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:
Eysturoy Island, Faroe Islands, Denmark

mindat Locality ID: 43317
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-43317.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Eysturoy Island, Faroe Islands, Denmark": 29
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 23

Number of Child Localities: 22
Child Localities:
Eidi II Hydropower Tunnel
Eidi Roadcut
Fuglafjørður
Funningsfjørđur
Funningur
Funningur Roadcut
Gøtueiđi
Hjarðardalur
Innan Glyvur
Lambareiđi
Leirvik
Lítlafelli
Ljósá
Nordskáli Tunnel
Norđragøta
Selatrađ Quarry
Skálafjørđur
Skáli
Strendur
Svinair
Sydrugota
Toftir

Latitude: 62°12'25"N
Longitude: 6°52'45"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 62.206944444444,-6.8791666666667

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.

Analcime	Calcite	Chabazite	Clay	Gyrolite	Mica	Mordenite	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group
Quartz	Smectite-vermiculite	Thomsonite

Analcime ()*	Calcite ()*	Celadonite ()*	Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Epistilbite ()*	Gyrolite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Mesolite ()*	Natrolite ()*
Quartz ()*	Saponite ()*	Scolecite ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*

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 Cu Fe H K Mg Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca H O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Calcite Chabazite Clay Gyrolite Mica Mordenite Natrolite None Not in a structural group
Quartz Smectite-vermiculite Thomsonite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	5	48192,48204,48207,48216,48218	1627
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	10	48192,48202,48204,48205,48206,48208,48211,48213,48216,48218	27770
Celadonite ()*	Mica Clay	KMgFe³⁺Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	3	48210,48211,48213	309
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	1	48210	310
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	48207	5707
Epistilbite ()*	Mordenite	Ca₃[Si₁₈Al₆O₄₈]·16H₂O	1	48192	138
Gyrolite ()*	Gyrolite	NaCa₁₆(Si₂₃Al)O₆₀(OH)₈·14H₂O	5	48192,48204,48207,48211,48216	142
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	48207	1271
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	10	48192,48200,48204,48205,48206,48207,48210,48211,48213,48218	425
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1	48204	1236
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	48205,48218	61156
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	48207	301
Scolecite ()*	Natrolite	Ca(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	0		390
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	6	48196,48199,48204,48207,48215,48216	452

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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