Marble Bar Chert Member

Initial magnetic measurements of the whole core revealed that the black or red layers in the marble bar chert member display strong natural remanence magnetization.

Marble bar chert member.

Geological mapping reveals that the 3460 million year old marble bar chert was deposited in a caldera setting across an area of at least 50 km x 30 km. A paleomagnetic study of 261 discrete specimens collected from a 158 5 to 182 0 m section of the marble bar chert member revealed two distinct magnetic components lt. Red and white banded chert at marble bar pool in the east pilbara. The marble bar chert member dated between 3463 to 3454 ma thorpe et al 1992 is a world famous early archean unit with little metamorphism.

It is composed of two very distinctive sub units. Here we report new evidence to suggest that haematite crystals in the jasper chert unit of the 3 46 gyr marble bar chert member mbc in the pilbara craton western australia probably nucleated. We re right at the bottom. Marble bar chert member is located at chinaman pool.

You can see the nice layering all through here right up over. Here we interpret the finely laminated thin bedded cherts mixed conglomeratic beds. The layers of red chert jasper contain up to 10. The marble bar chert member represents brecciation of the chert cut by fault with the breccia material showing disruption of the original structure.

The archean biosphere drilling project abdp drilled a continuous 270 m long oriented core from the towers formation which includes the marble bar chert member 3456 1 3476 0 ma in the pilbara craton northwestern australia. Marble bar has a hot desert climate köppen bwh with sweltering summers and warm winters. 1 a well bedded evenly and finely flat laminated lower section characterized by a conspicuous red white dark blue banded facies and prominent brecciated beds locally referred to as. It s a big thick chert.

Another specimen is marble bar chert of 3 5 ga warrawoona group member which is distributed at pilbara craton in western australia. The town set a world record of most consecutive days of 100 f 37 8 c or above during a period of 160 days from 31 october 1923 to 7 april 1924. The 3 46 ga marble bar chert member of the east pilbara craton western australia is one of the earliest and best preserved sedimentary successions on earth. The lithofacies of the marble bar chert member on the outcrop are characterized by centimeter scale beds of red grey white and rare black layers.

This is the base of marble bar chert. These yellowy rocks are the volcanic rocks that underly the marble bar chert and the black is the chert. Most of the annual rainfall occurs in the summer.