Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Marble Canyon Mine (Texas Agricultural Aggregates Quarry), Apache Peak Area, Culberson Co., Texas, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 38
Youngest recorded age at locality: 26

mindat Locality ID: 3251
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3251.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Marble Canyon Mine (Texas Agricultural Aggregates Quarry), Apache Peak Area, Culberson Co., Texas, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 31°25'55"N
Longitude: 104°53'38"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.431944444444,-104.89388888889

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.

Amphibole	Analcime	Aphthitalite	Brucite	Calcite	Fluorite	Garnet	Malachite	Marcasite	Melilite
None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Spurrite-Afwillite	Tobermorite	Vesuvianite	Wollastonite
Zircon

Åkermanite ()*	Analcime ()*	Bornite ()*	Bredigite ()*	Brucite ()*
Calcio-olivine ()*	Calcite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Forsterite ()*	Gehlenite ()*	Grossular ()*	Larnite ()*	Malachite ()*
Marcasite ()*	Merwinite ()*	Monticellite ()*	Periclase ()*	Quartz ()*
Rankinite ()*	Spurrite ()*	Thorianite ()*	Tilleyite ()*	Tobermorite ()*
Tremolite ()*	Vesuvianite ()*	Wollastonite ()*	Xonotlite ()*	Zeophyllite ()*
Zircon ()*	Zirkelite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H Mg Na O S Si Th Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Cu F Fe H Mg Na O S Si Th Ti Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Analcime Aphthitalite Brucite Calcite Fluorite Garnet Malachite Marcasite Melilite
None Not in a structural group Olivine Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Spurrite-Afwillite Tobermorite Vesuvianite Wollastonite
Zircon

32 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Åkermanite ()*	Melilite	Ca₂MgSi₂O₇	38	26	50
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	38	26	1627
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	38	26	5516
Bredigite ()*	None	Ca₇Mg(SiO₄)₄	38	26	13
Brucite ()*	Brucite	Mg(OH)₂	38	26	462
Calcio-olivine ()*	Olivine	Ca₂(SiO₄)	38	26	8
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	38	26	27770
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	38	26	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	38	26	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	38	26	9617
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	38	26	1188
Gehlenite ()*	Melilite	Ca₂Al(SiAl)O₇	38	26	114
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	38	26	1544
Larnite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca₂(SiO₄)	38	26	48
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	38	26	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	38	26	5674
Merwinite ()*	Aphthitalite	Ca₃Mg(SiO₄)₂	38	26	23
Monticellite ()*	Olivine	CaMg(SiO₄)	38	26	153
Periclase ()*	Rocksalt	MgO	38	26	114
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	38	26	61156
Rankinite ()*	None	Ca₃Si₂O₇	38	26	25
Spurrite ()*	Spurrite-Afwillite	Ca₅(SiO₄)₂(CO₃)	38	26	54
Thorianite ()*	Fluorite	ThO₂	38	26	236
Tilleyite ()*	None	Ca₅Si₂O₇(CO₃)₂	38	26	19
Tobermorite ()*	Tobermorite	Ca₄Si₆O₁₇(H₂O)₂·(Ca·3H₂O)	38	26	114
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	38	26	2562
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	38	26	1395
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	38	26	1247
Xonotlite ()*	None	Ca₆Si₆O₁₇(OH)₂	38	26	109
Zeophyllite ()*	None	Ca₁₃Si₁₀O₂₈(OH)₂F₈·6H₂O	38	26	18
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	38	26	5251
Zirkelite ()*	Fluorite	(Ti,Ca,Zr)O_2-x	38	26	27

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
	NAVDAT-21743	38	26	36.6+1.4/-10.6					21743						3251	Marble Canyon Mine (Texas Agricultural Aggregates Quarry), Apache Peak Area, Culberson Co., Texas, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT
	NAVDAT-38424	38	26	32±6					38424						3251	Marble Canyon Mine (Texas Agricultural Aggregates Quarry), Apache Peak Area, Culberson Co., Texas, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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