PESA Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Interest Group meeting 

30th of August, 1 – 4pm Carlisle Core Library

4pm Balmoral Hotel, Victoria Park

Cores from the Middle Jurassic J20 Reservoirs of Australia’s Western Margin

Middle Jurassic reservoirs have helped underpin Australia’s gas export industry for decades and will for many more. This widespread thick sand dominated unit is variably named the Yarragadee Formation, Cattamarra CM, Legendre Formation and Plover Formation, depending on basin. It represents a mega deltaic succession grading from fluvial to deltaic to marine and back again, both vertically and laterally from the Perth Basin in the South and continuing to East Timor and Indonesia in the Nth. Cores have been chosen to cover the vertical and lateral variation with cores from Houtman-1 in the Perth Basin, Perseus-2 in the Nth Carnarvon Basin, Callaince-1 in the Browse Basin and Barrossa-3 in the Bonaparte Basin. Depofacies include fluvial channel fill, distributary channel fill, shore face, interdistributary bay, delta front, offshore transition and open marine. Come and review the facies variations, the diagenetic variability and the controls on production that are evident in the core. See if you can identify climatic indicators in this system as well.

Organisers: Rob Seggie and Darren Ferdinando

As is tradition, the SSIG workshop will be followed by drinks at 4.00 pm at the Balmoral Hotel, Victoria Park.

PESA supplies nibbles, but drinks are at your own expense.

Hard limit of 35 attendees and every previous SSIG meeting has been fully booked out. 

Cost: 

Member:  $10

Student members:  Free

Registrations close Thursday 29th August at 5pm.

This event is for members only. This is for insurance purposes. Please do not book on behalf of non-members. Please do not attend if you do not have a ticket.

If there are any questions please don’t hesitate to contact your host:  Rob Seggie (seggiegeoscience@gmail.com)