Orogenesis without collision: Stabilizing the terra australis accretionary Orogen, Eastern Australia

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 2240-2255

  Cawood, P A ^a,b   Leitch, E C ^c   Merle, R E ^b,d   Nemchin, A A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC MAGMATISM; AUSTRALIA; COMPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL SCALE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; EASTERN AUSTRALIA; FORELAND BASIN; HIGH FIDELITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LITHOSPHERIC; LOW-PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; MAGMATIC ACTIVITY; MAGMATISMS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NEW ENGLAND; PERMIAN; PLATE KINEMATICS; SHORT PULSE; TERRA AUSTRALIS OROGEN; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METALS; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

DEFORMATION;

ACCRETION; COLLISION; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GONDWANA; KINEMATICS; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; PLUTONIC ROCK; PROTEROZOIC; VOLCANIC ROCK;

AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 80053077424     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30415.1     Document Type: Article

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