Officer Basin

The Officer Basin is a large (ca. 410,000 km²) intracratonic sedimentary basin in Australia, lying across the states of South Australia and Western Australia.

The Officer Basin is named after Officer Creek which is a watercourse that drains a small part of the basin.

It has been explored and surveyed for gas or oil deposits.[1][2][3][4]

Formation

Deposition of up to 10 km of marine and non-marine sedimentary rocks took place from the Neoproterozoic to the late Paleozoic. Paleozoic components of the basin are only found in South Australia.

Along with other nearby sedimentary basins of similar age (Amadeus Basin, Georgina Basin), the Officer Basin is believed to have once been part of the hypothetical Centralian Superbasin which was fragmented during several episodes of tectonic activity.

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See also

Notes
  1. Leven, J. H. (James Howard); Owen, A. J; Australian Geological Survey Organisation (1994), Officer Basin seismic processing report, Australian Geological Survey Organisation, ISBN 978-0-642-22309-8
  2. Lindsay, John F. (John Francis); Reine, K. (Knute); Australian Geological Survey Organisation (1995), Well-log data, Officer Basin, South Australia, Australian Geological Survey Organisation, retrieved 30 December 2018
  3. South Australia. Primary Industries and Resources (2003), Officer Basin data package, Primary Industries and Resources SA, retrieved 30 December 2018
  4. Apak, Sukru N; Moors, H. T. (Henry Theodore), 1942-; Geological Survey of Western Australia (2000), Basin development and petroleum exploration of the Yowalga area, Officer Basin, Western Australia, Geological Survey of Western Australia, ISBN 978-0-7307-5649-1CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

References
  • Drexel JF, Preiss WV (editors) (1995). The Geology of South Australia. Geological Survey of South Australia, Bulletin, 54.
  • Grey K, Hocking RM, Stevens MK, Bagas L, Carlsen GM, Irimies F, Pirajno F, Haines PW, Apak SN (2005) Lithostratigraphic nomenclature of the Officer Basin and correlative parts of the Paterson Orogen, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Report 93, 89p.
  • Jackson MJ, van de Graaff WJE (1981) Geology of the Officer Basin. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Australia, Bulletin 206.

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