South Nicholson National Drilling Initiative Drilling project NDI Carrara 1 drill hole completion report and downhole datasets  


Authors / CoAuthors

Carson, C. | Grosjean, E. | Henson, P. | Butcher, G. | Bailey, A. | Carr, L. | Wang, L. | Boreham, C. | Anderson, J. | Palu, T.

Abstract

NDI Carrara 1 is a deep stratigraphic drill hole completed in 2020 as part of the MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative (NDI) in collaboration with Geoscience Australia and the Northern Territory Geological Survey. It is the first test of the Carrara Sub-basin, a newly discovered Proterozoic depocentre in the South Nicholson region, based on interpretation from new seismic surveys (L210 in 2017 and L212 in 2019) acquired as part of the Exploring for the Future program. The drill hole intersected approximately 1120 m of Proterozoic sedimentary rocks unconformably overlain by 630 m of Cambrian Georgina Basin carbonates. Continuous cores recovered from 283 m to a total depth of 1751 m. Geoscience Australia conducted an extensive post-drilling analytical program that generated over 30 datasets which the interested reader can find under the EFTF webpage (under the "Data and publications" drop down menu) at https://www.eftf.ga.gov.au/south-nicholson-national-drilling-initiative This record links to the Exploring for the Future 'borehole completion report' for NDI Carrara 1 and access to all on-site downhole geophysical datasets.

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dataset

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145301

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Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)  
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Keywords

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
  • EARTH SCIENCESGEOLOGYBasin Analysis
( Project )
  • Exploring for the Future - EFTF
( Project )
  • Barkly-Isa-Georgetown module
( Feature type )
  • NDI Carrara 1
( Feature type )
  • Carrara Sub-basin
( Feature type )
  • South Nicholson
( Temporal )
  • Proterozoic
( Temporal )
  • Cambrian
( Feature type )
  • Georgina Basin
  • Published_External

Publication Date

2024-05-21T23:25:11

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onGoing

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Release of downhole geophysical, geochemical, core photographs, field logs and other field datasets from NDA Carrara-1 for public access.

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geoscientificInformation

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This record provides access to the field based observations and downhole and on-site datasets collected on NDI Carrara 1.

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[-19.00, -18.80, 137.50, 138.00]

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