Isotopic evidence for rapid continental growth in an extensional accretionary orogen: The Tasmanides, eastern Australia

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 455-466

  Kemp, A I S ^a,d   Hawkesworth, C J ^b,d   Collins, W J ^a,d   Gray, C M ^a,d   Blevin, P L ^c,d  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

continental growth; granite; Hf isotopes; Nd isotopes; Tasmanides; tectonics

Indexed keywords

BACK-ARC; BACK-ARC BASIN; CAMBRIANS; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CONTINENTAL GROWTH; CONTINENTAL MATERIALS; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; EASTERN AUSTRALIA; ELEMENT SIGNATURES; GRANITIC ROCKS; HF ISOTOPES; ISLAND ARC; ISOTOPE DATA; ISOTOPIC TRACER; JUVENILE MAGMA; MAGMA SOURCES; MAGMATIC INPUTS; MAGMATISM; ND ISOTOPES; OROGENS; PLANETARY DIFFERENTIATION; RIFTING CYCLE; SEDIMENTARY UNITS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TASMANIDES; TECTONIC ACTIVITY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRIASSIC;

CAVITY RESONATORS; GRANITE; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; LEAD; NEODYMIUM; ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZIRCON;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BACKARC BASIN; CAMBRIAN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEODYNAMICS; GONDWANA; GRANITE; MAGMATISM; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OROGENY; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 67650523601     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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