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Petrology Report Differentiating Sediments of the Cooper & Warburton Basins.
Primary Industries and Resources SA submitted 50 thin sections of cuttings to PGPC for brief petrological description. Samples were selected by the late Dr David Gravestock from the Cooper and Warburton Basins. Four samples from Tarragon-1 included...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1900
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PETROLOGY REPORT CHARACTERISING THE WARBURTON BASIN ALTERATION ZONE.
Primary Industries and Resources SA submitted 8 core samples to PGPC from the Warburton Basin, for detailed petrological description and X-ray diffraction analysis. Dr Doug Mason of Mason Geoscience Pty Ltd has described three igneous samples. This...-
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Exploration opportunity - Nappamerri Trough - Geothermal energy (hot dry rocks) - Acreagae Release Blocks HDR2000A to C.
Three areas are being offered for the issue of geothermal exploration licences (GELs) in the Nappamerri Trough region, northeastern South Australia, on the basis of competitive work program bids. The stratigraphic sequence here comprises thick...-
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RB 86/00026 1:250 000 Geological Series - Explanatory Notes, ABMINGA, South Australia.
ABMINGA lies on the eastern edge of the Musgrave Block, which consists of Early to Middle Proterozoic gneisses and granites, intruded by dolerite dykes. A small area of folded and faulted Adelaidean and Cambrian sediments lies in the SW corner....-
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Published: 01 Apr 1986
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RB 82/00081 Geology of the Warburton Basin in South Australia.
Geological interpretation from drilling and seismic information, on an Early Palaeozoic sedimentary basin containing Early Cambrian to possibly Devonian age rocks. Middle to latest Late Cambrian sediments (Kalladeina Formation) and probable Cambrian...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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RB 83/00019 1:250 000 Geological Series - Explanatory Notes. DALHOUSIE, South Australia.
The geomorphology of DALHOUSIE broadly consists of stony uplands which include mound springs in the west, and dunefield lowlands in the east on the edge of the Simpson Desert. Strongly folded ?Adelaidean sediments are overlain by a more gently folded...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1984
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RB 82/00076 Towards an understanding of the Warburton Basin in South Australia.
Known and inferred geological characteristics and age relationships of the rocks infilling the wholly deeply buried Palaeozoic Warburton Basin are described. Depositional, structural and alteration aspects of the rocks are also mentioned, as they may...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1982
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RB 86/00012 Record of Ordovician conodonts from the Warburton Basin, South Australia.
Conodonts extracted from thin limestone interbeds in Innamincka Red Beds from near the bottom of Packsaddle 1 indicate an Ordovician (early Arenig) age. The low diversity fauna contains conodonts common to both the North Atlantic and Midcontinent...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1986
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RB 83/00045 Petrography of a specimen of drill core from Kumbari no. 1 Warburton Basin.
Identification of siltstone. Any recrystallization is ascribed to burial metamorphism in the prehnite - pumpellyite facies.-
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Published: 01 Jun 1983
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RB 83/00095 Petrography of four specimens of granite from DDH Moomba 1, 70 km southwest of Innamincka.
Zircons from altered granite in basement below the Cooper Basin, between 9353 and 9377 feet, are suitable for uranium - lead isotope dating.-
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Published: 01 Dec 1983
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RB 80/00128 Toodla no. 1 well completion report. Report no. 3 of the Eromanga Basin Study Group.
SADME Toodla 1 stratigraphic/exploration well was drilled near the south-western margin of the Eromanga Basin, at a site 18 km ENE of Mount Dutton, in the area between SADME reflection seismic survey shotpoints DK6 and DK7 located at the northern end...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 93/00010 Explanatory Notes for the WARRINA 1:250 000 geological map.
The oldest rocks on WARRINA outcrop in the Peake and Denison Inliers, which comprise the Davenport and Denison Ranges and small inliers to the east. Basement in this area consists of Palaeoproterozoic metamorphic rocks which were intruded by...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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RB 93/00013 Early Ordovician acritarchs and biostratigraphy of the Innamincka Formation, eastern Warburton Basin, SA.
Two acritarch assemblages from the Early Ordovician Tremadocian and Arenigian stages are recognised from the subsurface Innamincka Formation (previously Innamincka Red Beds). The Tremadocian assemblage probably ranges back to the Late Cambrian, but...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1993
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RB 94/00035 Cooper Basin aeromagnetic / radiometric test survey.
As part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative, the use of high resolution aeromagnetic and radiometric surveying in petroleum exploration was tested in Block B5 west of Moomba. A number of associated studies were undertaken to utilise the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1994
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RB 98/00030 Lineament associations in the Cooper Basin region, South Australia - Basement controls on hydrocarbon distribution.
Detailed lineament analysis of the Cooper Basin area has established the presence of two lineament networks. A gas-prone network of NW and NE trending lineaments shows strong correlation with the presence of gas in alternating blocks, but no gas...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1998
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RB 99/00014 Fracture analysis of the eastern Warburton Basin (Early Palaeozoic), South Australia.
Cambro-Ordovician Warburton Basin strata and intrusive granites are conventionally regarded as the economic basement beneath the Cooper-Eromanga oil and gas province in northeastern South Australia and southwestern Queensland. This study, the first...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1999
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RB 90/00045 Palaeozoic sedimentary basins of South Australia.
Widespread marine to paralic Cambrian-Ordovician strata form the major Early Palaeozoic succession in South Australia. The Late Palaeozoic succession consists chiefly of non-marine Late Carboniferous to Permian sediments although restricted marine...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1990
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RB 92/00011 Acritarchs from the Warburton Basin: their significance to dating, correlation and petroleum exploration.
The Warburton Basin consists probably of Cambrian to Ordovician deposits. This study collected 89 samples from 21 wells and introduces three acritarch assemblages of Middle Cambrian to Early Ordovician age. The acritarch assemblage from the Middle...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1992
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RB 92/00065 Magnetic susceptibility of Cooper and Warburton Basin sedimentary rocks. Pilot study.
Magnetic susceptibility of drillhole cuttings for 20 wells were measured in a pilot study over part of INNAMINCKA. Variations were found to exist particularly in 5 wells measured weeks apart. It is notable that after the initial filtering of data for...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1993
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RB 90/00035 Exploration opportunity, Lake Eyre - Birdsville Track Ridge (Areas 90B-E). Data package brochure.
Contains a statement of intent inviting PEL applications by 5/10/90 over 4 blocks of vacant onshore acreage, or parts thereof, in the Lake Eyre - Birdsville Track Ridge region. This region covers part of the Cambrian to Devonian Warburton Basin, and...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1990
