Tracking the Australian plate motion through the Cenozoic: Constraints from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology

Tectonics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1371-1383

  Cohen, Benjamin E ^a,b   Knesel, Kurt M ^a   Vasconcelos, Paulo M ^a   Schellart, Wouter P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

collision; New Caledonia; New Guinea; slab tear

Indexed keywords

ANALOGUE MODELS; COLLISION; NEW CALEDONIA; NEW GUINEA; POTENTIAL MECHANISM; SLAB TEAR; TECTONIC EVENTS; THERMO-MECHANICAL;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

VELOCITY;

ARGON ISOTOPE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; AUSTRALIAN PLATE; CENOZOIC; COLLISION ZONE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SLAB; TRACKING;

NEW GUINEA; ONTONG JAVA PLATEAU; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84884869919     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tect.20084     Document Type: Article

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