Mineral Evolution Database
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Locality Name:
Lone Pine Quarry, Lone Pine, Alabama Hills, Inyo Co., California, USA

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

mindat Locality ID: 79097
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-79097.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lone Pine Quarry, Lone Pine, Alabama Hills, Inyo Co., California, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 36°36'0"N
Longitude: 118°4'1"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.6,-118.06694444444

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.

No IMA Minerals occur at this locality according to mindat

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:
Age IDLocality Notes
Michelle_446Quartz monzonite of Alabama Hills, road about 3.2 km N of Tuttle Creek, 1.6 km S of Lone Pine Creek See Table A1.


1 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
Michelle_446858585U-PbPreferred intrusive agezircon51 YesZircon  254166Alabama Hills, Inyo Co., California, USAAlabama HillsChen and Moore (1982)10.1029/JB087iB06p04761AJS299_93See p. 4768, Table 2. Age group LK (Late Cretaceous 80-100 ma).


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