Antarctica—before and after Gondwana

SD Boger - Gondwana Research, 2011 - Elsevier
The origin of the Antarctic continent can be traced to a relatively small late Archaean cratonic
nucleus centred on the Terre Adélie regions of East Antarctica and the Gawler Craton region …

Sediment-hosted lead-zinc deposits in Earth history

DL Leach, DC Bradley, D Huston… - Economic …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Sediment-hosted Pb-Zn deposits can be divided into two major subtypes. The first
subtype is clastic-dominated lead-zinc (CD Pb-Zn) ores, which are hosted in shale …

Basin architecture and evolution in the Mount Isa mineral province, northern Australia: Constraints from deep seismic reflection profiling and implications for ore …

GM Gibson, AJ Meixner, IW Withnall, RJ Korsch… - Ore Geology …, 2016 - Elsevier
Deep seismic reflection profiling confirms that the Paleo-to Mesoproterozoic Mount Isa
mineral province comprises three vertically stacked and partially inverted sedimentary …

Assembling Australia: Proterozoic building of a continent

PA Cawood, RJ Korsch - Precambrian Research, 2008 - Elsevier
The western two-thirds of Australia is underlain by Precambrian rocks that are divisible into
three Archean to Paleoproterozoic cratons, the West Australian, North Australian and South …

The 1800–1100 Ma tectonic evolution of Australia

PG Betts, D Giles - Precambrian Research, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper presents a plate tectonic model for the evolution of the Australian continent
between ca. 1800 and 1100Ma. Between ca. 1800 and 1600Ma episodic orogenesis …

Australia and nuna

PG Betts, RJ Armit, J Stewart, ARA Aitken, L Ailleres… - 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Australian continent records c. 1860–1800 Ma orogenesis associated with rapid
accretion of several ribbon micro-continents along the southern and eastern margins of the …

Correlations and reconstruction models for the 2500–1500 Ma evolution of the Mawson Continent

JL Payne, M Hand, KM Barovich, A Reid, DAD Evans - 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Continental lithosphere formed and reworked during the Palaeoproterozoic era is a major
component of pre-1070 Ma Australia and the East Antarctic Shield. Within this lithosphere …

Proterozoic low orbital obliquity and axial-dipolar geomagnetic field from evaporite palaeolatitudes

DAD Evans - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Palaeomagnetism of climatically sensitive sedimentary rock types, such as glacial deposits
and evaporites, can test the uniformitarianism of ancient geomagnetic fields and …

The australo-antarctic columbia to gondwana transition

ARA Aitken, PG Betts, DA Young, DD Blankenship… - Gondwana …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract From the Mesoproterozoic to Cambrian, Australo-Antarctica was characterised by
tectonic reconfiguration as part of the supercontinents Columbia, Rodinia and Gondwana …

Archaean and Proterozoic crustal evolution in the Eastern Succession of the Mt Isa district, Australia: U–Pb and Hf-isotope studies of detrital zircons

WL Griffin, EA Belousova, SG Walters… - Australian Journal of …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Over 500 zircon grains separated from modern sediments in 10 drainages covering the
Eastern Succession of the Mt Isa Inlier have been analysed for U–Pb ages, Hf isotopes, and …