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Description:
view of contact between banded red, white and grey chert and basalt. Marble Bar, W.A.
| Capture Date: | Undated |
| Latitude: | -21.18748000000 degrees |
| Longitude: | 119.71201000000 degrees |
| Elevation: | NA |
| Visualisation Type: | FSP |
| Location Accuracy: | 0 metres |
Keywords:
- chert
- basalt
- geological contact
| chert | |
|---|---|
| Form Type: | bedded |
| Description: | Millimetre- to centimetre-thick layers of red, white and black cherts; locally includes fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock; metamorphosed. |
| Min Geological Age: | Paleoarchean |
| Max Geological Age: | Paleoarchean |
| Min Numerical Age: | 3200.000 |
| Max Numerical Age: | 3460.000 |
| Strat No: | 28204 |
| Supergroup: | Pilbara Supergroup |
| Group: | |
| Subgroup: | |
| Formation: | |
| Member: | Marble Bar Chert Member |
| Province: | Pilbara Craton |
| basalt | |
|---|---|
| Form Type: | flow |
| Description: | Predominantly dacitic volcaniclastic rocks; grades up to rhyolite; feldspar-porphyritic subvolcanic intrusions are common and voluminous; also pillow basalt and layered red and white sedimentary chert; metamorphosed. |
| Min Geological Age: | Paleoarchean |
| Max Geological Age: | Paleoarchean |
| Min Numerical Age: | 3465.000 |
| Max Numerical Age: | 3474.000 |
| Strat No: | 5770 |
| Supergroup: | Pilbara Supergroup |
| Group: | |
| Subgroup: | |
| Formation: | Duffer Formation |
| Member: | |
| Province: | Pilbara Craton |