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South West Pacific Data Package

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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As part of the BMR-APIRA Phanerozoic History of Australia Project geological information has been compiled for those parts of the south west Pacific that are part of the Australian Plate or are closely adjacent to it. The area includes the island groups of Tonga, Fiji, New Hebrides (Vanuatu) and the Solomons and the associated ocean basins and plateaux. Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and the Tasman Sea have been dealt with in other project reports. The information has been compiled in order to produce time slice palaeogeographic maps of the Australian plate. The data are presented in the form of summary stratigraphic columns, time slice data maps and palaeogeographic maps, and this report which includes an appendix of data point descriptions. The aim of the project has been to provide a new data synthesis relevant to petroleum exploration in the region. The petroleum potential of the south west Pacific itself is limited, but the study of this area has relevance for understanding the development of Australian basins in their regional context. Tectonic events clearly recorded on this eastern plate margin have impact within the continent, such as the wrench reactivation of structures in the Gippsland Basin in the mid-Eocene which has been related to a rearrangement of the Pacific plate (Etheridge & others, 1991).

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Title South West Pacific Data Package
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/8e7a2ee4-c724-448b-b931-5820636cb8d1
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "South West Pacific Data Package". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/south-west-pacific-data-package