Australian island arcs through time: Geodynamic implications for the Archean and Proterozoic

Gondwana Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 716-734

  Korsch, R J ^a   Kositcin, N ^a   Champion, D C ^a  

^a GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archean; Australia; Continent assembly; Geodynamics; Island arc; Proterozoic

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CRATON; GEODYNAMICS; I-TYPE ROCK; ISLAND ARC; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; PROTEROZOIC; TONALITE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79952073507     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2010.11.018     Document Type: Article

References (148)

1. Allibone A.H., Windh J., Etheridge M.A., Burton D., Anderson G., Edwards P.W., Miller A., Graves C., Fanning C.M., Wysoczanski R. Timing relationships and structural controls on the location of Au-Cu mineralization at the Boddington Gold Mine, Western Australia. Economic Geology 1998, 93:245-270.
2. Barley M.E., Eisenlohr B.N., Groves D.I., Perring C.S., Vearncombe J.R. Late Archean convergent margin tectonics and gold mineralization: a new look at the Norseman-Wiluna belt, Western Australia. Geology 1989, 17:826-829.
3. Barley M.E., Krapež B., Brown S.J., Hand J., Cas R.A.F. Mineralised volcanic and sedimentary successions in the Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia. Australian Mineral Industry Research Association, Report 1998, 437.
4. Barley M.E., Brown S.J.A., Cas R.A.F., Cassidy K.F., Champion D.C., Krapež B. An integrated geological and metallogenic framework for the eastern Yilgarn Craton: developing geodynamic models of highly mineralised Archaean granite-greenstone terranes. Australian Mineral Industry Research Association, Report 2003, 624.
5. Barley M.E., Brown S.J., Krapež B., Cassidy K.F., Champion D.C., Kositcin N. Assembling the eastern Yilgarn Craton: terranes and tectonostratigraphic components. Geoscience Australia, Record, 2007/14 2007, 14-17.
6. Barley M.E., Brown S.J., Krapež B., Kositcin N. Physical volcanology and geochemistry of a late Archaean volcanic arc: Kurnalpi and Gindalbie terranes, eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Western Australia. Precambrian Research 2008, 161:53-76.
7. Betts P.G., Giles D., Lister G.S., Frick L.R. Evolution of the Australian lithosphere. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 2002, 49:661-696.
8. Betts P.G., Giles D., Foden J., Schaefer B.F., Mark G., Pankhurst M.J., Forbes C.J., Williams H.A., Chalmers N.C., Hills Q. Mesoproterozoic plume-modified orogenesis in eastern Precambrian Australia. Tectonics 2009, 28:TC3006. 10.1029/2008TC002325.
9. Blake, D.H., Tyler, I.M., Griffin, T.J., Sheppard, S., Thorne, A.M., Warren, R.G., 1999. Geology of the Halls Creek 1:100 000 Sheet area (4461), Western Australia. Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Canberra.
10. Bleeker W. Archaean tectonics: a review, with illustrations from the Slave craton. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 2002, 199:151-181.
11. Blewett R.S. Archaean tectonic processes: a case for horizontal shortening in the North Pilbara granite-greenstone terrane, Western Australia. Precambrian Research 2002, 113(1):87-120.
12. Blewett R.S., Czarnota K., Henson P.A. A revised structural-event framework for the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane. Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research Centre, Project Y4: concepts to targets: a scale-integrated mineral systems study of the eastern Yilgarn Craton. Final Report, Part III 2008, 53-82. https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=geocat_details&catno=69746.
13. Bodorkos S., Oliver N.H.S., Cawood P.A. Thermal evolution of the central Halls Creek Orogen, northern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 1999, 46:453-465.
14. Bodorkos S., Cawood P.A., Oliver N.H.S., Nemchin A.A. Rapidity of orogenesis in the Palaeoproterozoic Halls Creek Orogen, northern Australia: evidence from SHRIMP zircon data, CL zircon images, and mixture modelling studies. American Journal of Science 2000, 300:60-82.
