Scientific Definition of Australian Geological Provinces, Regions and Events

Provinces are defined in terms of overlapping packages of rocks related by depositional or emplacement process, time and space (for example a sedimentary basin), and overprints resulting from various metamorphic or deformation events. These provinces and the events which formed them are recorded in Geoscience Australia corporate Oracle databases and linked with spatial data at a nominal 1:1millon scale in a GIS delivered via the WWW.

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