Naturaliste Plateau, offshore western Australia: A submarine window into Gondwana assembly and breakup

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 807-810

  Halpin, Jacqueline A ^a   Crawford, Anthony J ^a   Direen, Nicholas G ^a,b   Coffin, Millard F ^c   Forbes, Caroline J ^b,d   Borissova, Irina ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extensional allochthon; Naturaliste Plateau; Pinjarra Orogen; U Pb zircon ages; U Th Pb monazite ages

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL ALLOCHTHON; NATURALISTE PLATEAU; PINJARRA OROGEN; U-PB ZIRCON AGES; U-TH-PB MONAZITE AGES;

ABLATION; BUILDINGS; FOUNDATIONS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LASER ABLATION; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MINERALS; MONAZITE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; PHOTORESISTS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SILICATE MINERALS; SUBMARINES; VOLCANOES; ZIRCON;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; GONDWANA; IGNEOUS ROCK; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MONAZITE; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 54949121405     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25059A.1     Document Type: Article

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