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Cenozoic alkaline and related igneous rocks of Australia GIS

Geoscience Australia
Buddee, M. ; Champion, D. ; Highet, L.
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Alkaline and related rocks are a relatively rare class of igneous rocks worldwide. Alkaline rocks encompass a wide range of rock types and are mineralogically and geochemically diverse. They are typically though to have been derived by generally small to very small degrees of partial melting of a wide range of mantle compositions. As such these rocks have the potential to convey considerable information on the evolution of the Earth’s mantle (asthenosphere and lithosphere), particularly the role of metasomatism which may have been important in their generation or to which such rocks may themselves have contributed. Such rocks, by their unique compositions and or enriched source protoliths, also have considerable metallogenic potential, e.g., diamonds, Th, U, Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, REEs. It is evident that the geographic occurrences of many of these rock types are also important, and may relate to presence of old cratons, craton margins or major lithospheric breaks. Finally, many alkaline rocks also carry with them mantle xenoliths providing a snapshot of the lithospheric mantle composition at the time of their emplacement.

Accordingly, although Alkaline and related rocks comprise only a volumetrically minor component of the geology of Australia, they are of considerable importance to studies of lithospheric composition, evolution and architecture and to helping constrain the temporal evolution of the lithosphere, as well as more directly to metallogenesis and mineralisation.

This GIS product is part of an ongoing compilation of the distribution and geology of alkaline and related rocks throughout Australia. The accompanying report document alkaline and related rocks of Cenozoic age.

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Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeeded
Statement: This GIS project contains spatial representations of alkaline and related rocks of Cenozoic age throughout Australia.
Update to downloads May 2025 to populate the lithology chemistry attribution in the GDB, Shapefile, and MapInfo datasets where missing.

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This GIS project contains spatial representations of alkaline and related rocks of Cenozoic age throughout Australia.

Created: 21 02 2023

Issued: 09 03 2023

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text: westlimit=112.00; southlimit=-44.00; eastlimit=154.00; northlimit=-9.00; projection=Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 / geodetic (EPSG: 6283)

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Alkaline Rocks Atlas of Australia | Alkaline rocks | Australia | Australia’s Resources Framework | EARTH SCIENCES | EFTF – Exploring for the Future | Igneous rocks | Published_External | geoscientificInformation |

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Cenozoic Alkaline and related igneous rocks of Australia - MapServer

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Cenozoic Alkaline and related igneous rocks of Australia - WFS

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Cenozoic Alkaline and related igneous rocks of Australia - WMS

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Cenozoic alkaline and related igneous rocks of Australia

local : 147728

Cenozoic Alkaline and related igneous rocks of Australia WMS

local : 147815

Cenozoic Alkaline and related igneous rocks of Australia WFS

local : 147816

Cenozoic Alkaline and related igneous rocks of Australia MapServer

local : 147817

Identifiers
  • global : a98dc23a-9666-4568-807c-09910646603a
  • Local : pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/147729
  • DOI : 10.26186/147729