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formed in the foreland of the Delamerian Orogeny. Western Australian passive margin basins and platform cover begin at this stage. The extensive Antrim Plateau flood basalts, covering in excess of 12,000 square kilometres, erupt in the Cambrian of Western Australia, providing a useful chronostratigraphic marker.
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The Tabberabberan Orogeny compressed the eastern seaboard in an east–west direction, with Tasmania, Victoria and southern New South Wales folded 385 – 380 Mya. Northern NSW and Queensland was compressed 377 to 352 Mya. A major river drained the continental interior and passed eastwards at Parkes.
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The last stages of the 2770–2300 Ma Hamersley Basin on the southern margin of the Pilbara Craton are Palaeoproterozoic and record the last stable submarine-fluviatile environments between the two cratons prior to the rifting, contraction and assembly of the intracratonic ~1800 Ma Ashburton and Blair
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Continental Australia is unique among the continents in that the measured stress field is not parallel to the present-day north-northeast directed plate motion. Most of the stress state in continental Australia is controlled by compression originating from the three main collision boundaries located
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The late Cambrian to early Ordovician saw deepwater sedimentation of the St Arnaud and Castlemaine Group turbidites, which are now emplaced in the Stawell and Bendigo Zones. The middle Ordovician saw the deposition of the Sunbury Group in the Melbourne Zone, Bendoc Group and formation of the Molong
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The Petermann Orogeny in Central Australia, which started at the end of the Neoproterozoic, continued into the Cambrian, shedding a thick intracontinental sequence of fluvial sediments into the central Australian landmass. Marginal platforms and passive margin basins existed in South Australia – –
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Period conditions were warm in Australia. There was a large bay in the Great Sandy Desert with reefs. The Calliope Arc went from the north of Rockhampton south to Grafton. Most of the centre and west of Australia was land mass. There were volcanic mountains off the current east coast supplying
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to the recent. In a gross pattern, continental Australia grew from west to east, with Archean rocks mostly in the west, Proterozoic rocks in the centre, and Phanerozoic rocks in the east. Recent geologic events are confined to intraplate earthquakes, as the continent of Australia sits distant from
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The c. 1830 Ma Capricorn Orogeny in this section of the Pilbara-Yilgarn boundary resulted in deformation of the Bryah-Padbury Basin and the western fringe of the Yerrida Basin, along with flood basalts. The Yapungku Orogeny (~1790 Ma) formed the Stanley Fold Belt on the northern margin of the
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The Palaeoproterozoic in southeastern Australia is represented by the polydeformed high-grade gneiss terranes of the Willyama Supergroup, Olary Block and Broken Hill Block, in South Australia and New South Wales. The Palaeoproterozoic in the north of Australia is represented mostly by the
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plates). South of latitude −30°, the stress trajectories are oriented east–west to northwest–southeast. North of this latitude, the stress trajectories are closer to the present day plate motion, being oriented east-northeast–west-southwest to northeast–southwest. Notably, the main stress
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Jurassic coal-bearing basins were formed in north central Queensland, with significant marine platform cover extending across most of central Australia. Continued passive-margin subsidence and marine transgressions in the Perth Basin of Western Australia continued, with the Jurassic
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in Victoria is a boninite to MORB basalt terrane considered to have been connected with the boninites the Mount Read Volcanics of Northern Tasmania. In New South Wales, extensive deepwater sedimentation formed the Adaminaby Beds in Victoria and New South Wales. The
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These rocks, aside from suffering intense deformation, record a period of widespread platform cover sedimentation, ensialic rift-sag sedimentation including widespread dolomite platform cover, and extensive phosphorite deposition in the deeper sea beds.
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trajectories diverge most markedly from one another in north–central New South Wales (east-southeast to north-northeast), although the area is not known historically for earthquake activity. Young mountain building (< 5 Ma) in the
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The initial rifting of Australia and Antarctica in the Jurassic continued through the Cretaceous, with offshore development of a mid ocean ridge seafloor spreading centre. Tasmania was rifted off during this stage.
