Distribution of palaeozoic reworking in the Western Arunta Region and northwestern Amadeus Basin from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology: Implications for the evolution of intracratonic basins

Basin Research

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 315-334

  McLaren, Sandra ^a   Sandiford, Mike ^b   Dunlap, W James ^a   Scrimgeour, Ian ^c   Close, Dorothy ^c   Edgoose, Christine ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Northern Territory Geological Survey   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASEMENT ROCK; BASIN EVOLUTION; CARBONIFEROUS; COMPRESSION; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; INTRACRATONIC BASIN; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

AMADEUS BASIN; ARUNTA BLOCK; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 66349110224     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2008.00385.x     Document Type: Article

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