Samoa (original) (raw)

Samoai

Mindat Locality ID:

187687

Long-form identifier:

mindat:1:2:187687:4

3437f82d-41cb-4310-9609-e0b97c4cf425

Other/historical names associated with this locality:

Western Samoa

Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa):

Самоа

Bishnupriya Manipuri:

সামোয়া

Central Kurdish/Sorani:

ساموا

Crimean Tatar (Latin):

Samoa

Kazakh (Cyrillic Script):

Самоа

Kinyarwanda:

Samowa y’Uburengerazuba

Kurdish (Latin Script):

Samoa

Low Saxon/Low German:

Samoa

Minnan / Hokkien-Taiwanese:

Samoa

Newar / Nepal Bhasa:

सामोआ

Norwegian (Nynorsk):

Samoa

South Azerbaijani:

ساموا آداسی

Tajik (Cyrillic Script):

Самоа

Tibetan (Standard):

ས་མོའ།

Uzbek (Latin Script):

Samoa

Country governing the western part of the Samoan Islands archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean. Previous names were Samoa from 1900 to 1919, and Western Samoa from 1914 to 1997.

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Mineral List

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5 valid minerals.

Rock Types Recorded

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• Igneous rock
  • Normal crystalline igneous rock
    * Fine-grained ("volcanic") normal crystalline igneous rock
    * Foiditoid
    * Basic volcanic rock
    * Basaltoid
    * ⓘ Basalt

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Geochronology

Mineralization age: Pleistocene : 2.58 ± 0.03 Ma to 1.38 ± 0.02 Ma

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Fossils

There are 1 fossil localities from the PaleoBioDB database within this region.

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Occurrences	3
Youngest Fossil Listed
Oldest Fossil Listed	0.01 Ma (Pleistocene)
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Accepted NameHierarchy AgePoritesgenusAnimalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Poritidae : **Porites**0.0117 - 0 MaQuaternarySeriatopora hystrixspeciesAnimalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Pocilloporidae : Seriatopora : **Seriatopora hystrix**0.0117 - 0 MaQuaternaryPorites lobataspeciesAnimalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Poritidae : Porites : **Porites lobata**0.0117 - 0 MaQuaternary
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• Quaternary🐚 Upolu

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Localities in this Region

• ⭔Savai'i Island
• ⭔Upolu Island

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