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Geology · Northern Territory

Northern Territory Geology

Northern Territory rock units, from the national surface-geology map.

What it shows

Surface geology covering the Northern Territory, from Geoscience Australia's national 1:1,000,000 map, painted in the survey's own per-unit colours. The coloured areas are rock units (lithology). The lines are mapped faults and contacts. This is a broad-scale national map, coarser than the detailed Territory survey. It ships alongside the detailed 1:250,000 Territory layer so the two can be compared. Read geology first, as it shows why gold sits where it does: faults are where fluids moved and gold dropped. Tap a unit for its name, lithology and age, or a line for the structure type. Use it to follow a favourable rock into new ground.

Putting this on your map

Taking a layer from the Library onto a stack, and tuning how it draws, is a short guided tour on your own map.

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