Computer Science
Scientific paper
Apr 1982
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982e%26psl..58..151c&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 58, Issue 2, p. 151-160.
Computer Science
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Scientific paper
We propose that magnetic anomalies south of Australia and along the conjugate margin of Antarctica that were originally identified as anomalies 19 to 22 may be anomalies 20 to 34. The original anomaly identification has two troublesome aspects: (1) it does not account for an ``extra'' anomaly between anomalies 20 and 21, and (2) it provides no explanation for the rough topography comprising the Diamantina Zone. With our revised identification there is no ``extra'' anomaly and the Diamantina Zone is attributed to a period of very slow spreading (~4.5 mm/yr half rate) between 90 and 43 m.y. The ages bounding the interval of slow spreading (90 and 43 m.y.) correspond to times of global plate reorganizations. Our revised identification opens up the possibility that part of the magnetic quiet zone south of Australia formed during the Cretaceous long normal polarity interval. Breakup of Australia and Antarctica probably occurred sometime between 110 and 90 m.y. B.P. The ``breakup unconformity'' identified by Falvey in the Otway Basin may correspond to a eustastic sea level change.
Cande Steven C.
Mutter John C.
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