Plate Tectonics and the Lower Palaeozoic of Tasmania

Abstract

Solomon and Griffiths1 have applied a plate tectonics model to the Tasmanian part of the Tasman Orogenic Zone in the Lower Palaeozoic. Although this new interpretation of the Cambrian tectonics of Tasmania is timely and stimulating, we find that there are difficulties in fitting the facts to the model and that the evidence suggests that other explanations are possible if not, indeed, necessary.