Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Kerguelen Islands, French Southern And Antarctic Lands, France

mindat Locality ID: 30703
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-30703.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kerguelen Islands, French Southern And Antarctic Lands, France": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Grande Terre Island

Latitude: 49°20'"S
Longitude: 70°19'59"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -49.333333333333,70.333055555556

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	Aragonite	Calcite	Clay	Corundum	Crichtonite	Gismondine	Mica	Mordenite	Natrolite
None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pseudobrookite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Stilbite
Thomsonite

Analcime ()*	Aragonite ()*	Armalcolite ()*	Augite ()*	Calcite ()*
Celadonite ()*	Chromite ()*	Diopside ()*	Epistilbite ()*	Forsterite ()*
Gismondine ()*	Gonnardite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Loveringite ()*
Mesolite ()*	Mordenite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Offretite ()*	Phlogopite ()*
Pseudobrookite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Saponite ()*	Scolecite ()*
Spinel ()*	Stellerite ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*

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 Cr Fe H K La Mg Na O Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Ce Cr Fe H K La Mg O Si Ti Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Aragonite Calcite Clay Corundum Crichtonite Gismondine Mica Mordenite Natrolite
None Not in a structural group Olivine Pseudobrookite Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Stilbite
Thomsonite

28 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	53716	1627
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	53716	3250
Armalcolite ()*	Pseudobrookite	(Mg,Fe²⁺)Ti₂O₅	0		39
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	0		2060
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	53716	27770
Celadonite ()*	Mica Clay	KMgFe³⁺Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	53716	309
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	0		3902
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	0		4135
Epistilbite ()*	Mordenite	Ca₃[Si₁₈Al₆O₄₈]·16H₂O	1	53716	138
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	0		1188
Gismondine ()*	Gismondine	Ca₂(Si₄Al₄)O₁₆·8H₂O	1	53716	128
Gonnardite ()*	Natrolite	(Na,Ca)₂(Si,Al)₅O₁₀·3H₂O	1	53716	167
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	0		5433
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	53716	1271
Loveringite ()*	Crichtonite	(Ca,Ce,La)(Zr,Fe)(Mg,Fe)₂(Ti,Fe,Cr,Al)₁₈O₃₈	0		9
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	1	53716	425
Mordenite ()*	Mordenite	(Na₂,Ca,K₂)₄(Al₈Si₄₀)O₉₆·28H₂O	1	53716	405
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1	53716	1236
Offretite ()*	Not in a structural group	KCaMg(Si₁₃Al₅)O₃₆·15H₂O	1	53716	146
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	0		2273
Pseudobrookite ()*	Pseudobrookite	(Fe³⁺₂Ti)O₅	0		164
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	53716	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	0		5614
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	53716	301
Scolecite ()*	Natrolite	Ca(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	1	53716	390
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	0		1934
Stellerite ()*	Stilbite	Ca₄(Si₂₈Al₈)O₇₂·28H₂O	1	53716	189
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	1	53716	452

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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