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Exploring for the Future: Petrology of the Officer Basin

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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The Officer Basin in South Australia and Western Australia is the focus of a regional stratigraphic study being undertaken by the Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program, an Australian Government initiative dedicated to increasing investment in resource exploration in Australia. This data release provides new data and discusses the results from a new commissioned petrographic study of rock samples from five wells of the Officer Basin including: GSWA Vines 1, Yowalga 3, Birksgate 1, Giles 1, and Munta 1. Data includes petrography, XRD, thin section scans and photos, as well as petrographic summaries

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Title Exploring for the Future: Petrology of the Officer Basin
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/2f1c6a0c-02e2-40d7-9c29-c843001527cc
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Reference Period 08/04/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Exploring for the Future: Petrology of the Officer Basin". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/exploring-for-the-future-petrology-of-the-officer-basin