Attenuated basin-margin sequence stratigraphy of the Palaeoproterozoic Calvert and Isa Superbasins: The Fickling Group, southern Murphy Inlier, Queensland

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 599-623

  Bradshaw, B E ^a,b   Lindsay, J F ^a   Krassay, A A ^a   Wells, A T ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basin analysis; Fickling Group; Mineralisation; Murphy Inlier; Palaeoproterozoic; Sequence stratigraphy; Walford Creek prospect

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; EROSION; MINERAL DEPOSIT; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; STRATIGRAPHY;

BASIN ANALYSIS; INLIER; PROTEROZOIC; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033925781     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.2000.00794.x     Document Type: Article

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