Preliminary 3-D geological model of the Kalgoorlie region, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, based on deep seismic-reflection and potential-field data

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 917-933

  Goleby, B R ^a   Korsch, R J ^a   Fomin, T ^a   Bell, B ^a   Nicoll, M G ^a   Drummond, B J ^a   Owen, A J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

3 D models; Eastern Goldfields Province; Potential field models; Seismic reflection data; Structure; Yilgarn Craton

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GOLD; NICKEL; ORE DEPOSIT; POTENTIAL FIELD; SEISMIC REFLECTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0036916154     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.2002.00967.x     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. ARCHIBALD N. 1998a. An allochthonous model for greenstone belt evolution in the Menzies-Norseman Area, Eastern goldfields province: implications for gold mineralisation. In: Wood S. E. ed. Geodynamics and Gold Exploration in the Yilgarn. Workshop Abstracts of Australian Geodynamics CRC Workshop, Perth, 6 August 1998, pp. 10-16. Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre, Nedlands.
2. ARCHIBALD N. 1998b. 3-D Geology and tectonic synthesis of the Kalgoorlie Terrane. In: Wood S. E. ed. Geodynamics and Gold Exploration in the Yilgarn. Workshop Abstracts of Australian Geodynamics CRC Workshop, Perth, 6 August 1998, pp. 17-22. Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre, Nedlands.
3. ARCHIBALD N. J., BETTENAY L. F., BICKLE M. J. & GROVES D. I. 1981. Evolution of Archaean crust in the Eastern Goldfields Province of the Yilgarn Block. In: Glover J. E. & Groves D. I. eds. Archaean Geology-2nd International Symposium, Perth, 1980, pp. 491-504. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 7.
4. BATEMAN R., COSTA S., SWE T. & LAMBERT D. 2001. Archaean mafic magmatism in the Kalgoorlie area of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a geochemical and Nd isotopic study of the petrogenetic and tectonic evolution of a greenstone belt. Precambrian Research 108, 75-112.
5. BATEMAN R., OWEN A. J., GOLEBY B. R. & DRUMMOND B. J. 2000. Internal structure of the Kalgoorlie Greenstone belt in the Kambalda Domain, W.A., based on seismic reflection profiling. In: Goleby B. R., Bell B., Korsch R. J., Sorjonen-Ward P., Groenewald P. B., Wyche S., Bateman R., Fomin T., Witt W., Walshe J., Drummond B. J. & Owen A. J. eds. Crustal Structure and Fluid Flow in the Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia, pp. 53-57. Australian Geological Survey Organisation Record 2000/34.
6. BELL B., GOLEBY B. R., FOMIN T., NICOLL M. G. & OWEN A. J. 2000. Detailed gravity and magnetic modeling to constrain crustal structures within the Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia. In: Goleby B. R., Bell B., Korsch R. J., Sorjonen-Ward P., Groenewald P. B., Wyche S., Bateman R., Fomin T., Witt W., Walshe J., Drummond B. J. & Owen A. J. eds. Crustal Structure and Fluid Flow in the Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia, pp. 74-84. Australian Geological Survey Organisation Record 2000/34.
7. CHAMPION D. C. & CASSIDY K. F. 2002. Granites in the Leonora-Laverton transect area, north eastern Yilgarn Craton. In: Cassidy K. F. ed. Geology, Geochronology and Geophysics of the North Eastern Yilgarn Craton, with an Emphasis on the Leonora-Laverton Transect Area, pp. 13-35. Geoscience Australia Record 2002/18.
8. DAVIS B. K. 2001. Complexity of tectonic history in the Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton. In: Cassidy K. F., Dunphy J. M. & Van Kranendonk M. J. eds. 4th International Archaean Symposium Extended Abstracts, pp. 423-425. AGSO - Geoscience Australia Record 2001/37.
9. DRUMMOND B. J. & GOLEBY B. R. 1998. Yilgarn crustal structure revealed in five seismic profiles. In: Wood S. E. ed. Geodynamics and Gold Exploration in the Yilgarn. Workshop Abstracts of Australian Geodynamics CRC Workshop, Perth, 6 August 1998, pp. 23-32. Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre, Nedlands.
10. DRUMMOND B. J., GOLEBY B. R. & SWAGER C. P. 2000. Crustal signature of Late Archaean tectonic episodes in the Yilgarn craton. Western Australia: evidence from deep seismic sounding. Tectonophysics 329, 193-221.
11. DRUMMOND B. J. GOLEBY B. R. SWAGER C. P. & WILLIAMS P. R. 1993. Constraints on Archaean crustal composition and structure provided by deep seismic sounding in the Yilgarn Block. Ore Geology Reviews 8, 117-124.
12. FOMIN T., OWEN A. J. & GOLEBY B. R. 2000. Acquisition and processing of the AGCRC's 1999 Yilgarn deep seismic survey. In: Goleby B. R., Bell B., Korsch R. J., Sorjonen-Ward P., Groenewald P. B., Wyche S., Bateman R., Fomin T., Witt W., Walshe J., Drummond B. J. & Owen A. J. eds. Crustal Structure and Fluid Flow in the Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia, pp. 29-34. Australian Geological Survey Organisation Record 2000/34.
13. GEE R. D., BAXTER J. L., WILDE S. A. & WILLIAMS I. R. 1981. Crustal development in the Yilgarn Block, Western Australia. In: Glover J. E. & Groves D. I. eds. Archaean Geology-2nd International Symposium, Perth, 1980, pp. 43-56. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 7.
