 | Li, Xian-Hua, Li, Zheng-Xiang, Wingate, Michael T.D., Chung, Sun-Lin, Liu, Ying, Lin, Guang-Chun, Li, Wu-Xian (2006) Geochemistry of the 755Ma Mundine Well dyke swarm, northwestern Australia: Part of a Neoproterozoic mantle superplume beneath Rodinia?. Precambrian Research, 146 (1) 1-15 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2005.12.007 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geochemistry of the 755 Ma Mundine Well dyke swarm, northwestern Australia: Part of a Neoproterozoic mantle...Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia c Department of Geosciences...the Neoproterozoic (755 Ma) Mundine Well dyke swarm in northwestern Australia. These dolerites are tholeiitic...Neoproterozoic; Dolerite dykes; Northwestern Australia; Mantle superplume; Rodinia 1. Introduction Neoproterozoic...swarm of dolerite (diabase) dykes named the Mundine Well dyke swarm (MDS) by Hickman and Lipple (1978) |  | SHEPPARD, S., RASMUSSEN, B., MUHLING, J. R., FARRELL, T. R., FLETCHER, I. R. (2007) Grenvillian-aged orogenesis in the Palaeoproterozoic Gascoyne Complex, Western Australia: 1030?950�Ma reworking of the Proterozoic Capricorn Orogen. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 25 (4) 477-494 doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2007.00708.x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in the Palaeoproterozoic Gascoyne Complex, Western Australia: 1030–950 Ma reworking of the Proterozoic...Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia (steve.sheppard@doir...The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia 3 Centre for Microscopy...The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia ABSTRACT In situ...schists from the central Gascoyne Complex, Western Australia, shows that greenschist to amphibolite facies |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia 2 Department of Applied...Curtin University, Kent St, Bentley, Western Australia 6102, Australia 1 Abstract Chevkinite-(Ce) and perrierite-(Ce)...eight suites of tholeiitic dolerite from Western Australia, and in lunar mare basalt 10047. They are...tholeiitic dolerite dikes and sills from Western Australia (Fig. 1 and Table 1) during an assessment...suites containing chevkinite/perrierite in Western Australia. Muhling et and al.Yilgarn Fig.=1stable cratons |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | palaeomagnetism of the Mundine Well dyke swarm, Western Australia: implications for an Australia–Laurentia connection...Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907, Australia b Australian Geological Survey...Survey Organisation, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Abstract Integrated U–Pb geochronology and palaeomagnetic...studies of the Mundine Well dyke swarm (MDS ) of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia, are employed to...to test the hypothesis that Australia and Laurentia were joined as part of the Rodinia supercontinent |  | Gladkochub, D.P., Wingate, M.T.D., Pisarevsky, S.A., Donskaya, T.V., Mazukabzov, A.M., Ponomarchuk, V.A., Stanevich, A.M. (2006) Mafic intrusions in southwestern Siberia and implications for a Neoproterozoic connection with Laurentia. Precambrian Research, 147 (3) 260-278 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2006.01.018 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia c United Institute...Siberia are juxtaposed against western Laurentia and northern Australia, respectively, was advocated by...southern Siberia with those in Laurentia and Australia can provide tests of these reconstructions. There...Buchan, 2001, and references therein) and along the western Laurentian margin at 780 Ma (Gunbarrel event, Harlan...Significant Late Proterozoic mafic magmatic events in Australia include the 1075 Ma Warakurna Large Igneous Province |  | Martin, D. McB., Sircombe, K.N., Thorne, A.M., Cawood, P.A., Nemchin, A.A. (2008) Provenance history of the Bangemall Supergroup and implications for the Mesoproterozoic paleogeography of the West Australian Craton. Precambrian Research, 166 (1) 93-110 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2007.07.027 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth 6004, WA, Australia Onshore Energy and...Minerals Division, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia c Tectonics Special Research...Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009, WA, Australia d West Australian...Curtin University, GPO Box U 1987, Perth 6845, WA, Australia b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Billiton, 225 Georges Terrace, Perth, WA 6000, Australia. extensional reactivation of structures formed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Paleomagnetic pole from the Yilgarn B (YB) dykes of Western Australia: no longer relevant to Rodinia reconstructions...The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Received 18 October...dykes of Western Australia was for many years considered to be the only primary pole for Australia in the...Phanerozoic Australia suggests the YB magnetisation is Mesozoic in age, although rocks along the western margin...Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Australia; demagnetization; paleomagnetism; Rodinia; secondary |  | Cox, Grant M., Halverson, Galen P., Stevenson, Ross K., Vokaty, Michelle, Poirier, André, Kunzmann, Marcus, Li, Zheng-Xiang, Denyszyn, Steven W., Strauss, Justin V., Macdonald, Francis A. (2016) Continental flood basalt weathering as a trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 446. 89-99 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.04.016 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University, WA, Australia c Département des sciences de la Terre et de l’atmosphère/Geotop...Targeting, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia e Department of Earth Sciences...mudstones in northern Rodinia (North America, Australia, Svalbard, and South China) and Sr isotope data...Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University, WA, Australia. E-mail address: grant.cox@curtin.edu.au (G.M...(2013). I = India; SA = southern Australia; NA = northern Australia; T = Tarim; SC = South China; M = |  | Pirajno, Franco, González-Álvarez, Ignacio, Chen, Wei, Kyser, Kurt T., Simonetti, Antonio, Leduc, Evelyne, leGras, Monica (2014) The Gifford Creek Ferrocarbonatite Complex, Gascoyne Province, Western Australia: Associated fenitic alteration and a putative link with the ~1075Ma Warakurna LIP. Lithos, 202. 100-119 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2014.05.012 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | creek ferrocarbonatite complex, province, western australia: Associated fenitic alteration and a putative...creek ferrocarbonatite complex, province, western australia: Associated fenitic alteration and a putative...CREEK FERROCARBONATITE COMPLEX, T PROVINCE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA: ASSOCIATED RI P FENITIC ALTERATION AND...Survey of Western Australia, Mineral House, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia (2) Centre...Targeting, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA6009, Australia ED (3) CSIRO, Earth |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | form 3 April 2001 Abstract Of many hundreds of well-defined palaeomagnetic poles that have been reported...reconstructions have been frustrated by the lack of well-dated palaeopoles from most of the world’s Precambrian...establishing palaeopoles that are sufficiently well defined and well dated to be useful in APWP construction...1700– 500 Ma period that satisfy these criteria as well as several palaeopoles from precisely-dated rock...missed. Using this criterion, there are insufficient well-dated palaeomagnetic poles from any craton in the |  | Pisarevsky, Sergei A., Wingate, Michael T.D., Li, Zheng-Xiang, Wang, Xuan-Ce, Tohver, Eric, Kirkland, Christopher L. (2014) Age and paleomagnetism of the 1210Ma Gnowangerup–Fraser dyke swarm, Western Australia, and implications for late Mesoproterozoic paleogeography. Precambrian Research, 246. 1-15 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2014.02.011 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the 1210 Ma Gnowangerup–Fraser dyke swarm, Western Australia, and implications for late Mesoproterozoic...1210 Ma GnowangerupndashFraser dyke swarm, Western Australia, and implications for late Mesoproterozoic...the 1210 Ma Gnowangerup– Fraser dyke swarm, Western Australia, and implications ip t for late Mesoproterozoic...Perth, WA 6845, Australia School of Earth and Environment, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA...WA 6009, Australia d Department of Imaging and Applied Physics, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of detrital zircons from the Perth Basin, Western Australia P.A. Cawood*, A.A. Nemchin Tectonics Special...University, GPO Box U1987, Perth 6845, Western Australia, Australia Received 13 July 1999; accepted 9 February...and East Antarctica, which originally formed the western and southern margins of the basin, may have also...spatial and