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Total Organic Carbon (TOC) and Rock-Eval pyrolysis data of samples from wells of the northern Lawn Hill Platform, Queensland, Australia

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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The Exploring for the Future program is an initiative by the Australian Government dedicated to boosting investment in resource exploration in Australia. The initial phase of this program led by Geoscience Australia focussed on northern Australia to gather new data and information about the potential mineral, energy and groundwater resources concealed beneath the surface. The northern Lawn Hill Platform is an intracratonic poly-phased history region of Paleoproterozoic to Mesoproterozic age consisting of mixed carbonates, siliciclastics and volcanics. It is considered a frontier basin with very little petroleum exploration to date, but with renewed interest in shale and tight gas, that may present new exploration opportunities. An understanding of the geochemistry of the sedimentary units, including the organic richness, hydrocarbon-generating potential and thermal maturity, is therefore an important characteristic needed to understand the resource potential of the region. As part of this program, Rock-Eval pyrolysis analyses were undertaken by Geoscience Australia on selected rock samples from 2 wells of the northern Lawn Hill Platform.

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Title Total Organic Carbon (TOC) and Rock-Eval pyrolysis data of samples from wells of the northern Lawn Hill Platform, Queensland, Australia
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/569ee662-e6ea-4540-862a-921ed069e7fd
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Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 08/02/2021
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Total Organic Carbon (TOC) and Rock-Eval pyrolysis data of samples from wells of the northern Lawn Hill Platform, Queensland, Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/total-organic-carbon-toc-and-rock-eval-pyrolysis-data-of-samples-from-wells-of-the-northern-law