Jack Hills (Yilgarn, Western Australia)

Jack Hills is the name of a low range of hills located in the Murchison District of Western Australia, approximately 800 km north of Perth. Since 1986, the area has been internationally known as the site of the world’s oldest minerals. These are detrital zircon grains up to 4,404 Ma old.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilde, Simon
Other Authors: Muriel Gargaud
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Springer-Verlag 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49651
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description Jack Hills is the name of a low range of hills located in the Murchison District of Western Australia, approximately 800 km north of Perth. Since 1986, the area has been internationally known as the site of the world’s oldest minerals. These are detrital zircon grains up to 4,404 Ma old.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-496512017-03-15T22:55:22Z Jack Hills (Yilgarn, Western Australia) Wilde, Simon Muriel Gargaud Hadean Continental crust Western Australia oceans zircon Neoarchean Jack Hills is the name of a low range of hills located in the Murchison District of Western Australia, approximately 800 km north of Perth. Since 1986, the area has been internationally known as the site of the world’s oldest minerals. These are detrital zircon grains up to 4,404 Ma old. 2011 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49651 Springer-Verlag restricted
spellingShingle Hadean
Continental crust
Western Australia
oceans
zircon
Neoarchean
Wilde, Simon
Jack Hills (Yilgarn, Western Australia)
title Jack Hills (Yilgarn, Western Australia)
title_full Jack Hills (Yilgarn, Western Australia)
title_fullStr Jack Hills (Yilgarn, Western Australia)
title_full_unstemmed Jack Hills (Yilgarn, Western Australia)
title_short Jack Hills (Yilgarn, Western Australia)
title_sort jack hills (yilgarn, western australia)
topic Hadean
Continental crust
Western Australia
oceans
zircon
Neoarchean
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49651