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Age (Ma) 0 ESTABLISHED AND PROPOSED PHANEROZOIC SOUTHERN BONAPARTE NEOPROTEROZOIC BASIN 1000 MESOPROTEROZOIC KIMBERLEY BASIN ABORIGINAL LAND, CONSERVATION AREAS, 2000 PALEOPROTEROZOIC BASTION 12° BASIN

12° Sedimentary and volcanic rocks WOLFE CREEK BASIN H T I M O R S E A O

3000 rocks metamorphic and Igneous ARCHEAN O VICTORIA RIVER P Moun t House ER Group BASIN C N OM SI OSMOND BASIN P B A LE AH EX

Granite–greenstones X W MINERAL AND PETROLEUM TITLES, AND GEOLOGY SPE E PL RED ROCK and 4000 M TEXAS DOWNS BASINS ORD

CROWHURST BASIN AMBOO CO BASIN Compiled by I M Tyler and R M Hocking 1999–2006, L based on J S Myers and R M Hocking, 1998, LOUISA BASIN WOLFE CREEK Geological map of Western Australia 1 : 2 500 000 (13th edition) BASIN BIRRINDUDU and R M Hocking, 1994, GSWA Record 1994/4 WOLFE CREEK BASIN BASIN Western Australia — 2009

GRANITE– TANAMI OROGEN PILBARA CANNING BASIN YENEENA CRATON BASIN Redcliff Pound Group

ASHBURTON R ARUNTA BASIN HAMERSLEY BASIN UD CO AL MP L OROGEN LE AS X HBURTON BA anese Group EDMUND BRESNAHAN BASIN Mang BASIN SIN Sylvania Inlier OFFICER BASIN

G C EDM A S O C L UND BASIN 14° O L AMADEUS Y IE N R E COLLIER BASIN 14° C BA O EDMUND BASIN BASIN SI SOUTHERN CARNARVON M P N LE BASIN X Salvation Group lier mia In Mary Scorpion GASCOYNE BRYAH and PADBURY Group COMPLEX BASINS Narryer Terrane EARAHEEDY BASIN YERRIDA BASIN MUSGRAVE COMPLEX Lawley River N. P. Badgeradda Mitchell Group CER River N. P. FFI B O AS I GUNBARREL BASIN N Laterite Drysdale C. P. River N. P. NORTHAMPTON Murchison Domain COMPLEX I N D I A N O C E A N Youanmi Terrane Ord River Eastern Goldfields Superterrane Prince N. R. MULLINGARRA WYNDHAM Parry COMPLEX Regent Moora YILGARN CRATON Yandanooka Lagoons Group Group N. R. Southern Cross Domain PERTH N. R. BASIN EUCLA BASIN Woodline Formation KUNUNURRA X E L P M O C 16°

16° South West Terrane West Kimberley PLEX M Charnley River* P U N LUP CO PERTH A A IR BASIN Mount Barren B Group NORN LEEUWIN Stirling Range COMPLEX Formation IRANUP B COMPLEX NORNALUP COMPLEX King Leopold Ranges C. P. 0 500 Km Purnululu 1:10 million Coulomb W. H. A. Point N. R. DERBY

Windjana Gorge N. P. Devonian Reef C. P. BROOME Purnululu Purnululu N. P. National Geikie Gorge N. P. Park 18° 18° HALLS CREEK

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T Dragon Tree I Soak N. R.

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T PORT HEDLAND 20° 20° Dampier Archipelago

Barrow Island N. R. KARRATHA

MARBLE BAR Meentheena* Millstream Chichester N. P.

Mungaroona Range N. R.

EXMOUTH Mt Minnie* Mt Florence

Geology Cape 22° 22° Cane River Age (Ma) Range C. P. Nanutarra* 0 Alluvial, shoreline, and eolian deposits N. P. Rudall River N. P. 5 Marine limestone, sandstone, and continental valley-fill deposits Ningaloo Reef, 100 Cape Range Marine and continental sedimentary rocks N

Marine and continental sedimentary rocks and

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Marine and continental sedimentary and volcanic rocks Exmouth Karijini PHANEROZOIC 500 Giralia E Gulf Area N. P.

H Sandstone T

1000 R Barlee Range N. R.

O Gneiss

NEWMAN Granite and gneiss

N Metavolcanic rocks Sandstone Basic and ultrabasic rocks intrusive Metasedimentary rocks

PROTEROZOIC Wanna Basalt

2000

Sandstone and shale + Basalt

Granite and gneiss Middalya Metasedimentary rocks Metamorphosed volcanicMetamorphosed and basic intrusive rocks Williambury+ Mount 24° 24° Mardathuna+ Augustus N. P. Pt Minnie Creek+ Boologooro Mt Kennedy Range N. P. Phillip* Cobra* +

Iron formation and shale Lyons River 3000 + Collier Range N. P. Mooka Waldburg*

ARCHEAN Dalgety Granite and gneiss and Granite Metamorphosed sedimentary and acid volcanic rocks + Downs* Basalt, dacite, andsandstone Metamorphosed basicand ultrabasic volcanic andintrusive rocks Bidgemia Gibson Desert N. R. CARNARVON

3700 Jimba Jimba+

Established conservation estate (including national park, nature reserve, conservation park, state forest, and timber reserve) Shark Bay Pimbee* Proposed conservation reserves by Department Doolgunna* Earaheedy* of Environment and Conservation. (includes areas Francois Peron not yet endorsed by Government) N. P. Mooloogool* Established Aboriginal land Yaringa Lorna Glen* Shark Bay 26° 26° Established marine park, marine nature reserve, W. H. A. marine management area Nanga MEEKATHARRA WILUNA Proposed marine park, marine conservation reserve Zuytdorp N. R. Muggon* World Heritage Areas (W.H.A.) Wooleen* Shark Bay and Purnululu Nerren Toolonga Nerren N. R. Established National Heritage List area De La Poer Range N. R. Shark Bay Kaluwiri Wanjarri N. R. Tamala Woolgorong Proposed National Heritage List area Dalgaranga West Kimberley Murchison House Twin Peaks A

Black Range I Kalbarri Narloo Lake Mason

Proposed Great Western Woodland area L N. P.

