Anomalous tectonic subsidence of the Southern Australian passive margin: response to Cretaceous dynamic topography or differential lithospheric stretching?  

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Brown, B.J. | Mueller, R.D. | Struckmeyer, H.I.M.

Abstract

The southern Australian margin is unique as it is the only known passive margin that formed over and orthogonal to a Mesozoic subducted slab in the mantle. The tectonic subsidence pattern observed along the southern Australian margin primarily reflects the extensional processes that were associated with the development of the divergent continental margins of Australia and Antarctica, coupled with Cretaceous mantle dynamics and the influence of intra-plate stress on the Australian plate in the Late Tertiary.

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• continental margins

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2001-01-01T00:00:00

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[-39.0, -31.0, 115.0, 145.0]

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