Compressional Deformation and Uplift of Australia's Passive Southern Margin

该项目的主要好处将是促进我们对导致板块构造理论预测的被动大陆边缘主动变形的过程的理解。我们将分析澳大利亚的“被动”南缘，因为它是一个理想的自然实验室，可以研究“被动”大陆边缘变形的原因。由于缺乏对潜在含油气构造形成的相对年龄和油气充注时间的了解，澳大利亚南部大部分地区的油气勘探兴趣和投资都在下降。这个项目将澄清它们的相对年龄。

The key project benefit will be to advance our understanding of the processes which cause active deformation of continental margins that are predicted by plate tectonic theory to be passive. We will analyse Australia's 'passive' southern margin because it is an ideal natural laboratory in which to investigate the causes of the deformation of 'passive' continental margins. Hydrocarbon exploration interest and investment has waned along much of Australia's southern margin because of lack of understanding of the relative age of the formation of potentially hydrocarbon-bearing structures and the timing of hydrocarbon charge. This project will clarify their relative ages.