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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 .
North of the Pilbara looking south at the range. At least two important but differing definitions of "the Pilbara" region exist. Administratively it is one of the nine regions of Western Australia defined by the Regional Development Commissions Act 1993; the term also refers to the Pilbara shrublands bioregion (which differs in extent) under the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for ...
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The primary source for Tindale's thesis lies in a single reference to the Kau'arndhäri [a] in a 1914 paper by Daisy Bates, [5] where Bates names it as one of four western Pilbara tribes – the others being the Ngarluma, the Kariera, and the Martuthinira – whose class system, governing marriages, is, she claimed, identical.
Lake Dora (Wanman: Ngayartakujarra) [3] is a seasonal salt lake located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It lies between the vegetated sand fields of the Great Sandy and Gibson Deserts . The Rudall River occasionally flows into Lake Dora.
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The Pilbara shrublands is bounded on the north by the Indian Ocean, and on the west, south, and east by other deserts and xeric shrubland ecoregions - the Carnarvon xeric shrublands to the west, the Western Australian mulga shrublands to the south, and the Great Sandy-Tanami desert to the east and northeast.
Cyclone Joan - flooding in Pilbara and damages Hamersley Rail: October 1977: Tom Price, Paraburdoo, Dampier and Karratha combined population passes 15,000: 1978: Meekatharra to Newman section of Great Northern Highway upgraded. Great Northern Highway: 1981: WAPET discovers gas off the Pilbara coast with the drilling of the Gorgon 1 well: Gorgon ...