A thematic issue of 12 papers analyzes the Palaeoproterozoic sedimentary rocks of the McArthur-Mt Isa-Cloncurry mineral belt in northern Australia. The papers focus on basement framework, chronostratigraphy, and geodynamic evolution of the Proterozoic successions. The collection was published as a special volume in the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences.
Use Cases
- Analyze basin evolution processes based on integrated chronostratigraphic analyses described in the papers
- Study metamorphic and stratigraphic basement frameworks for mineral exploration based on the NABRE project themes
- Apply sequence-stratigraphic frameworks to structurally dismembered provinces based on the southeast-to-northwest progression of papers
Strengths
- Contains 12 peer-reviewed papers organized under three main research objectives
- Focuses on a region hosting world-class zinc, copper-gold, and uranium deposits
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Time Range
- Palaeoproterozoic
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-16 14:10:35.170354; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- McArthur-Mt Isa-Cloncurry mineral belt, northern Australia