Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
Authors: A.M. Mantaring
Date Published: September 2008
Number of Pages: 6
Abstract:
The Hunter-Mooki Thrust Fault (HMTF) in northern New South Wales is part of a long thrust fault system that continues into southeastern Queensland as the Moonie-Goondiwindi Fault. The HMTF acts as the eastern structural boundary of the Sydney and Gunnedah basins and the western front of the New England Orogen. The fault system formed as a result of contractional deformation in the Permian and mid Triassic. It was contractionally reactivated during rifting of the eastern continental margin in the Late Cretaceous. The Hunter-Mooki thrusting event was not a purely west-southwesterly-directed system of thrusts, but was also associated with prominent east-directed backthrusting (Peel Fault).