Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
Authors: A.D. George, Z. Seyedmehdi, N. Chow
Date Published: August 2013
Number of Pages: 16
Abstract:
Mixed siliciclastic–carbonate depositional systems of the northern Canning Basin record platform development on synrift fault blocks related to opening and extension of the Fitzroy Sub-basin and subsequent thermal subsidence. The Lennard Shelf platforms are important analogues for the buried shelves of the Canning Basin, coeval platforms of the Bonaparte Basin, and rift-related carbonate reservoirs elsewhere. Integration of field- and core-based sedimentology, biostratigraphy, and wireline log and seismic data, within a sequence-stratigraphic framework, has been used to revise and refine the 2nd and 3rd order relative sea-level history through late Mid-Devonian to Early Carboniferous ramp-to-reef-to-ramp platform evolution.