Western Australia contains several geological features of world significance: the Devonian reefs of the Lennard Shelf, the stromatolites of the east Pilbara and Shark Bay, banded iron-formations in the Hamersley Range, and extensive greenstone belts mineralized with gold and nickel. Western Australia features rocks from every major time period in the Earth’s history; Archean granite-greenstone terranes, wrapped by Proterozoic Basins and Orogens, and surrounded by Phanerozoic Basins that lie around the continental margins of the state.
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Western Australia Unearthed is a new series of guide books and maps published by GSWA for travellers who want to know about the landscapes and rocks of the State, how they formed, and where to find them. See exciting new links to virtual tours.
Provide information on what causes earthquakes and their related hazards.
The Age of the Dinosaurs was the period where rocks were between 250 and 65 million years old. It is called the Age of the Dinosaurs because dinosaurs only lived during that time period.
Fossils can be defined as the geologically altered remains of an organism and/or its behaviour.<BR>
Find out how we collect data and create geological maps.
A presentation on the life of a gold mine - from exploration to rehabilitation.
Some of the best examples of living stromatolites are found in Western Australia. The areas in which they grow act as living laboratories where the nature of stromatolitic structures, the environments in which they form, and the processes that form them, can be studied.
Explore the evidence of meteorite impacts in Western Australia.
A handy guide for explorers looking at geology in Western Australia.
