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Stirling Range, Australia

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The Stirling Range is a 60-km long range of hills in southwestern Australia, about 330 km SE of Perth. It is built up of a ca 1.6 km thick Paleoproterozoic sequence of siliciclastic sediments, the Stirling Range Formation. The sediments, mostly sandstones and shales, were deposited between 1.8 and 2 Ga ago along an ocean-facing shoreline influenced by storms, long-shore currents, and tidal currents. The rocks were subjected to low-grade metamorphism about 1.2 Ga ago. The Stirling Range Formation houses a fossil biota of disk-shaped and trace-making organisms, the Stirling Range Biota.

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  1. Department of Palaeozoology, The Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE-104 05, Stockholm, Sweden

    Stefan Bengtson

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  1. Centro de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Ricardo Amils

  2. Labo. d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux (LAB), Observatoire Aquitain des Sciences de l'Univers (OASU), Floirac CX, France

    Muriel Gargaud

  3. Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), Inst. Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain

    José Cernicharo Quintanilla

  4. Geophysical Lab., Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

    Henderson James Cleaves

  5. Astronomy Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

    William M. Irvine

  6. Dépt. Sc. de la Terre et de l’Atmosphère, Université du Québec, Montréal, Montreal, Québec, Canada

    Daniele Pinti

  7. Centre National d'Etudes Spatiale (CNES) DPI/E2U, Paris CX, France

    Michel Viso

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Bengtson, S. (2014). Stirling Range, Australia. In: Amils, R., et al. Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27833-4_1523-2

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