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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 78/00152 Murnaroo 1. Well completion report.
During September-December 1976, Murnaroo 1 was drilled by the SA Department of Mines to TD 627.5 m near Observatory Hill in the central southern part of the Officer Basin, to investigate the local subsurface stratigraphy and economic potential, and...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1979
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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 79/00148 Review of recent geological work in the Officer Basin, South Australia.
The Officer Basin is an elongate intracratonic depression underlying western South Australia and eastern Western Australia, and bounded by the Musgrave, Gawler and Yilgarn Blocks. Its southern and eastern margins are overlapped by the Tertiary Eucla...-
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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 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 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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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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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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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
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Burial history of the eastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
Burial history analysis of the structurally complex eastern Officer Basin region was performed using data from petroleum, trona exploration and stratigraphic wells, seismic upholes, coal drillholes and selected seismic sections, to construct isopachs...-
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Geology of the Arckaringa Basin, South Australia.
A description of the overall structure and stratigraphy of the Basin and identification of areas for potential coal development, based on all open file information.-
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RB 68/00031 Geological developments in the eastern Officer Basin of South Australia.
The Eastern Officer Basin in South Australia consists of a deep, east-west trending trough that flanks the southern margin of the Musgrave Block. From its northern margin south, to its axis the basin deepens with a very steep gradient, then shallows...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 73/00098 A Synthesis of Stratigraphic drilling in the Arckaringa Basin, 1969-1971.
The SA Department of Mines drilled seven stratigraphic wells between 1969 and 1971 in the Arckaringa Basin. This study presents the stratigraphic information obtained and attempts to collate all available information in a synthesis of the Arckaringa...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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RB 75/00001 Reconnaissance seismic exploration, southwest Arckaringa Basin, South Australia, 1974.
A short programme of seismic exploration was undertaken in the southwest Arckaringa Basin in mid 1974. Shooting was confined mostly to an east-west line over the southwest end of the Tallaringa Trough. An interpretation of the geology of the trough...-
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Published: 03 Jan 1975
