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The Kararan orogeny was an orogenic event in the Gawler Craton of South Australia during the Proterozoic between 1.57 and 1.55 billion years ago which reworked rocks metamorphosed during the Kimban orogeny. [1][2]

  1. ^ Payne, J.L. and co-authors (2007). "Temporal constraints on the timing of high-grade metamorphism in the northern Gawler Craton: implications for assembly of the Australian Proterozoic". Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 55 (5): 623. doi:10.1080/08120090801982595.
  2. ^ Myers, John S.; Shaw, Russell D.; Tyler, Ian M. (1996). "Tectonic evolution of Proterozoic Australia". Tectonics. 15 (6): 1431–1446. Bibcode:1996Tecto..15.1431M. doi:10.1029/96TC02356.

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