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L055 Gosses Bluff seismic survey, NT, 1962

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A seismic survey, consisting of a main north-south reflection traverse and several short supplementary reflection and refraction traverses, was made in the Gosses Bluff area, of the Amadeus Basin,Northern Territory by a seismic party of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics between March and July 1962. The purpose of the survey was to obtain information on the lli.ssionary Plain Syncline, the Gosses Bluff uplift; the fault at the northenl flank of the Gardiner Range, and the tectonic features relative to the Archaean/sedimentary contact at the northern edge of the Missionary Plain. The seismic reflection method proved to be an excellent exploratory tool in the undisturbed parts of the sedimentary basin. The Missionary Plain Syncline was shovm. to have a maximum thickness of sediments of 33,000 ft, nine miles north of Gosses Bluff. The results indicate that Gosses Bluff is a diapiric structure of the salt dome type, where the Proterozoic Bitter Springs Limestone has provided the necessary mobile material. The Gardiner Range Fault was shown to be overthrust from the south vdth a hade of 15 to 20 degrees. The problem regarding the Archaean/sedimentary contact was not solved.

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Title L055 Gosses Bluff seismic survey, NT, 1962
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/43b027f5-ef1b-4ce2-9e1a-76a458bef948
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Reference Period 26/03/1962 - 03/07/1962
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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