Early Cretaceous volcano-sedimentary successions along the eastern Australian continental margin: Implications for the break-up of eastern Gondwana

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 153, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 85-102

  Bryan, S E ^a,b   Constantine, A E ^a   Stephens, C J ^b,c   Ewart, A ^b   Schon R W ^b   Parianos, J ^b,d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Ctrl Norseman Gold Corp Limited   (Australia)

^d QNI Limited   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gondwana; Intraplate processes; Lower Cretaceous; Plate boundaries; Volcanic processes; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002553393     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00124-6     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. M.F. Coffin, O. Eldholm, Large igneous provinces: crustal structure, dimensions, and external consequences, Rev. Geophys. 32 (1994) 1-36.
2. P.R. Renne, J.M. Glen, S.C. Milner, A.R. Duncan, Age of Etendeka flood volcanism and associated intrusions in southwestern Africa, Geology 24 (1996) 659-662.
3. P.R. Renne, M. Ernesto, I.G. Pacca, R.S. Coe, J.M. Glen, M. Prevot, M. Perrin, The age of Paraná flood volcanism, rifting of Gondwanaland, and the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary, Science 258 (1992) 975-979.
4. R.L. Larson, Latest pulse of Earth: Evidence for a mid-Cretaceous superplume, Geology 19 (1991) 547-550.
5. N. Mortimer, D. Parkinson, Hikurangi Plateau: A Cretaceous large igneous province in the southwest Pacific Ocean, J. Geophys. Res. 101 (1996) 687-696.
6. H.M. Hawlader, Petrology, diagenesis, and reservoir potential of the Surat Basin sandstones with special reference to hydrocarbon exploration, Ph.D. Thesis, Macquarie Univ., N.S.W., Australia, 1989, 572 pp.
7. D.A. Falvey, J.C. Mutter, Regional plate tectonics and the evolution of Australia's passive continental margins, Bur. Min. Res. J. Geol. Geophys. 6 (1981) 1-29.
8. J.J. Veevers, C. McA. Powell, S.R. Roots, Review of seafloor spreading around Australia. I. Synthesis of the patterns of spreading, Aust. J. Earth. Sci. 38 (1991) 373-389.
9. J.G. Jones, J.J. Veevers, Mesozoic origins and antecedents of Australia's Eastern Highlands, J. Geol. Soc. Aust. 30 (1983) 305-322.
10. L.G. Elliot, Post-Carboniferous tectonic evolution of eastern Australia, Aust. Pet. Explor. Assoc. J. 33 (1993) 215-236.
11. P.L. Ellis, Geology of the Maryborough 1:250 000 sheet area, Geol. Surv. Queensland Rep. 26 (1968) 90 pp.
12. N.F. Exon, B.R. Senior, The Cretaceous of the Eromanga and Surat Basins, Bur. Miner. Res. J. Aust. Geol. Geophys. 1 (1976) 33-50.
13. J. Smart, B.R. Senior, The Jurassic-Cretaceous basins of northeastern Australia, in: R.A. Henderson, P.J. Stephenson (Eds.), The Geology and Geophysics of Northeastern Australia, Geol. Soc. Aust., Qld. Div., Brisbane, 1980, pp. 315-328.
14. H.M. Hawlader, Diagenesis and reservoir potential of volcanogenic sandstones - Cretaceous of the Surat Basin, Australia, Sediment. Geol. 66 (1990) 181-195.
15. R.J. Holcombe, C.J. Stephens, C.R. Fielding, D. Gust, T.A. Little, R. Sliwa, J. McPhie, A. Ewart, Tectonic evolution of the northern New England Fold Belt: the Permian-Triassic Hunter-Bowen event, Aust. J. Earth Sci. (1997) in press.
16. P.A. Symonds, J. Fritsch, H.U. Schluter, Continental margin around the western Coral Sea Basin: Structural elements, seismic sequences and petroleum geological aspects, in: S.T. Watson (Ed.), Trans. 3rd Circum-Pacific Energy and Mineral Resources Conf., AAPG, Tulsa, 1984, pp. 243-252.
