Definition of the Cultana Subsuite: a high-level felsic Hiltaba Suite age intrusive in the eastern Gawler Craton.
Created: 29 Oct 2024 Revised: 07 Dec 2024

The Cultana Subsuite is a high-level felsic magmatic intrusion exposed in the Cultana Inlier in the southeastern Gawler Craton, South Australia (Fig. 1) It is part of the Hiltaba Suite, an early Mesoproterozoic (c. 1595?1575 Ma) bimodal magmatic...

The Cultana Subsuite is a high-level felsic magmatic intrusion exposed in the Cultana Inlier in the southeastern Gawler Craton, South Australia (Fig. 1) It is part of the Hiltaba Suite, an early Mesoproterozoic (c. 1595?1575 Ma) bimodal magmatic suite that is widespread across the Gawler Craton and coeval with the voluminous Gawler Range Volcanics (Flint et al. 1993; Creaser 1996). The Cultana Subsuite comprises a range of comagmatic granitic and porphyritic lithologies, including quartz?feldspar porphyry, alkali granite, feldspar-phyric granophyric monzogranite, alkali-feldspar microgranite and micro-syenogranite.This paper provides a formal definition of the Cultana Subsuite, outlining the igneous petrology of the intrusion and its geochemical characteristics.

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Record No mesac22010
Topic Geoscientific Information
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Document Type Departmental Publication - MESA Journal
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Geological Province Gawler Craton
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Stratigraphy Cultana Subsuite
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    Geographic Locality: Gawler Craton
    Doc No: MESAJ 053 p: 017-027

    Geographic Locality: Gawler Craton Doc No: MESAJ 053 p: 017-027

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    Citation McAvaney, S.O. Definition of the Cultana Subsuite: a high-level felsic Hiltaba Suite age intrusive in the eastern Gawler Craton. Departmental Publication - Mesa Journal. Government of South Australia.
    https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac22010

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