Long-wavelength tilting of the Australian continent since the Late Cretaceous

• Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Main Authors: DiCaprio, Lydia, Gurnis, Michael, Müller, R. Dietmar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2009
• Subjects: Antarctic; Australian-Antarctic Discordance; Tilting; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/14454/; https://authors.library.caltech.edu/14454/2/DiCaprio2009p1020Earth_Planet_Sc_Lett_supp1.doc; https://authors.library.caltech.edu/14454/3/DiCaprio2009p1020Earth_Planet_Sc_Lett_supp2.pdf; https://authors.library.caltech.edu/14454/4/DiCaprio2009p1020Earth_Planet_Sc_Lett_supp3.pdf; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20090629-112818624

Global sea level and the pattern of marine inundation on the Australian continent are inconsistent. We quantify this inconsistency and show that it is partly due to a long wavelength, anomalous, downward tilting of the continent to the northeast by 300 m since the Eocene. This downward tilting occur...