The architecture, kinematics, and lithospheric processes of a compressional intraplate orogen occurring under Gondwana assembly: The Petermann orogeny, central Australia

Lithosphere

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 343-357

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

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRAVITATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

GRAVITY INVERSIONS; LATERAL EXTRUSION; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LITHOSPHERIC PROCESS; STRAIN ACCOMMODATIONS; STRAIN PARTITIONING; THERMAL HETEROGENEITY; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

KINEMATICS;

AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DISEQUILIBRIUM; GONDWANA; GRAVITY FIELD; HETEROGENEITY; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; ISOSTASY; KINEMATICS; LITHOSPHERE; LOWER CRUST; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENY; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC WEDGE; THRUST;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77955817336     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L39.1     Document Type: Article

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