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Exploring for the Future: Kidson Sub-basin seismic interpretation
The Kidson Sub-basin covers ~91 000 km2, and is a largely under-explored and sparsely imaged region of the Canning Basin in northern Western Australia. The 872 km Kidson Sub-basin seismic survey was acquired to enhance understanding of the subsurface and thereby assist in the assessment of the region for hydrocarbon and mineral potential. Specifically, the survey aimed to improve basin-wide stratigraphic correlation, determine the extent of basin depocentres, image major structures and place constraints on the sub-basin’s geological event history. The new seismic profile reveals that the Kidson Sub-basin is ~500 km long and ~6.5 km deep. It contains a lower conformable package of Ordovician to Devonian clastic sediments, carbonates and evaporites unconformably overlain by the clastic-dominated Permian Grant Group and Poole Sandstone. Normal faults imaged at the base of the sequence with growth strata in the hanging wall constrain rifting to between Cambrian and Silurian in age. Folding along the southeastern edge of the basin is inferred to be a consequence of the Carboniferous Meda Transpression linked to the Alice Springs Orogeny in central Australia. The known source rocks of the Goldwyer and Bongabinni formations have been interpreted to extend across the Kidson Sub-basin, which is encouraging for energy prospectivity in the region.
<b>Citation:</b> Southby, C., Carr, L.K., Henson, P., Haines, P.W., Zhan, A., Anderson, J.R., MacFarlane, S., Fomin, T. and Costelloe, R., 2020. Exploring for the Future: Kidson Sub-basin seismic interpretation. In: Czarnota, K., Roach, I., Abbott, S., Haynes, M., Kositcin, N., Ray, A. and Slatter, E. (eds.) Exploring for the Future: Extended Abstracts, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, 1–4.
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- 2019-12-06T10:31:00
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- 2020-06-18T03:31:59
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Author Southby, C.
Author Carr, L.K.
Author Henson, P.
Author Haines, P.W.
Author Zhan, A.
Author Anderson, J.R.
Author MacFarlane, S.
Author Fomin, T.
Author Costelloe, R.
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Abstract for EFTF publication
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Kidson Sub-basin
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Seismic Interpretation
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Canning Basin
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Deep crustal seismic
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Exploring for the Future
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Extended Abstract for download (pdf) [2.8MB]
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The Kidson Sub-basin seismic survey was planned to address a lack of coherent seismic data and to increase the resource prospectivity of the region. Acquisition of deep crustal seismic reflection data in the Kidson Sub-basin was conducted between June and August 2018.
We present preliminary geological interpretations of this newly acquired dataset and anticipate that this new information will enable a better understanding of the geological evolution of the Canning Basin.
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- 2019-04-08T01:55:29
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