A shortened intraplate rift system in the Proterozoic Mount Isa terrane, NW Queensland, Australia

Tectonics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 425-441

  O'Dea, Mark G ^a   Lister, Gordon S ^a   Betts, Peter G ^a   Pound, Katherine S ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION; EXTENSION; PROTEROZOIC; RIFT; SUBSIDENCE;

AUSTRALIA, QUEENSLAND, MOUNT ISA;

EID: 0031464485     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96TC03276     Document Type: Article

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