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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0773913
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
The Initiation of Early Palaeozoic Subduction in Eastern Australia and North America: causes and effects. Identified thirty or more years ago subduction is the return of cold, dense, oceanic lithosphere to the mantle and is one of the key dynamic elements of the plate tectonic paradigm. It is this process that is responsible for the 'Pacific Ring of Fire'. It is the root cause of many key geological processes and is a primary control of some of the earth's largest-scale physiographic features, including deep-sea trenches and mountain ranges. Using the important record of Cambrian in eastern Australia and in the comparable Canadian Atlantic margin, we will look at the causes and impact of the earliest stages of subduction as it first developed in the western Pacific and pre-cursor Atlantic 500 million years ago.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2007
End Date: 12-2010
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $180,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Geology | Igneous And Metamorphic Petrology | Geotectonics