15. Bodorkos S., Cawood P.A., Oliver N.H.S. Timing and duration of syn-magmatic deformation in the Mabel Downs Tonalite, northern Australia. Journal of Structural Geology 2000, 22:1181-1198.
16. Bradley D., Dewey J. Secular variation in tectonics and allied fields. GSA Today 2005, 15(3):13.
17. Brown S.J.A., Barley M.E., Krapez B., Cas R.A.F. The Late Archaean Melita Complex, eastern Goldfields, Western Australia: shallow submarine bimodal volcanism in a rifted arc environment. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 2002, 115:303-327.
18. Camacho A., Fanning C.M. Some isotopic constraints on the evolution of the granulite and upper amphibolite facies terranes in the eastern Musgrave Block, central Australia. Precambrian Research 1995, 71:155-181.
19. Carpentier M., Chauvel C., Mattielli N. Pb-Nd isotopic constraints on sedimentary input into the Lesser Antilles arc system. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2008, 272:199-211.
20. Carson C.J., Worden K.E., Scrimgeour I.R., Stern R.A. The Palaeoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the Litchfield province, western Pine Creek Orogen: insight from SHRIMP U-Pb zircon and in situ monazite geochronology. Precambrian Research 2008, 166:145-167.
21. Carson C.J., Claoue-Long J., Stern R.A., Close D.F., Scrimgeour I.R., Glass L.M. Summary of results. Joint NTGS-GA geochronology project: Arunta and Pine Creek regions, July 2006-May 2007. Northern Territory Geological Survey, Record, 2009-001 2009.
22. Cassidy K.F., Champion D.C., Wyborn L.A.I. A geochemical study of granitoids of the Boddington Gold Mine. Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Professional Opinion, 1998/09 1998, 34 pp.
23. Cassidy K.F., Champion D.C., Krapež B., Barley M.E., Brown S.J.A., Blewett R.S., Groenewald P.B., Tyler I.M. A revised geological framework for the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record, 2006/8 2006.
24. Cawood P.A., Korsch R.J. Assembling Australia: Proterozoic building of a continent. Precambrian Research 2008, 166:1-38.
25. Cawood P.A., Kröner A., Pisarevsky S. Precambrian plate tectonics: criteria and evidence. GSA Today 2006, 16(7):4-11. 10.1130/GSAT01607.1.
26. Cawood P.A., Kröner A., Collins W.J., Kusky T.M., Mooney W.D., Windley B.F. Accretionary orogens through Earth history. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 2009, 318:1-36.
27. Champion D.C., Cassidy K.F. Geodynamics: using geochemistry and isotopic signatures of granites to aid mineral systems studies: an example from the Yilgarn Craton. Geoscience Australia, Record, 2008/09 2008, 7-16.
28. Champion D.C., Sheraton J.W. Geochemistry and Nd isotope systematics of Archaean granites of the Eastern Goldfields, Yilgarn Craton, Australia; implications for crustal growth processes. Precambrian Research 1997, 83:109-132.
29. Compston W., Williams I.S., McCulloch M.T. Contrasting zircon-U-Pb and model Sm-Nd ages for the Archaean Logue Brook Granite. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 1986, 33:193-200.
30. Condie K.C. Earth as an Evolving Planetary System 2005, Elsevier Academic Press, Amsterdam, 447 pp.
31. When did plate tectonics begin on planet Earth?. Geological Society of America, Special Paper 2008, 440. 294 pp. K.C. Condie, V. Pease (Eds.).
32. Cooper J.A., Mortimer G.E., Rosier C.M., Uppill R.K. Gawler Range magmatism-further isotopic age data. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 1985, 32:115-123.
33. Czarnota K., Champion D.C., Goscombe B., Blewett R.S., Henson P.A., Cassidy K.F., Groenewald B. Geodynamics of the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane. Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research Centre, Project Y4: Concepts to targets: a scale-integrated mineral systems study of the eastern Yilgarn Craton. Final Report, Part III 2008, 10-45. https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=GEOCAT_DETAILS&catno=69746.
34. Czarnota K., Champion D.C., Goscombe B., Blewett R.S., Henson P.A., Cassidy K.F., Groenewald P.B. Geodynamics of the eastern Yilgarn Craton. Precambrian Research 2010, 183:175-202.
