Modes of active intraplate deformation, Flinders Ranges, Australia

Tectonics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Célérier, Julien ^a,b   Sandiford, Mike ^a   Hansen, David Lundbek ^a,c   Quigley, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; FLINDERS RANGE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33144454450     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004TC001679     Document Type: Article

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