Mantle dynamics of continentwide cenozoic subsidence and tilting of Australia

Lithosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 311-316

  DiCaprio, Lydia ^a,d   Gurnis, Michael ^b   Müller, R Dietmar ^a   Tan, Eh ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS;

AUSTRALIA; CENOZOIC; GEODYNAMIC MODELS; HORIZONTAL MOTION; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE DYNAMICS; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

SUBSIDENCE;

CENOZOIC; FLOOD; MANTLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE TECTONICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SLAB; SUBSIDENCE; TILT;

AUSTRALIA; MELANESIA;

EID: 81255177775     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L140.1     Document Type: Article

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