17. G.S. Lister, M.A. Etheridge, P.A. Symonds, Detachment models for the formation of passive continental margins, Tectonics 10 (1991) 1038-1064.
18. G.S. Lister, M.A. Etheridge, Detachment models for uplift and volcanism in the Eastern Highlands, and their implication to the origin of passive margin mountains, in: R.W. Johnson, S.R. Taylor (Eds.), Intraplate Volcanism in Eastern Australia and New Zealand, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989, pp. 297-313.
19. L.W.H. Taylor, D.A. Falvey, Queensland Plateau and Coral Sea Basin - stratigraphy, structure and tectonics, Aust. Pet. Explor. Geophys. 6 (1977) 33-35.
20. J.J. Veevers, J.G. Jones, C. McA Powell, Tectonic framework of Australia's sedimentary basins, Aust. Pet. Explor. Assoc. J. 22 (1982) 283-300.
21. A.J.W. Gleadow, I.R. Duddy, Early Cretaceous volcanism and the early breakup history of southeastern Australia: Evidence from fission track dating of volcaniclastic sediments, in: M.M. Cresswell, P. Vella (Eds.), 5th Int. Gondwana Symposium, A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 1980, pp. 11-16.
22. I.R. Duddy, The geology, petrology and geochemistry of the Otway Formation volcanogenic sediments, Ph.D. Thesis, Melbourne Univ., 1983, 426 pp.
23. A. Felton, Sedimentation and facies analysis of the Otway Basin, Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia, 1992, 307 pp.
24. A.W. Webb, I. McDougall, The geochronology of the igneous rocks of Eastern Queensland, J. Geol. Soc. Aust. 15 (1968) 313-346.
25. A. Ewart, R.W. Schön, B.W. Chappell, The Cretaceous volcanic-plutonic province of the central Queensland (Australia) coast - a rift related "calc-alkaline" province, Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh Earth Sci. 83 (1992) 327-345.
26. C. Jaski, The sedimentology, provenance and structure of the Otway Group in the vicinity of the Merino High, west Victoria, Hons. Thesis, La Trobe Univ., Vic., Australia, 1994, 86 pp.
27. J.M. Parianos, Carboniferous to Tertiary Geology of the Airlie Block, unpubl. M.Sc. Thesis, Univ. Queensland, 1993, 255 pp.
28. D.E. Clarke, A.G.L. Paine, A.R. Jensen, Geology of the Proserpine 1:250 000 Sheet area, Queensland, Bur. Min. Res. Geol. Geophys. Rep. 144 (1971) 98 pp.
29. A. Ewart, The mineralogy and petrology of Tertiary-Recent orogenic volcanic rocks: with special reference to andesitic-basaltic compositional range, in: R.S. Thorpe (Ed.), Andesites, Wiley, New York, 1982, pp. 25-95.
30. A. Ewart, A review of the mineralogy and chemistry of Tertiary-Recent dacitic, latitic, rhyolitic, and related salic volcanic rocks, in: F. Barker (Ed.), Trondhjemites, Dacites, and Related Rocks, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1979, pp. 13-121.
31. R.W. Le Maitre (Ed.), A Classification of Igneous Rocks and Glossary of Terms. Recommendations of the International Union of Geological Sciences Subcommission on the systematics of igneous rocks, Blackwell, Oxford, 1989, 193 pp.
32. A. Ewart, B.W. Chappell, Trace element geochemistry, in: R.W. Johnson, S.R. Taylor (Eds.), Intraplate Volcanism in Eastern Australia and New Zealand, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989, pp. 219-235.
33. S.-S. Sun, W.F. McDonough, Chemical and isotopic system-atics of oceanic basalts, in: A.D. Saunders, M.J. Norry (Eds.), Magmatism in the Ocean Basins, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ. 42 (1989) 313-345.
34. D.A. Wood, The application of a Th-Hf-Ta diagram to problems of tectonomagmatic classification and to establishing the nature of crustal contamination of basaltic lavas of the British Tertiary volcanic province, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 50 (1980) 11-30.
