Aspects of the structural and late thermal evolution of the Redbank Thrust system, central Australia: Constraints from the Speares Metamorphics

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 983-999

  Biermeier, C ^a   Wiesinger, M ^a   Stuwe K ^a   Foster, D A ^b   Gibson, H J ^c   Raza, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arunta Block; Fission track dating; Geochronology; Redbank Thrust; Speares Metamorphics

Indexed keywords

COOLING; FISSION TRACK DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCK; PALEOZOIC; PRECAMBRIAN; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ARUNTA BLOCK; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 0346934967     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1400-0952.2003.01039.x     Document Type: Article

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