Geology of the Onshore Canning Basin, Western Australia with Sedimentary Sequence Details

Geoscience Australia Data provides a geological description of the onshore Canning Basin, an intracratonic basin in Western Australia. The dataset characterizes the basin's five major periods of sedimentation, from the Early Ordovician to the Cainozoic, detailing marine and continental phases, tectonic events, and rock sequences up to 18 km thick. It was last updated on 2026-03 25.

Use Cases

• Model petroleum trap structures based on described Devonian reef and Fairfield Group sequences
• Assess groundwater prospectivity based on described Jurassic sandstones and Quaternary alluvium
• Study basin evolution and tectonism based on the five described periods of sedimentation and erosion
• Analyze paleoclimate and depositional environments from described glacial, evaporitic, and fluvial phases

Strengths

• Describes a thick sedimentary rock sequence up to 18 kilometers
• Details five distinct periods of sedimentation spanning from the Early Ordovician to the Cainozoic
• Identifies specific prospective units for petroleum (Devonian reefs, Fairfield Group) and groundwater

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 as HTML and PDF files, which may require extraction for computational analysis

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Compiled from reconnaissance mapping, drilling, and geophysical data

Time Range

Covers geological periods from Early Ordovician to present (Cainozoic)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 19:08:50.741186; freshness should be verified

Geography

Onshore Canning Basin, Western Australia, between the Halls Creek Province and the Pilbara Block