Continental arc volcanism as the principal driver of icehouse-greenhouse variability

NR McKenzie, BK Horton, SE Loomis, DF Stockli… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Variations in continental volcanic arc emissions have the potential to control atmospheric
carbon dioxide (CO2) levels and climate change on multimillion-year time scales. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Controls on shelf-margin architecture and sediment partitioning on the Hammerhead shelf margin (Bight Basin, southern Australia): Implications for …

JW Shepherd, SC Lang, V Paumard, AD George… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the stratigraphic architecture of shelf-margin clinoforms is key to determining
how sediments are transferred to deep-water settings and how the interplay of tectonics …

Quantifying the link between the detrital zircon record and tectonic settings

D Jian, SE Williams, S Yu… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Full‐plate reconstructions describe the history of past continental motions and how plate
boundaries have evolved to accommodate these motions. Traditionally, tectonic …

Post-breakup burial and exhumation of passive continental margins: Seven propositions to inform geodynamic models

PF Green, P Japsen, JA Chalmers, JM Bonow… - Gondwana …, 2018 - Elsevier
Despite many years of study, the processes involved in the post-breakup development of
passive margins remain poorly understood. Integration of apatite fission track analysis …

Formation of Australian continental margin highlands driven by plate–mantle interaction

RD Müller, N Flament, KJ Matthews, SE Williams… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Passive margin highlands occur on most continents on Earth and play a critical role in the
cycle of weathering, erosion, and atmospheric circulation. Yet, in contrast to the well …

Late Cretaceous stratigraphy and paleoceanographic evolution in the Great Australian Bight Basin based on results from IODP Site U1512

KG MacLeod, LT White, CC Wainman, M Martinez… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Upper Cretaceous sedimentary sequence at International Ocean Discovery
Program Site U1512 in the Ceduna Sub-basin of the Great Australian Bight represents a …

Large igneous province or long-lived magmatic arc along the eastern margin of Australia during the Cretaceous? Insights from the sedimentary record

RT Tucker, EM Roberts, RA Henderson… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
U-Pb geochronology and Lu-Hf isotope analysis of detrital zircon from the mid-Cretaceous
Winton and Mackunda Formations in the Eromanga Basin were employed to investigate …

Cenozoic deformation in the Otway Basin, southern Australian margin: Implications for the origin and nature of post‐breakup compression at rifted margins

SP Holford, AK Tuitt, RR Hillis, PF Green, MS Stoker… - Basin …, 2014 - earthdoc.org
There is growing recognition that pulses of compressive tectonic structuring punctuate the
post‐breakup subsidence histories of many 'passive'rifted continental margins. To obtain …

Thin-section detrital zircon geochronology mitigates bias in provenance investigations

IC Zutterkirch, CL Kirkland, M Barham… - Journal of the …, 2022 - lyellcollection.org
Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology has enabled advances in the understanding of
sediment provenance, transportation pathways, and the depositional age of sedimentary …

Opalisation of the Great Artesian Basin (central Australia): an Australian story with a Martian twist

PF Rey - Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This paper exposes the unique set of attributes explaining why precious opal has formed in
such abundance in central Australia, and almost nowhere else on Earth. The Early …