The Carnarvon Basin covers over 1,000 km from Geraldton to Karratha and contains up to 15,000 m of sedimentary infill. This dataset from the Australian Ocean Data Network provides descriptive attribute information grouped into 11 themes including Location, Geology, Hydrogeology, and Groundwater Management. The data was last updated on 2026-04-16.
Use Cases
- Analyze groundwater management and use based on the administrative and groundwater management themes.
- Study geological evolution based on the descriptions of Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic sequences.
- Map surface water and hydrogeology relationships based on the grouped descriptive topics.
- Assess land use and industry types in relation to the basin's physical geography and environment.
- Investigate hydrocarbon resource potential based on the description of Upper Triassic, Jurassic, and Lower Cretaceous sandstone reservoirs.
Strengths
- Descriptive information is organized into 11 distinct thematic groups.
- The basin's spatial extent is explicitly defined as over 1,000 km along the Western Australian coast.
- The dataset describes geological sequences with sedimentary infill up to 15,000 m thick.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data is provided in PDF format, which may hinder direct computational analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-16 09:40:03.715420; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia, stretching over 1,000 km from Geraldton to Karratha.