Darling Sedimentary Basin

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The Darling Sedimentary Basin, or simply the Darling Basin, is located in western New South Wales, bordered in the north by the line Broken Hill-Wilcannia -Cobar and stretching southward towards the Murray River. [1] [2] It is an old sedimentary basin dated by Late Cambrian/Silurian to Early Carboniferous. [3] It is an intra-cratonic depositional center, mostly filled with Devonian sedimentary rocks up to 8 km in thickness. It is overlaid by the Eromanga Basin in the north and the Murray Basin in the south. It covers the area on over 100,000 km2. [4] [5]

Darling and Murray basins are separated by the Lachlan Fold Belt. [6]

Major troughs and sub-basins include Cobar Basin, Mt Hope Trough, Rast Trough and Melrose Trough. [7]

The Moomba to Sydney Pipeline crosses the area. [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Basin Details and Geological Overview
  2. ↑ Griffith in the Darling Basin
  3. ↑ Rajabi, Mojtaba; Tingay, Mark; Heidbach, Oliver (2016). "The present-day state of tectonic stress in the Darling Basin, Australia: Implications for exploration and production" . Marine and Petroleum Geology. 77: 776. Bibcode:2016MarPG..77..776R. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.07.021.
  4. 1 2 Phillip M Cooney, Ricky M Mantaring (2004), Interpretation of the Petroleum Potential of the Darling Basin, a Process of Integration and Iteration, doi : 10.1071/ASEG2004ab020
  5. ↑ Darling Basin
  6. ↑ Potential cumulative impacts on river flow volume from increased groundwater extraction under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
  7. ↑ ROBERT KINGHAM, Geology of the Murray-Darling Basin — Simplified Lithostratigraphic Groupings

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