Publication Name: CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN BASINS WORKSHOP 1993 (CABS 1)
Authors: J. Karajas
Date Published: September 1993
Number of Pages: 1
Abstract:
The southern Georgina Basin contains a thick, areally extensive, oil-prone, alginitic, black shale unit in a depocentre in the Middle Cambrian Arthur Creek Formation. Typical source rock intercepts range between 20 and 100 metres in thickness, with TOCs commonly averaging 3-4% and ranging up to 9.6%. Extensive oil generation and migration from out of this depocentre is evidenced by numerous good oil shows in overlying and underlying carbonate formations.