Interactions between continental breakup dynamics and large-scale delta system evolution: Insights from the Cretaceous Ceduna delta system, Bight Basin, Southern Australian margin

Tectonics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Espurt, Nicolas ^a,b   Callot, Jean Paul ^a   Totterdell, Jennifer ^c   Struckmeyer, Heike ^c   Vially, Roland ^a  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c Petroleum and Marine Division Geoscience Australia ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEDIMENTATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA; BALANCED CROSS SECTIONS; BASIN EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP; DETACHMENT FAULT; GRAVITATIONAL SLIDING; KINEMATIC EVOLUTION; LARGE-SCALE DELTA; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LITHOSPHERIC; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; STRETCHING RATES; STRUCTURAL ARCHITECTURE; SUBCONTINENTAL MANTLE; SYSTEM EVOLUTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; UPPER PLATE;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; DELTA; DENUDATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; LITHOSPHERE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TECTONIC WEDGE;

INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN AUSTRALIAN MARGIN;

EID: 77957274148     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002447     Document Type: Article

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