120 to 0 Ma tectonic evolution of the southwest Pacific and analogous geological evolution of the 600 to 220 Ma Tasman Fold Belt System

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 372, Issue , 2003, Pages 383-403

  Crawford, A J ^a   Meffre, S ^a   Symonds, P A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Geosclence Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Lachlan Fold Belt; Southwest Pacific; Subduction; Tasman Fold Belt; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

LOCKS (FASTENERS); TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

AUSTRALIA; FOLD BELTS; LACHLAN FOLD BELTS; SOUTHWEST PACIFIC; SUBDUCTION;

GEODYNAMICS;

ACCRETION; FOLD BELT; GEODYNAMICS; OCEANIC CRUST; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONICS;

AUSTRALIA; LACHLAN FOLD BELT; LORD HOWE RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 84871446913     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2372-8.383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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