1. Leg 189 Synthesis: Cretaceous–Holocene History of the Tasmanian Gateway

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

OVERVIEW OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SCIENTIFIC RESULTS VOLUME

TECTONIC EVOLUTION

CRETACEOUS–MIDDLE LATE EOCENE HISTORY: BEFORE GATEWAY OPENING

LATE EOCENE–OLIGOCENE HISTORY: THE GATEWAY OPENS

OLIGOCENE AND YOUNGER HISTORY: SUBSIDENCE AND FLIGHT NORTHWARD

Oligocene

Comparison with the Antarctic Margin

Neogene History

DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

REFERENCES

CHAPTER NOTES

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