title: Horizontal plate motion: a key allocyclic factor in the evolution of the great barrier reef.
abstract: The Great Barrier Reef complex of northeastern Australia thins dramatically and becomes younger from north to south. These variations are a consequence of the Cenozoic northward movement of the Indian-Australian plate. The temperate climatic conditions that applied off northeast Australia during the early Tertiary were progressively replaced by tropical conditions. The present-day south-to-north facies distribution along the eastern Australian continental margin mimics the Cenozoic vertical facies sequence through the northern part of the Great Barrier Reef region.
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Symonds
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Feary
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Pigram