Subsidence history, gravity anomalies, and flexure of the northeast Australian margin in Papua New Guinea

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 827-842

  Haddad, D ^a   Watts, A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; FLEXURE; GRAVITY ANOMALY; OROGENIC BELT; PASSIVE MARGIN; SUBSIDENCE;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

DEPOSITION; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONICS;

BEST-FIT MODELS; CARBONATE DEPOSITION; CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; HORIZONTAL SURFACES; INFINITE ELASTIC PLATE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 0033428368     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999TC900009     Document Type: Article

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