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Locality Name:
Gads Hill, Upper Mersey Valley, Meander Valley Municipality, Tasmania, Australia


mindat Locality ID: 4630
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-4630.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gads Hill, Upper Mersey Valley, Meander Valley Municipality, Tasmania, Australia": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Addisons Creek
Maggs Mountain
Olivers Road

Latitude: 41°37'40"S
Longitude: 146°11'51"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -41.627777777778,146.1975
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 F Fe H K Na O Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca F Fe H K Na O Si 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AnalcimeApophylliteCalciteChabaziteClayGyroliteNoneSmectite-vermiculiteThomsoniteTobermorite

10 IMA Minerals at location:
Analcime  (*)Calcite  (*)Chabazite-Ca  (*)Chabazite-Na  (*)Fluorapophyllite-(K)  (*)
Gyrolite  (*)Nontronite  (*)Tacharanite  (*)Thomsonite-Ca  (*)Tobermorite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Analcime  (*)AnalcimeNa(AlSi2O6)·H2O1131661627
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)213164,1316627770
Chabazite-Ca  (*)ChabaziteCa2[Al4Si8O24]·13H2O0310
Chabazite-Na  (*)Chabazite(Na3K)[Al4Si8O24]·11H2O066
Fluorapophyllite-(K)  (*)ApophylliteKCa4Si8O20F·8H2O0303
Gyrolite  (*)GyroliteNaCa16(Si23Al)O60(OH)8·14H2O0142
Nontronite  (*)Clay Smectite-vermiculiteNa0.3Fe3+2(Si,Al)4O10(OH)2·nH2O0471
Tacharanite  (*)NoneCa12Al2Si18O33(OH)36047
Thomsonite-Ca  (*)ThomsoniteNaCa2(Al5Si5)O20·6H2O113164452
Tobermorite  (*)TobermoriteCa4Si6O17(H2O)2·(Ca·3H2O)0114


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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