Testing long-term patterns of basin sedimentation by detrital zircon geochronology, Centralian Superbasin, Australia

Basin Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 335-360

  Maidment, David W ^a,b   Williams, I S ^a   Hand, M ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OROGENY; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 34548360556     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2007.00326.x     Document Type: Article

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