3451 valid minerals. 1324 (TL) - type locality of valid minerals. 60 (FRL) - first recorded locality of unapproved mineral/variety/etc. 24 erroneous literature entries.

Rock Types Recorded

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ⓘ 'A-type granite'

ⓘ Acapulcoite meteorite

ⓘ Acid volcanic rock

ⓘ 'Actinolite schist'

ⓘ 'Albite-chlorite-epidote-sericite schist'

ⓘ 'Albite-epidote hornfels'

ⓘ 'Albitite'

ⓘ Alkali basalt

ⓘ 'Alkali gabbro'

ⓘ 'Alkali olivine basalt'

ⓘ Alkali-feldspar-granite

ⓘ 'Amphibolite gneiss'

ⓘ 'Amygdaloid'

ⓘ 'Amygdaloidal basalt'

ⓘ 'Anomalous IAB iron meteorite'

ⓘ 'Anomalous IIE iron meteorite'

ⓘ 'Anomalous PMG pallasite meteorite'

ⓘ 'Anomalous aubrite meteorite'

ⓘ 'Anomalous mesosiderite meteorite'

ⓘ 'Argillaceous Quartzite'

ⓘ 'Argillaceous limestone'

ⓘ Banded iron formation

ⓘ 'Banded-ferruginous chert'

ⓘ 'Basal conglomerate'

ⓘ 'Biotite Monzogranite'

ⓘ 'Biotite-epidote-quartz schist'

ⓘ 'Biotite-hornblende granodiorite'

ⓘ 'Biotite-pyroxenite'

ⓘ Biotitite

ⓘ 'Bituminous clay'

ⓘ Bituminous-coal

ⓘ 'Black Nephrite Jade'

ⓘ 'Brecciated andesite'

ⓘ Breccio-conglomerate

ⓘ Brucite-marble

ⓘ CI1 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ CL chondrite meteorite

ⓘ CM2 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ 'CO3.0 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ 'CO3.3 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ 'CO3.7 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ CV3 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ 'Calc-silicate hornfels'

ⓘ Calcite-carbonatite

ⓘ Carbonaceous chondrite meteorite

ⓘ Carbonate rock

ⓘ 'Carbonate stromatolite'

ⓘ Carbonatite

ⓘ Cataclasite

ⓘ Chalk

ⓘ 'Charnockitic granite'

ⓘ 'Charnockitic monzonite'

ⓘ Chert

ⓘ 'Chlorite schist'

ⓘ Chondrite meteorite

ⓘ Chromitite

ⓘ Clastic sedimentary rock

ⓘ Coarse-grained ("plutonic") crystalline igneous rock

ⓘ Coarse-grained-ultramafic-rock

ⓘ Cobbles

ⓘ 'Collapse breccia'

ⓘ Comenditic rhyolite

ⓘ Concretion

ⓘ Conglomerate

ⓘ 'Contact quartzite'

ⓘ 'Copper ore'

ⓘ 'Coprolite'

ⓘ 'Cordierite hornfels'

ⓘ 'Cordierite-garnet gneiss'

ⓘ Diogenite meteorite

ⓘ 'Diopside-madupitic lamproite'

ⓘ Diorite

ⓘ Dioritoid

ⓘ 'Dolerite'

ⓘ Dolomite-carbonatite

ⓘ Dolomite-mudstone

ⓘ Dolostone

ⓘ Dunite

ⓘ EH4 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ 'EH4/5 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ EL6 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ 'EL6/7 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ 'Epidote amphibolite'

ⓘ 'Episyenite'

ⓘ 'Episyenitic aplite'

ⓘ 'Essexite'

ⓘ 'Eucrite cumulate meteorite'

ⓘ Eucrite meteorite

ⓘ 'Eucrite monomict breccia meteorite'

ⓘ 'Eucrite polymict breccia meteorite'

ⓘ 'Feldspar porphyry'

ⓘ 'Feldspar schist'

ⓘ 'Feldspathic Gneiss'

ⓘ 'Feldspathic peridotite'

ⓘ 'Feldspathic-sandstone'

ⓘ Fine-grained ("volcanic") normal crystalline igneous rock

ⓘ 'Fine-grained metamafic-rock'

ⓘ 'Garnet lherzolite'

ⓘ 'Garnet peridotite'

ⓘ 'Garnet-biotite gneiss'

ⓘ 'Garnet-mica schist'

ⓘ Garnetite

ⓘ 'Geyserite'

ⓘ Glassy igneous rock

ⓘ Glassy rock

ⓘ 'Glaucophane schist'

ⓘ 'Granitic orthogneiss'

ⓘ Granitoid

ⓘ Granodiorite

ⓘ 'Granodiorite gneiss'

