Paleoproterozoic-earliest Mesoproterozoic basin evolution in the Mount Isa region, northern Australia and implications for reconstructions of the Nuna and Rodinia supercontinents

Episodes

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 131-141

  Gibson, George M ^a   Henson, Paul A ^a   Neumann, Narelle L ^a   Southgate, Peter N ^a   Hutton, Laurie J ^b  

^a GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Geological Survey of Queensland   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL THINNING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; OROGENIC BELT; PLATE TECTONICS; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; RODINIA; SUPERCONTINENT; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; THOLEIITE; UNCONFORMITY;

AUSTRALIA; MOUNT ISA; QUEENSLAND;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84879205606     PISSN: 07053797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2012/v35i1/012     Document Type: Review

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