Multi-scale integrated structural and aeromagnetic analysis to guide tectonic models: An example from the eastern Musgrave Province, Central Australia

Tectonophysics

Volumn 476, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 418-435

  Aitken, Alan R A ^a   Betts, Peter G ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

3D magnetic inversion; Aeromagnetic interpretation; Structural geology; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

3D MAGNETIC INVERSION; AEROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS; AEROMAGNETIC DATA; AEROMAGNETIC INTERPRETATION; AUSTRALIA; CO-LOCATED; CONSTRAINED MODELS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; HIGH CONFIDENCE; HIGH RESOLUTION; INVERSION MODELS; LITHOSPHERIC; MULTISCALES; PRECAMBRIAN; REGIONAL STRUCTURE; SHEAR ZONE; STRUCTURAL ARCHITECTURE; STRUCTURAL MAPPING; STRUCTURAL TRENDS; TECTONIC EVENTS; TECTONIC HISTORY; TECTONIC MODELS; VARIABLE ORIENTATION;

DEFORMATION; INTEGRATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA INVERSION; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENY; OUTCROP; SHEAR ZONE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MUSGRAVE RANGES;

EID: 70349780408     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.07.007     Document Type: Article

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