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Isotopic test of a thermally driven intraplate orogenic model, Australia

Date

Authors

Camacho, A

Hensen, Bas

Armstrong, Richard

Publisher

Geological Society of America Inc

Abstract

A recently proposed model for intraplate orogenesis couples long-term self-heating of basement rocks by radioactive decay with thermal blanketing by overlying sedimentary deposits. This model has been tested in one of the type areas in central Australia,

Keywords

Keywords: Thermal blanketing; Geologic models; Radioactivity; Sedimentation; Geology; intraplate process; metamorphism; orogeny; provenance; tectonic evolution; thermal evolution; Australia Metamorphism; Provenance; Tectonics; Thermal disequilibrium

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/72194

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Geology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0887:ITOATD>2.0.CO;2