How the Pilbara was formed more than 3 billion years ago
- Written by David Murphy, Lecturer in Geoscience, Queensland University of Technology
In the field studying the rock association in the Doolena Gap greenstone belt, 30 km north of Marble bar in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.David Murphy, Author providedThe remote Pilbara region of northern Western Australia is one of Earth’s oldest blocks of continental crust, and we now think we know how it formed, as explained in...