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The Eromanga-Brisbane geoscience transect : a guide to basin development across Phanerozoic Australia in southern Queensland
Crustal dynamics throughout geological history have played an important role in the development
of sedimentary basins. A basic knowledge of major crustal structures is, therefore, crucial to any
interpretations aimed at modelling particular basin systems. This Bulletin contains papers by authors
from a number of geoscience institutions and companies on various aspects of crustal and basin
development along an 1100 km east-west transect in southern Queensland, the Eromanga-Brisbane
Geoscience Transect In particular, deep seismic profiling along this transect has enabled, for the
first time, a 3-dimensional interpretation of deep structures and processes which have controlled
the development of major basin systems in eastern Australia. Complete answers to all questions on
basin development are still evolving, but the papers presented in this Bulletin, together with the
1:1 000 000 scale map folio, provide a much improved basis for further, detailed investigations.
The Eromanga-Brisbane Geoscience Transect crosses three major basement provinces in eastern
Australia: 1) the Thomson Fold Belt under the central Eromanga Basin and its infra-basins, 2) the
northernmost Lachlan Fold Belt under the Taroom Trough of the Bowen Basin and Surat Basin,
and 3) the New England Fold Belt under the Clarence-Moreton Basin. Basement geology in this
region has, until now, been only poorly understood because it is largely obscured by the Mesozoic
cover rocks of the Eromanga, Surat and Clarence-Moreton Basins. However, the application of
geophysical techniques (seismic methods in particular) in recent years has enabled a much better
understanding of the crustal architecture and processes likely to have been involved in the
development of the major basins. Such an understanding provides the framework for more detailed
investigations directed primarily at economic resources of oil, gas, coal, groundwater and many
minerals.The precis paper at the end of this Bulletin should be consulted for a summary of geoscience
results. It is evident from these results that the transect interpretation has now firmly established
concepts of crustal-scale ramp structures, multiple intra-crustal detachment surfaces, strike-slip fault
architecture, lower crustal magmatism/underplating, Moho remobilisation, and intra-crustal terranes
into the geological reconstructions of southern Queensland. In so doing, it has played a major role
in developing a better understanding of the sedimentary basins of eastern Australia.
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics
Canberra Author Finlayson, D.M.
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