Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian PlateR. R. Hillis, R. D. Müller |
Contents
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Surfacewave studies of the Australian region | 25 |
Is the Australian Plate deforming? A space geodetic perspective | 41 |
In situ stress field of Australia | 49 |
Influences of plateboundary forces on the regional intraplate stress field of continental Australia | 59 |
Threedimensional finiteelement modelling of the tectonic stress field in continental Australia | 71 |
new insight into the Australian intraplate stress field | 91 |
Boomerang migratory intraplate Cenozoic volcanism eastern Australian rift margins and the IndianPacific mantle boundary | 203 |
implications for locating the boundary between continental and oceanic crust | 223 |
Resolving multiple rift phases by strainrate inversion in the Petrel Subbasin northwest Australia | 245 |
MesozoicCenozoic evolution of Australias New Guinea margin in a west Pacific context | 265 |
key field relationships demand a new model | 291 |
Sumba and its effect on Australias northwestern margin | 309 |
the AGCRC mapmaker OpenGIS and beyond | 319 |
an alternative transcurrentfault system | 333 |
linking the Quaternary faulting record with seismicity and in situ stress | 107 |
Crustal thickness patterns in the Australian continent | 121 |
their significance in mapping basement architecture | 129 |
Carpentaria Electrical Conductivity Anomaly Queensland as a major structure in the Australian Plate | 141 |
heat flow and heat production in Australian Proterozoic terranes | 157 |
Inferences on Australias heat flow and thermal structure from mantle convection modelling results | 169 |
Lithosphere structure and evolution in southeastern Australia | 185 |
Tectonic evolution of the southwest Pacific using constraints from backarc basins | 343 |
Mantle structure and tectonic evolution of the region north and east of Australia | 361 |
120 to 0 Ma tectonic evolution of the southwest Pacific and analogous geological evolution of the 600 to 220 Ma Tasman Fold Belt System | 383 |
Microcontinent formation around Australia | 405 |
Origin of the AustralianAntarctic Discordance from an ancient slab and mantle wedge | 417 |
Indexes | 431 |
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Alpine Fault anisotropy Australian continent Australian margin Australian Plate Australian-Antarctic Discordance basalts basement beneath Block Caledonia Cenozoic collision continental crust continental margin cratonic Cretaceous datasets deformation Earth and Planetary east eastern Australia evolution Figure Fiji Basin Finisterre Volcanics focal mechanisms Fold Belt Formation garnet Geological Society Geophysical Research Geoscience Australia geotherm gravity heat flow Hilst horizontal Indo-Australian Plate interpreted intraplate inversion Journal of Geophysical Kennett km depth lithosphere Lord Howe Rise Loyalty Basin magmatism magnetic anomalies magnetotelluric Miocene Moho Müller northern observed oceanic crust ophiolite Pacific Plate Papua New Guinea passive margin Petrel Sub-basin plate boundary plate motion Plateau Pliocene plume Proterozoic Queensland region Ridge rift rocks sedimentary seismic slab Society of Australia southern strain rate stress field stress orientations strike-slip structure subduction zone Sumba Tasman Line Tasman Sea tectonic Tectonophysics terranes thermal tion tomography Trench upper mantle variations velocity wave western Zealand
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