Cambrian River Terraces and Ridgetops in Central Australia: Oldest Persisting Landforms?
- 15 August 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 233 (4765) , 758-761
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.233.4765.758
Abstract
Fluvial sediments in paleovaileys cut in the Ashburton surface of the Davenport province of central Australia form terrace remnants that appear to retain their original depositional tops and have probably existed as subaerial landforms since their inception. Marine fossils in sediments conformable with the fluvial sediments near the southeast margin of the province give a Cambrian age for the terraces; the Ashburton surface forming the ridgetops between the paleovalleys is Cambrian or older.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- The tectonic evolution of AustraliaEarth-Science Reviews, 1979