ⓘ Granofels

ⓘ 'Granophyric granite'

ⓘ H chondrite meteorite

ⓘ 'H/L4 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ H3 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ 'H3-4 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ 'H3-5 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ 'H3-6 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ 'H3.4 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ 'H3.6 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ 'H3.7 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ H4 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ 'H4-6 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ 'H4-an chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ H5 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ H6 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ 'Hornblende Metadiorite'

ⓘ 'Hornblende andesite'

ⓘ 'Hornblende diorite'

ⓘ 'Hornblende gneiss'

ⓘ 'Hornblende porphyry'

ⓘ Hornblende pyroxenite

ⓘ 'Hornblende schist'

ⓘ 'Hornblende-biotite gneiss'

ⓘ 'Hornblende-biotite granite'

ⓘ 'Hornblende-biotite granodiorite'

ⓘ Hornblende-gabbro

ⓘ Hornblende-peridotite

ⓘ 'Hornblende-plagioclase gneiss'

ⓘ Hornblendite

ⓘ Hornfels

ⓘ Howardite meteorite

ⓘ Humic coal series

ⓘ Hyaloclastite

ⓘ 'Hydrothermal breccia'

ⓘ 'I-type granite'

ⓘ IAB complex iron meteorite

ⓘ IAB-MG iron meteorite

ⓘ IAB-sHH iron meteorite

ⓘ IAB-sLH iron meteorite

ⓘ IAB-sLL iron meteorite

ⓘ IAB-sLM iron meteorite

ⓘ IC iron meteorite

ⓘ IIAB iron meteorite

ⓘ IIC iron meteorite

ⓘ IID iron meteorite

ⓘ IIF iron meteorite

ⓘ 'IIG iron meteorite'

ⓘ IIIAB iron meteorite

ⓘ IIIE iron meteorite

ⓘ IIIF iron meteorite

ⓘ Intermediate volcanic rock

ⓘ 'Intraformational breccia'

ⓘ 'Intraformational conglomerate'

ⓘ 'Intrusion breccia'

ⓘ 'Intrusive breccia'

ⓘ Iron meteorite

ⓘ 'Iron ore'

ⓘ Ironstone

ⓘ 'Ironstone concretion'

ⓘ K3 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ L chondrite meteorite

ⓘ 'L/LL3.4 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ 'L/LL4 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ 'L/LL6 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ L3 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ 'L3.6 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ 'L3.7 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ L4 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ L5 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ L6 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ 'L6/7 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ 'LCT pegmatite'

ⓘ LL chondrite meteorite

ⓘ 'LL3.3 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ 'LL3.7 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ LL4 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ LL5 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ LL6 chondrite meteorite

ⓘ Lacustrine deposit

ⓘ Lamproite

ⓘ Lamprophyre

ⓘ 'Lamprophyric-pyroxene-calcite-biotite olivine-melilitite'

ⓘ 'Leucocratic nephelinolite'

ⓘ 'Leucodiorite'

ⓘ 'Leucogabbro'

ⓘ 'Leucogranite'

ⓘ 'Leucogranodiorite'

ⓘ 'Leucomonzogranite'

ⓘ 'Lime-clay concretion'

ⓘ Lime-mudstone

ⓘ Limestone

ⓘ 'Limestone breccia'

ⓘ 'Mafic volcanic rock'

ⓘ Mafic-granulite

ⓘ 'Magnesian Limestone'

ⓘ Magnesiocarbonatite

ⓘ 'Magnetite skarn'

ⓘ Magnetitite

ⓘ 'Mahogany Obsidian'

ⓘ 'Melanocratic nephelinolite'

ⓘ 'Melasyenite'

ⓘ Melilitolite

ⓘ Mesosiderite meteorite

ⓘ Mesosiderite-A1 meteorite

ⓘ Mesosiderite-A2 meteorite

ⓘ Mesosiderite-A3 meteorite

ⓘ 'Mesosiderite-A3/4 meteorite'

ⓘ Mesosiderite-B4 meteorite

ⓘ Metaclinopyroxenite

ⓘ Metasedimentary rock

ⓘ 'Mid-ocean-ridge basalt'

ⓘ Migmatite

ⓘ Minette

ⓘ Monchiquite

ⓘ Monomict impact breccia

ⓘ 'Mud-grade limestone'

ⓘ Mudstone

ⓘ Mugearite

ⓘ 'Muscovite granite'

ⓘ 'Muscovite schist'

ⓘ 'Muscovite-biotite granite'

ⓘ Olivine clinopyroxenite

ⓘ 'Olivine lamproite'

ⓘ Olivine orthopyroxenite

ⓘ Olivine pyroxenite

ⓘ Olivine websterite

ⓘ 'Olivine-diopside-richterite-madupitic lamproite'