35. Davidson J.P. Crustal contamination versus subduction zone enrichment: examples from the Lesser Antilles and implications for mantle source compositions of island arc volcanic rocks. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1987, 51:2185-2198.
36. Dewey J.F. The secular evolution of plate tectonics and the continental crust: an outline. Geological Society of America, Memoir 2007, 200:1-7.
37. Di Vincenzo G., Talarico F., Kleinschmidt G. An 40Ar-39Ar investigation of the Mertz Glacier area (George V Land, Antarctica): implications for the Ross Orogen-East Antarctic Craton relationship and Gondwana reconstructions. Precambrian Research 2007, 152:93-118.
38. Direen N.G., Cadd A.G., Lyons P., Teasdale J.P. Architecture of Proterozoic shear zones in the Christie Domain, western Gawler Craton, Australia: geophysical appraisal of a poorly exposed orogenic terrane. Precambrian Research 2005, 142:28-44.
39. Downes P.J., Griffin B.J., Griffin W.L. Mineral chemistry and zircon geochronology of xenocrysts and altered mantle and crustal xenoliths from the Aries micaceous kimberlite: constraints on the composition and age of the central Kimberley Craton, Western Australia. Lithos 2007, 93:175-198.
40. Dunphy J.M., Fletcher I.R., Cassidy K.F., Champion D.C. Compilation of SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology data, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, 2001-02. Geoscience Australia, Record, 2003/15 2003.
41. Edgoose, C.J., Camacho, A., Wakelin-King, G.A., Simons, B.A., 1993. Kulgera, Northern Territory (Second Edition) 1:250000 geological map series explanatory notes, SG53-05. Northern Territory Geological Survey, Darwin, 46 pp.
42. Edgoose, C.J., Close, D.F., Stewart, A.J., Duncan, N., 2002. Umbeara, Northern Territory (First Edition) 1:100 000 geological map series explanatory notes, 5646. Northern Territory Geological Survey, Darwin, 23 pp.
43. Edgoose C.J., Scrimgeour I.R., Close D.F. Geology of the Musgrave Block, Northern Territory. Northern Territory Geological Survey, Report 2004, 15. 44 pp.
44. Fanning C.M., Moore D.H., Bennett V.C., Daly S.J. The "Mawson Continent": Archaean to Proterozoic crust in the East Antarctic Shield and Gawler Craton, Australia. A cornerstone in Rodinia and Gondwanaland. Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts 1996, 41:135.
45. Fanning C.M., Reid A.J., Teale G.S. A geochronological framework for the Gawler Craton, South Australia. South Australia Geological Survey Bulletin 2007, 55.
46. Ferris, G., 2001. The geology and geochemistry of the granitoids in the CHILDARA region, western Gawler Craton, South Australia: implications for the Proterozoic tectonic history of the western Gawler Craton and the development of lode-style gold mineralisation at Tunkillia. M.Sc. thesis, University of Tasmania.
47. Ferris G.M., Schwarz M. Definition of the Tunkillia Suite, western Gawler Craton. MESA Journal 2004, 34:32-41.
48. Ferris G.M., Schwarz M.P., Heithersay P. The geological framework, distribution, and controls of Fe-oxide Cu-Au mineralisation in the Gawler Craton, South Australia: part 1-geological and tectonic framework. Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective 2002, vol. 2:9-31. PGC Publishing, Adelaide. M.T. Porter (Ed.).
49. Fitzsimons I.C.W. Proterozoic basement provinces of southern and southwestern Australia, and their correlation with Antarctica. Geological Society of London, Special Publication 2003, 206:93-130. M. Yoshida, B.F. Windley, S. Dasgupta (Eds.).
50. Fletcher I.R., Dunphy J.M., Cassidy K.F., Champion D.C. Compilation of SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology data, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, 2000-01. Geoscience Australia, Record, 2001/47 2001.
51. Flint R.B., Rankin L.R. The St Francis Granite of the southwestern Gawler Craton. Geological Survey of South Australia, Quarterly Geological Notes 1991, 119:17-24.
