Arc-continent collision and orogenesis in western Tasmanides: Insights from reactivated basement structures and formation of an ocean-continent transform boundary off western Tasmania

Gondwana Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 608-627

  Gibson, G M ^a   Morse, M P ^a   Ireland, T R ^b   Nayak, G K ^a  

^a GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arc continent collision; Basement terranes; Delamerian Ross orogen; Detrital zircon ages; Ocean continent transform boundary; Structural inheritance

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; GONDWANA; OROGENY; PASSIVE MARGIN; RIFTING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 79952070467     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2010.11.020     Document Type: Article

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