ⓘ Olivine-gabbro

ⓘ 'Omphacite Fei Cui'

ⓘ 'Orbicular diorite'

ⓘ 'Orbiculite'

ⓘ Ordinary chondrite meteorite

ⓘ PES pallasite meteorite

ⓘ PMG pallasite meteorite

ⓘ Packstone

ⓘ 'Palagonite tuff'

ⓘ Pantelleritic rhyolite

ⓘ 'Pegmatitic gabbro'

ⓘ 'Pegmatitic granite'

ⓘ 'Pegmatitic nepheline syenite'

ⓘ 'Pegmatitic syenite'

ⓘ 'Pegmatoid'

ⓘ 'Peperite'

ⓘ 'Peralkaline alkali-feldspar-granite'

ⓘ 'Peralkaline quartz-syenite'

ⓘ 'Peralkaline rhyolite'

ⓘ 'Peralkaline syenite'

ⓘ 'Peralkaline trachyte'

ⓘ 'Peralkaline-alkali-feldspar nepheline-syenite'

ⓘ Phonolitic-tephrite

ⓘ Pillowed-volcaniclastic-breccia

ⓘ 'Pisolite'

ⓘ 'Plagiogranite'

ⓘ 'Polymict breccia diogenite meteorite'

ⓘ Polymict impact breccia

ⓘ 'Polymictic conglomerate'

ⓘ 'Porphyrite'

ⓘ 'Porphyritic Monzogranite'

ⓘ 'Porphyritic andesite'

ⓘ 'Porphyritic granite'

ⓘ 'Porphyritic hornblende diorite'

ⓘ 'Porphyritic quartz-syenite'

ⓘ 'Porphyritic rhyolite'

ⓘ 'Porphyritic syenite'

ⓘ 'Porphyritic trachyte'

ⓘ 'Porphyroid'

ⓘ 'Porphyry'

ⓘ 'Possible IAB complex iron meteorite'

ⓘ 'Pseudoleucite syenite'

ⓘ Pyroclastic sediment

ⓘ Pyroclastic-breccia

ⓘ Pyroclastic-rock

ⓘ 'Pyroxene amphibolite'

ⓘ 'Pyroxene hornfels'

ⓘ Pyroxene-peridotite

ⓘ Pyroxenite

ⓘ 'Quartz mica chiastolite schist'

ⓘ 'Quartz-feldspar gneiss'

ⓘ 'Quartz-feldspar porphyry'

ⓘ Quartz-latite

ⓘ 'Quartz-mica schist'

ⓘ Quartz-monzodiorite

ⓘ Quartz-monzonite

ⓘ 'Quartz-sericite phyllite'

ⓘ 'Quartz-sericite schist'

ⓘ 'Quartz-sillimanite schist'

ⓘ Quartz-syenite

ⓘ Quartzite

ⓘ 'Quartzose sandstone'

ⓘ 'Rhyolitic crystal tuff'

ⓘ 'Rhyolitic tuff'

ⓘ 'Riebeckite granite'

ⓘ 'Sapphirine-Gedrite-Rock'

ⓘ Secondary-quartzite

ⓘ Sediment

ⓘ Sedimentary breccia

ⓘ 'Snowflake Obsidian'

ⓘ Sodalite-syenite

ⓘ Soil

ⓘ Spessartite (lamprophyre)

ⓘ Spilite

ⓘ 'Spinel lherzolite'

ⓘ 'Spinel peridotite'

ⓘ 'Staurolite-mica schist'

ⓘ 'Stromatolite'

ⓘ 'Stromatolitic limestone'

ⓘ Tephritic-phonolite

ⓘ 'Theralite'

ⓘ 'Tholeiitic basalt'

ⓘ Tuffaceous-mudstone

ⓘ Tuffaceous-sandstone

ⓘ Tuffaceous-sediment

ⓘ Tuffaceous-siltstone

ⓘ Tuffite

ⓘ 'Two mica monzogranite'

ⓘ 'Ungrouped C2 chondrite meteorite'

ⓘ 'Ungrouped IAB iron meteorite'

ⓘ 'Ungrouped iron meteorite'

ⓘ 'Ungrouped pallasite meteorite'

ⓘ 'Vitrophyric porphyry'

ⓘ Vogesite

ⓘ Volcanic ash

ⓘ Volcanic breccia

ⓘ 'Volcanic conglomerate'

ⓘ 'Volcanic rock'

ⓘ Volcaniclastic rock

ⓘ Volcaniclastic sediment

ⓘ Volcaniclastic-breccia

ⓘ Volcaniclastic-sandstone

ⓘ Winonaite meteorite

ⓘ 'Wonderstone'

ⓘ Zoisitite

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