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The thermal history of the eastern Officer Basin (South Australia): evidence from apatite fission track analysis and organic maturity data.
The eastern Officer Basin in South Australia contains a Neoproterozoic to Devonian succession overlain by relatively thin ( < 500 m) Permian, Mesozoic and Tertiary deposits. Within the basin fill, there are several major unconformities representing...-
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Published: 27 Jul 1901
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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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Lake Dey Dey, Lake Maurice, Ooldea Range, Waldana, Lake Maurice West, Leemurra, Punthanna, Yadina and Lake Maurice East. Joint progress reports and final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/4/1979 to 15/11/1982.
The exploration concept was based on searching for secondary uranium mineralisation that might be derived from the Musgrave Block basement rocks and that could have become precipitated within calcrete horizons from ponded uraniferous surface drainage...-
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RB 60/00099 Testing of bores from the Eucla and Officer Basins for sedimentary phosphate.
Phosphate testing of bores from the Eucla and Officer basins showed that phosphate is distributed throughout the sediments in only small amounts, usually less than 1% P205. The highest values of P205 recorded were 1.65% obtained from Nullarbor no. 8...-
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Published: 18 May 1965
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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 80/00007 Stratigraphy, correlation and sedimentary history of Adelaidean (Late Proterozoic) basins in Australia.
The Adelaidean is the youngest Precambrian subdivision of the Proterozoic in Australia. The Adelaide Geosyncline is its stratotype basin, since it contains the thickest sequences and the most complete record of late Proterozoic sedimentation in...-
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Published: 01 Jan 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 79/00083 Ooldea no. 1 and Reid nos 1 and 1A. Well completion reports.
Three stratigraphic wells (Ooldea no. 1, Reid no. 1, and Reid no. 1A) were drilled by the South Australian Department of Mines during 1976 in an area that includes margins of the Officer, Arckaringa and Eucla basins. Principal objectives were to test...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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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 98/00019 Spencer Regions strategic water management study.
The availability of adequate water supplies is crucial to future development, particularly in the arid areas of the State. Primary Industries and Resources South Australia (PIRSA), as part of the Spencer Regions Strategic Water Management Study, has...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1998
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RB 94/00002 Officer Basin water supply investigation.
A total of 12 water supply wells were drilled in the Pitjantjatjara and Maralinga Aboriginal Lands, from March to July 1993, to supply water for the AGSO/DME Officer Basin Seismic Survey. This report documents drilling information and chemical...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1994
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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 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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RB 91/00104 Undiscovered petroleum. Assessments of the potential of the Officer and Otway Basins in South Australia.
Undiscovered (speculative and hypothetical) petroleum reserves and field sizes for sedimentary basins in SA have been estimated using methods that are appropriate to the level of previous exploration (and thus the data available). These methods range...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1991
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Petroleum Exploration Opportunity Officer Basin.
The Officer Basin in northeastern South Australia is poorly explored for petroleum in spite of widespread oil shows indicating that petroleum has been generated. In addition, there are significant geological similarities between the Officer Basin and...-
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Source rock analysis of selected Cambrian carbonate drill core samples, Stansbury and Officer basins.
40 samples were analysed for their total organic carbon content, and a subset of the 8 most organically rich samples were analysed using the Rock-Eval pyrolysis technique.-
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Published: 29 Jan 1993