Publication Name: West Australian Basins Symposium 2019
Authors: S. Morón, P.A.Cawood, P. W. Haines, S.J. Gallagher, S. Zahirovic, C.J. Lewis & L. Moresi
Date Published: September 2019
Number of Pages: 20
Abstract:
The provenance of Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary sequences in Western Australia remains controversial. Better understanding of sediment provenance has implications for the characterisation of reservoir quality and potential correlation between known reservoirs and reservoirs yet to be discovered.Here, we compare U-Pb zircon chronology and Hf isotopic data from Triassic and Paleozoic sedimentary units from the Northern Carnarvon, Canning and Officer
basins with data from crystalline rocks to better fingerprint the sediment sources of these Western Australia basins.