Gardiner River Pink Quarry, Jerramungup Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 33° 54' 20'' South , 118° 59' 17'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -33.90574,118.98818 |
| GeoHash: | G#: q9ux5essc |
| Locality type: | Quarry |
| KΓΆppen climate type: | BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate |
Located 9 kilometres east of Jerramunup, and about 2 kilometres east of the Gardiner River crossing, and 500 metres north of the South Coastal Highway. It is a small quarry cut into a granitic dome on its north side, hidden from view, in the middle of a wheat paddock.
It was developed briefly in the 1970's. It is megacrystic syenite, with pinkish red K-feldspar phenocrysts up to 30 mms long, and smaller pink, yellow and cream microcline and feldspar crystals, and quartz, set in black mafic rock. It has a rough texture.
Mineral List
6 valid minerals.
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| Neoarchean - Mesoarchean 2500 - 3200 Ma ID: 3189638 | Archean crystalline metamorphic rocks Age: Archean (2500 - 3200 Ma) Comments: Yilgarn Craton Lithology: Amphibolite/granulite grade orthogneiss Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
| Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 750925 | felsic intrusives 74292 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Undifferentiated felsic intrusive rocks, including monzogranite, granodiorite, granite, tonalite, quartz monzonite, syenogranite, diorite, monzodiorite, pegmatite. Locally metamorphosed, foliated, gneissic. Local abundant mafic and ultramafic inclusions Comments: igneous felsic intrusive; igneous intermediate intrusive; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Igneous felsic intrusive; igneous intermediate intrusive Reference: Raymond, O.L., Liu, S., Gallagher, R., Zhang, W., Highet, L.M. Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2012 edition. Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia). [5] |
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