Cyclic igneous layering

Primary structures, sedimentary, magmatic rocks

The Windimurra vanadium pit, Windimurra Igneous Complex (c. 2810 Ma). Cyclic igneous layering of vanadiferous magnetitite, leucogabbro and anorthosite on a 1-5 metre scale can be seen here dipping to the west.
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Photograph: Tim Ivanic

Reference: Ivanic, T. J. , Wingate, M. T. D. , Kirkland, C. L. , Van Kranendonk, M. J. and Wyche, S.(2010).Age and significance of voluminous mafic-ultramafic magmatic events in the Murchison Domain, Yilgarn Craton, Australian. Journal of Earth Sciences, 57: 5, 597 — 614