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Stephenson, A.E.
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Most of Australia's continental margin has not been thoroughly explored for petroleum, and can be regarded as 'frontier'. In order to understand the petroleum and other resource potential of Australia's frontier basins, it is necessary to know the location and physical and geological attributes of those basins. Whilst data on particularly larger basins has been collated locally, no comprehensive inventory of Australia's basins has existed at national scale. In addition, recent work associated with the Law of the Sea has seen knowledge of offshore basins in frontier areas expand considerably. AGSO's Basin Evaluation Project has addressed these shortcomings by compiling an inventory of all known sedimentary basins in Australia and its ocean territories, to be made available on CD and via the Internet, as part of the national geoscience database. The detail available on each basin varies with both its relative resource importance and our current level of knowledge. The inventory also cites key references and further sources of information and includes hot-links. It is in part designed to give an overview of Australian basins to those in in the international petroleum industry not familiar with details of Australian geology and petroleum potential.
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- petroleum exploration
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- Earth Sciences
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2000-01-01T00:00:00
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