Warrawoona

Warrawoona and Western Australia showing geological classification

Warrawoona 32°42′S 118°0′E / 32.700°S 118.000°E / -32.700; 118.000 (Warrawoona) is a region of Western Australia in the Pilbara province.

The region is home to the Warrawoona belt, a geological area and discovery site of the Warrawoona Group of fossils. These fossils, which are over 3.5 billion years old, are considered to be the oldest known geological record of life on earth.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ Buick, Roger; University of Western Australia. Dept. of Geology. Thesis (1985), Life and conditions in the early Archaean : evidence from 3500 m.y. old shallow-water sediments in the Warrawoona Group, North Pole, Western Australia, retrieved 25 July 2019
  2. ^ Spring, Thomas F (2017), Reconstruction of the physical volcanological processes and petrogenesis of the 3.5Ga Warrawoona Group pillow basalt of the Warralong Greenstone Belt, Pilbara Craton Western Australia, Queensland University of Technology, retrieved 25 July 2019
  3. ^ Dimarco, Michael J; Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College (1986), Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and sedimentary petrology of the early Archean Coongan formation, Warrawoona Group, Eastern Pilbara Block, western Australia (sandstones, Precambrian), retrieved 25 July 2019

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