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Gzhelian
Asselian
Sakmarian
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Sinemurian
Pliensbachian
Berriasian
Valanginian
Hauterivian
Barremian
Aptian
Albian
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Coniacian
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ZancleanPiacenzianGelasianE. Pleist.M. Pleist.
Messinian
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AnketellFormation
FrezierSandstone
PardaFormation
MelligoSandstone
FrezierSandstone
PardaFormation
MelligoSandstone
AlexanderFormation
AlexanderFormation
BarbwireSandstone
WallalSandstone
NoonkanbahFormation
ChirupFormation
Blina Shale
LaurelFormation
LuluiguiFormation
GumholeFormation
Yellow DrumFormation
ClanmeyerSiltstone
Car
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NibilFormation
NibilFormation
NitaFormation
NitaFormation
GoldwyerFormation
GoldwyerFormation
WillaraFormation
NambeetFormation
WillaraFormation
NambeetFormation
NibilFormation
NitaFormation
GoldwyerFormation
WillaraFormation
NambeetFormation
NitaFormation
Wilson CliffsSandstone
EmanuelFormation
ReevesFormation
AndersonFormation
LaurelFormation
Yellow DrumFormation
GumholeFormation
GumholeFormation
Yellow DrumFormation
LaurelFormation
LightjackFormation
CondrenSandstone
HardmanFormation
MillyitSandstone
Blina Shale
ErskineSandstone
LowerKeraudrenFormation
WallalSandstone
AlexanderFormation
BroomeSandstone
MelligoSandstone
EmeriauSandstone
UpperKeraudrenFormation
BedoutFormation
MuratSiltstone
unnamedformation
unnamedformation
MermaidFormation
CroninSandstone
SamuelFormation
BejahClaystone
ToolongaCalcilutite
Undiff.Paleogeneto Recentsediments
JarlemaiSiltstone
JarlemaiSiltstone
Fai
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Car
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Car
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Car
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Fai
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Fai
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Pric
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Hicks RangeSandstone
CherrabunMember
Nelson RocksFormation
JarlemaiSiltstone
Locker Shale
Cadjebut Fm
Calytrix Fm
Clianthus Fm
FitzroyVolcanics
FitzroyVolcanics
AcaciaSandstoneMember
Kirkby RangeMember
Fitzroy Trough Lennard Shelf Offshore
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KudataDolomite
NDo
Leo
Mir Kam
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SUN
CBo
PTO
PTO
Ell
LBe
Med
BLl
GTS 2004 Timescale
GTS 2004 Timescale
Aca, Dod
Cud, GSa
Aca, Dod
Cud, GSa
Dod, ERa,Pic
NDo, Aca,Sol
Leo
Leo
Leo
NullaraSequence
PillaraSequence
WorralFormation
SaharaFormation
NibilFormation
MallowaSalt
NitaFormation
GoldwyerFormation
TriwhiteSandstone Lightjack
Formation
Undiff.GrantGroup
Undiff.GrantGroup
Undiff.GrantGroup
ReevesFormation
Live
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AcaciaSandstoneMember
Minjoo Salt
WaldecksMember
AcaciaSandstoneMember
Leo Member Leo Member
Numerous thinPaleogene todiscontinuousQuaternary
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Numerous thinPaleogene todiscontinuousQuaternary
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units
Numerous thinPaleogene todiscontinuousQuaternary
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Numerous thinPaleogene todiscontinuousQuaternary
fluvial,lacrustrineand aeolian
units
Numerous thinPaleogene todiscontinuousQuaternary
fluvial,lacrustrineand aeolian
units
Rhaetian
Norian
Carnian
Late
Anisian
Middle
Ladinian
Olenekian
LopingianWuchiapingian
InduanChanghsingian
Capitanian
Wordian
Cisuralian
Guadalupian
Roadian
Artinskian
Kungurian
Per
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BOU - BoundaryTer - Terrace
Llo - Lloyd
Mir - Mirbelia
Pic - Pictor
PTO - Point Torment
Cud - Cudalgarra
Ell - Ellendale
Jan - JanpamJNo - Janpam North
Med - MedaBor - BoroniaBLI - Blina
CBo - Cow Bore
Dod - Dodonea
ERa - Edgar RangeGSa - Great Sandy
Leo - Leo
NDo - Nita Downs
Aca - Acacia
Par - PardaPer - Percival
SUN - Sundown
San - SantalumSol - Solanum
WKo - West KoraWTe - West TerraceWil - Willara
LBe - Lake Betty
Nap - Napier
Kor - KoraKam - Kambara
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Production Design by Veronika Galinec
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Breccia
Sandstone (fine-grained)
Sandstone (medium-grained)
Sandstone (coarse-grained) Siltstone
Evaporite
Shale
Claystone
Calcarous siltstone
Limestone
Massive limestone
Silty limestone
Silty dolostone
Dolostone
Igneous Intrusive
Oil prone source rock
Oil & gas prone source rock
Possible source rockGas showOil show
Oil & gas showOnshore
Offshore
Group
Oil & gas discovery
Gas discoveryOil discovery
Figure modified from Playford, P., 2002. Palaeokarst, pseudokarst and sequencestratigraphy in Devonian reef complexes of the Canning Basin, Western Australia.763-793 in Keep, M. & Moss, S. (eds), The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 3.Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Perth.
