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Volume 47, 2000 - Issue 3
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Basin shape and sediment architecture in the Gun Supersequence: A strike‐slip model for Pb–Zn–Ag ore genesis at Mt Isa

P. N. Southgate Australian Geological Survey Organisation, PO Box 378, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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D. L. Scott Australian Geological Survey Organisation, PO Box 378, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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T. T. Sami Department of Geological Sciences, Queens University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
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J. Domagala Department of Mines and Energy, GPO Box 194, Brisbane, Qld, 4001, Australia
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M. J. Jackson Australian Geological Survey Organisation, PO Box 378, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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N. P. James Department of Geological Sciences, Queens University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
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T. K. Kyser Department of Geological Sciences, Queens University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
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Pages 509-531 | Published online: 08 Nov 2010

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S. Sheppard, B. Rasmussen, S. Bodorkos & I.M. Tyler. (2008) Role of geochronology in our present-day understanding of the Proterozoic: an Australian perspective. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 55:6-7, pages 795-819.
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P.G. Betts, D. Giles, G. Mark, G.S. Lister, B.R. Goleby & L. Aillères. (2006) Synthesis of the proterozoic evolution of the Mt Isa Inlier. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 53:1, pages 187-211.
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MJ Jackson, PN Southgate, LP Black, PR Blake & J Domagala. (2005) Overcoming Proterozoic quartzite sand-body miscorrelations: integrated sequence stratigraphy and SHRIMP U–Pb dating of the Surprise Creek Formation, Torpedo Creek and Warrina Park Quartzites, Mt Isa Inlier. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 52:1, pages 1-25.
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P. G. Betts & G. S. Lister. (2002) Geodynamically indicated targeting strategy for shale‐hosted massive sulfide Pb–Zn–Ag mineralisation in the Western Fold Belt, Mt Isa terrane. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 49:6, pages 985-1010.
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P. G. Betts & G. S. Lister. (2001) Comparison of the ‘strike‐slip’ versus the ‘episodic rift‐sag’ models for the origin of the Isa Superbasin. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 48:2, pages 265-280.
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P. G. Betts, L. Aillères, D. Giles & M. Hough. (2000) Deformation history of the Hampden Synform in the Eastern Fold Belt of the Mt Isa terrane. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:6, pages 1113-1125.
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J. Domagala, P. N. Southgate, B. A. McConachie & B. A. Pidgeon. (2000) Evolution of the Palaeoproterozoic Prize, Gun and lower Loretta Supersequences of the Surprise Creek Formation and Mt Isa Group. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:3, pages 485-507.
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B. E. Bradshaw, J. F. Lindsay, A. A. Krassay & A. T. Wells. (2000) Attenuated basin‐margin sequence stratigraphy of the Palaeoproterozoic Calvert and Isa Superbasins: The Fickling Group, southern Murphy Inlier, Queensland. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:3, pages 599-623.
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A. A. Krassay, B. E. Bradshaw, J. Domagala & M. J. Jackson. (2000) Siliciclastic shoreline to growth‐faulted, turbiditic sub‐basins: The Proterozoic River Supersequence of the upper McNamara Group on the Lawn Hill Platform, northern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:3, pages 533-562.
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M. J. Jackson, D. L. Scott & D. J. Rawlings. (2000) Stratigraphic framework for the Leichhardt and Calvert Superbasins: Review and correlations of the pre‐ 1700 Ma successions between Mt Isa and McArthur River. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:3, pages 381-403.
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P. N. Southgate, B. E. Bradshaw, J. Domagala, M. J. Jackson, M. Idnurm, A. A. Krassay, R. W. Page, T. T. Sami, D. L. Scott, J. F. Lindsay, B. A. McConachie & C. Tarlowski. (2000) Chronostratigraphic basin framework for Palaeoproterozoic rocks (1730–1575 Ma) in northern Australia and implications for base‐metal mineralisation. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:3, pages 461-483.
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M. J. Jackson & P. N. Southgate. (2000) Evolution of three unconformity‐bounded sandy carbonate successions in the McArthur River region of northern Australia: The Lawn, Wide and Doom Supersequences in a proximal part of the Isa Superbasin. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:3, pages 625-635.
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