The Arckaringa Basin is an endorheic basin in Australia. It is 80,000 square kilometres (31,000 sq mi) in size and is located in South Australia.[1]
The basin surrounds the town of Coober Pedy in northern South Australia. It located in the north of the Gawler Block.[2]
Structure
The basin structure features an elevated central platform. There are both glacigene sediments deposited in the upper Carboniferous and Permian coal measures which are mostly covered by Mesozoic sediments.[2] The Boorthana Formation in the east bears diamictite.[3]
The eastern boundary of the basin contain some outcrops of pavements which prove glaciation.[3] Infills in the Arckaringa Basin are dominated by mass flow deposits.[4]
Resources
Reports as of February 2013 estimate that the oil-bearing shale of the basin may contain between 3.5 and 233 billion barrels (560×106 and 37,040×106 m3) of petroleum or petroleum equivalent.[5]
Footnotes
- ↑ "Arckaringa Basin," Archived February 28, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Department for Manufacturing, Innovation, Trade, Resources and Energy (DMITRE), Government of South Australia, Last modified February 27, 2013, /www.pir.sa.gov.au/
- 1 2 Martâinez Dâias, Carlos; Cornelis Frederik Winkler Prins; Luis F. Granados (1983). The Carboniferous of the World, Volume 2. Instituto Geolâogico y Minero de Espaäna. p. 82. ISBN 8439856709. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
- 1 2 Hambrey, M. J.; W. B. Harland (2011). Earth's Pre-Pleistocene Glacial Record. Cambridge University Press. p. 469. ISBN 0521172306. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
- ↑ Deynoux, M.; J. M. G. Miller; E. W. Domack (2004). Earth's Glacial Record. Cambridge University Press. p. 15. ISBN 0521548039. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
- ↑ "$20 Trillion Shale Oil Find Surrounding Coober Pedy 'Can Fuel Australia,'" The Advertiser (Adelaide, Australia), January 24, 2013, www.adelaidenow.com.au/
Further reading
- Adam Taylor, "Shale Oil Bonanza Reaches Australia With '$20 Trillion' Discovery," Business Insider, January 24, 2013.
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