Lithospheric structure of the Pilbara Craton, Capricorn Orogen and northern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, from teleseismic receiver functions

2003 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Reading ◽  
B. L. N. Kennett
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Receiver Functions ◽  
Lithospheric Structure ◽  
Yilgarn Craton ◽  
Pilbara Craton

A Yilgarn seed to the Pilbara Craton (Australia)? Evidence from inherited zircons

Geology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (11) ◽  
pp. 1098-1102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Petersson ◽  
Anthony I.S. Kemp ◽  
Martin J. Whitehouse
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Early Earth ◽  
Continental Lithosphere ◽  
Yilgarn Craton ◽  
Zircon Population ◽  
O Isotope ◽  
Continental Growth ◽  
Pilbara Craton

Abstract Knowledge of the age and compositional architecture of Archean cratonic lithosphere is critical for models of geodynamics and continental growth on early Earth, but can be difficult to unravel from the exposed geology. We report the occurrence of numerous >3.7 Ga zircon crystals in 3.45 Ga rhyolites of the eastern Pilbara Craton (Western Australia), which preserve evidence for an Eoarchean meta-igneous component in the deep Pilbara crust. This inherited zircon population shares similar and distinctive age and Hf-O isotope characteristics with the oldest gneissic components of the Yilgarn Craton ∼500 km farther south, suggesting a common ca. 3.75 Ga felsic crustal nucleus to these two Archean granite-greenstone terranes. We infer a pivotal role for such ‘seeds’ in facilitating the growth and persistence of Archean continental lithosphere.

3.43 billion-year-old stromatolite reef from the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia: Ecosystem-scale insights to early life on Earth

2007 ◽  
Vol 158 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 198-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail C. Allwood ◽  
Malcolm R. Walter ◽  
Ian W. Burch ◽  
Balz S. Kamber
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
Pilbara Craton

UPb zircon geochronology of Archaean felsic units in the Marble Bar region, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

1992 ◽  
Vol 56 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 169-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.I. Thorpe ◽  
A.H. Hickman ◽  
D.W. Davis ◽  
J.K. Mortensen ◽  
A.F. Trendall
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Zircon Geochronology ◽  
Pilbara Craton

Proterozoic deformation in the northwest of the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia

2008 ◽  
Vol 162 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 354-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine V. Spaggiari ◽  
Jo-Anne Wartho ◽  
Simon A. Wilde
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Yilgarn Craton

Isotope and rare earth element evidence for a late archaean terrane boundary in the southeastern pilbara craton, western australia

1992 ◽  
Vol 54 (2-4) ◽  
pp. 211-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.M. Tyler ◽  
I.R. Fletcher ◽  
J.R. de Laeter ◽  
I.R. Williams ◽  
W.G. Libby
Keyword(s):  
Rare Earth ◽  
Rare Earth Element ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Earth Element ◽  
Late Archaean ◽  
Pilbara Craton
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