Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Woodbury, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 388
Youngest recorded age at locality: 319

mindat Locality ID: 43461
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-43461.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Woodbury, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Flanders Road (Brushy Hill)
Nonnewaug River Industrial Park
Orenaug Hills
Woodbury Pegmatite Quarry

Latitude: 41°33'43"N
Longitude: 73°12'9"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.561944444444,-73.2025

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.

Allophane	Amorphous	Analcime	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Beryl	Bismutite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite
Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Gadolinite	Garnet	Malachite	Meta-autunite
Mica	Monazite	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rhodonite	Rocksalt
Stibnite	Stilbite	Tourmaline

Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Analcime ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*
Babingtonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bertrandite ()*	Beryl ()*	Bismuthinite ()*
Bismutite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Datolite ()*
Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Hematite ()*
Kyanite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Malachite ()*	Meta-autunite ()*	Metatorbernite ()*
Microcline ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Muscovite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Opal ()*
Prehnite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Schorl ()*	Stilbite-Ca ()*
Uraninite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*

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 B Ba Be Bi C Ca Ce Cu F Fe H K Na O P Pb S Si U

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amorphous Analcime Apatite Aragonite Baryte Beryl Bismutite Calcite Chalcopyrite
Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Gadolinite Garnet Malachite Meta-autunite
Mica Monazite Natrolite None Not in a structural group Prehnite Pyrite Quartz Rhodonite Rocksalt
Stibnite Stilbite Tourmaline

37 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
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	388	319	3	199036,199037,199040	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃			1	199037	2353
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O			2	199037,199039	1627
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)			1	199039	1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)			1	199039	3250
Babingtonite ()*	Rhodonite	Ca₂Fe²⁺Fe³⁺Si₅O₁₄(OH)			1	199039	161
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			1	199039	11547
Bertrandite ()*	Not in a structural group	Be₄Si₂O₇(OH)₂			1	199040	606
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈			1	199040	4286
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃			1	199040	1935
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)			1	199040	716
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			1	199039	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			3	199037,199039,199040	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O			1	199037	3531
Datolite ()*	Gadolinite	CaB(SiO₄)(OH)			1	199039	498
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			2	199037,199039	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F			1	199037	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂			1	199039	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			1	199039	24243
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			1	199039	14640
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄			1	199037	1507
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O			1	199039	1271
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			1	199040	12537
Meta-autunite ()*	Meta-autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·6H₂O			1	199040	388
Metatorbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·8H₂O			1	199040	443
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	388	319	3	199036,199037,199040	4924
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)			1	199040	945
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	388	319	3	199036,199037,199040	17380
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O			1	199039	1236
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O			1	199037	2994
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂			1	199039	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			2	199037,199039	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	388	319	5	199036,199037,199038,199039,199040	61156
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)			1	199037	2705
Stilbite-Ca ()*	Stilbite	NaCa₄(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·28H₂O			1	199039	268
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂			1	199040	2718
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O			1	199040	890

2 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
	USGS-Rb-Sr-05200	388	378	383±5	Rb-Sr	age of intrusion		whole rock							252845	Flanders Road (Brushy Hill), Woodbury, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, USA		USGS-Rb-Sr		USGS-Rb-Sr
	USGS-Rb-Sr-05201	381	319	350±31	Rb-Sr			whole rock							252845	Flanders Road (Brushy Hill), Woodbury, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, USA		USGS-Rb-Sr		USGS-Rb-Sr

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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