Full-fit, palinspastic reconstruction of the conjugate Australian-Antarctic margins

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Williams, Simon E ^a   Whittaker, Joanne M ^a   Müller, R Dietmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEFORMING PLATE; FRACTURE ZONE; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; MARGIN RESTORATION; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE SYSTEMS; POTENTIAL FIELD; QUALITATIVE ESTIMATES; REGIONAL SCALE; RIGID PLATE; TRANSFORM MARGIN;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; FAULT GEOMETRY; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PLATE BOUNDARY; RIFTING; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84055191520     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC002912     Document Type: Article

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