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sediment into a basin on parts of the east. The basin contained limestone and river deposited sand. Andesite and Rhyolite volcanoes were found in central NSW, the Snowy Mountains, Eden, New England and near
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Cretaceous sedimentation continued in the Surat Basin. Some small Cretaceous volcanism was present at the edges of basement highs in the Great Artesian Basin, resulting in some sparse volcanic plugs today.
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Aitken ARA. 2010. Moho geometry gravity inversion experiment (MoGGIE): A refined model of the Australian Moho, and its tectonic and isostatic implications. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 297: 71–83.
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intrusions formed in New South Wales and Victoria from 435 to 425 Mya, with the Bega batholith as young as 400 Mya. In NSW granites the distinction between I-type and S-type granites was discovered.
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Cawood PA. 2005. Terra Australis Orogen: Rodinia breakup and development of the Pacific and Iapetus margins of Gondwana during the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic. Earth-Science Reviews 69: 249–279.
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Shaw RD et al. 1995. Australian crustal elements (1:5,000,000 scale map) based on the distribution of geophysical domains (v 1.0), Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Canberra.
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At the time they were formed they are believed to have been as high as any mountains on the planet today, but they have been almost completely eroded in the 280 million years since.
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The history of the Archaean cratons is extremely complex and protracted. The cratons appear to have been assembled to form the greater Australian landmass in the late Archaean to
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Gray DR & Foster DA. 2004. Tectonic review of the Lachlan Orogen: historical review, data synthesis and modern perspectives. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 51: 773–817.
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Earth Science History Group. 2010. Thematic Issue: Snapshots of the geological program covering the whole of Australia. Geological Society of Australia ESHG Newsletter 41: 43 p.
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Geology and tectonic evolution of the Palaeoproterozoic Bryah, Padbury and Yerrida basins, Western Australia: implications for the history of the south-central Capricorn orogen.
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which left over half of the continent glaciated. Evidence for the cold conditions can be seen not only in glacial features dating from this period but also in fossil
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Champion DC et al. 2009. Geodynamic synthesis of the Phanerozoic of eastern Australia and implications for metallogeny. Geoscience Australia Record 2009/18.
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Neumann NL & Fraser GL. 2007. Geochronological synthesis and time-space plots for Proterozoic Australia. Geoscience Australia Record 2007/06: 216 p.
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in Queensland, which are Tertiary examples of a chain of small volcanic plugs which decrease in age to the south, where they result in ~10,000-year-old
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deposits and extensive platform cover. Rifting of Australia from India and Africa began in the Permian, resulting in the production of a rift basin and
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Hillis RR & Muller RD. (eds) 2003. Evolution and dynamics of the Australian Plate. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 22: 432 p.
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Korsch RJ. et al. 2011. Australian island arcs through time: Geodynamic implications for the Archean and Proterozoic. Gondwana Research 19: 716–734.
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Tregoning P. 2003. Is the Australian Plate deforming? A space geodetic perspective. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 22: 41–48.
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in Victoria and the offshore shelf basins of South Australia and Western Australia, all of which host significant oil and gas deposits. The
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formed in a transverse back-arc rift sag basin during collision. Culmination of the cratonic collision resulted in the foreland sedimentary
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Finlayson DM. 2008. A geological guide to Canberra Region and Namadgi National Park. Geological Society of Australia (ACT Division), 139 p.
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Quigley MC. et al. 2010. Late Cenozoic tectonic geomorphology of Australia. Geological Society of London Special Publication 346: 243–265.
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cratons. Several other Archaean-Proterozoic orogenic belts exist, usually sandwiched around the edges of these major cratonic shields.
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Burrett CF & Martin EL. 1989. Geology and mineral resources of Tasmania. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 15.
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Hawkesworth CJ et al. 2010. The generation and evolution of the continental crust. Journal of the Geological Society 167: 229–248.
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Cawood PA & Korsch RJ. (eds) 2008. Assembling Australia: Proterozoic building of a continent. Precambrian Research 166: 1–396.
