Basin geometry and salt diapirs in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia: Insights gained from geologically-constrained modelling of potential field data

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 650-665

  Backé, Guillaume ^a   Baines, Graham ^a   Giles, David ^a   Preiss, Wolfgang ^b   Alesci, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Government of South Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compression; Extension; Forward modelling; Inversion; Potential field; Salt tectonics; South Australia

Indexed keywords

ADELAIDE; AUSTRALIA; BASEMENT STRUCTURES; BEST FIT; BOUGUER ANOMALY; CAMBRIANS; DATA SETS; DRILL HOLE; EVAPORITES; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; FORWARD MODELLING; FORWARD MODELS; MAGNETIC INTENSITIES; MOBILISATION; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NORMAL FAULTS; ORDOVICIAN; PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POTENTIAL FIELD; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SALT TECTONICS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; SPECIFIC GRAVITY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS;

BUILDINGS; DEFORMATION; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; COMPRESSION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; DELAMERIAN OROGENY; DIAPIR; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; INVERSION TECTONICS; NORMAL FAULT; POTENTIAL FIELD; SALT TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

AUSTRALIA; FLINDERS RANGE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77549083377     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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