Early Palaeozoic subduction in the southeastern Lachlan Fold Belt, Batemans Bay, New South Wales

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 481-501

  Prendergast, E I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accretion; Adaminaby Group; Batemans Bay; Lachlan Fold Belt; M lange; Subduction; Thrust faults; Wagonga Group

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BEDDING PLANE; CRATON; DEFORMATION; FOLD BELT; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOZOIC; SILURIAN; SUBDUCTION; SYNSEDIMENTARY TECTONICS; THRUST FAULT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 34249714188     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: 14400952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08120090600981475     Document Type: Article

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