Fraser Range Black Quarry (FRG 106), Fraser Range, Dundas Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 32° 0' 31'' South , 122° 49' 53'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -32.00868,122.83163 |
GeoHash: | G#: qdr3ghgrb |
Locality type: | Quarry |
Köppen climate type: | BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate |
Located 1.5 kilometres west of the larger Gold Leaf Black Quarry. A test quarry was developed here from 1990 to August 1991, then placed on care and maintenance. The small 20 metre wide quarry shows black fine grained metadolerite similar to the rock found in the Gold Black Leaf site.
It is partially recrystallised ophitic (a term referring to a rare texture) olivine bearing dolerite, with fresh plagioclase, and recrystallised pyroxene-hornblende-olivine-oxide aggregates.
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Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 929443 | colluvium 38491 Age: Pleistocene (0 - 2.588 Ma) Description: Colluvium and/or residual deposits, sheetwash, talus, scree; boulder, gravel, sand; may include minor alluvial or sand plain deposits, local calcrete and reworked laterite Comments: regolith; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Regolith 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] |
Stenian 1000 - 1200 Ma ID: 3184741 | Mesoproterozoic intrusive rocks Age: Stenian (1000 - 1200 Ma) Comments: Albany-Fraser 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] |
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