Episodic intraplate deformation of stable continental margins: evidence from Late Neogene and Quaternary marine terraces, Cape Liptrap, Southeastern Australia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 39-53

  Gardner, Thomas ^a   Webb, John ^b   Pezzia, Claudia ^a   Amborn, Terri ^a   Tunnell, Robert ^a   Flanagan, Sarah ^a   Merritts, Dorothy ^a   Marshall, Jeffrey ^a   Fabel, Derek ^c   Cupper, Matthew L ^d  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; DEFORMATION; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MILITARY OPERATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANTS (BOTANY); RADIOISOTOPES; RANGE FINDING; SEA LEVEL; SOIL CONSERVATION; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; WATER LEVELS;

AUSTRALIA; BED-ROCKS; BOUGER GRAVITY ANOMALIES; BURIAL AGES; BURIAL DEPTHS; CONTINENTAL MARGINS; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; DISPLACEMENT RATES; EXPOSURE AGES; FAULT ZONES; HIGH TIDES; HOLOCENE SEA LEVELS; INTRAPLATE DEFORMATIONS; INTRAPLATE STRESS FIELDS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LATE PLIOCENE; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCES; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON AGES; REVERSE FAULTS; SEISMIC EVENTS; STRUCTURAL BOUNDARIES;

LANDFORMS;

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DEFORMATION; GRAVITY; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; NEOGENE; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CAPE LIPTRAP; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

THORACICA;

EID: 57749189804     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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