Reply to comment on "Accordion vs. quantum tectonics: insights into continental growth processes from the Paleozoic of eastern Gondwana"

Authors

Jonathan Aitchison, University of Sydney
Solomon Buckman, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

88496

Publication Details

Aitchison, J. C. & Buckman, S. (2013). Reply to comment on "Accordion vs. quantum tectonics: insights into continental growth processes from the Paleozoic of eastern Gondwana". Gondwana Research, 23 (4), 1650-1651.

Abstract

We are delighted that our recent contribution regarding continental growth processes as exemplified by the Ordovician of the Lachlan Fold belt (Aitchison and Buckman, 2012) has stimulated debate and welcome the comments from Dr. Fergusson. Although what was enigmatic 20 years ago remains poorly exposed today, our knowledge of convergent plate margins is certainly now significantly better informed. The past two decades have seen numerous developments in both science and technology (e.g. human genome, internet) and geoscience is no different. Advances in knowledge of the subduction factory {http://www.nsf-margins.org/SF/SF.html} give us the potential to understand geology that in the last century might have been regarded as problematical.