Pilbara Craton

Australia map. Pilbara Region is coloured in red.

The Pilbara Craton is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere located in Pilbara, Western Australia.

The Pilbara Craton is one of only two pristine Archaean 3.6-2.7 Ga (billion years ago) crusts identified on the Earth, with the Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa. Both locations may have once been part of the Vaalbara Supercontinent or the continent of Ur.

See also

• Archean
• Australian Shield
• Centralian Superbasin
• Gawler Craton
• Geology of Australia
• Ore genesis
• Perth Basin
• Western Plateau
• Yilgarn Craton

Bibliography

• Cawood, P.A, and N.H.S. Oliver. (2001) "Early tectonic dewatering and brecciation on the overturned sequence at Marble Bar, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: dome-related or not?" Precambrian Research, fascicolo: 1, Vol. 105, pp. 1–15. Online Abstract: [1]
• Dann, J., M. J. de Wit, S. H. White, and E. Zegers. (1998) Vaalbara, Earth's oldest assembled continent? A combined. structural, geochronological, and palaeomagnetic test."[2]
• Kato, Yasuhiro and Kentaro Nakamura. (2003) "Origin and global tectonic significance of Early Archean cherts from the Marble Bar greenstone belt, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia." Precambrian Research, Vol. 125, Issues 3-4, 25 August, pp. 191–243.
• Masadab, Yuki, Hiroaki Ozawa, and Masaru Terabayashi. (2003) "Archean ocean-floor metamorphism in the North Pole area, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia." Precambrian Research, Vol. 127, Issues 1-3, 10 November, pp. 167–180.

External links

• Deformation and gold mineralisation of the Archaean Pilbara Craton, Western Australia
• Stratigraphic revision of the Warrawoona and Gorge Creek Groups in the Kelly greenstone belt, Pilbara Craton,Western Australia
• Tectonic/Volcanic Landforms