Stratigraphic implications of heterogeneous deformation in the Jones Creek conglomerate (Archaean), Kathleen Valley, Western Australia

Marston, R. J.; Travis, G. A.

doi:10.1080/00167617608728930

Cited by 17 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 15 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Similar conglomerate-filled troughs are also developed adjacent to major faults, which show evidence for late Archaean lateral movement, in the Norseman-Wiluna Belt of the Yilgarn Block in Western Australia (e.g. Marston & Travis, 1976). These may also be related to strike-slip faulting.…”

Section: Conclusion and Significance For Tectonic Interpretationsmentioning

confidence: 75%

Archaean strike-slip faulting and related ensialic basins: evidence from the Pilbara Block, Australia

Krapež

Barley

1987

Geol. Mag.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Archaean sedimentary and volcanic successions in the Lalla Rookh Basin andc. 2950 Ma old Whim Creek Belt in the Pilbara Block, Western Australia, were deposited in basins with roughly the same configuration as their present outcrop. Basins were fault-bounded and developed in an ensialic setting, overlying older (3500 to 3300 Ma old); deformed and metamorphosed supracrustal rocks and granitoids. The basin margin faults are now part of a pattern of strike–slip faults which were active during the later stages of regional batholith emplacement. In both cases, structural patterns and style of basin filling are similar to younger basins related to strike–slip faulting. The Lalla Rookh Basin was dominated by coarse clastic sedimentation, comprising alluvial–fan, braided–stream, fan–delta and lacustrine facies. The Whim Creek Belt contains bimodal volcanics and clastic sediments, which comprise alluvial, subaqueous fanglomerate, submarine-fan and basinal facies. Regional strike–slip faulting and the development of the Lalla Rookh Basin and Whim Creek Belt, in response to externally imposed deformation, records an important step in the cratonization of the Pilbara Block. Late Archaean sedimentary basins, dominated by coarse clastic facies and situated adjacent to major strike–slip faults, in other cratons may have a similar origin.

show abstract

Section: Conclusion and Significance For Tectonic Interpretationsmentioning

confidence: 75%

Archaean strike-slip faulting and related ensialic basins: evidence from the Pilbara Block, Australia

Krapež

Barley

1987

Geol. Mag.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Pegmatites had been mapped and drilled, but not assayed for Li (and associated elements) since the 1970s around the Pioneer Dome (see for example, Marston 1984).…”

Section: Pioneer Dome Northmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent pegmatite-hosted spodumene discoveries in Western Australia: insights for lithium exploration in Australia and globally

Phelps-Barber

Trench

Groves

2022

Applied Earth Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The discovery and development of world-class Lithium-Caesium-Tantalum (LCT) spodumenebearing pegmatites in Western Australia underpins growth of a significant new sector of its mining industry. Recently, several new spodumene discoveries have been delineated in the Yilgarn and Pilbara Cratons. Contrary to exploration narratives that new economic mineral discoveries will generally be made at increasingly greater depths, beneath barren cover rocks, or in remote geological environments, all new lithium discoveries have clear surface expressions in relatively 'mature' greenstone belts. The exploration implication is that the search space for pegmatite-hosted spodumene deposits in Western Australia remains immature. These recently discovered LCT pegmatites have geological features relevant to exploration including their age, amphibolite-facies metamorphic setting and synmetamorphic timing, and 3D geometry, particularly their typically gentle dips, that match other such world-class pegmatites globally. Further spodumene discoveries within pegmatites at or near surface are likely in the Archean terranes of Western Australia based on these consistent exploration criteria and supportive capital market conditions.

show abstract

Zircon age data from a Greenstone of the archaean Yilgarn Block, Australia: Mid proterozoic heating or uplift?

Cooper

Yang

1983

Contrib Mineral Petrol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Stratigraphic implications of heterogeneous deformation in the Jones Creek conglomerate (Archaean), Kathleen Valley, Western Australia

Cited by 17 publications

References 15 publications

Archaean strike-slip faulting and related ensialic basins: evidence from the Pilbara Block, Australia

Archaean strike-slip faulting and related ensialic basins: evidence from the Pilbara Block, Australia

Recent pegmatite-hosted spodumene discoveries in Western Australia: insights for lithium exploration in Australia and globally

Zircon age data from a Greenstone of the archaean Yilgarn Block, Australia: Mid proterozoic heating or uplift?

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About