Permian Coals of Eastern Australia: Stratigraphy, Structure, and Properties

An overview of Permian coal-bearing basins across eastern Australia, covering an area comparable to European Carboniferous basins. The report contains two major databases from BMR and CSIRO, summarized in 42 plates and dozens of line drawings. It describes three tectonic basin groups, coal properties, and depositional environments influenced by an Early Permian ice sheet.

Use Cases

• Analyze coal seam thickness and distribution based on descriptions of rift valleys and intracratonic basins.
• Model basin evolution and tectonic history based on classifications of rift, intracratonic, and marginal basins.
• Compare coal petrographic and chemical properties based on the CSIRO database covering vitrinite and semifusinite ratios.
• Study the impact of paleo-water tables and deposition rates on coal banding based on comparisons between marginal and interior basins.

Strengths

• Report covers an enormous geographic area equivalent to European Carboniferous basins from Scotland to the western Soviet Union.
• Contains two major databases (BMR and CSIRO) summarized in 42 plates and dozens of line drawings.
• Describes three distinct tectonic basin groups with specific examples like the Cooper and Galilee Basins.

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

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Report compilation from BMR and CSIRO databases.

Time Range

Permian era.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 04:16:13.047631; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, between the coast and the middle of the Great Artesian Basin.