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Precambrian Palaeolatitudes for Australia

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Palaeolatitudes for Precambrian Australia were last reported in 1988. A serious limitation at that time was the sparseness of palaeomagnetic data. While the Australian Precambrian still lacks palaeomagnetic data on the whole, two intervals within it have since become much better defined. These are the late Palaeoproterozoic to earliest Mesoproterozoic and late the Mesoproterozoic to middle Neoproterozoic. Improvements to the former resulted from multidisciplinary studies in the 1990s by AGSO to provide a geological framework for mineral exploration in northern Australia; improvements to the latter are largely due a quest led by the University of Western Australia to determine the configuration of the late Proterozoic supercontinent Rodinia. This report incorporates the improvements in data for an update on Australian Precambrian palaeolatitudes.

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Title Precambrian Palaeolatitudes for Australia
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/85926557-b0db-4714-940c-ba8b3d5bf003
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        96.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        168.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        168.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        96.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        96.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Precambrian Palaeolatitudes for Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/precambrian-palaeolatitudes-for-australia