Re-evaluation of the Mentelle Basin, a polyphase rifted margin basin, offshore southwest Australia: New insights from integrated regional seismic datasets

Solid Earth

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 107-123

  Maloney, D ^a   Sargent, C ^a   Direen, N G ^b,c   Hobbs, R W ^a   Grocke D R ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c FrOG Tech Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA; BASEMENT FAULTS; CARBONATE BUILD-UP; DATA SETS; EARLY CRETACEOUS; FEEDER SYSTEM; HIGH QUALITY; HOT SPOT; INTERNAL GEOMETRY; JURASSIC; MADAGASCAR; MARINE SEDIMENTS; RE-EVALUATION; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC REFLECTION SURVEY; SEISMIC SURVEYS; SHALLOW MARINE; SOUTHWEST AUSTRALIA; THERMAL CONTRACTION; TURONIAN; VOLCANIC EDIFICE; WATER DEPTH;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; VOLCANOES; SUBSIDENCE;

SUBSIDENCE; DEPOSITION;

BASIN ANALYSIS; BOREHOLE; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; DEPOSITION; MARGINAL BASIN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; UNCONFORMITY;

AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN; MENTELLE BASIN; WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MARGIN;

EID: 82955247423     PISSN: 18699510     EISSN: 18699529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/se-2-107-2011     Document Type: Article

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