,175941,175943	3902
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS			7	175901,175902,175935,175942,175946,175952,175955	2600
Cristobalite ()*	Cristobalite	SiO₂			1	175888	453
Dickite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	175946	651
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆			1	175926	944
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	175856	8173
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O			2	175847,175907	484
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			3	175859,175861,175889	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			7	175853,175860,175960,175963,175964,175980,176003	6890
Hercynite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Al₂O₄	165	165	1	175915	407
Hydromagnesite ()*	None	Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·4H₂O			2	175932,175982	341
Kalinite ()*	None	KAl(SO₄)₂·11H₂O			1	175887	54
Lawsonite ()*	Lawsonite	CaAl₂(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O			1	175851	121
Magnesiochromite ()*	Spinel	MgCr₂O₄	165	165	8	175917,175920,175923,175938,175940,175944,175953,175981	311
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)			2	175854,175934	1487
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			1	175971	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂			1	175869	5674
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O			1	175983	1508
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O			1	175860	1236
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O			20	175841,175844,175870,175874,175878,175879,175884,175885,175888,175891,175892,175893,175894,175895,175899,175992,175997,176022,176025,176026	2994
Pectolite ()*	Pectolite	NaCa₂Si₃O₈(OH)			1	175987	363
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt			1	175889	485
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			1	175922	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			4	175869,175922,175947,175971	61156
Rosickýite ()*	None	S			1	175847	22
Salammoniac ()*	None	(NH₄)Cl			1	175867	105
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄			1	175986	1934
Stilpnomelane ()*	Stilpnomelane Clay	(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)₈(Si,Al)₁₂(O,OH)₃₆·nH₂O	165	165	0		456
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S			6	175836,175847,175848,175867,175887,175911	2045
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂			1	176015	3337
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O			1	175856	4899
Vivianite ()*	Vivianite	Fe²⁺₃(PO₄)₂·8H₂O			1	175873	636
Xonotlite ()*	None	Ca₆Si₆O₁₇(OH)₂			3	175860,175996,175998	109
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)			2	175856,175986	5251

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
	podchrome-00017	165	165	Middle Jurassic (165.57±0.38 CA-TIMS, zircon in plagiogranite)										Cr	92104	Bacon Mine (Bacon Deposit; O'Donnell And Burns Mining Company; O'Donnell And Byrne Mine; O.B. Mine; O And B Mine), Cachuma Village, Cachuma District, San Rafael Mts, Santa Barbara Co., California, USA	Bacon	Moiser et al. (2012)		USGSSIR2012_5157

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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