52. Flint R.B., Rankin L.R., Fanning C.M. Definition-the Palaeoproterozoic St Peter Suite of the western Gawler Craton. Geological Survey of South Australia, Quarterly Geological Notes 1990, 114:2-8.
53. Fraser G.L., Huston D.L., Gibson G.M., Neumann N.L., Maidment D., Kositcin N., Skirrow R.G., Jaireth S., Lyons P., Carson C., Cutten H., Lambeck A. Geodynamic and metallogenic evolution of Proterozoic Australia from 1870-15450Ma: a discussion. Geoscience Australia, Record, 2007/16 2007.
54. Glass L.M. Geochemistry of mafic rocks in the Litchfield province, western Pine Creek Orogen: evidence for a Palaeoproterozoic arc-related setting and links to the Halls Creek Orogen. Northern Territory Geological Survey, Record, 2007-001 2007, 23-26.
55. Gray C.M. Geochronology of granulite-facies gneisses in the western Musgrave Block, Central Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 1978, 25:403-414.
56. Gray C.M., Compston W. A rubidium-strontium chronology of the metamorphism and prehistory of central Australian granulites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1978, 42:1735-1747.
57. Griffin T.J., Page R.W., Sheppard S., Tyler I.M. Tectonic implications of Palaeoproterozoic post-collisional, high-K felsic igneous rocks from the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia. Precambrian Research 2000, 101:1-23.
58. Hallberg J.A., Giles C.W. Archaean felsic volcanism in the northeastern Yilgarn Block, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 1986, 33:413-427.
59. Hamilton W.B. Earth's first two billion years-the era of internally mobile crust. Geological Society of America, Memoir 2007, 200:233-296.
60. Hammond R.L., Nisbet B.W., Etheridge M.A., Wall V.J. The Litchfield Complex, north-west Northern Territory: Archaean basement or Proterozoic cover?. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 1984, 31:485-496.
61. Hickman A.H. A revision of the stratigraphy of Archaean greenstone successions in the Roebourne-Whundo area, west Pilbara. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Annual Review 1997, 1996-1997:76-81.
62. Hickman A.H., Van Kranendonk M.J. Archean crustal evolution and mineralization of the northern Pilbara Craton-a field guide. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record, 2008/13 2008.
63. Hickman A.H., Smithies R.H., Pike G., Farrell T.R., Beintema K.A. Evolution of the West Pilbara granite-greenstone terrane and Mallina Basin, Western Australia-a field guide. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record, 2001/16 2001.
64. Horwitz R.C. Palaeogeographic and tectonic evolution of the Pilbara Craton, Northwestern Australia. Precambrian Research 1990, 48:327-340.
65. Horwitz R.C., Pidgeon R.T. 3.1Ga tuff from the Sholl belt in the West Pilbara: further evidence for diachronous volcanism in the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia. Precambrian Research 1993, 60:175-183.
66. Kositcin N., Brown S.J.A., Barley M.E., Krapež B., Cassidy K.F., Champion D.C. SHRIMP U-Pb zircon age constraints on the Late Archaean tectonostratigraphic architecture of the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Precambrian Research 2008, 161:5-33.
67. Krapež B. Sequence stratigraphy of the Archaean supracrustal belts of the Pilbara Block, western Australia. Precambrian Research 1993, 60:1-45.
68. Krapež B. Terrane stratigraphy of the eastern Goldfields Superterrane and review of geotectonic history. Australian Mineral Industry Research Association, Report 2006, 763. Module 1a.
69. Krapež B., Barley M.E. Late Archaean synorogenic basins of the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia Part III. Signatures of tectonic escape in an arc-continent collision zone. Precambrian Research 2008, 161:183-199.
70. Krapež B., Eisenlohr B. Tectonic settings of Archaean (3325-2775Ma) crustal-supracrustal belts in the West Pilbara Block. Precambrian Research 1998, 88:173-205.
