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Tectonic Implications Of Early Paleozoic Metamorphism In The Anakie Inlier, Central Queensland, Australia, R Offler, G Phillips, C L. Fergusson, T J. Green
Tectonic Implications Of Early Paleozoic Metamorphism In The Anakie Inlier, Central Queensland, Australia, R Offler, G Phillips, C L. Fergusson, T J. Green
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Well-defined metamorphic zones are developed in pelitic and psammitic rocks of the Late Neoproterozoic to Cambrian Anakie Metamorphic Group of the Anakie Inlier, central Queensland. They are defined by the incoming of biotite, garnet, and andalusite, with or without staurolite. Mineral assemblages indicate that low pressure-high temperature metamorphism is associated with D1, medium pressure-high temperature metamorphism with D2, and retrograde, low pressure-low temperature metamorphism with D3. A mean b cell parameter of 9.035 obtained from K-white micas in the lowest-grade rocks suggests upper intermediate pressure conditions during D2. The timing of the growth of the index minerals indicates that isotherms …
What Did Grinding Stones Grind? New Light On Early Neolithic Subsistence Economy In The Middle Yellow River Valley, China, Li Liu, Judith Field, Richard Fullagar, Sheahan Bestel, Xingcan Chen, Xiaolin Ma
What Did Grinding Stones Grind? New Light On Early Neolithic Subsistence Economy In The Middle Yellow River Valley, China, Li Liu, Judith Field, Richard Fullagar, Sheahan Bestel, Xingcan Chen, Xiaolin Ma
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Grinding stones have provided a convenient proxy for the arrival of agriculture in Neolithic China. Not any more. Thanks to high-precision analyses of use-wear and starch residue, the authors show that early Neolithic people were mainly using these stones to process acorns. This defines a new stage in the long transition of food production from hunter-gatherer to farmer.
Structural, Metamorphic, And Geochronological Constraints On Alternating Compression And Extension In The Early Paleozoic Gondwanan Pacific Margin, Northeastern Australia, Christopher L. Fergusson, R A Henderson, I. W. Withnall, C M Fanning, D. Phillips, K. J. Lewthwaite
Structural, Metamorphic, And Geochronological Constraints On Alternating Compression And Extension In The Early Paleozoic Gondwanan Pacific Margin, Northeastern Australia, Christopher L. Fergusson, R A Henderson, I. W. Withnall, C M Fanning, D. Phillips, K. J. Lewthwaite
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The Ross-Delamerian orogenic belt formed along the early Paleozoic active Pacific margin of the newly merged Gondwana supercontinent. In its northern-most segment in the Townsville region of northeastern Australia, we have identified a short contractional phase of the Delamerian orogeny in the Argentine Metamorphics postdating formation of a mafic breccia with a U-Pb zircon age of 500 ± 4 Ma. Contraction was followed by widespread inferred extensional deformation with formation of flat-lying foliation, domal features, and amphibolite grade and greenschist retrograde metamorphism all synchronous with latest Cambrian to Early Ordovician extensional backarc volcanism, sedimentation and intrusions. One of these intrusions …
Structural History Of The Greenvale Province, North Queensland: Early Palaeozoic Extension And Convergence On The Pacific Margin Of Gondwana, Christopher L. Fergusson, R A Henderson, I. W. Withnall, C M Fanning
Structural History Of The Greenvale Province, North Queensland: Early Palaeozoic Extension And Convergence On The Pacific Margin Of Gondwana, Christopher L. Fergusson, R A Henderson, I. W. Withnall, C M Fanning
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The southeastern Georgetown Inlier (Greenvale Province) consists of Early Palaeozoic metamorphic rocks in fault contact along the Lynd Mylonite Zone with the Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic craton of northeastern Australia. It has a central assemblage of metamorphosed silicic volcanic and sedimentary rocks considered equivalent to the Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician Seventy Mile Range Group that developed in an extensional backarc in the Charters Towers Province to the southeast. In the western part of the Greenvale Province the Oasis Metamorphics has a U-Pb zircon SHRIMP metamorphic age of 476 ± 5 Ma and is intruded by the granodioritic Lynwater Complex with …
Structure Of The Early Palaeozoic Cape River Metamorphics, Tasmanides Of North Queensland: Evaluation Of The Roles Of Convergent And Extensional Tectonics, Christopher L. Fergusson, R A Henderson, K. J. Lewthwaite, D. Phillips, I. W. Withnall
Structure Of The Early Palaeozoic Cape River Metamorphics, Tasmanides Of North Queensland: Evaluation Of The Roles Of Convergent And Extensional Tectonics, Christopher L. Fergusson, R A Henderson, K. J. Lewthwaite, D. Phillips, I. W. Withnall
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The Early Palaeozoic Cape River Metamorphics consist mainly of psammitic gneiss and schist and occur as an extensive linear belt at the western margin of the Charters Towers Province 200 km southwest of Townsville in the northern Tasmanides. A prominent foliation (S2) is the main structure in the belt and is associated with tight to isoclinal folds, subparallel mineral and intersection lineations, and boudinaged pods of vein quartz and pegmatite. In the southwest, the main foliation is a crenulation cleavage (S2) related to D2 deformation. It overprints steeply dipping foliation (S1) formed in …
Structure, Detrital Zircon U-Pb Ages And 40ar/39ar Geochronology Of The Early Palaeozoic Girilambone Group, Central New South Wales: Subduction, Contraction And Extension Associated With The Benambran Orogeny, Christopher L. Fergusson, C M Fanning, D. Phillips, Benjamin Ackerman
Structure, Detrital Zircon U-Pb Ages And 40ar/39ar Geochronology Of The Early Palaeozoic Girilambone Group, Central New South Wales: Subduction, Contraction And Extension Associated With The Benambran Orogeny, Christopher L. Fergusson, C M Fanning, D. Phillips, Benjamin Ackerman
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The Early Palaeozoic Cape River Metamorphics consist mainly of psammitic gneiss and schist and occur as an extensive linear belt at the western margin of the Charters Towers Province 200 km southwest of Townsville in the northern Tasmanides. A prominent foliation (S2) is the main structure in the belt and is associated with tight to isoclinal folds, subparallel mineral and intersection lineations, and boudinaged pods of vein quartz and pegmatite. In the southwest, the main foliation is a crenulation cleavage (S2) related to D2 deformation. It overprints steeply dipping foliation (S1) formed in …