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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Part 5. Plate boundary evolution in the New Guinea region: Lineations in the Bismarck Sea

L.A. Tilbury

Bulletin of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists 6(3) 72 - 72
Published: 1975

Abstract

The Bismarck Sea is a complex tectonic region lying in a zone of interaction between the Pacific and Australian Plates. Several small crustal plates have been outlined in the region. Although the Bismarck Sea has a crustal thickness of about 20 km it appears to be oceanic in origin.

https://doi.org/10.1071/EG975072

© ASEG 1975

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