Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Mount Suswa (Suswa Volcano), Kajiado County, Kenya

mindat Locality ID: 31301
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-31301.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mount Suswa (Suswa Volcano), Kajiado County, Kenya": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Cave No. 13
Cave No. 14

Latitude: 1°10'22"S
Longitude: 36°20'51"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -1.1727777777778,36.3475

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.

Amorphous	Cancrinite-sodalite	Feldspar	Gypsum	None	Pyroxene	Sapphirine	Sodalite	Spinel	Taranakite
Tridymite

Aenigmatite ()*	Augite ()*	Brushite ()*	Clinoferrosilite ()*	Ferrosilite ()*
Gypsum ()*	Hannayite ()*	Kogarkoite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Nepheline ()*
Newberyite ()*	Opal ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Sanidine ()*	Sodalite ()*
Taranakite ()*	Thermonatrite ()*	Trona ()*

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 Cl F Fe H K Mg N Na O P S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Cl Fe K Mg Na O Si Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Cancrinite-sodalite Feldspar Gypsum None Pyroxene Sapphirine Sodalite Spinel Taranakite
Tridymite

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aenigmatite ()*	Sapphirine	Na₄[Fe²⁺₁₀Ti₂]O₄[Si₁₂O₃₆]	0		133
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	0		2060
Brushite ()*	Gypsum	Ca(PO₃OH)·2H₂O	1	77667	104
Clinoferrosilite ()*	Pyroxene	Fe²⁺₂Si₂O₆	0		18
Ferrosilite ()*	Pyroxene	Fe²⁺₂Si₂O₆	0		84
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	77667	6890
Hannayite ()*	None	(NH₄)₂Mg₃(PO₃OH)₄·8H₂O	1	77667	7
Kogarkoite ()*	None	Na₃(SO₄)F	1	77666	14
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	0		14899
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)	0		884
Newberyite ()*	None	Mg(PO₃OH)·3H₂O	1	77667	24
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	77666	2994
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	0		2349
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	77667	598
Sodalite ()*	Cancrinite-sodalite Sodalite	Na₄(Si₃Al₃)O₁₂Cl	0		444
Taranakite ()*	Taranakite	K₃Al₅(PO₃OH)₆(PO₄)₂·18H₂O	1	77667	57
Thermonatrite ()*	None	Na₂(CO₃)·H₂O	1	77666	64
Trona ()*	None	Na₃(HCO₃)(CO₃)·2H₂O	1	77666	129

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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