- Title
- Early plaeozoic subduction in the southeastern Lachlan Fold Belt, Batemans Bay, New South Wales
- Creator
- Prendergast, E. I.
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Earth Sciences Vol. 54, Issue 4, p. 481-501
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08120090600981475
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2007
- Description
- The southeastern Lachlan Fold Belt at Batemans Bay on the New South Wales south coast is an accretionary complex with a prolonged deformation history. Early features include synsedimentary folds, mélange, disaggregated bedding and faults. Fabrics within the clast-in-matrix mélange and mudstone match those found in cores from the lower slopes of modern accretionary prisms. At the toe of the accretionary prism, the contact between the craton-derived Adaminaby Group and ocean floor deposits of the Wagonga Group is conformable. As subduction continued, the early structures were overprinted by (D₁) deformation that produced meridional north - south-trending, tight to isoclinal folds (F₁) and associated axial-plane cleavage (S₁). This west-dipping subduction occurred in the Late Ordovician/Early Silurian but probably began much earlier. A younger regional deformation (D₂) resulted in north - south-trending, open to tight folds (F₂), slightly oblique to F1, and an axial-surface cleavage (S₂).
- Subject
- accretion; Adaminaby Group; Batemans Bay, N.S.W.; Lachlan Fold Belt; mélange; subduction; thrust faults; Wagonga Group
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/33900
- Identifier
- uon:3359
- Identifier
- ISSN:0812-0099
- Language
- eng
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