Geological Evolution of Tasmania

About this book

This 660-page volume is the third compilation of the geological knowledge of Tasmania prepared as a volume sponsored by the Geological Society of Australia, Tasmania Division.

The ten chapters in Geological Evolution of Tasmania have been arranged in such a way as to give the reader a reasonably chronological view of Tasmania's geological evolution, with the major tectonic, magmatic and mineralisation events placed in their order of occurrence. In addition, a simplified account of the geology, and of the geological history, written for the interested layman, has been added to make Geological Evolution of Tasmania more accessible to the general reader.

Contents

1 A summary of Tasmania’s geology and geological history
2 Crustal architecture and geophysics
3 Proterozoic Tasmania
4 Cambrian Tasmania
5 Ordovician–Lower Devonian successions
6 Mid-Palaeozoic orogenesis, magmatism and mineralisation
7 The Parmeener Supergroup — Late Carboniferous to Triassic
8 Jurassic dolerite and associated minor lavas and sedimentary rocks
9 Cretaceous–Neogene evolution of Tasmania
10 The Quaternary in Tasmania
11 Geology and Tasmania’s development
References
Index

Appendices on DVD
Appendix 1. Representative major- and trace-element analyses
      Proterozoic igneous and meta-igneous rocks
      Early Cambrian mafic and ultramafic rocks
      Middle and Late Cambrian rocks (including Mount Read Volcanics)
      Devonian-Carboniferous granites, dolerites and lamprophyres
      Mesozoic and Cenozoic igneous rocks
Appendix 2. Digital geological and geophysical maps of Tasmania, courtesy of Mineral Resources Tasmania
      1:500,000 Geology of Tasmania
      1:500,000 Mineral deposits and metallogeny of Tasmania
      1:500,000 Stratotectonic elements map of Tasmania
      1:500,000 Total magnetic intensity map of Tasmania
      1:500,000 Residual gravity anomaly map of Tasmania
      1:250,000 geological maps of northeast Tasmania, northwest Tasmania, southwest Tasmania, southeast Tasmania
      1:25,000 digital series geological maps (225 sheets)

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