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Me No Savy Yard prospect, Margaret River Station, Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia

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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): 18° 29' 14'' South , 126° 37' 47'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal): -18.48723,126.62997
GeoHash:G#: qudncd90h
Locality type:Prospect
Köppen climate type:BSh : Hot semi-arid (steppe) climate


Add this to the strange names list for Western Australian prospects. Near the junction of the Margaret and Gliddon Rivers. Small quartz veins a few inches wide, and a few feet long containing chalcopyrite. The Mindat co-ordinates are approximate.


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2 valid minerals.

Regional Geology

This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.

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Calymmian - Paleoproterozoic
1400 - 2500 Ma



ID: 3184852
Paleoproterozoic-Mesoproterozoic intrusive rocks

Age: Proterozoic (1400 - 2500 Ma)

Comments: King Leopold Orogen

Lithology: Intrusive igneous rocks

Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154]

Orosirian
1800 - 2050 Ma



ID: 760923
Amhurst Metamorphics - schist and gneiss

Age: Orosirian (1800 - 2050 Ma)

Stratigraphic Name: Amhurst Metamorphics

Description: Medium to high grade metasediments and granitoids, sillimanite-garnet-cordierite-K-feldspar-plagioclase schist, granofels and migmatite: metamorphosed equivalent of Marboo Formation

Comments: metasedimentary siliciclastic; high grade metamorphic rock; synthesis of multiple published descriptions

Lithology: Metasedimentary siliciclastic; high grade metamorphic rock

Reference: Raymond, O.L., Liu, S., Gallagher, R., Zhang, W., Highet, L.M. Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2012 edition. Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia). [5]

Data and map coding provided by Macrostrat.org, used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License



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Dow, D.B., Gemuts, I. (1969), Geology of the Kimberley Region Western Australia: The East Kimberley, Department for National Development/Bureau of Mineral Resources Geology and Geophysics/Geological Survey of Western Australia, Bulletin 106, 1969

 
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