Preface Foreword Chapter 1 Geological Background 1.1 Tectonic Setting 1.2 Local Setting 1.3 Structural History 1.3.1 Nambucca Block 1.3.2 Hastings Block 1.3.3 Port Macquarie Block 1.3.4 Tamworth Belt 1.4 The Hunter-Bowen Orogeny Chapter 2 Folding and Cleavage History in the NHB 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Methodology 2.3 Analysis of Bedding Data in the NHB 2.4 Analysis of Cleavage Data in the NHB 2.5 Analysis of Folding Data in the NHB 2.6 Evidence of Overprinting of Structures in the Nambucca Block and NHB 2.6.1 Evidence of Overprinting of Structures in the Nambucca Block 2.6.2 Cleavages in the NHB 2.6.3 Folded Folds in the NHB 2.6.4 Faults Displacing Cleaved and Folded Rock in the NHB 2.7 Evidence of Overprinting of Structures in the Nambucca Block and NHB Chapter 3 Fault History in the Northern Hastings Block, Southern New England Orogen 3.1 Previous Work 3.2 Conventional Fault Analysis 3.3 Kinematics and Morphology of Faults 3.4 Fault Timing 3.4.1 The Earliest Time Faulting Could Have Started 3.4.2 The Latest Time Faulting Could Have Stopped 3.4.3 The Relationship between Faulting and Folding/Cleavage Development 3.5 Fault Movement Analysis 3.5.1 The Earliest Time Faulting Could Have Started 3.5.2 The Latest Time Faulting Could Have Stopped 3.5.3 Faults with a Common Strike 3.5.4 Implication of Fault Movement Analysis 3.5.5 Fault History of the Northern Hastings Block 3.6 Brief Summary Chapter 4 Evidence from Fault Block Analysis for A Re-interpretation of the Northern Hastings Block Geology 4.1 Fault Systems in the NHB 4.2 Interpretations of Geological Data 4.3 Gravity and Magnetic Worms Analysis in the HB 4.3.1 Gravity and Magnetic Worms 4.3.2 Worms Analysis in the Hastings Block 4.4 Fault Block Analysis 4.4.1 Fault Block A 4.4.2 Fault Block B 4.4.3 Fault Block C 4.4.4 Fault Block D 4.4.5 Fault Block E
4.4.6 Fault Block F 4.4.7 Fault Block G 4.4.8 Fault Block H 4.4.9 Fault Block I 4.4.10 Fault Block J 4.4.11 Fault Block K 4.5 Implications 4.5.1 Fault Block Analysis Highlighted the Shortcomings with the Existing Geological Map 4.5.2 Implication of the Fault Blocks Reconstruction for the Entire NHB 4.6 Brief Summary Chapter 5 Geological History 5.1 Northern Hastings Block-Nambucca Block 5.2 Relationship to Surrounding Blocks References Appendices Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3
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