Pre-existing basement structure and its influence on continental rifting and fracture zone development along Australia's southern rifted margin

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 365-377

  Gibson, G M ^a   Totterdell, J M ^a   White, L T ^b   Mitchell, C H ^a   Stacey, A R ^a   Morse, M P ^a,b   Whitaker, A ^a  

^a GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT STRUCTURES; CONTINENTAL RIFTING; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL-SCALE STRUCTURE; EXTENSIONAL STRAIN; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; PLATE RECONSTRUCTION; STRUCTURAL TRENDS;

BUILDINGS; FLOORS; TECTONICS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

BASEMENT ROCK; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DELAMERIAN OROGENY; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT ZONE; FORMATION MECHANISM; FRACTURE ZONE; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLATE MOTION; RECONSTRUCTION; RIFTING; SHEAR ZONE;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84875025470     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs2012-040     Document Type: Article

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