Cenozoic Eucla Basin and associated palaeovalleys, southern Australia - Climatic and tectonic influences on landscape evolution, sedimentation and heavy mineral accumulation

• Published in: Sedimentary Geology
• Main Authors: Hou, B., Frakes, L., Sandiford, M., Worrall, L., Keeling, J., Alley, N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Science BV 2008
• Subjects: Eucla Basin; Palaeovalleys; Heavy minerals; Landscape evolution; Southern Australia; Southern Ocean; Tilting
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/51437; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.11.005

The Eucla Basin including the vast Nullarbor Plain lies on the margins of the Yilgarn, Musgrave and Gawler cratons in southern Australia and owes its distinctive landscape to a unique set of interactions between eustatic, climatic and tectonic processes over the last ~ 50 Ma. Understanding of the hi...