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Exploring for the Future - Rock-Eval pyrolysis data from kerogens of NDI Carrara 1, South Nicholson region, Australia. Destructive Analysis Report

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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NDI Carrara 1 is a deep stratigraphic drill hole completed in 2020 as part of the MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative (NDI) in collaboration with Geoscience Australia and the Northern Territory Geological Survey. It is the first stratigraphic test of the Carrara Sub-basin, a depocentre newly discovered in the South Nicholson region based on interpretation from seismic surveys (L210 in 2017 and L212 in 2019) acquired as part of the Exploring for the Future program. The drill hole intersected approximately 1120 m of Proterozoic sedimentary rocks unconformably overlain by 630 m of Georgina Basin carbonates.  Geoscience Australia has undertaken a range of investigations on the lithology, stratigraphy and geotechnical properties of NDI Carrara 1 as well as undertaking a range of analyses of about 500 physical samples recovered through the entire core. Analyses included geochronology, isotope studies, mineralogy, inorganic and organic geochemistry, petrophysics, geomechanics, thermal maturity and petroleum systems investigations. Rock-Eval pyrolysis raw data undertaken by Geoscience Australia were reported in Butcher et al. (2021) on selected rock samples to establish their total organic carbon content, hydrocarbon-generating potential and thermal maturity. Interpretation of the Rock-Eval pyrolysis data concluded that a large portion of rocks within the Proterozoic section displayed unreliable Tmax values due to poorly defined S2 peaks resulting from high thermal maturity and low hydrogen content. In order to obtain more reliable Tmax values, Rock-Eval pyrolysis of selected isolated kerogens, where organic matter is concentrated and mineral matrix effects are removed, were conducted and the resulting data are presented in this report. 

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Title Exploring for the Future - Rock-Eval pyrolysis data from kerogens of NDI Carrara 1, South Nicholson region, Australia. Destructive Analysis Report
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/16570db6-20c7-4e4d-8164-e4e135cdd963
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Reference Period 01/02/2022 - 27/05/2022
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Exploring for the Future - Rock-Eval pyrolysis data from kerogens of NDI Carrara 1, South Nicholson region, Australia. Destructive Analysis Report". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/exploring-for-the-future-rock-eval-pyrolysis-data-from-kerogens-of-ndi-carrara-1-south-nicholso