Perseverance Well, Yinnietharra (Yinnietharra Station; Yinnetharra), Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 24° 18' 46'' South , 116° 8' 59'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -24.31300,116.15000 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qedtejcye |
| Locality type: | Well |
| KΓΆppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
17 kilometres north north-east of the Yinnietharra homestead.
Two fluorite bearing quartz dykes, carrying disseminated galena, malachite, chrysocolla, within porphyritic tourmalinized granite.
Mineral List
6 valid minerals.
Rock Types Recorded
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| Paleoproterozoic 1600 - 2500 Ma ID: 695630 | Moorarie Supersuite Age: Proterozoic (1600 - 2500 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Moorarie Supersuite Description: Monzogranite, granodiorite and tonalite, diorite, gneissic to schistose granodiorite to monzogranite; local schist, amphibolite, calc-silicate and quartzite. Comments: igneous felsic intrusive; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Igneous felsic intrusive 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] |
| Paleoproterozoic 1600 - 2500 Ma ID: 3187792 | Paleoproterozoic crystalline metamorphic rocks Age: Proterozoic (1600 - 2500 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Gascoyne Complex Comments: Capricorn Orogen Lithology: Amphibolite grade paragneiss 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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