Late Permian to Early Triassic Sedimentary Succession in Southern Bonaparte Basin

The southern Bonaparte Basin in Australia contains a sedimentary succession from the upper Permian to Lower Triassic. This study focuses on the timing, duration, and depositional environments of formations like the Dombey, Tern, Penguin, and Mairmull across the Petrel Sub-basin and Londonderry High. The research was published in The APPEA Journal on 2 July 2021.

Use Cases

• Modeling basin evolution based on described lithofacies changes from carbonate to siliciclastic formations.
• Correlating stratigraphic units based on regional well correlations and biostratigraphic data mentioned in the description.
• Predicting petroleum system element distribution based on the chronostratigraphic framework developed in the study.
• Assessing gas resource potential based on references to the Blacktip gas field and other identified resources.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific, economically significant region containing the producing Blacktip gas field.
• Provides a chronostratigraphic framework with implications for predicting petroleum system elements.
• Analysis extends across the significant Permian–Triassic stratigraphic boundary and faunal recovery phase.

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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Regional scale well correlations and assessment of biostratigraphic data.

Time Range

Late Permian to Early Triassic

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 03:17:31.971617; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southern Bonaparte Basin, specifically the Petrel Sub-basin and Londonderry High, Australia