A 2006-2010 assessment by Geoscience Australia's Remote Eastern Frontiers project outlines the geological and petroleum prospectivity of the Capel and Faust basins on the northern Lord Howe Rise. The article describes the regional setting, data acquisition methods, assessment methodology, and findings of the study. It is provided by the Australian Ocean Data Network.
Use Cases
- Evaluate petroleum resource potential based on geological assessment findings
- Study regional geological settings for basin comparison
- Review data acquisition and assessment methodologies for offshore frontier basins
Strengths
- Assessment conducted by a national geological authority (Geoscience Australia)
- Project spanned a defined multi-year period (2006-2010)
- Focus on a specific geographic region (Capel and Faust basins, northern Lord Howe Rise)
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Data may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to data_gov_au
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia
- Collection Method
- Remote Eastern Frontiers project assessment
- Time Range
- 2006-2010
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-16 14:20:07.975048; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Capel and Faust basins, northern Lord Howe Rise, offshore Eastern Australia