Stratigraphic record of an Atlantic-type global tectonic cycle in the Palaeoproterozoic Ashburton Province of Western Australia

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-87

  Krapez, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ashburton Province; Basin analysis; Capricorn Orogen; Gascoyne Province; Palaeoproterozoic; Sequence stratigraphy; Tectonic cycles

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033078204     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.1999.00688.x     Document Type: Article

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