The Musgrave Block (also known as the Musgrave Province) is an east-west trending belt of Proterozoic granulite-gneiss basement rocks approximately 500 km long. The Musgrave Block extends from western South Australia into Western Australia.
The Musgrave Block is primarily exposed through the actions of the Petermann Orogeny at c. 535-550 Ma, which exhumed the orogenic belt along the Woodroffe Thrust.
Read more about Musgrave Block: Geomorphology of Quaternary Deposits, Palaeozoic Rocks, Proterozoic Basement, Events, Granites and Calderas, Bentley Supergroup
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