Elastic flexure and distributed deformation along Australia's North West Shelf: Neogene tectonics of the Bonaparte and Browse basins

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 306, Issue , 2008, Pages 185-200

  Keep, Myra ^a   Harrowfield, Mathew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b WOODSIDE ENERGY LTD   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BASIN EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAULTING; FLEXURE; NEOGENE; RIFTING; RUPTURE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

AUSTRALIAN NORTHWEST SHELF; BANDA ARC; BONAPARTE BASIN; INDIAN OCEAN; INDONESIAN SEAS; PACIFIC OCEAN; TIMOR SEA;

EID: 72049095354     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP306.9     Document Type: Article

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