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The geology of the Kimberley, a region of Western Australia, is a rock record of the early Proterozoic eon that includes tectonic plate collision, mountain-building and the joining of the Kimberley and Northern Australia cratons, followed by sedimentary basin formation. [1]
The Geological Survey of Western Australia is an authority within the Department of Mines and Petroleum of the Government of Western Australia that is responsible for surveying and exploration of Western Australia's geological resources. The department provides information to industry, technical support and professional guidance to government ...
Queensland geology: a companion volume to the 1:2,500,000 scale geological map (1975). Geological Survey of Queensland Publication 383. Drexel JF et al. 1993–1995. The geology of South Australia. Geological Survey of South Australia, Bulletin 54 (2 v.) Earth Science History Group. 2010. Thematic Issue: Snapshots of the geological program ...
Each edition refers to the specified geological origins of the information (from the 2007 edition): "Geology generated from Myers, J.S., and Hocking, R.M., 1998, Geological map of Western Australia, 1:250 000 (13th edition): Western Australia Geology Survey"—T.p. verso.
Western Australia occupies nearly one third of the Australian continent.Due to the size and the isolation of the state, considerable emphasis has been made of these features; it is the second largest administrative territory in the world, after Yakutia in Russia, despite the fact that Australia is only the sixth largest country in the world by area, and no other regional administrative ...
Basic geological regions of Australia, by age. The large brown region in the lower left of the continent constitutes the Yilgarn Craton. The Yilgarn Craton is a large craton that constitutes a major part of the Western Australian land mass.
The Pilbara Craton is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The Pilbara Craton is one of only two pristine Archaean 3.8–2.7 Ga (billion years ago) crusts identified on the Earth, along with the Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa .
Western Australia (WA) is the ... Western Australia has a geological history dating back to 4.4 billion years ago when Hadean ... Map first drawn in 1618 by Hessel ...