Australian Plate Kinematics


Gravity anomalies from satellite altimetry overlain by magnetic anomaly and fracture zone identifications

 


Age  of the ocean floor
 


Assymmetries in crustal accretion [%]
 


Half-spreading rates [mm/yr]

Publications:

Cande, S.C., Stock, J.M., Müller, R.D, Ishihara, 2000, T., Cenozoic motion between East and West Antarctica, Nature, 404, 145-150.

Gaina, C., Müller, R.D, Cande, S.C., 1999, Absolute plate motion, mantle flow and volcanism at the boundary between the Pacific and Indian Ocean mantle domains since 90 Ma, American Geophysical Union Monograph, The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, in press

Gurnis, M., Moresi, L., and Müller, R.D, 2000, Models of mantle convection incorporating plate tectonics: The Australian Region since the Cretaceous, American Geophysical Union Monograph, The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, in press.

 Müller, R.D., Gaina, C., and Clarke, S., Seafloor spreading around Australia, In: Billion-year earth history of Australia and neighbours in Gondwanaland, ed. J. Veevers, in press.

Mihut, D., and Müller, R.D., 1998, Volcanic margin formation and Mesozoic rift propagators in the Cuvier abyssal plain off Western Australia, Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 27135-27150.