Long-wavelength tilting of the Australian continent since the Late Cretaceous

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 278, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 175-185

  DiCaprio, Lydia ^a,b   Gurnis, Michael ^b   Müller, R Dietmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; Australian Antarctic Discordance; Cenozoic; dynamic topography; global sea level; paleo shoreline; subduction; topography

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DISCORDANCE; CENOZOIC; DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY; GLOBAL SEA LEVEL; PALEO-SHORELINE; SUBDUCTION;

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS; WAVELENGTH;

TOPOGRAPHY;

CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; DISPLACEMENT; EOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE; SUBDUCTION; TILT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 60749104691     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.11.030     Document Type: Article

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