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Thermo-chemical inversion of the Australian lithospheric mantle (FR23)

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Lithospheric structure and composition have direct relevance for our understanding of mineral prospectivity. Aspects of the lithosphere can be imaged using geophysical inversion or analysed from exhumed samples at the surface of the Earth, but it is a challenge to ensure consistency between competing models and datasets. The LitMod platform provides a probabilistic inversion framework that uses geology as the fabric to unify multiple geophysical techniques and incorporates a priori geochemical information. Here, we present results from the application of LitMod to the Australian continent. The rasters summarise the results and performance of a Markov-chain Monte Carlo sampling from the posterior model space. Release FR23 is developed using primary-mode Rayleigh phase velocity grids adapted from Fishwick & Rawlinson (2012).

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Title Thermo-chemical inversion of the Australian lithospheric mantle (FR23)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f9c38a31-efe9-4afa-adde-e50beba23151
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Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 20/10/2023
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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}
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Thermo-chemical inversion of the Australian lithospheric mantle (FR23)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/thermo-chemical-inversion-of-the-australian-lithospheric-mantle-fr23