71. Krapež B., Brown S.J.A., Hand J., Barley M.E., Cas R.A.F. Age constraints on recycled crustal and supracrustal sources of Archaean metasedimentary sequences, Eastern Goldfields province, Western Australia: evidence from SHRIMP zircon dating. Tectonophysics 2000, 322:89-133.
72. Maboko M.A.H., Williams I.S., Compston W. Zircon U-Pb geochronometry of the pressure and temperature history of granulites in the Musgrave ranges, central Australia. Journal of Geology 1991, 99:675-697.
73. Maboko M.A.H., McDougall I., Zeitler P.K., Williams I.S. Geochronological evidence for 530-550Ma juxtaposition of two Proterozoic metamorphic terranes in the Musgrave Ranges, central Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 1992, 39:457-471.
74. Martin H., Smithies R.H., Rapp R., Moyen J.-F., Champion D.C. An overview of adakite, tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG), and sanukitoid: relationships and some implications for crustal evolution. Lithos 2005, 79(1-2):1-24.
75. McCuaig T.C., Behn M., Stein H., Hagemann S.G., McNaughton N.J., Cassidy K.F., Champion D.C., Wyborn L. The Boddington gold mine: a new style of Archaean au-Cu deposit. Geoscience Australia, Record, 2001/37 2001, 453-455.
76. McDonough W.F., Sun S.-S. The composition of the Earth. Chemical Geology 1995, 120(3-4):223-253.
77. Monnier O., Ménot R.-P., Peucat J.-J., Fanning M., Giret A. Actualisation des données géologiques sur Terre Adélie (Antarctique Est): mise en volutio d'un collage tectonique au Protérozoïque. Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences, Paris, Seirie II 1996, 322:55-62.
78. Morris P.A., Witt W.K. Geochemistry and tectonic setting of two contrasting Archaean felsic volcanic associations in the Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia. Precambrian Research 1997, 83:83-107.
79. Myers J.S., Shaw R.D., Tyler I.M. Tectonic evolution of Proterozoic Australia. Tectonics 1996, 15(6):1431-1446.
80. Nelson D.R. Compilation of SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology data, 1994. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record, 1995/3 1995.
81. Nelson D.R. Compilation of SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology data, 1995. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record, 1996/5 1996.
82. Nelson D.R. Evolution of the Archaean granite-greenstone terranes of the Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia: SHRIMP U-Pb zircon constraints. Precambrian Research 1997, 83:57-81.
83. Nelson D.R. Compilation of SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology data, 1996. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record, 1997/2 1997.
84. Nelson D.R. Compilation of SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology data, 1997. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record, 1998/2 1998.
85. Nelson D.R. Compilation of geochronology data, 1998. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record, 1999/2 1999.
86. Nelson D.R. Compilation of geochronology data, 2001. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record, 2002/2 2002.
87. Nemchin A.A., Pidgeon R.T. Evolution of the Darling Range batholith, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a SHRIMP zircon study. Journal of Petrology 1997, 38:625-649.
88. Nemchin A.A., Pidgeon R.T., Wilde S.A. Timing of Late Archaean granulite facies metamorphism in the southwestern Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia: evidence from U-Pb ages of zircons from mafic granulites. Precambrian Research 1994, 68:307-321.
89. Ogasawara M. Geochemistry of the Early Proterozoic granitoids in the Halls Creek Orogenic Subprovince, northern Australia. Precambrian Research 1988, 40(41):469-486.
90. Ohta H., Maruyama S., Takahashi E., Watanabe Y., Kato Y. Field occurrence, geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Archaean mid-oceanic ridge basalts (A-MORBs) of the Cleaverville area, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Lithos 1996, 37:199-221.
91. Oliver R.L., Fanning C.M. Australia and Antarctica: precise correlation of Palaeoproterozoic terrains. The Antarctic Region; Geological Evolution and Processes. Proceedings of the VII International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences 1997, 163-172. Terra Antarctica Publication, Siena. C.A. Ricci (Ed.).
92. Page R.W., Hoatson D.M., Sun S.-S., Fodoulis C. High-precision geochronology of Palaeoproterozoic layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions in the East Kimberley. AGSO Research Newsletter 1995, 22:7-8.
