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:
Armstrong Co., Texas, USA

mindat Locality ID: 41771
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-41771.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Armstrong Co., Texas, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Happy Canyon Meteorite
Palo Duro Canyon Area
Unknown Deposit

Latitude: 34°52'53"N
Longitude: 101°25'16"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.881388888889,-101.42111111111

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	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Feldspar	Gypsum	None	Pyroxene	Rocksalt

Albite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Clinoenstatite ()*
Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*	Enstatite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*
Opal ()*	Osbornite ()*	Taenite ()*	Troilite ()*

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 Fe H Mg N Na Ni O S Si Sr Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Cl Na

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Aragonite Baryte Calcite Feldspar Gypsum None Pyroxene Rocksalt

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	269608	8803
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	269609	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	269609	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	269609	1252
Clinoenstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	269608	94
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	269608	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	269609	9895
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	269608	944
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	269609	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	0		1398
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	269610	2994
Osbornite ()*	Rocksalt	TiN	1	269608	20
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	269608	703
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	269608	1044

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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