A multi-disciplinary study integrates palynological, petrographic, molecular, and stable isotopic analyses from five boreholes in the Canning Basin. The research identifies two major transgression events and the oldest record of land plants in Australian Middle Ordovician strata. This dataset contributes to understanding Ordovician marine environments from a molecular perspective.
Use Cases
- Reconstructing paleoenvironmental conditions based on biomarker indices like Pristane/Phytane ratios
- Analyzing microbial community evolution during the Ordovician period based on molecular and isotopic data
- Studying the early colonization of land by plants based on cryptospore and terrestrial biomarker evidence
Strengths
- Integrates data from five distinct boreholes, providing multiple sampling points
- Includes specific biomarker indices (e.g., Pristane/Phytane, dibenzothiophene, gammacerane, 3-methylhopane) for environmental inference
- Identifies the oldest cryptospores in Australia, a key paleontological finding
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia Data
- Collection Method
- Palynological, petrographic, molecular, and stable isotopic analyses of cores from five boreholes intersecting the Goldwyer Formation.
- Time Range
- Middle Ordovician period
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-14 03:03:12.419186; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Canning Basin, Western Australia