Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
Authors: P. Wilson, I.J. Tapley, F.R. Honey
Date Published: December 1984
Number of Pages: 21
Reference Type: Book Section
Abstract:
Digital enhancement of daytime reflected and nighttime thermal imagery from the NOAA-A VHRR satellite series has highlighted the presence of abundant macroscopic geologic structures traversing the major geologic regions of Western Australia. The magnitude and extent of the lineaments within the Canning Basin suggest they are the result of tectonic activity and are surface expressions of deep-seated faults. Their alignment appears to have structurally controlled the position and flow direction of major palaeodrainage systems. Night-time thermal imagery has revealed a complex, high density, trellised and dendritic ancestral (Tertiary) drainage pattern beneath the sand dunes and sand plains of the Great Sandy Desert. Several of the lineaments that control this system, and others within the basin are strongly correlated with gravity and magnetic depth to basement data.