Australian platform

Iron cherts are known in three structural positions on the Australian platform. The oldest are in Western Australia in the Pilbara and Yilgarn Blocks, which were stabilized 2700-3000 m.y. ago. The iron cherts are not spatially persistent and not very thick. 

The third group consists of the BIF of the Cleve Metamorphics (South Australia), with an age of about 1780 m.y. 

A direct relationship to volcanic processes has not been established for the cherty iron-formations of Australia, but Trendall (1973a) suggests that the source of the ore material was rhythmic volcanism. 

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The SASA Project was a two-year initiative (February 2002-April 2004) of the ISEAL Alliance undertaken by four platform members IFOAM, SAI, SAN and FLO. The project was coordinated by Sasha Courville at the Australian National University in Canberra. 

Since initially Platform A will provide the major source of gas to meet the contractual commitments of the joint venture portners of the Australian North West Shelf gos project for the supply of gas to the State Energy Commission of Western Australia and also the early build-up in LNG production, and due to its location in on extremely remote port of Australia, every effort hos been made to produce a conservative and reliable design. 

Furthermore, Veizer found that the chemical composition of Australian carbonates varies with geological age and that compositional variations for these rocks, perhaps with one exception, are similar to those found in carbonates from the Russian Platform and North America. Figure 10.8 is a summary of some oxide... 

Dietary folate intake determines folate nutritional status. It is therefore important to accurately measure folate in food using the best analytical platform currently available. In particular, folate analysis is confounded by several factors, such as the presence of many vitamers, low concentrations, physicochemical instability, and complex sample preparation [12]. It has been reported that the levels of endogenous 5-methyltetrahydrofolate and 5-formyltetrahydrofolate in canned chickpeas, a rich folate source, were 52 and 8 pg/lOO g, respectively [13]. Folate-fortified foods contain higher total folate concentrations than those found in natural folate-rich foods. We recently determined folic acid in Australian fortified bread varieties that was approximately 100 [tg/100 g [14]. 

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