The northern Exmouth Plateau and offshore Canning Basin in Australia are the focus of this dataset. It describes a research project by the Bureau of Mineral Resources (BMR) to map Triassic and Jurassic reef complexes for petroleum exploration. The project planned a 34-day cruise in early 1990 to acquire seismic profiles and dredge samples.
Use Cases
- Mapping reef extent and facies changes based on seismic profiling and dredging techniques mentioned in the description.
- Assessing petroleum potential based on the description of reef traps and lagoonal facies as oil sources.
- Evaluating geological history of the northern Exmouth Plateau based on the project's stated aim.
- Identifying seismic character parameters for reef mapping in other basins based on the project's second-phase goal.
Strengths
- Project outlines a specific 34-day cruise plan for data acquisition.
- Description references a concrete estimate of 60 million barrels of undiscovered oil potential.
- Focuses on a defined geographic area: northern Exmouth Plateau and southwestern Canning Basin.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data files are PDF and HTML formats, which may not be directly machine-readable for analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Research cruise planned for seismic profiling, dredging, and coring.
- Time Range
- Project planned for early 1990.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-05 04:24:32.119269; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Northern Exmouth Plateau and offshore Canning Basin, Northwest Shelf, Australia.