Fission track reconnaissance of the thermal and tectonic settings of the South Tasman rise

We present and discuss a few fission track data, and microstructural observations, from rock samples dredged along the western and southwestern continental margin of Tasmania. The results allow assessing the thermal and tectonic regimes that were active prior to and during the margin creation. The d...

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Veröffentlicht in:Comptes rendus. Geoscience 2002-01, Vol.334 (1), p.59-66
Hauptverfasser: Selo, M, Benkhelil, J, Mascle, J, Storzer, D, Exon, N
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Zusammenfassung:We present and discuss a few fission track data, and microstructural observations, from rock samples dredged along the western and southwestern continental margin of Tasmania. The results allow assessing the thermal and tectonic regimes that were active prior to and during the margin creation. The different ages, as provided by fission tracks, and deformational styles, as evidenced from microstructures, are then tentatively correlated with the two main rifting episodes, in Late Jurassic-Cretaceous times and Eocene-Oligocene respectively, deduced from kinematical reconstructions, that have led to the present- day southern margin of Tasmania.Original Abstract: Des resultats d'une analyse traces de fission et d'une etude microstructurale effectuees sur quelques echantillons de dragages au long de la marge continentale dans l'Ouest et le Sud de la Tasmanie (Australie) permettent de preciser certains aspects de l'histoire thermique et tectonique de la region. Ces contraintes geologiques sont en bon accord avec l'evolution de cette region du Gondwana meridional, telle qu'elle est deduite de donnees de geophysique marine ; ces dernieres prennent en compte, apres des evenements paleozoiques, deux periodes successives de rifting, d'ages respectivement Jurassique superieur-Cretace inferieur et Eocene-Oligocene, dont la seconde est a caractere transformant, avant la separation finale de l'Australie et de l'Antarctique, au debut du Miocene.
ISSN:1631-0713