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Temporal development of the Atherton Basalt Province, north Queensland

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Authors

Whitehead, P W

Stephenson, P J

McDougall, Ian

Hopkins, M S

Graham, Alister

Collerson, Kenneth

Johnson, D P

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

The Atherton Basalt Province is centred on the Atherton Tableland, ∼km southwest of Cairns in north Queensland. Forty-eight K-Ar age determinations and four U/Th analyses from these basalts provide information on the distribution of the volcanics over t

Keywords

Keywords: basalt; Cenozoic; cinder cone; lava flow; partial melting; potassium-argon dating; radiocarbon dating; shield volcano; subduction; upper mantle; uranium series dating; volcanic eruption; volcanism; volcanology; Atherton Tableland; Australasia; Australia; Atherton Basalt Province; Basalt; Cenozoic; Potassium-argon dating; Queensland; Uranium-thorium dating; Volcanology

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/39804

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1080/08120090701305236

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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