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RB 49/00102 Stratigraphy of the Murray Basin in South Australia.
Published: 05 Oct 1959 Created: 04 Nov 2024 Revised: 04 Nov 2024
Author: Ludbrook, N.H.

The Murray Basin is an area of Mesozoic and Tertiary sedimentation divided into two main units the Murray Basin proper separated by structural highs, the Padthaway “Horst”, from the Gambier Sunklands. Knowledge of the Mesozoic in the Murray Basin...

The Murray Basin is an area of Mesozoic and Tertiary sedimentation divided into two main units the Murray Basin proper separated by structural highs, the Padthaway “Horst”, from the Gambier Sunklands. Knowledge of the Mesozoic in the Murray Basin proper is limited to two bores in the Loxton area which entered siltstones and mudstones below 1350 feet. In the Gambier Sunklands an undetermined thickness of siltstones, mudstones and arkosic sandstones mainly of Lower Cretaceous age occurs. Older rocks are everywhere overlain by a Tertiary sequence rarely exceeding 1000 feet in thickness in the Basin proper but at least 4000 feet thick in the Gambier Sunklands. Seventeen rock units are recognised in this sequence, the biostratigraphy of which is described in general terms.

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Geographic Locality: Canopus;Hd Coneybeer, secn 56;Hd Strawbridge, secn 10
Doc No: RB 49/00102
    Notes: 58/00359
Geographic Locality: Canopus;Hd Coneybeer, secn 56;Hd Strawbridge, secn 10
Doc No: RB 49/00102
    Language English
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    Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb4900102
    Citation Ludbrook, N.H. 1959. RB 49/00102 Stratigraphy of the Murray Basin in South Australia. Departmental Publication - Geological Survey Geoscience Publication. Government of South Australia.
    https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb4900102

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