35. C.J. Stephens, A. Ewart, S. Bryan, R.W. Schön, Rift-related, large-volume silicic volcanism associated with Lower Cretaceous continental breakup, eastern Australia (abstract), IUGG XXI General Assembly, Boulder, 1995, A443.
36. A.D. Saunders, J. Tarney, Geochemical characteristics of basaltic volcanism within back-arc basins, in: B.P. Kokelaar, M.F. Howells (Eds.), Marginal Basin Geology: Volcanic and Associated Sedimentary and Tectonic Processes in Modern and Ancient Marginal Basins, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ. 16 (1984) 59-76.
37. M.P. Roberts, J.D. Clemens, Origin of high-potassium, calcalkaline, I-type granitoids, Geology 21 (1993) 825-828.
38. J.B. Willcox, H.M.J. Stagg, Australia's southern margin: a product of oblique extension, Tectonophysics 173 (1990) 269-281.
39. J.G.G. Morton, A.J. Hill, G. Parker, A. Tabassi, Towards a unified stratigraphy for the Otway Basin, in: NGMA/PESA Otway Basin Symposium, Aust. Geol. Surv. Org. Rec. 14 (1994) 7-12.
40. J. Hand, The sedimentology of the Upper Eumeralla Formation, Otway Group, Lome, Victoria, Hons. Thesis, Monash Univ., Vie., Australia, 1993, 116 pp.
41. W.B. Harland, R.L. Armstrong, A.V. Cox, L.E. Craig, A.G. Smith, D.G. Smith, A Geologic Time Scale 1989, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990, 263 pp.
42. A.P. Whittle, The Pretty Hill Sandstone of the Otway Basin, Australia - a study of provenance, Hons. Thesis, Univ. Adelaide, 1968, 40 pp.
43. W.R. Dickenson, L.S. Beard, G.R. Brakenridge, J.L. Erjavec, R.C. Ferguson, K.F. Inman, R.A. Knepp, F.A. Lindberg, P.T. Ryberg, Provenance of North American Phanerozoic sandstones in relation to tectonic setting, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 94 (1983) 222-235.
44. Bureau Mineral Resources, A preliminary review of the Otway Basin, Bur. Min. Res. Geol. Geophys. Rec. 170, 1966, 254 pp.
45. C.R. Fielding, A review of Cretaceous coal-bearing sequences in Australia, Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Pap. 267 (1992) 303-324.
46. P.D. Clift, the ODP Leg 135 Scientific Party, Volcanism and sedimentation in a rifting island-arc terrain: an example from Tonga, SW Pacific, in: J.L. Smellie (Ed.), Volcanism Associated with Extension at Consuming Plate Margins, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ. 81 (1995) 29-51.
47. C.M. Allen, B.W. Chappell, The petrogenesis of the Mesozoic rocks, Bowen region, Queensland, and changes of tectonic setting from 145 to 100 Ma, in: Mesozoic Geology of the eastern Australia Plate Conference, Geol. Soc. Aust. Extended Abstr. 43 (1996) 16-21.
48. C.Y. Yan, L.W. Kroenke, A plate tectonic reconstruction of the Southwest Pacific 0-100 Ma (animated), Proc. Ocean Drill. Program Sci. Res. 130 (1993) 697-709.
49. I. McDougall, G.J. van der Lingen, Age of the rhyolites of the Lord Howe Rise and the evolution of the southwest Pacific Ocean, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 21 (1974) 117-126.
50. F.L. Sutherland, E.B. Corbett, The extent of Upper Mesozoic igneous activity in relation to lamprophyric intrusions in Tasmania, Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasmania 107 (1974) 175-190.
51. I.S. Williams, N.W. Tetley, W. Compston, I. McDougall, A comparison of K-Ar and Rb-Sr ages of rapidly cooled igneous rocks: two points in the Palaeozoic time scale re-valuated, J. Geol. Soc. London 139 (1982) 557-568.
52. D.L. Anderson, Superplumes or supercontinents?, Geology 22 (1994) 39-42.
53. R.H. Steiger, E. Jäger, Subcommission on geochronology, convention on the use of decay constants in geo- and cosmochronology, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 36 (1977) 359-362.