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The Pilbara Craton
The Pilbara Craton in its final stage consisted of a number of granite
batholiths that became welded together, first by collisions and later by
addition of granite intrusions that helped weld the batholiths into 1 massive,
solid craton. The oldest of these batholiths has been found to have formed at
about 3.5 - 3.4 billion years ago. This makes it the second oldest of the cratons that were jammed
together to form the beginnings of the Australian continent.
The Pilbara region lies on the tropic of Capricorn.
Precambrian Research Volume 135, Issue 4, Pages 245-360 (15 December 2004)
The First Billion Years - Selected Papers Presented at the 13th V.M. Goldschmidt
Conference, Kurashiki, Japan
Edited by S.J. Mojzsis
Geochemistry of Precambrian carbonate intercalated in pillows and its host
basalt: implications for the REE composition of circa 3.4 Ga seawater
• ARTICLE
Pages 331-344
Koshi Yamamoto, Nobukazu Itoh, Takuya Matsumoto, Tsuyoshi Tanaka and Mamoru
Adachi
Sources & Further reading
Links
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Geochronology and stratigraphic relationships of the Sulphur Springs Group
and Strelley Granite: a temporally distinct igneous province in the Archaean
Pilbara Craton, Australia
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Extensional structures during deposition of the 3460 Ma Warrawoona Group in
the eastern Pilbara Craton, Western Australia
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Geology and tectonic evolution of the Palaeoproterozoic Bryah, Padbury and
Yerrida Basins (formerly Glengarry Basin), Western Australia: implications for
the history of the south-central Capricorn Orogen
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40Ar/39Ar laserprobe ages of metamorphic
hornblendes from the Coongan Belt, Pilbara, Western Australia
- The
Building Blocks of a Continent
- Tectonic Evolution of Proterozoic Australia
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Muccan Batholith, eastern Pilbara, Western Australia
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Review of the Pilbara Craton and Fortescue Basin, Western Australia:
Crustal evolution providing environments for early life
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