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were found on land, the first animal to walk on the Australian continent. A gulf linked to the sea existed under what is now the
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The assembly of the Archaean Yilgarn and Pilbara cratons of Australia was initiated at ~2200 Ma during the first phases of the
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The Carboniferous Period saw the Eastern Highlands of Australia form as a result of its collision with what are now parts of
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Between approximately 2000–1800 Ma, on the northern margin of the Yilgarn Craton, the c. 2000 Ma Narracoota Volcanics of the
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caused extensive uplift, mountain building and basin fragmentation in central Australia at the close of the Neoproterozoic.
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and Pilbara during this rifting, presumably in a rift valley lake where the bottom was deoxygenated (akin to Africa's
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is especially notable as important correlations have been made geologically with the African continental mass and
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Betts PG & Giles D. 2006. The 1800–1100 Ma tectonic evolution of Australia. Precambrian Research 144: 92–125.
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The geologic history of the Australian continental mass is extremely prolonged and involved, continuing from the
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Veevers JJ. 2006. Updated Gondwana (Permian–Cretaceous) earth history of Australia. Gondwana Research 9: 231–260
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saw the majority of Australian tectonism cease. Sparse examples of intraplate volcanism exist, for instance the
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McKenzie et al. (ed) 2004. Australian Soils and Landscapes: an illustrated compendium. CSIRO Publishing: 395 p.
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sedimentary basins cover much of the Australian landmass (these are up to 7 kilometres or 4.3 miles thick).
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sandstone was formed in Western Australia from river sands. More Granite was intruded in the Devonian.
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was a tropical savannah to jungle environment, shown by advanced tropical weathering preserved in the
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ophiolite sequences are considered to be of Cambrian age, and are obducted during the Lachlan Orogen.
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These are in turn flanked by several Proterozoic orogenic belts and sedimentary basins, notably the
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were eroded by the Permian glacial event, resulting in thick marine to fluvial glacial tillite and
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In Western and Central Australia the then-extensive central Australian mountain ranges such as the
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in Australia is dominated by subduction zones on the eastern margin of the landmass, part of the
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Eerarheedy Basin, via assembly of the Archaean-Proterozoic fold belts of Northern Australia.
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Period most of the Australian continent in the west and centre was dry land. However, from
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The Australian continent evolved in five broad but distinct time periods, namely: 3800–2100
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is partly responsible for the assembly of the West Australian landmass by joining the
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Arc, a calc-alkaline volcanic arc which is related to the Kiandra Group turbidites.
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processes, forming extensive sand dune systems, deep and prolonged development of
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basins, the 1600–1070 Ma Edmund and Collier basins, the 1840–1620 Ma northern
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The current Australian continental mass is composed of a thick subcontinental
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Australia separated from Antarctica over a prolonged period beginning in the
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profiles, and development of playa lakes, salt lakes and ephemeral drainage.
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divergence zone that occurred before the breakup of the Australian and
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shields of recognised Archaean age within the Australian landmass: The
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of South Australia is driven from plate convergence at the boundary in
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Australia as a separate continent began to form after the breakup of
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These in turn are currently undergoing erosion by a combination of
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Australia's geology can be divided into several main sections: the
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was related to a minor episode of arc formation, typified by the
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Another notable feature of Carboniferous Australia was a major
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belts of western New South Wales, and accretion of deepwater
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mafic-ultramafic intrusions in the Musgrave Block at ~1080 Ma
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The main continental blocks of the Australian continent are;
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was the first Australian land plant appearing at this time.
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a notable fluvial terrigenous formation of the Jurassic.
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in the Jurassic, which formed the Gippsland, Bass and
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sedimentary basins, and Phanerozoic metamorphic and
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rock types
Australia
continent
Indo-Australian Plate
Archaean
cratonic
Proterozoic
fold belts
sedimentary basins
Phanerozoic
igneous rocks
Gondwana
Permian
Antarctica
Cretaceous
lithosphere
continental crust
Archaean
Proterozoic
Palaeozoic
Phanerozoic
aeolian
fluvial
laterite

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