MallowaSalt
MallowaSalt
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PattersonFormation
Hoya Fm
Undiff.GrantGroup
Mt. Troy Fm/Minjoo Salt
Gap CreekFormation
LaurelFormation
PillaraSequence
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SE Kidson Sub-basin(Includes Tabletop Shelf)
Willara Sub-basin(Includes SW Shelf margin)
Broome Platform(Includes Barbwire Terrace)
CANNING BASIN LOCALITY MAP
PooleSandstone
NoonkanbahFormation
PooleSandstone
PooleSandstone
NoonkanbahFormation
Nura NuraMember
PooleSandstone
PooleSandstone
NoonkanbahFormation
ElsaSandstoneMember
DodoneaMember
WorralFormation
SaharaFormation
WaldecksMember
ElsaSandstoneMember
DodoneaMember
WaldecksMember
ElsaSandstoneMember
DodoneaMember
WorralFormation
SaharaFormation
200 0
Short TermSea level curve
100
Sandy siltstone
Slate
Muddy siltstone
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16°
18°
20°
22°
120°
Major depositional troughs
Canning Basin boundary
Structural element boundary
Coastline
Broome Platform
Willara Sub-basin
Kidson Sub-basin
Lennard ShelfFitzroy Trough
Tabletop Shelf
GregorySub-basin
0 200 km
Anketell Shelf
MunroeTerrace
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Dampier Terrace
Barbwire Terrace
BROOME
Wallal Em
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Wallal Platform
Samphire Embayment
McLartyEmbayment
Crosslands Platform
Billiluna Shelf
Ryan
Shelf
DERBY
FITZROY CROSSING
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These charts represent revisions of a previous series tying selected Australian biozonation andlithostratigraphic schemes from the Geoscience Australia databases to the Geologic Time Scale 2004(Gradstein et al, 2004).
WTe,SUN
Llo,WKo,BOU,
Kor
CallawaFormation
CroninFormation
MillyitSandstone
Blina Shale
ErskineSandstone
CossignyMember
MiriaFormation
Protoperidinium leonis
Achomosphaera ramulifera
Fromea leos
Deflandrea heterophlycta
Arachnodinium antarcticum
Charlesdowniea thompsoniae
Rhombodinium waipawaense
Apectodinium hyperacanthumApectodinium reburrus
Senegalinium dilwynensis
Nelsoniella aceras
Isabelidinium cretaceumOdontochitina porifera
KCCM16KCCM17
KCCM18
KCCM19
KCCM24
Dioxya armata
KCCM28
KCCM33
KCCM34
KCCM44
Muderongia australis
KCCM45
KCCM46
KCCM47
KCCM48
KCCM49
KCCM50
Egmontodinium torynum
Batioladinium lobispinosumBatioladinium reticulatum
Cassiculosphaeridia delicataKalyptea wisemaniae
Omatia montgomeryiCribroperidinium perforans
Wanaea clathrata
Ctenidodinium ancorumVoodooia tabulata
Ternia balmei
Wanaea indotata
Wanaea verrucosa
Protohaploxypinus microcorpus
Mellitasphaeridiumchoanophorum
Palaeohystrichophorainfusorioides
Microbaculispora villosa
Dulhuntyispora dulhuntyi
Didecitriletes ericianus
Dulhuntyispora granulata
Praecolpatites sinuosus
Microbaculispora trisina
Dulhuntyispora parvithola
Playfordiaspora crenulata
Lunatisporites pellucidus
Triplexisporites playfordii
Rhaetogonyaulax rhaetica
Hebecysta balmei
Wanneria listeri
Rhaetogonyaulax wigginsii
Minutosaccus crenulatus
Ashmoripollis reducta
Dapcodinium priscum
Corollina torosa
Luehndea assemblage
Wanaea spectabilis
Dingodinium swanense
Murospora florida
Dingodinium jurassicum
Phoberocysta burgeri
Muderongia testudinaria
Senoniasphaera tabulata
Systematophora areolata
Odontochitina operculata
Pseudoceratium iehiense
Grandispora spiculifera
Grandispora maculosa
Spelaeotriletes ybertii
Deusilites tenuistriatus
Microbaculispora tentula
Striatopodocarpites fusus
Nothofagidites senectus
Tricolporites apoxyexinus
Phyllocladidites mawsonii
Hoegisporis uniforma
Phimopollenites pannosus
Coptospora paradoxa
Xenascus asperatus
Endoceratium ludbrookiae
Canninginopsis denticulata
Muderongia tetracantha
Diconodinium multispinum
Xenikoon australis
Lygistepollenites balmei
Forcipites longus
Tricolporites lilliei
Malvacipollis diversus
Isabelidinium korojonensis
