Basement Tectonics 9 : Australia and Other Regions Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Basement Tectonics, Held in Canberra, Australia, July 1990

The Ninth International Conference on Basement Tectonics was held at the Australian National University in Canberra 2-6 July 1990. The opening keynote address was given by Prof. R.W.R. Rutland, Director of the Bureau of Mineral Resources. Other keynote speakers were E.S.T. O'Driscoll, an Australian consultant, and Prof P. Bankwitz, Central Institute for Physics of the Earth, Potsdam, GDR. Technical sessions were arranged by session conveners on the following five topic- i) The structure of the Australian craton and cover basins; ii) Basement structure of continental regions; iii) Structural patterns and mineral deposits; iv) Techniques for analysing basement structures; v) Structural patterns in oceanic crust. The arrangement of papers for this Proceedings Volume has been simplified. Part 1 deals with Australia, Part 2 with other areas and Part 3 lists the titles of all the papers read at the conference. Abstracts of these papers are available in Geological Society of Australia Abstracts No 26 and may be purchased for $AI0 from the Geological Society of Australia Office, ANA House, 301 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000. Field trips to view aspects of the Lachlan Fold Belt and the Sydney Basin were assisted by H.J. Harrington, D. Branagan, D. Wyborn, B. Drummond and M.J. Rick~d. A longer field trip, aborted through low enrolments, was organized by H.J. Harrington with assistance from W. Preiss, N. Cook, R. Glenn, A. Grady, and P. James; this assistance is gratefully acknowledged. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Basement Tectonics in Australia: An Introductory Perspective....Pages 3-21 Fault Patterns During Normal and Oblique Rifting and the Influence of Basement Discontinuities: Application to Models for the Tectonic Evolution of the Perth Basin, Western Australia....Pages 23-42 The Pine Creek Shear Zone, North of Pine Creek (Northern Territory): Structural Evolution and Experimental Studies....Pages 43-53 Basement and Cover Thrust Tectonics in Central Australia Based on the Arunta-Amadeus Seismic-Reflection Profile....Pages 55-84 Geometry of Permian to Mesozoic Sedimentary Basins in Eastern Australia and their Relationship to the New England Orogen....Pages 85-108 Factors Affecting the Acquisition of Structural Data from Remotely-Sensed Images of Eastern Australia....Pages 109-121 Elusive Trails in the Basement Labyrinth....Pages 123-148 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 Analytical Study of Geologic Structure in the Cover Sediments By Virtual Basement Displacement Method....Pages 151-160 Geochemical Evolution and Basement Tectonism of the Arabian-Nubian Dome....Pages 161-168 Basement Tectonics of Saudi Arabia as Related to Oil Field Structures....Pages 169-193 An E-W Transect Section through Central Iraq....Pages 195-200 Conjugate Basement Rift Zones in Kansas, Midcontinent, USA....Pages 201-210 The Sierra Alta de San Luis a Case of Regmagenic Control of Gold Mineralization....Pages 211-222 Tar Pavement Rift - Transform Tectonic Model and some Examples in Nature....Pages 223-231 North-South Lineaments In The British Isles: A 1500myr Record of Reactivation....Pages 233-246 Basement-Cover Relationships in Orogenic Belts....Pages 247-254 Back Matter....Pages 255-259 The Proceedings of the Ninth International Basement Tectonics Symposium form an interesting and useful series of publications dealing with various aspects of intraplate tectonics. These conferences are generally held alternately in the United States and elsewhere (Cairo, Oslo, Kingston, Canada). The ninth in the series, held in Canberra, Australia in July 1990, presents aspects of the basement tectonics of the Australian continent for the first time. Keynote papers reviewed the tectonic and lineament patterns of Australia, and the structure of the eastern European craton. Unique features such as the Alpine-type nappes in the intracratonic setting of central Australia are presented. Also included are papers on the central USA, South America, Japan, Great Britain and the Middle East. Topics range from the analysis of lineaments and their reactivation and the fracture control of mineral deposits to accounts of the basement control of petroleum deposits. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Basement Tectonics, held in Canberra, Australia, July 1990