1992 Scientific Investigation Permit [for a marine seismic survey], Backstairs Passage. Reports for the period April 1992 to February 1995.
Created: 13 Nov 2024 Revised: 13 Nov 2024

AIM:To provide critical structural information on the relationships between major structural provinces (viz. Stansbury Basin / Adelaide Geosyncline / Kanmantoo Trough / Murray Basin) and, in particular, test an hypothesis that folded rocks from...

AIM:To provide critical structural information on the relationships between major structural provinces (viz. Stansbury Basin / Adelaide Geosyncline / Kanmantoo Trough / Murray Basin) and, in particular, test an hypothesis that folded rocks from the east have been thrust westwards over, and now lie above, some younger Stansbury Basin marginal sediments. Survey dates: 14 - 15/7/92. Energy source: Tuned airgun array. CDP coverage: 6000%. Recording mode: 300 channel digital - LRS 16A Kiloseis streamer system. SP interval: 26.67 metres, group interval: 13.33 metres.RESULTS:Line 92DME-1 (a southeasterly extension of Canyon's line 92-13) totalling 63.424 line km was acquired by the Western Geophysical M/V Western Atlas, and processed by Alvin R. Hosking in Houston, Texas. Interpretation of the final stacked data from this line by geophysicists from the University of Adelaide and SADME has revealed that:(1) a fundamental Cambrian depositional interface exists between the ?coeval Early Cambrian platformal and (Kanmantoo) trough portions of the Stansbury Basin; (2) the boundary between the platform zone and the sedimentary prism of the Kanmantoo Trough was reactivated by compression during the Cambro-Ordovician Delamerian Orogeny, resulting in significant reverse faulting and orogenic supra-crustal shortening; and (3) compressional deformation during the strong Delamerian and subsequent weaker Tertiary - Holocene tectonic events appears to have been focused on the western part of the transition zone of an interpreted east side Gulf Saint Vincent foreland basin margin, in the latter instance forming the current topography of southern Fleurieu Peninsula.

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Record No mesac34710
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
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Document Type Geophysical Report - Seismic Report - Operations
Contributor South Australia. Department of Mines and Energy;Western Geophysical Co.;Associated Geophysical Services, Inc.;University of Adelaide. Department of Geology and Geophysics
Sponsor South Australia. Department of Mines and Energy
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Operator Canyon (Australia) Pty Ltd
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    Notes: Acquisition of this line was proposed in April 1992 by SADME, who also contributed $30,000 or 50% of the cost of recording and processing the seismic data.  The single line recording work was done as a sequel to, and performed by the same...

    Notes: Acquisition of this line was proposed in April 1992 by SADME, who also contributed $30,000 or 50% of the cost of recording and processing the seismic data. The single line recording work was done as a sequel to, and performed by the same vessel and crew as, Canyon's 18-line 1992 Gulf St Vincent Seismic Survey in PEL 53. The acquisition contractor's operations report for that survey therefore applies also to MESA's survey - refer to Env 8564 to view.See also Env 8692 for results of the follow-up MESA 1993 seismic investigation of the Encounter Bay region. Geographic Locality: Backstairs Passage;Cape Jervis;The Pages;Fleurieu Peninsula;Kangaroo Island;Dudley Peninsula;Southern Ocean;1992 Canyon Scientific Investigation Doc No: Env 09567

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    Language English
    Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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    Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac34710
    Citation Finch, W.G.;Hosking, A.R.;Flottmann, T.;Cockshell, C.D. 1992 Scientific Investigation Permit [for a marine seismic survey], Backstairs Passage. Reports for the period April 1992 to February 1995. Geophysical Report - Seismic Report - Operations
    https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac34710

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