93. Page R.W., Griffin T.J., Tyler I.M., Sheppard S. Geochronological constraints on tectonic models for Australian Palaeoproterozoic high-K granites. Journal of the Geological Society, London 2001, 158:535-545.
94. Pawley M.J., Romano S.S., Hall C.E., Wyche S., Wingate M.T.D. The Yarmana Shear Zone: a new terrane boundary in the northeast Yilgarn Craton?. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Annual Report, 2007-08 2009, 26-32.
95. Peucat J.J., Ménot R.P., Monnier O., Fanning C.M. The Terre Adélie basement in the East-Antarctica Shield: geological and isotopic evidence for a major 1.7Ga thermal event; comparison with the Gawler Craton in South Australia. Precambrian Research 1999, 94:205-224.
96. Pietsch B.A., Edgoose C.J. The stratigraphy, metamorphism and tectonics of the early Proterozoic Litchfield province and western Pine Creek Geosyncline, Northern Territory. Precambrian Research 1988, 40(41):565-588.
97. Qiu Y., Groves D.I. Late Archean collision and delamination in the southwest Yilgarn Craton: the driving force for Archean orogenic lode gold mineralization?. Economic Geology 1999, 94:115-122.
98. Qiu Y., Groves D.I., McNaughton N.J. Deep-seated granitoids: implications for Late Archaean subduction-collision-lithospheric delamination and gold mineralization in the Yilgarn Craton. Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Record, 1997/41 1997, 65-69.
99. Reymer A., Schubert G. Phanerozoic addition rates to the continental crust and crustal growth. Tectonics 1984, 3:63-77.
100. Rubatto D., Williams I.S., Buick I.S. Zircon and monazite response to prograde metamorphism in the Reynolds Range, central Australia. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 2001, 140:458-468.
101. Rudnick R.L., Gao S. Composition of continental crust. Treatise on Geochemistry 2003, 3:1-64. H.D. Holland, K.K. Turekian (Eds.).
102. Scholl D.W., von Huene R. Implications of estimated magmatic additions and recycling losses at the subduction zones of accretionary (non-collisional) and collisional (suturing) orogens. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 2009, 318:105-125.
103. Scrimgeour, I.R., Close, D.F., Edgoose, C.J., 1999. Petermann Ranges, Northern Territory (Second Edition) 1:250000 geological map series explanatory notes, SG52-07. Northern Territory Geological Survey, Darwin, 59 pp.
104. Sheppard S., Griffin T.J., Tyler I.M. Compilation of wholerock analyses from the Halls Creek and King Leopold Orogens. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record, 1997/4 1997.
105. Sheppard S., Tyler I.M., Griffin T.J., Taylor W.R. Palaeoproterozoic subduction-related and passive margin basalts in the Halls Creek Orogen, northwest Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 1999, 46:679-690.
106. Sheppard S., Griffin T.J., Tyler I.M., Page R.W. High- and low-K granites and adakites at a Palaeoproterozoic plate boundary in northwestern Australia. Journal of the Geological Society, London 2001, 158:547-560.
107. Sheraton J.W., Sun S.-S. Geochemistry and origin of felsic igneous rocks of the western Musgrave Block. Australian Geological Survey Organisation Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics 1995, 16:107-125.
108. Sircombe K.N., Cassidy K.F., Champion D.C., Tripp G. Compilation of SHRIMP U-Pb geochronological data, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, 2004-2006. Geoscience Australia, Record, 2007/01 2007.
109. Smith, J.B., 1997. Integrated tectonic analysis of the Archaean West Pilbara Block, Western Australia: evidence for accretion. PhD Thesis, University of Western Australia.
110. Smith J.B. The episodic development of intermediate to silicic volcano-plutonic suites in the Archaean West Pilbara, Australia. Chemical Geology 2003, 194:275-295.
111. Smith J.B., Barley M.E., Groves D.I., Krapez B., McNaughton N.J., Bickle M.J., Chapman H.J. The Sholl Shear Zone, West Pilbara: evidence for a domain boundary structure from integrated tectonostratigraphic analyses, SHRIMP U-Pb dating and isotopic and geochemical data of granitoids. Precambrian Research 1998, 88:143-171.
