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Increasing the prospectivity of northern Australia [Carr] and Gross depositional environment mapping, offshore Otway Basin [Abbott]

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Exploring for the Future (EFTF) is a multiyear (2016–2024) initiative of the Australian Government, conducted by Geoscience Australia. This program aims to improve Australia’s desirability for industry investment in resource exploration of frontier regions across Australia. This paper will focus on the science impacts from the EFTF program in northern Australia derived from the acquisition and interpretation of seismic surveys, the drilling of the NDI Carrara 1 and also complementary scientific analysis and interpretation to determine the resource potential of the region. This work was undertaken in collaboration with the Northern Territory Geological Survey, the Queensland Geological Survey, AuScope and the MinEx CRC. These new data link the highly prospective resource rich areas of the McArthur Basin and Mt Isa Province via a continuous seismic traverse across central northern Australia. The Exploring for the Future program aims to further de-risk exploration within greenfield regions and position northern Australia for future exploration investment. [Carr] The Sherbrook Supersequence is the youngest of four Cretaceous supersequences in the Otway Basin and was deposited during a phase of crustal extension. This presentation shows how a basin-scale gross depositional environment (GDE) map for the Sherbrook SS was constructed, the significance of the map for the Austral 3 petroleum system, and why GDE mapping is important for pre-competitive basin studies at Geoscience Australia. [Abbott]

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Title Increasing the prospectivity of northern Australia [Carr] and Gross depositional environment mapping, offshore Otway Basin [Abbott]
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/47f6e71d-bdd5-44b1-9b83-8b4258d899ea
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Reference Period 08/04/2019
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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/increasing-the-prospectivity-of-northern-australia-carr-and-gross-depositional-environment-mapp