Post-orogenic thermotectonic history of the Mount Buffalo region, Lachlan Fold Belt, Australia: Evidence for Mesozoic to Cenozoic wrench-fault reactivation?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 317, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 1-26

  O'Sullivan, P B ^a   Belton, D X ^b   Orr, M ^c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Denudation; Fission track dating; Reactivation; Thermochronology; Vertical movements; Wrench faults

Indexed keywords

FISSION TRACK DATING; REACTIVATION; THERMAL EVOLUTION; WRENCH FAULT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034652664     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00294-2     Document Type: Article

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