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Vale, K.R. | Williams, L.W.
Abstract
The preliminary investigation was made when the Bureaut s seismic party was held up by flooded rivers, while on its way t o Christmas Creek in May, 1954. Results show that the seismic aethod is applicable to the Broome area, and that a sedimentary section of the order of 12,500 feet exists. They further show that a syncline and anticline not known from the surface geology may possibly exist at depth.
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76372
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- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
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- Seismology and Seismic Exploration
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- HVC_144637
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- Seismic Data seismic survey
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- petroleum exploration
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- seismic reflection
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- geophysics
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- seismic velocity
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- AU-WA
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- Published_External
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1955-01-01T00:00:00
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The area surveyed is a few miles east of Broome, a small port in the Kimberley Division of Western Australia. The area lies within the Canning Basin, which is adjacent to the Fitzroj Basin. Oil was first discovered i n She Fitzroy Basin in 1919 by Harry Price, a well sinker, and since then the Freney Kimberley Oil Company has drilled aboutt twenty bores in the search for commercial quantities, During the past six years intensive geological and geophysical investigations have been made in the Fitzroy Basin in connection with the search for oil. Several private and government geological parties have made surveys, culminating in the recent geologicala and geophysical surveys by the Bureau of Mineral Resources and by the West Australian Petroleum Pty, Ltd. The survey in this record was made in May 1954 and was arranged to occupy the period during which the field party was delayed by swollen rivers while en route for Christmas Creek, Part of the equipment was stranded at Hall's Creek, about 500 miles away, but the Drilling plant was available at Broome, and it was possible to fly the essential recording instruments from Hall's Creek. geophysicists,
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[-18.0, -17.5, 121.5, 122.0]
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