Mechanical behaviour of warm continental lithospheres Evolution of the Neoarchaeans and Paleoproterozoics cratons of Terre Adélie (East Antarctica) and Gawler (South Australia)

• Main Author: Duclaux, Guillaume
• Other Authors: Laboratoire Transferts Lithosphériques (LTL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Etienne, René-Pierre Ménot, IPEV, The Univeristy of Sydney
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2007
• Subjects: Neoarchaean; Paleoproterozoic; craton; polyphased tectonic; warm lithosphere; transpression; rheology; Terre Adélie; Antarctica; Gawler; Australia; Néoarchéen; Paléoprotérozoïque; tectonique polyphasée; lithosphère chaude; rhéologie; Antarctique; Australie; [SDU.STU.AG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Applied geology; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; East Antarctica; Terre-Adélie; Antarc*; Antarctique*
• Online Access: https://theses.hal.science/tel-00206311; https://theses.hal.science/tel-00206311/document; https://theses.hal.science/tel-00206311/file/TheseDuclaux-version_finale.pdf

The East Antarctic Shield is made of several geological domains amalgamated at about 530 Ma, during the Ross orogeny. All this domains but one recorded Grenvillian and Pan-African events : the Terre Adelie Craton. The Terre Adelie Craton and its northern extension, the Gawler Craton (in South Austra...