The term ‘Zamu Dolerite’ is proposed here to replace ‘Zamu Complex’, the name originally applied to the predominantly mafic intrusives of the South Alligator River area, and to include the other mafic supracrustal intrusive rocks that, with minor felsic differentiates, were emplaced into the strata of the Pine Creek Geosyncline before an 1800 m.y. phase of regional metamorphism. This suite of lower Proterozoic rocks generally forms conformable intrusive tabular bodies which are folded and, in most places, metamorphosed with the enclosing strata. The intrusions are mostly now amphibolite, but in the type area of Zamu Creek, folded but unaltered dolerite rocks are found. The Zamu Dolerite occurs in two broad zones of regional meta‐morphic grade: medium and/or high grades in the northeastern part of the region, and low grade elsewhere. Late‐orogenic Carpentarian granite diapirs have, however, locally superimposed a contact metamorphism on the low‐grade regional metamor‐phic event. Low‐temperature retrograde metamorphism is locally present throughout the Pine Creek Geosyncline, being particularly prevalent within areas of uranium mineralization.