ROCKS OF THE SOUTHERN FLEURIEUFOUNDATION OF OUR LANDSCAPE AND SCENERY

Pierre Kruse South Australian Museum April 2014

The Big Picture: time

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Stop 3: Barossa Complex

Preiss 1993

Gneiss; some schist, amphibolite, pegmatite

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The Neoproterozoic world

Adelaide Rift: a long history of deposition from Cryogenian to Cambrian (840-500 Ma)

Preiss & others 1993

Aldgate Sandstone

Adelaide Rift:a long history of depositionfrom Cryogenian to Cambrian(840-500 Ma)

635

750

Ma

Preiss & others 1993

Wirrina: AldgateSandstoneStop

4: BurraGroup

Stops 3-5: Cryogenian: Umberatana Group

Little Gorge: Sturt Tillite

Second Valley:Tapley Hill Formationand Brighton Limestone

Sturt Tillite

Tapley Hill Formationand Brighton Limestone

Preiss & others 1993

The Cambrian world

Australia andAntarctica inthe Cambrian

Archaeocyaths: Ajax Mine

Kruse & Shi 2000

Kostjubella djagoran Karathele napuru

Brachiopods: Daly Basin

Stansbury Basin

Gravestock & others 1995 Belperio & others 1998

Stop 1: Cambrian: Normanville Group

Stop 1:Myponga Beach

Sellick HillFormation

Gravestock & others 1995

Stop 2: Cambrian: Kanmantoo Group

Stop 2:Carrickalinga Head

Carrickalinga HeadFormation

Delamerian Orogeny

Gravestock & others 1995 Belperio & others 1998

Delameriangranites

Wright Island

Granite Island

Rosetta Head

Remarkable Rocks, KI

Morgans Beach, Cape Jervis

Victor Harbor

Stop 1: Myponga Beach

Stop 2: Carrickalinga Head

Stop 3: Little GorgeStop 4:

WirrinaStop 5: Second Valley

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Itinerary