Petermann Ranges
A heavily eroded mountain range running some 320 km across the border of Western Australia and the Northern Territory, highest point 1,158 m. It is the worn-down remnant of the Petermann Orogeny, a mountain-building event in the middle of the continent about 550 million years ago.
Dated events and their evidence
- about 550,000,000 years ago mainstream
the intracontinental Petermann Orogeny deforms the Musgrave Province, about 550 million years ago; its lower crust records repeated earthquakes at 600-700 °C source - 2012 CE mainstream
the area is included in the Katiti-Petermann Indigenous Protected Area source
Where
25.0000° S, 129.7670° E
Wikipedia's point for the range (25°00' S, 129°46' E), given to the nearest minute; the range itself runs some 320 km across the WA-NT border.
Sources
- https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-629-2018
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petermann_Ranges_(Australia)
- https://ozgeology.com/blogs/news/australias-himalayan-mountains-the-geological-story-of-the-petermann-ranges
- https://ozgeology.com/blogs/news/australias-ancient-himalayan-size-mountain-range-the-petermann-ranges
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