Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

Plate Tectonics

Accretionary Prism 
 
Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia – Transformation of the Margin of a Craton from the Archaean During Formation of a Basin and Magmatism in the Proterozoic
Alaska Subduction Zone – Tsunamic Structures in a Creeping Section
Australian Proterozoic Evolution - Palaeomagnetic Constraints
Australian Tectonic and Metallogenic Evolution - A Summery Pt.1
Australian Tectonic and Metallogenic Evolution - A Summery Pt.2
Australian Tectonic and Metallogenic Evolution - A Summery Pt.3
The Earliest Evolved Crust on Earth Generated in Setting like Iceland
Continent Growth Linked to 2-step Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen
Basal Drag from Convecting Mantle Shifted the Cratonic Root Beneath North America
Earthquake Distribution
Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal – Slip Pulse and Resonance of the Kathmandu Basin during the 2015 event
Earliest Earth – Minimum Melting Conditions Revealed by Zircon Thermometer  
Earthquake Nias-Simeuline – Deformation and Slip along the Sunda Megathrust 2015
India Moving North
Himalayan Thrust Fault – Main Thrust Fault Unzipped by Gorkha Earthquake of 2015  
Faults - Anderson's Faulting Theory
Faults that Slip Slowly - an Unrecognized Danger
Faults - Normal
Faults - Plate Tectonics
Faults - Strike-Slip
Faults - Thrust and Reverse
Main Himalayan Thrust – Rate of Convergence Across the Nepal Himalaya and Interseismic Coupling on the MHT, implications for Seismic Hazard
Megathrust Linked to Active Subduction Beneath the Indo-Burman Ranges
Most Large Interplate Earthquakes Have a Long Precursory Phase
Mantle Plume Head - Influence on Dynamics of Retreating Subduction Zone
Mantle Plumes – the Persistent Myth
Mid-Ocean Islands
Mid-Ocean Ridges – Small Scale Convection and Plate Motion Control Mixing
High Mantle Temperatures after Rifting Resulting from Continental Insulation
Ninetyeast Ridge - active faulting relation to Indo-Australian Plate Deformation
North Australian Craton – Reworking in the Grenvillian of late Palaeoproterozoic Crust of the Southern NAC, Central Australia, Implications for the Assembly of Australia in the Mesoproterozoic
Older and Hotter Mantle - Geodynamics of the Mantle
Oceanic Crust-Origins
Oceanic Crustal Thickness Decrease After Breakup of Pangaea
Ocean Trenches
The Global Mid-Ocean Ridge System
Pangaea - A Proposed Formation
Plate Motion Velocities – Palaeomagnetic Evidence for Modern-Like Velocities at 3.2 Ga
Plate Tectonics – A Supercontinental Boost
Precambrian Heat Flow
Precambrian Tectonics
Propagating Rifts and Microplates
Recycling and mountain uplift
Continental Rifts & Rifted Margins
Narrow Rifts - General Characteristics
Scraped by flat bed Subduction
Seafloor Grooves Record Sea Level Changes During Ice Ages
Siberia and Laurentia – Long-Lived Connection between Southern Siberia and Northern Laurentia in the Proterozoic
Slab Melting Beneath the Cascade Arc Driven by Dehydration of Altered Oceanic Peridotite
The Southwestern Indian Ridge - Continuous exhumation of rocks derived from the Mantle for 11 My
Subducted Crust Stored in the Mantle for Billions of Years
Subduction-Induced Mantle Flow Driving Yellowstone Plume Bifurcation
Subduction – A record of Spontaneous Initiation in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc
Subduction Zones - Structure
Subduction Zones - Variation of Characteristics
Superplumes – Structure of the Earth – Thermal and Compositional
Whither the Supercontinent Cycle
Tasman region and island biota evolution – tectonic context
Tectonism, Climate and Geomorphology
Terranes
Transform and strike-Slip Faults-Continental
Triple Junction Stability

Sources & Further reading

  1. Kearey, Philip, Klepeis, Keith A. & Vine, Frederick J., 2009, Global Tectonics, 3rd Edition, Wiley-Blackwell.
  2. Stow, Dorrik, 2010, Vanished Ocean; How Tethys Reshaped the World, Oxford University Press.
Author: M. H. Monroe
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04/05/2020

 

 
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