Imaging links between lithospheric architecture and surface geology in the Proterozoic Curnamona Province, Australia

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Williams, Helen A ^a   Betts, P G ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA SET; FELSIC ROCK; GRAVITY; IGNEOUS PROVINCE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; OUTCROP; POTENTIAL FIELD; PROTEROZOIC; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CURNAMONA PROVINCE;

EID: 34548556634     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB004966     Document Type: Article

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