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Mount Willoughby, Marla, Nicholson Hill, Hope, Manya, Emu, Moorefield, Lake Meramangye, Dingo Claypan and Alinya (Officer Basin). Progress, technical and partial relinquishment reports for the period 20/8/1980 to 19/8/1985.
TRONA EXPLORATION: Of the 9 rotary/diamond holes drilled, only the first, Meramangye 1, intersected a unit equivalent to the Observatory Hill Beds, which was the target horizon for trona. Drillholes Manya nos 2-6 and Marla 7 intersected Cambrian red...-
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RB 80/00022 Marla-1A, Marla-1B well completion report. Report no. 5 of the Officer Basin study group.
Marla 1A and 1B reached 215.30 metres and 379.40 metres respectively, penetrating aeolian sands overlying the Bulldog Shale, Cadna-owie Formation an d Observatory Hill Beds. In contrast to Byilkaoora 1, oil shows and calcite pseudomorphs after...-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 79/00157 Cambrian alkali playa-lacustrine sequence in the northeastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
Byilkaoora 1, a stratigraphic well drilled in the northeastern part of the Officer Basin in South Australia, intersected aeolian and fluvial sandstones and mudstones overlying 224 m of fine-grained, dolomitic, calcareous and argillaceous sediments...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 80/00079 Lithologies and interpretations of the Observatory Hill Beds, Marla 1A and 1B.
A detailed description and interpretation of the carbonate lithologies present in drill cores recovered from two recently completed SADME stratigraphic wells have revealed that the Observatory Hill Beds in the Marla area were deposited in a shallow...-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 79/00055 Petrographic study of the sediments in seven Officer Basin stratigraphic wells.
Core and cuttings from 7 stratigraphic wells in the Officer Basin were examined principally to develop a depositional model for sediments of pre-Permian age. Evidence from 6 of the wells suggests that an epeiric environment prevailed during ?Cambrian...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 79/00092 Petrophysical data on Wilkinson stratigraphic drillhole no. 1.
Various petrophysical property measurements (total count radiometric, mag susceptibility and specific gravity) were made at 1-metre intervals on samples of stored drill core recovered from the hole depth range 210 m to 710 m (TD) in SADME Wilkinson 1...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 80/00005 Source book for the Officer Basin area in South Australia.
This is a bibliographic compilation with index and key maps on petroleum potential, geology, geophysics and palaeontology of the Proterozoic-Palaeozoic Officer Basin, post-Palaeozoic geology, tectonics and other related topics.-
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Published: 01 Feb 1980
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RB 80/00010 Oil geochemistry and assessment of hydrocarbon source potential of Cambrian and Devonian rocks, Officer Basin, South Australia.
Oil shows in the Observatory Hill Beds in Byilkaoora 1 occur in a non-marine, alkaline playa lake sequence. Geochemical analysis suggests that they are immature and belong to 2 primary genetic families. The less altered oils are quite unlike...-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 97/00056 An assessment of the groundwater resources of the Lake Maurice area, northwest South Australia, for the Oak Valley Community, Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal Lands.
The Oak Valley Community requires a more convenient water supply. If potable groundwater cannot be found then a supply suitable for purification must be found. Current requirements are a supply of 1 L/s of water of salinity not greater than 40 000...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1997
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RB 99/00031 Assessment of zinc-lead prospectivity on the Murnaroo Platform and in the Manya Trough, eastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
The Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic Officer Basin is located on and adjacent to the northwestern margin of the Gawler Craton. Deposition of the basin began in Adelaidean time, before and during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia. The...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1999
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RB 95/00011 Hydrocarbon shows in Comalco mineral drillholes, Officer Basin.
The Officer Basin covers some 350,000 square km of central southern Australia, extending from the Yilgarn Block in Western Australia east to the Gawler Craton in South Australia. During the early 1980s Comalco Aluminium Limited explored the eastern...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1995
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Wilkinson. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2002.
Possible potash and halite resources in evaporite - rich sediment sequences of the Tallaringa Trough, lying at depths that might be suitable for solution mining, were the initial targets of exploration in the Wilkinson Lakes area. Following a...-
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Evaporites in the Officer Basin.
The Officer Basin covers about 300,000 square km and is largely concealed beneath sediments of the Gibson and Great Victoria deserts in western and southern Australia. Approximately two-thirds of the Officer Basin lies in Western Australia....-
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Published: 07 Jan 1998
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Wintinna Hill, Welbourn Hill Homestead, South Neales River and Mount Willoughby Homestead. Joint progress reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 11/11/1986 to 10/11/1987.
An extensive review was undertaken of the potential of the eastern Officer Basin area extending 50-150 km west of Oodnadatta for hosting buried native sulphur deposits in association with salt dome structures, but the recommended follow-up exploration...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1988
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Burial history analysis of the east Officer Basin, South Australia. A preliminary study.
In South Australia, the intracratonic eastern Officer Basin, which may contain up to 10 km of Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic sediments, is bounded by the Precambrian Gawler Craton to the southeast, the Musgrave Block to the north, and passes into...-
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Eastern Officer Basin technical assessment.
This technical assessment of petroleum prospectivity and attendant exploration risk for the eastern Officer Basin was prepared by SAOGC staff to help management decide the merits or otherwise of making a PEL application for vacant acreage gazetted by...-
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Byilkaoora 1. Test reports.
Contains various detailed source rock analysis reports on drill core samples from the oil-bearing interval in the well.-
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Published: 17 Jun 1981
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Sedimentology of the Ouldburra Formation (Early Cambrian), northeastern Officer Basin.
The Ouldburra Formation (Early Cambrian) is a newly defined sequence of carbonates, mixed carbonate/siliciclastics and evaporites in the northeastern Officer Basin, northern South Australia. Deposition took place during the late stages of...-
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Eastern Officer Basin geology and hydrocarbon potential.
Following the allocation in 1992 of Aust $2 million to MESA for petroleum exploration as part of the SA Exploration Initiative, the Department undertook to conduct reconnaisance seismic surveys over selected, poorly known sedimentary basins. As part...-
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ELs 730 - 739, Great Victoria Desert (CRAE Wyola Project). Progress and final reports for the period 6/10/1980 to 14/9/1981.
Compilation and re-interpretation of open file data from the Eucla Basin - southern Officer Basin region preceded exploratory and stratigraphic percussion drilling undertaken in an area north of the Trans Australian Railway (6 holes, total 1032 m)....-
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Published: 09 Jul 1981
