Passive-margin prolonged volcanism, East Australian Plate: Outbursts, progressions, plate controls and suggested causes

• Published in: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Sutherland, FL, Graham, IT, Meffre, S, Zwingmann, H, Pogson, RE
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd. 2012
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Geology; Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology; Antarctic; Pacific; Indian; Queensland; Australian-Antarctic Discordance; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2012.688293; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/81409

Prolonged intraplate volcanism along the 4000 km-long East Australian margin for ca 100 Ma raises many genetic questions. Studies of the age-progressive pulses embedded in general basaltic activity have spawned a host of models. Zircon U-Pb dating of inland Queensland central volcanoes gives a stron...