Syndepositional fault control on lower Frasnian platform evolution Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Australia

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 331-334

  George, Annette D ^a   Chow, Nancy ^b   Trinajstic, Kate M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BACK-STEP; BLOCK GEOMETRY; CARBONATE DEPOSITION; DIFFERENTIAL SUBSIDENCE; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; FAULT SYSTEM; HIGHER ORDER; INTERNAL FAULTS; NORMAL FAULTS; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SECOND PHASE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SHALLOW MARINE; STACKING PATTERNS; SYNDEPOSITIONAL FAULTING; SYNDEPOSITIONAL FAULTS; THIRD-ORDER;

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

AGGRADATION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE PLATFORM; FAULTING; FRASNIAN; NORMAL FAULT; PROGRADATION; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CANNING BASIN; LENNARD SHELF; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 69649088148     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25461A.1     Document Type: Article

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