Manumiella druggii
Trithyrodinium evittii
Palaeoperidinium pyrophorum
Alisocysta circumtabulata
Eisenackia crassitabulata
Apectodinium homomophum
Wilsonidinium ornatum
Charlesdowniea edwardsii
Paucilobimorpha asteris
Enneadocysta partridgei
Membranophoridium perforatum
Phthanoperidinium comatum
Proteacidites tuberculatus
Nothofagidites asperus
Proteacidites asperopolus
Gippslandica extensa
Myrtaceidites lipsis
Triporopollenites bellus
Foraminisporis bifurcatus
Tubulifloridites pleistocenicus
Conosphaeridium striatoconum
Diconodinium davidii
Cyclosporites hughesi
Crybelosporites striatus
Contignisporites cooksoniae
Dictyotosporites complex
Foraminisporis wonthaggiensis
Ruffordiaspora australiensis
Retitriletes watherooensis
Callialasporites turbatus
Dissiliodinium caddaense
Staurosaccites quadrifidus
Samaropollenites speciosus
Protohaploxypinus samoilovichii
Pseudoreticulatispora confluens
Pseudoreticulatispora pseudoreticulata
Diatomozonotriletes birkheadensis
Anapiculatisporites largus
N22
N20/N21
N18/N19N17bN17N16N15N14N13N12N11N10N9N8N7N6
N5
N4
N3, P22
N2, P21
N1, P20
P16
P15
P14P13
P12
P11
P10
P9
P6aP6b
P3
P4
P5
P1
P0
P2
KCCM1-5
KCCM6-10
KCCM11-15
KCCM20-23
KCCM25-27
KCCM29-32
KCCM37-43
KCCM35-36
P7P8
PA
P17P18
P19
Sahulidinium ottii
KCCM Zones
N, P Zones(Blow 1969, 1999)
(Rexilius 2009, unpub)
AustralianDinocyst Zonation
(HMP 2006)
Spore-Pollen ZonationSE Standard
(A.D.P 2006)
Nannoceratopsis deflandrei
Protoellipsodinium simplex
Tuberculodinium vancampoae
Microplankton not diagnostic
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Gra
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Bongabinni Fm Bongabinni Fm
Gra
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Gra
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Gra
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Mt. Troy Fm/Minjoo Salt
Bongabinni Fm Bongabinni Fm
Mt. Troy Fm/Minjoo Salt
UndifferentiatedGoldwyer
Formation andWillara Formation
PegasusDolomite Mbr
TandalgooFormation
Dominic Shale
MellinjerieLimestone
PegasusDolomite Mbr
TandalgooFormation
Dominic Shale
MellinjerieLimestone
PegasusDolomite Mbr
Cudalgara Mbr Cudalgara Mbr
SaharaFormation
WorralFormation
Dominic Shale Dominic Shale
TandalgooFormation
MellinjerieLimestone
TandalgooFormation
GogoFormation
ClanmeyerSiltstone
BroomeSandstone
MowlaSandstone
Fai
rfie
ld G
p
KunianSandstone
Period Epoch Stage
Ord
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cian
EarlyTremadocian
CondrenSandstone
HardmanFormation
LuluiguiFormation
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LampeFormation
- "LakeGeorgebeds"
Capitals (eg. BLI) indicate a field
Kelly’s Pass Event
Algae Creek Event
Elliott Ridge Event
Cadjebut Formation
Fairfield Group
Prices Creek Group
Pillara LimestoneSequence 1
Gogo Formation
Sequence 3
Sequence 6Nullara
LimestonePiker Hills Formation
Virgin Hills Formation
Sequence 4
Sequence 2
LimestoneWindjana
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SadlerLimestone
NapierFormation
Reef Extinction Event
Shady Bore Event
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Sequence 5
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Sakmarian
Asselian
Gzhelian
Kasimovian
Moscovian
Bashkirian
Serpukhovian
S. fusus
S. ybertii
D. birkheadensis
D. tenuistriatus
M. tentula
P. confluens
P. pseudoreticulata
Noonkanbah Formation
Winifred FmPaterson Fm
Anketell-Tabletop Shelf Kidson-Wallara-Crossland-Broome Fitzroy TroughBarbwire Terrace Lennard Shelf
Poole Sandstone Poole Sandstone
Schematic cross-section of the Late Carboniferous-Early Permian stratigraphic unitsacross the Canning Basin, after Mory, Redfern and Martin (2008).
DSM = Deeadeea Sandstone MemberNCM = Ngumban Claystone Member
Millajiddee MbrWye Worry Mbr
Clianthus FmCalytrix Fm
Hoya Fm
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