112. Smithies R.H., Champion D.C., Cassidy K.F. Formation of Earth's early Archaean continental crust. Precambrian Research 2003, 127:89-101.
113. Smithies R.H., Champion D.C., Sun S.-S. Evidence for early LREE-enriched mantle source regions: diverse magmas from the c. 3.0Ga Mallina Basin, Pilbara Craton, NW Australia. Journal of Petrology 2004, 45(8):1515-1537.
114. Smithies R.H., Champion D.C., Van Kranendonk M.J., Howard H.M., Hickman A.H. Modern-style subduction processes in the Mesoarchaean: geochemical evidence from the 3.12Ga Whundo intra-oceanic arc. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2005, 231:221-237.
115. Smithies R.H., Van Kranendonk M.J., Champion D.C. The Mesoarchean emergence of modern-style subduction. Gondwana Research 2007, 11:50-68.
116. Smithies R.H., Champion D.C., Van Kranendonk M.J., Hickman A.H. Geochemistry of volcanic rocks of the northern Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Report 2007, 104.
117. Standing J.G. Terrane amalgamation in the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Yilgarn Craton: evidence from tectonostratigraphic studies of the Laverton Greenstone belt. Precambrian Research 2008, 161:114-134.
118. Stein H.J., Markey R.J., Morgan J.W., Selby D., Creaser R.A., McCuaig T.C., Behn M. Re-Os dating of Boddington molybdenite, SW Yilgarn: two Au mineralization events. Fourth International Archaean Symposium. Geoscience Australia, Record, 2001/37 2001, 469-471.
119. Stern R.J. Subduction zones. Reviews of Geophysics 2002, 40:38.
120. Stern R.J. Evidence from ophiolites, blueschists, and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terranes that the modern episode of subduction tectonics began in Neoproterozoic time. Geology 2005, 33(7):557-560.
121. Suganuma Y., Hamano Y., Niitsuma S., Hoashi M., Hisamitsu T., Niitsuma N., Kodama K., Newdachi M. Paleomagnetism of the Marble Bar Chert Member, Western Australia: implications for apparent polar wander path for Pilbara craton during Archean time. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2006, 252:360-371.
122. Sun S.-S., Hickman A.H. New Nd-isotopic and geochemical data from the west Pilbara. Australian Geological Survey Organisation Research Newsletter 1998, 28:25-29.
123. Swain G., Woodhouse A., Hand M., Barovich K., Schwarz M. Provenance and tectonic development of the late Archaean Gawler Craton, Australia; U-Pb zircon, geochemical and Sm-Nd isotopic implications. Precambrian Research 2005, 141:106-136.
124. Swain G., Barovich K., Hand M., Ferris G., Schwarz M. Petrogenesis of the St Peter Suite, southern Australia: arc magmatism and Proterozoic crustal growth of the South Australian Craton. Precambrian Research 2008, 166:283-296.
125. Tyler I.M. Collisional orogeny during the Palaeoproterozoic in Western Australia. Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts 2001, 64:187-188.
126. Tyler I.M. Australia: Proterozoic. Encyclopedia of Geology 2005, vol 1:208-222. Elsevier, Oxford. R.C. Selley, L.R.M. Cocks, I.R. Plimer (Eds.).
127. Tyler I.M., Griffin T.J. Structural development of the King Leopold Orogen, Kimberley region, Western Australia. Journal of Structural Geology 1990, 12(5-6):703-7614.
128. Tyler I.M., Page R.W. Palaeoproterozoic deformation, metamorphism and igneous intrusion in the central zone of the Lamboo Complex, Halls Creek Orogen. Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts 1996, 41:450.
129. Tyler I.M., Sheppard S. Geology and mineralisation of the King Leopold and Halls Creek Orogens. Geoscience Australia, Record, 2006/16 2006, 51-52.
130. Tyler I.M., Page R.W., Griffin T.J. The depositional age and provenance of the Marboo Formation from SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology: implications for the Palaeoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the Kimberley region, Western Australia. Precambrian Research 1999, 95:225-243.
