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New Age Dating of Evaporites in Canning Basin, WA, Australia. A Case Study based on samples from the Frome Rocks Salt Diapir

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New Age Dating of Evaporites in Canning Basin, WA, Australia. A Case Study based on samples from the Frome Rocks Salt Diapir

 

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Publication Name: AEGC 2021

Authors: F. McNee, J. Gorter, F. Glass

Date Published: September 2021

Number of Pages: 13

Abstract:

The age of evaporitic units in the Kidson Sub-basin of the Canning Basin have been assigned to be of Late Ordovician to Early Silurian age through the dating of the sedimentary sequences within the Mallowa Salt.
This paper presents an alternative model that suggests that an evaporitic salt sequence over the Jurgurra Terrace was deposited during the initial opening of the Fitzroy Trough during the Middle Devonian and prior to the deposition of the carbonate/claystone sequences of the Gogo and Pillara Formations.

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