Formation and reactivation of the Cambrian Kanmantoo Trough, SE Australia: Implications for early Palaeozoic tectonics at eastern Gondwana's plate margin

From: Journal of the Geological Society | Date: May 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

T. FLOTTMANN1, P. HAINES 2, J. JAGO 2, P. JAMES1, A. BELPERIO 3,4 & J. GUM 2

Abstract: The Kanmantoo Group is a thick and largely metamorphosed sedimentary succession that filled an isolated arcuate Cambrian basin (Kanmantoo Trough) which formed within continental Gondwana. and now li es on the southern margin of the present Australian continent. Kanmantoo Group sediments unconformably overlie Neoproterozoic and older Cambrian rocks. We consider that the geometry of the southern part of this trough was influenced by strike-slip movement along an intra-continental tear fault. To the north, ...

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