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RB 80/00093 Six 100 000 compilation sheets of WHYALLA. A progress report.
Based on regional mapping, preliminary maps are presented. The area contains some of the best exposures of Archaean to Early Proterozoic and critical information on missing link (Middle Proterozoic) between Early and Late Proterozoic evolution of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 83/00080 Precambrian correlation of the Lake Superior region, North America, and the Gawler Craton.
Geology of Lake Superior region outlined. Many similarities in tectonic evolution and depositional style of the 2 provinces. Recommends further research on Gawler Craton.-
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Published: 01 Sep 1983
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RB 85/00010 p: 21-45;Lib Geology of Eyre Peninsula.
Description of major stratigraphic and lithologic units from Archaean Sleaford Complex to Quaternary sediments, including associated granitoid suites, and their geological evolution. The geochronology and possible stratigraphic correlations of some...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1984
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RB 81/00052 Carnot Gneisses, southern-most Eyre Peninsula.
The Carnot Gneisses form an extensive layered sequence that crops out in southernmost Eyre Peninsula. They consist of garnetiferous quartzofeldspathic gneiss, hypersthene gneiss, granitic gneiss and basic granulite. Rb/Sr whole rock studies indicate a...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1981
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RB 79/00059 Tectonic evolution of the Precambrian Gawler Province in southern Australia. In: Hunter. The Precambrian geology of the southern continents.
In South Australia the Gawler Province displays a history of early Proterozoic orogenic evolution and transitional tectonism leading to deposition of the Gawler Range Volcanics (ca 1500 Ma) on a relatively stable platform. A fragmentary record of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 88/00095;Lib Archaean - Early Proterozoic granitoids, metasediments and mylonites of southern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
This excursion guide is a refinement of a 6-day excursion led by Parker, Fanning and Flint in 1980 at the height of economic interest in the basement geology of the Gawler Craton. The interest in those days was for Alligator River - style uranium...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
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Menninnie Dam (part of the Fleurieu - Menninnie Dam Exploration Joint Venture Project). Combined annual report for the 5-year period 24/9/2005 to 26/10/2010, plus annual reports for the period 27/10/2010 to 26/10/2012.
During the 5-year period 2005-2010, intensified exploration undertaken at Menninnie Dam was focussed on the discovery and delineation of structurally controlled hydrothermal Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation. Carbonate-rich Hutchison Group metasediments forming...-
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RB 2006/00004 Crustal evolution of the Gawler Craton, South Australia: Application of the TerraneChron technique to detrital zircon from modern stream sediments.
This report presents the results of a Terranechron [registered brand name for this proprietary technique] study of detrital zircons from modern stream sediments of the Gawler Craton. The Terranechron approach involves obtaining uranium - lead decay...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2006
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RB 2012/00017 Transpression and lower crustal extrusion: a transect across the Paleoproterozoic Kalinjala Shear System in the south-eastern Gawler Craton.
The Gawler Craton preserves a tectonic history spanning the interval c. 3200 – 1400 Ma, and its evolution is dominated by Neoarchean to Mesoproterozoic tectonic events. Prior to the Jurassic-Cretaceous breakup of Australia and Antarctica, the Gawler...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2012
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RB 2012/00015 SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology of Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic rocks from the southern Eyre Peninsula.
This report presents the results of SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology from the southern Gawler Craton that has been acquired with the view to improving our understanding of some key stratigraphic units of this region. Eight samples taken from outcrops...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2012
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RB 82/00086 Geochronology of the Gawler Craton, South Australia.
During the past 15 years, a major investigation (553 Rb-Sr and 100 K-Ar analyses) were undertaken to determine the Archaean - Proterozoic stratigraphic, magmatic and tectonic history. The isotopic dates define 3 broad groupings, Sleafordian Orogeny (2...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1982
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RB 2020/00026 PACE Copper Gawler Craton Airborne Survey, Region 6, Gairdner - enhanced geophysical imagery and magnetic source depth models
This report presents the results of a study jointly conducted by the Geological Survey of South Australia and CSIRO Mineral Resources which aimed to enhance the expression of geological structure in geophysical images and to derive depth to magnetic...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2020
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RB 2016/00019 Neoarchaean to earliest Palaeoproterozoic magmatism in the southern Gawler Craton: petrogenesis of the Minbrie Gneiss and Carpa Granite.
This report presents geochemical constraints on the evolution of the Minbrie Gneiss and Carpa Granite, two magmatic units occurring in the southern Gawler Craton. These two units were previously assigned to the Palaeoproterozoic Lincoln Complex,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2017
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EPMA monazite constraints on the timing of deformation and metamorphism in the southern Kalinjala Shear Zone, Gawler Craton.
In this article we present new EPMA monazite geochronological data from the deformed and metamorphosed Sleaford Complex units at Fishery Bay in the southern Gawler Craton. The results show that these fabrics formed during the development of the...-
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Venus Bay. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/7/1994 to 21/12/1998.
Diamonds and base and precious metal exploration undertaken north-east of Port Kenny on western Eyre Peninsula comprised loam sampling for kimberlite indicator minerals, RC drilling (7 vertical holes, total 470 m), plus bedrock petrological, heavy...-
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RB 2016/00030 Mineral Systems Drilling Program in the southern Gawler Ranges, South Australia.
The Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) was a $3.5M cash and $4.11M in-kind collaborative drill program involving government, researchers, service providers and the minerals industry. The objective of the MSDP was to further the understanding of...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2017
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RB 2020/00006 SHRIMP geochronology of the Mount Double area, Southern Gawler Ranges margin
This geochronological study was undertaken within the scope of the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP), a program that was aimed at improving the understanding of the geology and prospectivity of the southern Gawler Ranges margin area on northern...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2020
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The Venus Bay Project. Respective joint annual and subsequent individual [for Venus Bay] annual reports to that remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 16/9/2012.
Renewed diamond exploration has been conducted in a part of the western Eyre Peninsula where numerous kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies occur in surficial sediments, and where the four adjoining licence areas involved lie in close proximity...-
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Published: 26 Nov 2012
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RB 2012/00019 Geochemistry of pre-1570 Ma mafic magmatism within southern Australia: implications for possible tectonic settings and timing of major mineralisation events in South Australia.
Geochemical and isotopic data from mantle-derived mafic rocks provide important constraints on our understanding of the composition and evolution of the lithosphere through time. Since the lithosphere is sensitive to tectonic processes such as...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2012
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RB 2012/00010 Geochronology and geochemistry of a Kimban diorite, drillhole LED001, Lake Gilles, eastern Gawler Craton.
The geology of the Lake Gilles locale in the south-west of the PORT AUGUSTA 1:250k map sheet area is poorly understood. Outcrop of basement rocks there is sparse, and typically occurs along the margins of the salt lake, where it is highly weathered....-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
