Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Worth Matravers, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK

mindat Locality ID: 228000
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-228000.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Worth Matravers, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Houns Tout
Swanage-Worth Matravers Quarry (Swan-Worth Quarry)

Latitude: 50°35'52"N
Longitude: 2°3'30"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.597777777778,-2.0583333333333

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Gypsum	Marcasite	None	Pyrite

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: Ba C Ca Fe H O S Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Gypsum Marcasite None Pyrite

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Gypsum ()*
Marcasite ()*	Pyrite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	120637	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	120637	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	120637,120638	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	120638	1252
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	120637	6890
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	120637	5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	120637	39462

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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