Yuin Yeo La A ke

Noongal MT MAGNET N. R. R Mineral title — granted

T Wandana N. R. 28° S 28° Neale Junction N. R. U Mineral title — pending Bulga

Downs Bulga A Burnerbinmah* Downs LAVERTON Barnong* Petroleum title — granted

GERALDTON LEONORA Kadji Kadjii Cashmere Thundelarra Downs Petroleum title — pending Lochada Karara Highway / Road Warriedar

Townsite Plumridge Mount Elvire Lakes Kalbarri N. P. National park N. R. Great Victoria Desert N. R. Wonjarri N. R. Nature reserve Beekeepers N. R. Goongarrie N. P. Beekeepers-Lesueur-Coomallo Area Karroun Laterite C. P. Conservation park Hill H andNambung National Park Goongarrie

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N. R. Dwellingup S. F. State forest Lesueur N. P. Pinjarrega N. R. Credo U

30° Watheroo N. P. 30° Randell T. R. Timber reserve Queen Victoria O Mount Manning

Spring N. R. S Karara Former pastoral station (sheep and cattle) Range N. R.

Creation of conservation parks (non-class A) endorsed Nambung N. P. Cobra* by State Government on 17 September 2007 Jaurdi KALGOORLIE–BOULDER

+ Kangaroo Hills Mooka Additions to Kennedy Range National Park endorsed I N D I A N by State Government on 17 September 2007 T. R. Majestic T. R.

Randell T. R. Kambalda T. R. Julimar S. F. Boorabbin N. P. Goldfields Yanchep N. P. Woodlands NORTHAM N. P. Jilbadji EUCLA N. R. PERTH Eucla N. P. Wandoo S. F. NORSEMAN Nuytsland Lake N. R. 32° 32° Cronin N. R. Dundas N. R. Frank Dwellingup Hann N. P. S. F. O C E A N Yalgorup N. P. Peak Charles N. P.

BUNBURY Lake Cape Magenta Arid N. R. N. P. DATA DIRECTORY Fitzgerald River Ravensthorpe ESPERANCE Data Source Data Currency Agency Wilga S. F. Range Area Theme Leeuwin Geology GSWA 1998 Dept of Mines and Petroleum Naturaliste Established conservation estate DEC Feb 2009 Dept of Environment and Conservation Cape Le Grand N. P. Prosposed conservation reserves DEC Feb 2009 Dept of Environment and Conservation N. P. Stirling Range N. P. Fitzgerald River Aboriginal Lands Trust Leases DIA Dec 2008 Dept of Indigenous Affairs N. P. 34° Proposed Great Western Woodland Area The Extraordinary Nature of 2008 The Wilderness Society of WA Inc Stirling Range 34° The Great Western Woodlands Mineral title TENGRAPH* Feb 2009 Dept of Mines and Petroleum National Park SCALE 1:2 500 000 Dept of the Environment, Water, Dept of the Environment, Water, 0 100 200 300 National Heritage List areas Oct 2008 Heritage, and the Arts Heritage, and the Arts Porongurup Petroleum title TENGRAPH* Feb 2009 Dept of Mines and Petroleum Kilometres World Heritage Area DEC May 2006 Dept of Environment and Conservation Ranges D'Entrecasteaux ALBERS EQUAL AREA PROJECTION WITH CENTRAL MERIDIAN 121°00' AND STANDARD PARALLELS 17°30' AND 31°30' Topography Landgate 2008 Landgate HORIZONTAL DATUM: GEOCENTRIC DATUM OF AUSTRALIA 1994 (GDA 94) * GSWA and DMP databases can be viewed online (www.dmp.wa.gov.au/geoview) or can be downloaded from the GSWA Data and Software Centre (www.dmp.wa.gov.au/datacentre) N. P. Shannon ALBANY S O U T H E R N O C E A N Compiled by Geological Survey of Western Australia 2009 N. P. RESOURCE POTENTIAL FOR LAND USE PLANNING Edited by B Striewski Mount Frankland Cartography by T McDonald and I Lesiak N. P. ESTABLISHED AND PROPOSED Published by the Geological Survey of Western Australia. Digital and hard copies of this map are available from the Information Centre, Department of Mines and Petroleum, ABORIGINAL LAND, CONSERVATION AREAS, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA, 6004. Phone (08) 9222 3459, Fax (08) 9222 3444 Website www.dmp.wa.gov.au Email: [email protected] MINERAL AND PETROLEUM TITLES, AND GEOLOGY The recommended reference for this map is: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 2009, Established and proposed aboriginal land, conservation areas, mineral and WESTERN AUSTRALIA — 2009 petroleum titles, and geology, Western Australia — 2009, Resource potential for land use planning (1: 2 500 000 scale): Geological Survey of Western Australia. Western Australia March 2009

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