Post-orogenic thermotectonic history of the Mount Buffalo region, Lachlan Fold Belt, Australia: evidence for Mesozoic to Cenozoic wrench-fault reactivation?

• Published in: Tectonophysics Vol. 317; no. 1; pp. 1 - 26
• Main Authors: O'Sullivan, P.B, Belton, D.X, Orr, M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 15.02.2000
• Subjects: denudation; fission-track dating; reactivation; thermochronology; vertical movements; wrench faults; fission-track dating; thermochronology; reactivation; wrench faults; vertical movements; denudation

The Early Devonian Mount Buffalo granite is exposed today as an inselberg at the dissected western margin of the southeastern highlands of Victoria Australia. It dominates a block of deeply incised, Ordovician turbidites that appears structurally isolated from the surrounding highlands. By treating...