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:
Ross Island, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica

mindat Locality ID: 38
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-38.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ross Island, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Hut Point Peninsula
Mt Erebus

Latitude: 77°41'58"S
Longitude: 166°51'35"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -77.699444444444,166.85972222222

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.

Amphibole	Apatite	Aragonite	Calcite	Clay	Corundum	Cristobalite	Ettringite	Gypsum	Mica
None	Northupite	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pyrochlore	Pyroxene	Rosenbergite	Sapphirine	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel
Tridymite

Antarcticite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Augite ()*	Burkeite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cristobalite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Gaylussite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Hydrokenoralstonite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kaersutite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Mirabilite ()*
Montmorillonite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Nepheline ()*	Northupite ()*	Rhönite ()*
Rosenbergite ()*	Siderite ()*	Thaumasite ()*	Thénardite ()*	Thermonatrite ()*
Tridymite ()*	Vaterite ()*

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 Cl F Fe H K Mg Na O P S Si Ti

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Apatite Aragonite Calcite Clay Corundum Cristobalite Ettringite Gypsum Mica
None Northupite Not in a structural group Olivine Pyrochlore Pyroxene Rosenbergite Sapphirine Smectite-vermiculite Spinel
Tridymite

27 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Antarcticite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaCl₂·6H₂O	1	1890	11
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	1889	3250
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	0		2060
Burkeite ()*	None	Na₄(SO₄)(CO₃)	1	1890	47
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	1889	27770
Cristobalite ()*	Cristobalite	SiO₂	1	1889	453
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	1890	2740
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	1889	1188
Gaylussite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂·5H₂O	1	1889	57
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	1889	6890
Hydrokenoralstonite ()*	Pyrochlore	₂Al₂F₆(H₂O)	1	1890	56
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	1890	5433
Kaersutite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂(Mg₃AlTi⁴⁺)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂O₂	1	1890	179
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	1890	14899
Mirabilite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)·10H₂O	0		223
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	1889	1508
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	1889	17380
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)	1	1890	884
Northupite ()*	Northupite	Na₃Mg(CO₃)₂Cl	1	1889	31
Rhönite ()*	Sapphirine	Ca₄[Mg₈Fe³⁺₂Ti₂]O₄[Si₆Al₆O₃₆]	1	1889	47
Rosenbergite ()*	Rosenbergite	AlF[F_0.5(H₂O)_0.5]₄·H₂O	1	1890	4
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	1889	6417
Thaumasite ()*	Ettringite	Ca₃Si(OH)₆(CO₃)(SO₄)·12H₂O	1	1889	183
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	1	1889	299
Thermonatrite ()*	None	Na₂(CO₃)·H₂O	1	1889	64
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	1	1889	458
Vaterite ()*	None	Ca(CO₃)	1	1889	37

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R060054	Mt Erebus, Ross Island, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica	https://rruff.info/R060054

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