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:
Great Salt Lake, Tooele Co., Utah, USA

mindat Locality ID: 38935
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-38935.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Great Salt Lake, Tooele Co., Utah, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Badger Island NW Brine Section
Craner Peak Oolite Occurrence
Plug Peak Brine
Plug Peak SE Brine

Latitude: 40°54'27"N
Longitude: 112°33'16"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.9075,-112.55444444444

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.

Aragonite	Blödite	Calcite	Gypsum	None	Rocksalt

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 H Mg Na O S

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Blödite Calcite Gypsum None Rocksalt

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Aragonite ()*	Blödite ()*	Calcite ()*	Glauberite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Halite ()*	Mirabilite ()*	Thénardite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	0		3250
Blödite ()*	Blödite	Na₂Mg(SO₄)₂·4H₂O	0		130
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	277280	27770
Glauberite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(SO₄)₂	0		137
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	0		6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	0		1398
Mirabilite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)·10H₂O	0		223
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	0		299

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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