Lowstand ramps, fans and deep-water palaeoproterozoic and mesoproterozoic facies of the lawn hill platform: The term, lawn, wide and doom supersequences of the isa superbasin, northern australia

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 563-597

  Krassay, A A ^a   Domagala, J ^b   Bradshaw, B E ^a   Southgate, P N ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b Department of Mines and Energy ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Isa superbasin; Lawn hill formation; Mcnamara group; Mesoproterozoic; Palaeoproterozoic; Sequence stratigraphy; Termite range formation

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE RAMP; LOWSTAND; PROTEROZOIC; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033941921     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: 14400952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.2000.00791.x     Document Type: Article

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