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Tertiary foundations and Quaternary evolution of coral reef systems of Australia’s North West Shelf
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: L.B. Collins
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 2002
Abstract:
The North West Shelf is a modem tropical ramp, which is underlain by Cretaceous-Tertiary carbonates, with clastic reservoirs at depth. Coral reef systems, discontinuously developed during the Late Tertiary-Quaternary, vary from fringing reefs to isol...
Tags: Australia's coral evolution foundations North Quaternary reef shelf. systems Tertiary
Late Tertiary-Quaternary Geological Evolution of the Houtman Abrolhos Carbonate Platforms, Northern Perth Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Lindsay B. Collins, Zhong Rong Zhu and Karl-Heinz Wyrwoll
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The Houtman Abrolhos coral reefs are three shelf-edge carbonate platforms which together form the discontinuously rimmed Abrolhos Shelf. During the Tertiary to Quaternary there was a vertical transition from cool-water ramp sedimentation to reefal pl...
Tags: basin carbonate evolution geological Houtman Late northern Perth Platforms Quaternary Tertiary