| Description |
xi, 388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
1. General -- 2. Time scale -- 3. Australia in Pangea & Gondwanaland -- 4. Paleomagnetism, apparent polar-wander path and paleolatitude -- 5. Seafloor spreading around Australia -- 6. Morphotectonics of the convergent northern margin --7. Morphotectonics of the divergent margins -- 8. Australian-Antarctic depression -- 9. Quaternary Australia: extremes in the last glacial-interglacial cycle -- 10. Present tectonic state -- 11. Crust & lithosphere from seismic observations -- 12. Lithospheric structure from mantle xenoliths -- 13. Indian & Pacific morb-type mantle beneath Australia: relevance to large-scale convection -- 14. Heat flow -- 15. Quantitative estimates of the vertical motions of the Australian platform since the Jurassic -- 16. Mid-Cretaceous (99Ma) & Mid-Eocene (43 Ma) events in the Indo-Australian & Antarctic plates and coeval swerves of the Pacific plate -- 17. Antarctic Beardmore-Ross and Mirny Provenances saturate Paleozoic-Mesozoic East Gondwanaland with 0.6-0.5 Ga zircons -- 18. Neoproterozoic Australia -- 19. Tasman fold belt system -- 20. Permian-Triassic Pangean Basins and fold belts along the Panthalassan margin of eastern Australia -- 21. Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic Australia and neighbours in Gondwanaland -- 22. Impact on Australia and Antarctica of the collisional merging of Gondwanaland and Laurussia in Pangea -- 23. Permian-Triassic Pangean Basins and foldbelts along the Panthalassan margin of Gondwanaland -- 24. Australia's neighbours in Gondwanaland along the Tethyan margin -- 25. Tectonics of Pangea(s), Gonwanaland and Laurussia -- 26. Synopsis of momentous events in Australia's billion-year-history -- Appendix 1. Tasmanian terranes -- Appendix 2. West Antarctic and New Zealand terranes |
| Summary |
Has an accompanying pictorial primer: Atlas of billion-year earth history of Australia and neighbours in Gondwanaland / J.J. Veevers (2001), with emphasis on the global and supercontinental aspects and the Neoproterozopic-Phanerozoic paleography of Australia."--Pref |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references ( pages 356-379) |
| Subject |
Geology, Stratigraphic.
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Plate tectonics -- Australia.
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Geology, Stratigraphic -- Australia.
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Geology -- Australia.
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Historical geology.
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| SUBJECT |
Gondwana (Continent) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85055849
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Veevers, J. J.
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ARC National Key Centre for Geochemical Evolution and Metallogeny of Continents
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| LC no. |
2001535892 |
| ISBN |
1876315040 paperback |
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