temporal variations in source evolution as well as the effects of cannibalization and reworking...method of heavy mineral analysis. Each zircon, as well as any other U-bearing phase, has a characteristic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Review A review of Precambrian palaeomagnetism of Australia: Palaeogeography, supercontinents, glaciations...Engineering, P.O. Box 136, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...December 2013 Handling Editor: M. Santosh Keywords: Australia Palaeomagnetism Precambrian Proterozoic Archaean...while some segments of the pole path are now quite well defined, overall the data are sparse. It is debatable...the 1200 Ma and 1070 Ma poles from (ancestral) Australia and Laurentia disallow it. However, older palaeopoles |  | Zhu, Wei-Guang, Zhong, Hong, Li, Xian-Hua, Deng, Hai-Lin, He, De-Feng, Wu, Kong-Wen, Bai, Zhong-Jie (2008) SHRIMP zircon U–Pb geochronology, elemental, and Nd isotopic geochemistry of the Neoproterozoic mafic dykes in the Yanbian area, SW China. Precambrian Research, 164 (1) 66-85 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2008.03.006 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | breakup of supercontinent Rodinia in Australia, South China, and western North America (Park et al., 1995;...reserved. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2008.03.006 Australia (Sun and Sheraton, 1996), and to the 827 ± 6 Ma...Ma Little Broken Hill gabbro in southeastern Australia (Wingate et al., 1998). These mafic dykes have...at 780 Ma, in three widely separated areas of western North America could also represent the breakup...Laurentia and Australia (Park et al., 1995). In addition, the 755 ± 3 Ma Mundine Well Dyke Swarm (MDS) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Centre for Microscopy...The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Tectonics Special...The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia b c Received 11...schists from the Mount Barren Group in southwestern Australia display a range of whole-rock compositions in...rocks from the Mount Barren Group in southwestern Australia (Fig. 1) (Fitzsimons et al., 2005). It was argued |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia Centre for Exploration...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Geoscience Australia, GPO Box...Box 378, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 17 December...2012 Keywords: Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) Australia Layered intrusions Dyke swarms Silicic LIPs Mineral...Early Archean to Recent. LIPs in continental Australia are represented by continental flood basalts, fragments |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 6102, Australia Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis, The University of Western Australia...Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 27 August 2009 Received...Hills belt in the northwestern Yilgarn Craton, Australia, contain monazite and xenotime grains in heavy...geochronology of detrital monazite and xenotime, as well as monazite and xenotime inclusions in detrital...northwestern portion of the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. B. Map of the southwestern Capricorn Orogen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Strelley Belt of the eastern Pilbara Craton, Australia. Our results show that the ∼3350 Ma Euro Basalt...methods. Nevertheless, the magnetization of very rare, well-preserved Paleoarchean volcanic rocks interbedded...South Africa and the East Pilbara craton of Western Australia are the partial remnants of a single Archean...relatively unreliable. Remanent magnetization in well-preserved rocks from the East Pilbara craton therefore...core drilled near Sulphur Springs Creek in Western Australia (Fig. 1A). The ABDP-8 core has two major advantages |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | paleopole reconstructions from the Alcurra dikes of Australia, which was a part of Rodinia, and the Upper Vindhyan...sediments and Majhgawan Kimberlite of India show that Australia and India were separate at 1070 Ma (Gregory et...igneous suite of NW India and the Mundine Well dike swarm of Western Australia provide evidence that the two...northwestward movement of India after rifting from Australia-East Antarctica as Rodinia disintegrated. However...assembly of the eastern part of Indian Shield is not well understood. The dominant c. 1.0 Ga foliation within |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | being continuous with the