Australian Cretaceous shorelines, stage by stage

Frakes, Lawrence A.; Burger, D.; Apthorpe, M.; Wiseman, J.; Dettmann, Mary E.; Alley, N. F.; Flint, R. B.; Gravestock, David; Ludbrook, N H; Backhouse, John; Skwarko, S. K.; Scheibnerova, Viera; McMinn, Andrew; Moore, P. S.; Bolton, Barrie R.; Douglas, John E.; Christ, Roberto; Wade, M. R.; Molnar, Ralph E.; McGowran, Brian; Balme, B. E.; Day, Ronald A.

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“…The very old paleosurfaces from various parts of Australia evidence significant events in Earth's history. At the western margins of the Eromanga Basin, some of the adjacent land areas were, in later Mesozoic times, covered by the seas (e.g., Jack 1931;Frakes 1988). During these marine transgressions, as evidenced in the Gawler, MacDonnell, and Flinders Ranges, adjacent land areas were stripped of the weathered mantles accumulated during prolonged earlier periods of weathering and erosion, by rivers flowing to the Cretaceous shorelines.…”

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“…Exhumed landscapes ranging in age from Late Archean to Middle Pleistocene have been recognized in Australia where, because of the extent of Cretaceous marine transgressions (Frakes 1988;Reyment 1989), sub-Cretaceous surfaces are commonplace and extensive. Resurrected surfaces of similar age and type have been recognized from many other parts of the world, including southern Sweden (Lidmar-Bergströ m 1989) and the famous inselberg landscapes described by Bornhardt (1900) from east Africa (Willis 1936).…”

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Early Mesozoic (?Triassic) Landscapes in Australia: Evidence, Argument, and Implications

Twidale¹

2000

The Journal of Geology

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A B S T R A C TAustralia has strong claims to be known as the old continent. In addition to landscapes of later Cretaceous-early Tertiary derivation, remnants of early Mesozoic (Triassic-Jurassic) surfaces, which are part of the contemporary landscape, are also recognized. Being of etch type, they have two ages: one referring to the period of preparation by subsurface weathering and the other to their date of exposure. In many instances, exposure can be dated and the period of preparatory weathering closely inferred. Such old paleosurfaces are demonstrated on Kangaroo Island and are strongly implied in, for example, the Flinders, Gawler, and MacDonnell Ranges; in Arnhem Land and the Arcoona Plateaus; in many parts of the Eastern Uplands; and on several bornhardts in the Yilgarn and Gawler Cratons. They reinforce the suggestion that once in positive relief and shedding water, surfaces persist with little change for long periods. Such ancient features are incompatible with several well-known models of landscape evolution. The chronologies and events they imply extend our understanding of the landscape in the chronological context. They add to our knowledge of Earth's history.

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Early Mesozoic (?Triassic) Landscapes in Australia: Evidence, Argument, and Implications

Twidale¹

2000

The Journal of Geology

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“…The deposits resulting from this incursion occur in the great intracratonic basins that cover vast areas of Australia and extend north to the Papuan Basin of New Guinea and west over the North West Shelf and the Exmouth and Naturaliste submarine plateaus (Frakes et al, 1987;Fig. 1).…”

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Aptian-Albian Foraminifers from Site 766, Cuvier Abyssal Plain, and Comparison with Coeval Faunas from the Australian Region

Haig¹

1992

Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program

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“…Part of this drainage network predates the Cretaceous, especially on the Yilgarn Craton (de Broekert and Sandiford, 2005). Most of the drainage was laid out during the emergence of the CanningOfficer basin ~ 110 Ma ago (Frakes et al, 1987). Protracted slow uplift within a context of large amplitude eustatic sea level variations subsequently drove incision of this drainage within the underlying sediments and basement rocks.…”

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