Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Granite Mountain Quarry #1, Granite Mountain Area, Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 99
Youngest recorded age at locality: 85

mindat Locality ID: 7796
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-7796.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Granite Mountain Quarry #1, Granite Mountain Area, Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 34°41'11"N
Longitude: 92°14'34"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.686388888889,-92.242777777778

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	Apatite	Calcite	Catapleiite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote	Kaolinite	Mica
Natrolite	None	Parisite	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Spinel	Titanite	Tridymite	Welinite	Wöhlerite

Aegirine ()*	Analcime ()*	Augite ()*	Barwoodite ()*	Calcite ()*
Catapleiite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Låvenite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Nepheline ()*	Parisite-(Ce) ()*	Phlogopite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrophanite ()*	Titanite ()*

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 Ce F Fe H K Mg Mn Na Nb O P S Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Ce F Fe H K Mg Mn Na Nb O P S Si Ti Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Apatite Calcite Catapleiite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote Kaolinite Mica
Natrolite None Parisite Pyrite Pyroxene Spinel Titanite Tridymite Welinite Wöhlerite

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Aegirine ()*	Pyroxene	NaFe³⁺Si₂O₆	99	85	1022
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	99	85	1627
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	99	85	2060
Barwoodite ()*	Welinite	Mn²⁺₆(Nb⁵⁺, )₂(SiO₄)₂(O,OH)₆	99	85	2
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	99	85	27770
Catapleiite ()*	Catapleiite	Na₂Zr(Si₃O₉)·2H₂O	99	85	113
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	99	85	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	99	85	2740
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	99	85	5591
Låvenite ()*	Wöhlerite	(Na,Ca)₄(Mn²⁺,Fe²⁺)₂(Zr,Ti,Nb)₂(Si₂O₇)₂(O,F)₄	99	85	58
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	99	85	14899
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	99	85	1236
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)	99	85	884
Parisite-(Ce) ()*	Parisite	CaCe₂(CO₃)₃F₂	99	85	112
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	99	85	2273
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	99	85	39462
Pyrophanite ()*	Corundum	Mn²⁺TiO₃	99	85	244
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	89	87	4899

4 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Sample Source	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID
AJS265_848-00005	93	85	89±4	K-Ar	biotite	Yes		14080	Granite Mountain Area, Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, USA	Granite Mountain	Zartman et al. (1967)	10.2475/ajs.265.10.848	AJS265_848
AJS265_848-00006	99	89	94±5	K-Ar	biotite	Yes		14080	Granite Mountain Area, Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, USA	Granite Mountain	Zartman et al. (1967)	10.2475/ajs.265.10.848	AJS265_848
AJS265_848-00007	92	86	89±3	Rb-Sr	biotite	Yes		14080	Granite Mountain Area, Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, USA	Granite Mountain	Zartman et al. (1967)	10.2475/ajs.265.10.848	AJS265_848
Bradley_2012_090	89	87	88±1		titanite	Yes	Titanite	14080	Granite Mountain Area, Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, USA	Granite Mountain	McCauley and Bradley (2014)	10.3749/canmin.52.2.183	CM52_183

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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