131. Van Kranendonk M.J., Hickman A.H., Smithies R.H., Nelson D.R. Geology and tectonic evolution of the Archean North Pilbara Terrain, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Economic Geology 2002, 97:695-732.
132. Van Kranendonk M.J., Smithies R.H., Hickman A.H., Bagas L., Williams I.R., Farrell T.R. Event stratigraphy applied to 700million years of Archaean crustal evolution, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Annual Review 2004, 2003-2004:49-61.
133. Van Kranendonk M.J., Hickman A.H., Smithies R.H., Williams I.R., Bagas L., Farrell T.R. Revised lithostratigraphy of Archean supracrustal and intrusive rocks in the Northern Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record, 2006/15 2006.
134. Van Kranendonk M.J., Smithies R.H., Hickman A.H., Champion D.C. Secular tectonic evolution of Archean continental crust: interplay between horizontal and vertical processes in the formation of the Pilbara Craton, Australia. Terra Nova 2007, 19:1-38.
135. Wade B.P., Barovich K.M., Hand M., Scrimgeour I.R., Close D.F. Evidence for Early Mesoproterozoic arc magmatism in the Musgrave Block, Central Australia: implications for Proterozoic crustal growth and tectonic reconstructions of Australia. Journal of Geology 2006, 114:43-63.
136. Wade B.P., Kelsey D.E., Hand M., Barovich K.M. The Musgrave Province: stitching north, west and south Australia. Precambrian Research 2008, 166(1-4):370-386.
137. White A.J.R., Jakes P., Christie D.M. Composition of greenstones and the hypothesis of sea-floor spreading in the Archaean. Geological Society of Australia, Special Publication 1971, 3:47-56.
138. Wilde S.A. The Saddleback Group-a newly discovered Archaean greenstone belt in the southwestern Yilgarn Block. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Annual Report 1976, 1975:92-95.
139. Wilde S.A. Geology and crustal evolution of the southwestern Yilgarn Craton. University of Western Australia, Geology Department and University Extension, Publication 1990, 21:98-113. S.E. Ho, J.E. Glover, J.S. Myers, J.R. Muhling (Eds.).
140. Wilde S.A. Jimperding and Chittering metamorphic belts, southwestern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia-a field guide. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record, 2001/12 2001.
141. Wilde, S.A., Low, G.H., 1980. Pinjarra, Western Australia, Sheet SI/50-2 International Index. Geological Survey of Western Australia, 1:250000 Geological Series-Explanatory Notes.
142. Wilde S.A., Pidgeon R.T. Geology and geochronology of the Saddleback Greenstone Belt in the Archaean Yilgarn Block, southwestern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 1986, 33:491-501.
143. Wilde S.A., Pidgeon R.T. Nature and timing of Late Archaean arc magmatism along the western margin of the Yilgarn Craton. Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2006, 70:A701.
144. Wilde S.A., Middleton M.F., Evans B.J. Terrane accretion in the southwestern Yilgarn Craton: evidence from a deep seismic crustal profile. Precambrian Research 1996, 78:179-196.
145. Williams I.S., Buick I.S., Cartwright I. An extended episode of early Mesoproterozoic metamorphic fluid flow in the Reynolds Range, central Australia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 1996, 14:29-47.
146. Wingate M.T.D., Hickman A.H. 178164: leucogabbro, Bottom Bore. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Geochronology Record 2009, 803:1-4.
147. Xiao W., Han C., Chao Y., Sun M., Zhao G., Shan Y. Transitions among Mariana-, Japan-, Cordillera- and Alaska-type arc systems and their final juxtapositions leading to accretionary and collisional orogenesis. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 2010, 338:35-53. T.M. Kusky, M.-G. Zhai, W. Xiao (Eds.).
148. Young, D.N., Duncan, N., Camacho, A., Ferenczi, P.A., Madigan, T.L.A., 2002. Ayers Rock, Northern Territory (Second Edition) 1:250000 geological map series explanatory notes, SG52-8. Northern Territory Geological Survey, Darwin, 46 pp.