The tectonostratigraphic history of the Proterozoic Northern Lawn Hill Platform, Australia: An integrated intracontinental basin analysis

Tectonophysics

Volumn 300, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 329-358

  Scott, D L ^a   Bradshaw, B E ^a   Tarlowski, C Z ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Intracontinental basin evolution; Mineralisation; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BASIN ANALYSIS; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032585438     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00253-4     Document Type: Article

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