Mid-Carboniferous Centralian uplift linked by U-Pb zircon chronology to the onset of Australian glaciation and glacio-eustasy

• Published in: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Veevers, J. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Carboniferous; Centralian Superbasin; geochronology; glaciation; glacio-eustasy; Gondwanaland; uplift; NEW-ENGLAND OROGEN; EASTERN AUSTRALIA; TAMWORTH BELT; STRATIGRAPHY; BASIN; EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; ANTARCTICA; SEQUENCES; East Antarctica; Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/7b606345-858b-4933-9a82-fb8014b1bbc7; https://doi.org/10.1080/08120090902937431

In 1987 C. McA. Powell and J. J. Veevers postulated that the mid-Carboniferous uplift of the Centralian fold-and-thrust belt led to the growth of an ice sheet that covered much of Australia as it drifted from low to high latitudes. They presumed that the voluminous sediment shed from the final disru...