Structural styles in the Perth Basin associated with the Mesozoic break-up of Greater India and Australia

Tectonophysics

Volumn 317, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 55-72

  Song, T ^a   Cawood, P A ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basin inversion; Gondwana break up; Perth Basin; Rift; Strike slip; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; GONDWANA; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034652766     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00273-5     Document Type: Article

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