Arunta, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Arunta | - not defined - |
| Central Desert Region | Region |
| Northern Territory | Territory |
| Australia | Country |
The Arunta area/district appears to refer generally, in geologic terms to the Arunta Inlier, comprising northern , central and southern tectonic provinces.
As the term is geologic in nature it should not form part of a locality string.
The area encompasses approximately 200,000 sq kms.
Regions containing this locality
| Australian Plate (Australia Plate) | Tectonic Plate |
| Central Australian Element, Australia | Craton |
| Warakurna Large Igneous Province, Western Australia, Australia | Geologic Province |
| Arunta Orogen, Australia | Orogen |
| Aileron Province, Arunta Orogen, Australia | Geologic Province |
List of minerals for each chemical element
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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| Holocene 0 - 0.0117 Ma ID: 883807 | alluvium 38485 Age: Anthropocene (0 - 0.0117 Ma) Description: Channel and flood plain alluvium; gravel, sand, silt, clay; may be locally calcreted 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] |
| Paleoproterozoic 1600 - 2500 Ma ID: 3186582 | Paleoproterozoic crystalline metamorphic rocks Age: Proterozoic (1600 - 2500 Ma) Comments: Arunta Block Lithology: Granulite grade orthogneiss/paragneiss/metavolcanic gneiss 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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