Capricorn Orogen of Western Australia (COWA) and the Trans North China Orogen (TNCO)...configuration of the Columbia supercontinent, the western end of the CITZ is suggested to be continuous with...was continuous with the Capricorn Orogen of Western Australia (COWA) in the Columbia supercontinent landmass...along the southern margin of the MB are typically well-foliated, and evolve into mylonites neighboring...tight–isoclinal folds in ferruginous quartzite. Note the well-developed axial planar fabric (S3) with nearly sub-vertical |  | Gladkochub, Dmitry P., Pisarevsky, Sergei A., Donskaya, Tatiana V., Ernst, Richard E., Wingate, Michael T.D., Söderlund, Ulf, Mazukabzov, Anatoliy M., Sklyarov, Eugene V., Hamilton, Michael A., Hanes, John A. (2010) Proterozoic mafic magmatism in Siberian craton: An overview and implications for paleocontinental reconstruction. Precambrian Research, 183 (3) 660-668 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2010.02.023 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 3Y2 d Geological Survey of Western Australia, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia e GeoBiosphere Science Centre...and Buchan, 2001 and references therein), so if well dated they can provide ‘piercing points’ for paleoreconstructions...in the Siberian craton occurred near its south-western margin, in the Urik graben between the Sharizhalgai...form a swarm trending NW, sub-parallel to the western margin of the Sharizhalgai salient. Individual...Kuonamka swarm Kuonamka swarm Sololi, sills/dykes Western-Anabar swarm Chieress swarm Chieress swarm Dzhuken |  | Cao, Xiaofeng, Gao, Xiang, Lü, Xinbiao, Qin, Qie, Liu, Shentai, Chen, Chao, Guo, Ruiqing, Zhang, Bin, Hu, Qitao (2012) Sm–Nd geochronology and geochemistry of a Neoproterozoic gabbro in the Kuluketage block, north-western China. International Geology Review, 54 (8) 861-875 doi:10.1080/00206814.2011.639946 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Neoproterozoic gabbro in the Kuluketage block, north-western China, International Geology Review, 54:8, 861-875...Neoproterozoic gabbro in the Kuluketage block, north-western China Xiaofeng Caoa,b , Xiang Gaoa , Xinbiao Lüa...Xingdi No. 1 mafic–ultramafic intrusion in the western Kuluketage block, north-eastern Tarim. Xingdi No...Regional geology The Tarim Craton, located in north-western China, is one of the largest cratons in China....sedimentary cover, in which glacial deposits are well preserved. Late Mesoproterozoic to middle Neoproterozoic |  | Ye, Mei-Fang, Li, Xian-Hua, Li, Wu-Xian, Liu, Ying, Li, Zheng-Xiang (2007) SHRIMP zircon U–Pb geochronological and whole-rock geochemical evidence for an early Neoproterozoic Sibaoan magmatic arc along the southeastern margin of the Yangtze Block. Gondwana Research, 12 (1) 144-156 doi:10.1016/j.gr.2006.09.001 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Received 30 March 2006; received...and kinematics of the Sibao orogeny are still not well constrained. We report here SHRIMP U–Pb zircon geochronological...possibly a “missing link” between the Laurentia and Australia–East Antarctica at a central location of Rodinia...Sibao orogeny, however, are still not well understood. In the western Sibao orogen, a syntectonic granitic...of pyroxene as well as accessory minerals including magnetite, zircon, sphene and apatite. Plagioclase |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | between the Permian mafic dykes in Tarim and the western part of Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), NW...from Kelamayi, eastern Tianshan and western Tianshan in western part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt...dyke swarms from Kelamayi, eastern Tianshan and western Tianshan were emplaced at 267 ± 3 Ma, 278 ± 2 Ma...LREE-depleted samples from western Tianshan. Isotopically, dykes from Kelamayi and western Tianshan are characterized...values (3.1 to 7.9 for Kelamayi; 7.2 to 7.3 for western Tianshan), while dykes form eastern Tianshan exhibit |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia Centre for Exploration...Technology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia a r t i c l e i...systems are very common in the Proterozoic rocks of Australia, with examples from the Pine Creek, Granites–Tanami...latter has been one of the largest Au producers in Australia. During 1100 and 800 Ma alkaline rocks, including...Introduction Precambrian (Archean and Proterozoic) Australia is represented by terranes and tectonic units |
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