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Evidence for former evaporites in the Carboniferous Moogooree Limestone, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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The former presence of evaporites within skeletal carbonate lithofacies of the Moogooree Limestone, Carnarvon Basin, is inferred from the presence of quartz geodes which have formed by the replacement of early diagenetic anhydrite nodules, and patchy dedolomitisation of much of the sequence.

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Title Evidence for former evaporites in the Carboniferous Moogooree Limestone, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/9a0f6075-d8b5-430a-b888-bc942bfaac3d
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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      ]
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Evidence for former evaporites in the Carboniferous Moogooree Limestone, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/evidence-for-former-evaporites-in-the-carboniferous-moogooree-limestone-carnarvon-basin-western