Evaluating upper versus lower crustal extension through structural reconstructions and subsidence analysis of basins adjacent to the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, eastern Papua New Guinea

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1800-1818

  Fitz, Guy ^a,b   Mann, Paul ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Hess Corporation Hess Tower ^*  (United States)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

2D'Entrecasteaux Islands; crustal extension; structural reconstruction; subsidence

Indexed keywords

DOMES; SEISMIC WAVES; SUBSIDENCE;

2D'ENTRECASTEAUX ISLANDS; ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; D'ENTRECASTEAUX ISLANDS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; LITHOSPHERIC EXTENSION; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; STRUCTURAL RECONSTRUCTION;

TECTONICS;

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; BASIN ANALYSIS; DOME; EXHUMATION; EXTENSION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOREARC BASIN; GNEISS; HANGING WALL; LOWER CRUST; MIGMATITE; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SUBDUCTION; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT; UPPER CRUST;

D'ENTRECASTEAUX ISLANDS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 84880806625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ggge.20123     Document Type: Article

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