Tectonic Reactivation and Palaeo-Stresses (TRAPS)

An interdisciplinary collaborative research project. Strategic Partnership with Industry – Research and Training (SPIRT)

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2001 Report

• Abstract: Exploration Geodynamic – pdf
• Movies
  – Continent Convection
  – Arc
  – Aus dyn topo-130 Ma-present
  – Australia: 130 Ma-present
  – Plate: 400 Ma-present
• Article reprints
  – B.J. Brown, R.D. Müller and H.I.M. Struckmeyer, “Anomalous Tectonic Subsidence of the Southern Australian Passive Margin: Response to Cretaceous Dynamic Topography or Differential Lithospheric Stretching?”
  – M. Sdrolias, R.D. Müller and C. Gaina, “Plate Tectonic Evolution of Eastern Australian Marginal Ocean Basins”
  – S. Zhao and R.D. Müller, “The Tectonic Stress Field in Eastern Australia”
  – Steven C. Cande, Joann M. Stock, R. Dietmar Müller & Takemi Ishihara, “Cenozoic motion between East and West Antarctica”
  – R. Dietmar Müller, Carmen Gaina, Walter R. Roest & David Lundbek Hansen, “A recipe for microcontinent formation”
  – R. Dietmar Müller, Carmen Gaina, “Absolute Plate Motion, Mantle Flow and Volcanism at the Boundary Between the Pacific and Indian Ocean Mantle Domains since 90 Ma”
  – R. Dietmar Müller, Carmen Gaina, Anahita Tikku, Dona Mihut, Steven Cande and Joanne Stock, “Mesozoic/ Cenozoic Tectonic Events Around Australia”
  – Dona Mihut, R. Dietmar Müller, “Volcanic Margin Formation and Mesozoic rift propagators in the Cuvier Abyssal Plain off Western Australia”
  – R. Dietmar Müller, Vanessa S.L. Lim, Alexandra R. Isern, “Late Tertiary tectonic subsidence on the northeast Australian passive margin: response to dynamic topography?”
  – R. Dietmar Müller, Louis Moresi, Michael Gurnis, “Cretaceous Vertical Motion of Australia and the Australian- Antarctic Discordance“

2002 Report

• Ellipsis 3D
• Movies
  – Carnarvon Terrace 3D
  – Carnarvon Terrace TWTMap
  – Plumes 60 Ma-present
  – Slabs 60 Ma-present
• Preprints
  – A. Lenardic, L.N. Moresi, H. Muhlhaus, “The longevity and stability of cratonic lithosphere: Insights from numerical simulations of coupled mantle convection and continental tectonics”
  – L. Moresi, F. Dufour, H.B. Muhlhaus, “A Lagrangian integration point finite element method for large deformation modeling of viscoelastic geomaterials”
  – Chris Wijns, Fabio Boschetti, L. Moresi “Inversion in Geology by Interactive Evolutionary Computation”
  -F. Boschetti, C. Wijns, L. Moresi, “No longer “Lost in space””
  – Christian Heine, R. Dietmar Müller and Martin Norvick, “Revised Tectonic Evolution of the Northwest Shelf of Australia and Adjacent Abyssal Plains“

2003 Report

• Reprints
  – F. Boschetti, C. Wijns, L. Moresi, “Effective exploration and visualization of geological parameter space”
  – R.D. Müller, D. Mihut, C. Heine, C. O’Neill & I. Russell, “Tectonic and volcanic history of the Carnarvon Terrace: Constraints from seismic interpretation and geodynamic modelling”
  – L. Moresi, F. Dufour, H.B. Muhlhaus, “A Lagrangian integration point ?nite element method for large deformation modeling of viscoelastic geomaterials”
  – S. Zhao, Tara J. Deen, R. D. Müller, “3D Finite Element Modelling Of The Northwest Australian Stress Field”
  – Chris Wijns, Fabio Boschetti, L. Moresi, “Inverse modelling in geology by interactive evolutionary computation”
  – C. Wijns, R. Weinberg, K. Gessner, L. Moresi, “Mode of crustal extension determined by rheological layering“

2004 Report

• Movies
  – Indian Mantle
  – Mantle density
• Preprints
  – S. Zhao, R. D. Müller, Y. Takahashi and Y. Kaneda, “3-D finite-element modelling of deformation and stress associated with faulting: effect of inhomogeneous crustal structures”
  – S. Zhao, R. D. Müller, “Stress orientations and crustal lateral inhomogeneity in continental Australia“
• Reprints
  – S. Baldwin, N. White and R D. Müller, “Resolving multiple rift phases by strain-rate inversion in the Petrel Sub-basin, northwest Australia”
  – B. J. Brown, R. D. Müller, C. Gaina, H. I. M. Struckmeyer, H.M.J. Stagg and P.. A. Symonds, “Formation and evolution of Australian passive margins: implications for locating the boundary between continental and oceanic crust”
  – C. Gaina, R. D. Müller, B. J. Brown and T. Ishihara, “Microcontinent formation around Australia”
  – M. Gurnis and R. D. Müller, “Origin of the Australian–Antarctic Discordance from an ancient slab and mantle wedge”
  – C. O’Neill, L. Moresi, A. Lenardic and C.. M. Cooper, “Inferences on Australia’s heat flow and thermal structure from mantle convection modelling results”
  – M. Sdrolias, R. D. Müller and C. Gaina, “Tectonic evolution of the southwest Pacific using
  constraints from backarc basins”
  – S. Zhao and R. D. Müller, “Three-dimensional finite-element modelling of the tectonic stress field in continental Australia“