Australian island arcs through time: geodynamic implications in the Archean and Proterozoic  

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Korsch, R.J. | Kositcin, N. | Champion, D.C.

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Beginning in the Archean, the continent of Australia evolved to its present configuration through the accretion and assembly of several smaller continental blocks and terranes at its margins. Australia usually grew by convergent plate margin processes, such as arc-continent collision, continent-continent collision or through accretionary processes at subduction zones. The accretion of several island arcs to the Australian continent, through arc-continent collisions, played an important role in this process, and the geodynamic implications of some Archean and Proterozoic island arcs recognised in Australia will be discussed here.

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• geodynamics

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• geochemistry

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• geochronology

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2010-01-29T00:00:00

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