Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

Plate Tectonics

Accretionary Prism 
Australian Proterozoic Evolution - Palaeomagnetic Constraints
Earthquake Distribution
India Moving North
Mid-Ocean Islands
Oceanic Crust-Origins
Ocean Trenches
The Global Mid-Ocean Ridge System
Precambrian Heat Flow
Precambrian Tectonics
Propagating Rifts and Microcoplates
Recycling and mountain uplift
Continental Rifts & Rifted Margins
Narrow Rifts - General Characteristics
Subduction Zones - Structure
Subduction Zones - Variation of Characteristics
Terranes
Transform and strike-Slip Faults-Continental
Triple Junction Stability

Sources & Further reading

  1. Kearey, Philip, Klepeis, Keith A. & Vine, Frederick J., 2009, Global Tectonics, 3rd Edition, Wiley-Blackwell.
  2. Stow, Dorrik, 2010, Vanished Ocean; How Tethys Reshaped the World, Oxford University Press.
Author: M. H. Monroe
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Last Updated 10/05/2012

 

 

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