Late Archaean synorogenic basins of the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Part III. Signatures of tectonic escape in an arc-continent collision zone

Precambrian Research

Volumn 161, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 183-199

  Krapež, Bryan ^a   Barley, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archaean; Eastern Goldfields; Lithofacies; Sedimentology; Syncollisional basins; Tectonic escape

Indexed keywords

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; ARCHEAN; ARCHIPELAGO; BASIN; BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLISION ZONE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LITHOFACIES; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE CANYON;

ANATOLIA; ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BURTVILLE TERRANE; CANADA; CANADIAN CORDILLERA; EASTERN GOLDFIELDS; EURASIA; KALGOORLIE TERRANE; KURNALPI TERRANE; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINES; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TURKEY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 38349118807     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2007.06.020     Document Type: Article

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