| 词条 | Darling Fault |
| 释义 |
The Darling Fault is one of the longest and most significant faults in Australia, extending for at least 1500 km in a north–south orientation near the west coast of southern Western Australia. It is a major geological boundary separating the Archaean Yilgarn Craton in the east from the younger Pinjarra Orogen and overlying Phanerozoic Perth Basin to the west. The fault zone is very ancient and initially formed during the Proterozoic Eon.[1] In the Perth area, the Darling Fault must once have coincided with the Darling Scarp, the abrupt escarpment immediately east of the city of Perth, but the scarp has since eroded eastward of the fault, leaving a formation of foothills known as the Ridge Hill Shelf. The fault is located on the western edge of the Ridge Hill Shelf; a good reference point of its location is the point where the Great Eastern Highway passes over the current Eastern railway line in Bellevue. Notes1. ^{{cite book|last=Fitzsimons|first=I.C.W.|title=Proterozoic East Gondwana: supercontinent assembly and breakup|editor=Yoshida M., Windley B.F. & Dasgupta S.|series=Geological Society Special Publication|volume=206|pages=93–130|chapter=Proterozoic provinces of Australia, and their correlation with Antarctica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4B8nrDVjaCgC&pg=PA110&dq=%22darling+fault%22&ei=mEA_S4PGHo3uzQTJ681b&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22darling%20fault%22&f=false|accessdate=2010-01-02 | isbn=978-1-86239-125-3 | year=2003 | publisher=Geological Society}} References
3 : Geology of Western Australia|Darling Range|Seismic faults of Australia |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。