230 AUSTRALIA/Phanerozoic Figure 22 Eocene (35 Ma) palaeogeography Legend as in Figure Reproduced with permission from Veevers JJ (ed.) (2000) Billion Year Earth History of Australia and Neighbours in Gond wanaland Sydney: GEMOC Press Figure 24 Pleistocene (1.8 Ma to 10 ka) palaeogeography Re produced with permission from Veevers JJ (ed.) (2000) Billion Year Earth History of Australia and Neighbours in Gondwanaland Sydney: GEMOC Press was covered by a shallow sea, while the Melbourne– Mathinna terrane slid past on its way to docking at 400 Ma Early Devonian (418–394 Ma) The New Zealand terranes amalgamated at 415 Ma, and north-east and West Tasmania amalgamated at 400 Ma (Figure 8) In south-east Australia, relocation of the trench was accompanied by wide back-arc extension and emplacement of granite (Figure 2vii) The Adavale Basin was initiated with flows of andesite Farther north, inner shallow-marine and outer deepmarine deposits were flanked by granitic plutons A group of nonmarine deposits (Cravens Peak, Dulcie, Duerdin, and Mereenie) was deposited in the centre, salt in the Petrel Sub-Basin, aeolian and playa deposits of the Tandalgoo Formation in the Canning Basin, and the Kopke redbeds of the Carnarvon Basin Figure 23 Miocene (24 Ma) palaeogeography Numerals in dicate the times (Ma) at which the terranes docked The blue oblique shading represents marine to nonmarine sediment Legend as in Figure Reproduced with permission from Veevers JJ (ed.) (2000) Billion Year Earth History of Australia and Neighbours in Gondwanaland Sydney: GEMOC Press restricted sea In the Carnarvon Basin, the Ajana Formation succeeded the Tumblagooda Sandstone In the Petrel Sub-Basin, salt was probably deposited during the Silurian and Devonian Western Tasmania Middle and Late Devonian (394–362 Ma) Granodiorite was erupted in North Victoria Land during continuing westward-directed subduction (Figure 9) Following the contractional Tabberabberan Orogeny, plutonic rocks were emplaced and volcanic rocks were erupted in a broad zone in Tasmania, Victoria, and New South Wales, which included the Comerong–Yalwal–Eden volcanic rift Fluvial sediment was deposited in the Barka, Lambie,