Plate-driven extension and convergence along the East Gondwana active margin: Late Silurian-Middle Devonian tectonics of the Lachlan Fold Belt, Southeastern Australia

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 627-649

  Fergusson, C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contractional deformation; Convergence; Devonian; Extension; Lachlan fold belt; Plate tectonics; Silurian

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLISION ZONE; DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; FOLD BELT; PLATE TECTONICS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SILURIAN; SLAB; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

AUSTRALIA; LACHLAN FOLD BELT;

EID: 77954300369     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: 14400952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2010.494767     Document Type: Article

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