Articles | Volume 11, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1653-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1653-2020
Research article
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04 Sep 2020
Research article |  | 04 Sep 2020

Precambrian faulting episodes and insights into the tectonothermal history of north Australia: microstructural evidence and K–Ar, 40Ar–39Ar, and Rb–Sr dating of syntectonic illite from the intracratonic Millungera Basin

I. Tonguç Uysal, Claudio Delle Piane, Andrew James Todd, and Horst Zwingmann

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AR by I.Tonguç Uysal on behalf of the Authors (12 May 2020)
ED: Publish as is (27 May 2020) by Fabrizio Balsamo
ED: Publish as is (28 May 2020) by Federico Rossetti (Executive editor)
AR by I.Tonguç Uysal on behalf of the Authors (18 Jul 2020)  Manuscript 
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This study represents an integrated approach to radiometric age dating using potassium-bearing clay minerals formed during faulting and provides insights into the enigmatic time–space distribution of Precambrian tectonic zones in north-central Australia. Specifically, our work firmly indicates a late Mesoproterzoic minimum age for the Millungera Basin in north Australia and a previously unrecorded concealed late Mesoproterozoic–early Neoproterozoic tectonic event in north-central Australia.