
TY  - JOUR
A1  - M. Saqab, Muhammad 
A1  - Bourget, Julien 
T1  - Neogene oblique extensional system in the north-western Bonaparte Basin, Australia
JF  - ASEG Extended Abstracts
JO  - ASEG Extended Abstracts
Y1  - 2015
VL  - 2015
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 3
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/ASEG2015AB222 
N2  - The North-western Bonaparte Basin offers a very good opportunity to understand the nature of oblique extension system, where Neogene flexure-induced extension was superimposed obliquely to the Mesozoic rift-related structures. The Mesozoic trends strongly control the distribution and style of the younger Neogene structures, both at regional and local scale. The younger Neogene activity produced a new set of NE trending, right-stepping en echelon faults and reactivated the older faults. In addition, episodes of stratigraphic growth provide critical evidence regarding the timing of fault activity. Results demonstrate that, in the study area, main fault activity occurred in several pulses during the latest Miocene to Late Pleistocene. These episodes of fault activity correspond to recently constrained regional tectonic events i.e., the initial collision of the Australian Plate with the Banda Arc, the episodes of uplift of the Timor Island and the timing of lithospheric flexure. 
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