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Capel and Faust Basins - New Information from the Offshore Frontier Between...
New geophysical and geological datasets have been acquired in water depths of 1300-2500m from the Capel and Faust basins located some 800 km east of Brisbane (Figure 1). Between... -
Frontier Basins of the West Australian Continental Margin: Post-survey...
This report (Record 2009/38) contains the description and preliminary analysis of datasets acquired during Geoscience Australia marine reconnaissance survey GA2476 to the west... -
Distribution of Triassic Reefs in the Northern Exmouth Plateau and Offshore...
Petroleum exploration on the Exmouth Plateau has ceased, althoughthe giant Scarborough Gas Field has been retained by Esso-BHP.Research cruises by BMR's vessel "Rig Seismic" and... -
Combined Marine and Land Potential-field Datasets for the Southwest Margin...
In 2010 and 2011, the Australian Government released exploration acreage in the Perth, Mentelle and Southern Carnarvon basins off the southwest margin of Australia. This release... -
Integrated Geological Assessment Reveals Insights into the Prospectivity of...
This AusGeo New article provides an overview of the geological and petroleum prospectivity assessment of the Capel and Faust basins, northern Lord Howe Rise, that was completed... -
Basement Architecture and Formation of an Ocean-continent Transform Boundary...
Basement architecture off western Tasmania is a legacy of late Neoproterozoic-Cambrian subduction-related processes, ocean basin closure and multiple accretionary events,... -
Continental Shelf Record of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet Evolution:...
The late Quaternary ice sheet/ice shelf extent in the George V Basin (East Antarctica) has been reconstructed through analyses of Chirp sub-bottom profiles, integrated with... -
Surface and Sub-surface Geology and the Role of Basement Structure in the...
The Capel and Faust basins are part of the northern Lord Howe Rise, offshore eastern Australia. These frontier basins formed during the initial phases of extension leading to... -
3D Gravity Models of the Capel and Faust Basins, Lord Howe Rise
This report is part of a set delivered by Geoscience Australia on interpretation of data acquired during the summer of 2006/07 on seismic reflection, refraction and potential... -
Rift Evolution in the Capel and Faust Basins, Offshore Eastern Australia,...
The Capel and Faust basins are located on the northern Lord Howe Rise between eastern Australia and New Caledonia in water depths of 1300-2500 m. Under the Australian... -
Preliminary Results from Marine Seismic Survey GA302 over Capel and Faust Basins
Data from 50 sonobuoys were recorded over the Capel and Faust Basins, 800 km to the east of Australia in water depths 1500-2000 m, during a 2006/07 seismic survey (GA302) for... -
A field guide to basin architecture and crustal evolution in the...
Paleoproterozoic-earliest Mesoproterozoic sequences in the Mount Isa region of northern Australia preserve a 200 Myr record (1800-1600 Ma) of intracontinental rifting,... -
Origin of Petroleum in the Bowen and Surat Basins : Implications for Source,...
natural gases and 130 core samples from potential source rocks enable resolution of the generation and migration history of petroleum in the Bowen and Surat basins. Biomarker... -
Seabed Environments and shallow sub-surface geology of the Vlaming...
As part of the Australian Government's National CO2 Infrastructure Plan (NCIP), Geoscience Australia has undertaken integrated assessments of selected offshore sedimentary... -
First Acreage Release in Frontier Mentelle Basin
In 2010 the Australian Government offered for the first time a large exploration block for acreage release in the frontier Mentelle Basin. This large sedimentary basin (36, 000... -
Data from the Deep: New Geological Results from Geoscience Australia's...
Under the Australian Government's Offshore Energy Security Program, Geoscience Australia conducted a marine reconnaissance survey (GA2476) from October 2008 to January 2009... -
Bight Basin Geological Sampling and Seepage Survey: R/V Southern Surveyor...
The Bight Basin Sampling and Seepage Survey (SS01/2007), was undertaken in February-March 2007 as the final data acquisition activity of the Commonwealth Government's New... -
Pliocene-Pleistocene glaciomarine sedimentation in eastern Prydz Bay and...
Lithostratigraphy, grain sizes and down-hole logs of Site 1166 on the continental shelf, and Site 1167 on the upper slope, are analyzed to reconstruct glacial processes in... -
New Insights into the Post-rift Depositional History of the Mentelle Basin...
New 2D seismic data acquired in the Mentelle Basin by Geoscience Australia in 2008-09 has been used for a seismic facies study of the post-rift succession. The Mentelle Basin is... -
Late Neogene Ice Drainage Changes in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica and the...
During the late Neogene, the Lambert Glacier-Amery Ice Shelf drainage system flowed across Prydz Bay and showed several changes in flow pattern. In the Early Pliocene, the...