14. GOLEBY B. R., KORSCH R. J., FOMIN T., OWEN A. J. & BELL B. 2000. Preliminary interpretation of results from the 1999 Yilgarn deep seismic survey, Eastern Goldfields, W.A. In: Goleby B. R., Bell B., Korsch R. J., Sorjonen-Ward P., Groenewald P. B., Wyche S., Bateman R., Fomin T., Witt W., Walshe J., Drummond B. J. & Owen A. J. eds. Crustal Structure and Fluid Flow in the Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia, pp. 58-73. Australian Geological Survey Organisation Record 2000/34.
15. GOLEBY B. R., RATTENBURY M. S., SWAGER C. P., DRUMMOND B. J., WILLIAMS P. R., SHERATON J. W. & HEINRICH C. A. 1993. Archaean crustal structure from seismic reflection profiling, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia, Australian Geological Survey Organisation Record 1993/15.
16. HAMMOND R. L. & NISBET B. W. 1992. Towards a structural and tectonic framework for the Norseman-Wiluna Greenstone Belt, Western Australia. In: Glover J. E. & Ho S. E. eds. The Archaean: Terrains, Processes and Metallogeny, pp. 39-50. University of Western Australia Geology Department and University Extension, Publication 22.
17. HOWELL D. G. 1989. Tectonics of Suspect Terranes: Mountain Building and Continental Growth. Chapman & Hall, London.
18. JONES D. L., HOWELL D. G., CONEY P. J. & MONGER J. W. H. 1983. Recognition, character, and analysis of tectonostratigraphic terranes in western North America. In: Hashimote M. & Uyeda S. eds. Accretion Tectonics in the Circum-Pacific region, pp. 21-35. Terra Scientific Publishing Company, Tokyo.
19. KORSCH R. J., GOLEBY B. R., FOMIN T. & BELL B. 2001. Imaging the Kalgoorlie region using seismic and gravity techniques. In: Cassidy K. F., Dunphy J. M. & Van Kranendonk M. J. eds. 4th International Archaean Symposium 2001, Extended Abstracts, pp. 516-518. AGSO - Geoscience Australia Record 2001/37.
20. KRAPEZ B., BROWN S. J. A., HAND J., BARLEY M. E. & CAS R. A. F. 2000. Age constraints on recycled crustal and supracrustal sources of Archaean metasedimentary sequences, Eastern Goldfields province, Western Australia: evidence from SHRIMP zircon dating. Tectonophysics 322, 89-133.
21. MALLET J. L. 1997. Discrete modeling for natural objects. Mathematical Geology 29, 199-219.
22. MORRIS P. A. 1993. Archaean mafic and ultramafic volcanic rocks, Menzies to Norseman, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia Report 36.
23. MORRIS P. A. 1998. Archaean felsic volcanism in parts of the Eastern Goldfields region, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia Report 55.
24. OWEN A. J., BATEMAN R., BARTON T. J., DRUMMOND B. J., GOLEBY B. R. & SAUTER P. C. C. 2001. Kalgoorlie seismic processing 1997: operations, processing and interpretation report. Australian Geological Survey Organisation Record 2001/06.
25. OWEN A. J., BATEMAN R., GOLEBY B. R. & DRUMMOND B. J. 1999. Kalgoorlie seismic profiling 1997: interpretation report. Australian Geological Survey Organisation Professional Opinion 1999/12.
26. SWAGER C. P. 1997. Tectono-stratigraphy of late Archaean greenstone terranes in the southern Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia. Precambrian Research 83, 11-42.
27. SWAGER C. P., GOLEBY B. R., DRUMMOND B. J., RATTENBURY M. S. & WILLIAMS P. R. 1997. Crustal structure of granite-greenstone terranes in the Eastern Goldfields, Yilgarn Craton, as revealed by seismic reflection profiling. Precambrian Research 83, 43-56.
28. SWAGER C. P. & GRIFFIN T. J. 1990. Geology of the Archaean Kalgoorlie Terrane, Northern and Southern Sheets, 1:250 000. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Perth.
29. SWAGER C. P. & NELSON D. R. 1997. Extensional emplacement of a high grade granite-gneiss complex into low-grade greenstones. Eastern Goldfields, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Precambrian Research 83, 203-219.
30. SWAGER C. P., WITT W. K., GRIFFIN T. J., AHMAT A. L., HUNTER W. M., McGOLDRICK P. J. & WYCHE S. 1992. Late Archaean granite-greenstones of the Kalgoorlie Terrane. Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. In: Glover J. E. & Ho S. E. eds. The Archaean: Terrains, Processes and Metallogeny, pp. 107-122. University of Western Australia Geology Department and University Extension Publication 22.
31. WILLIAMS P. R. & WHITAKER A. 1993. Gneiss domes and extensional deformation in the highly mineralised Archaean Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia. Ore Geology Reviews 8. 141-162.
32. WITT W. K. 1994. Geology of the Bardoc 1:100 000 sheet. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Perth.
33. WITT W. K. 1995. Tholeiitic and high-Mg mafic/ultramafic sills in the Eastern Goldfields province. Western Australia: implications for tectonic settings. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 42, 407-422.
34. WITT W. K. & SWAGER C. P. 1989. Structural setting and geochemistry of Archaean I-type granites in the Bardoc-Coolgardie area of the Norseman-Wiluna belt, western Australia. Precambrian Research 44, 323-351.