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Pilbara Block

geological region, Australia

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Precambrian rocks

  • Australia
    In Australia: Tectonic framework

    …such as the Yilgarn and Pilbara blocks of the Western Shield, enclosed by later orogenic (mountain) belts. The second is as the basement to a younger cover of Phanerozoic sediment (deposited during the past 541 million years); for example, all the sedimentary basins west of the Tasman Line are underlain…

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  • geologic time
    In Precambrian: Precambrian life

    …Warrawoona Group in the Pilbara craton of Western Australia. These are small amounts of oil that date to the Archean Eon (which lasted from about 4.6 billion to 2.5 billion years ago).

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  • geologic time
    In Precambrian: Occurrence and distribution of Precambrian rocks

    …Canada; and the Yilgarn and Pilbara blocks in Western Australia. Linear belts, up to several thousand kilometres long, that are frequently though not exclusively of Proterozoic age include the Limpopo, Mozambique, and Damaran belts in Africa, the Labrador Trough in Canada, and the

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