Multi-disciplinary data from four boreholes in the Canning Basin, Western Australia, integrates palynological, petrographic, molecular, and stable isotopic analyses of the Middle Ordovician Goldwyer Formation. The study documents lateral and temporal variations in lipid biomarker assemblages and identifies the oldest cryptospores in Australia. Research was conducted by Gemma Spaak et al. and published in Global and Planetary Change in 2017.
Use Cases
- Modeling ancient marine redox conditions based on biomarker assemblage variations.
- Studying the early evolution of land plants based on the identification of cryptospores and terrestrial biomarkers.
- Investigating ecological relationships in Ordovician seas based on correlations between Gloeocapsomorpha prisca biosignatures and methanotroph indicators.
- Analyzing depositional environment changes in epicontinental seas based on integrated palynological and geochemical data.
Strengths
- Integrates data from four distinct boreholes, allowing for spatial analysis.
- Combines multiple analytical disciplines: palynology, petrography, molecular geochemistry, and stable isotopes.
- Contains a significant paleontological finding: the oldest record of land plants in Australian Middle Ordovician strata.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Analysis of cores from four boreholes intersecting the Goldwyer Formation.
- Time Range
- Middle Ordovician
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-16 18:31:30.487813; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Canning Basin, Western Australia