Phanerozoic denudation history of the mount isa inlier, northern australia: Response of a proterozoic mobile belt to intraplate tectonics

International Geology Review

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-124

  Spikings, Richard A ^a   Foster, David A ^a   Kohn, Barry P ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENUDATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MOBILE BELT; PHANEROZOIC; TECTONICS;

AUSTRALIA, QUEENSLAND, MOUNT ISA INLIER;

EID: 0031445411     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00206819709465262     Document Type: Article

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