The Capel and Faust basins are located offshore eastern Australia in water depths of 1300-2500 meters. Geoscience Australia acquired and analyzed high-quality 2D seismic data, multibeam bathymetry, gravity, magnetic data, and rock samples between 2003 and 2011. This work improved the definition of depocentres up to 150 km long and identified basin fill with a maximum thickness over 6 km, presented at the Australian Earth Sciences Convention in 2010.
Use Cases
- Modeling basin evolution based on interpreted syn-rift and sag megasequences.
- Assessing petroleum prospectivity using seismic, gravity, and magnetic data.
- Mapping depocentre geometry and sediment thickness from high-resolution bathymetry and seismic profiles.
- Correlating regional stratigraphy with rock dredge sample analysis.
Strengths
- Includes high-quality 2D seismic data, multibeam bathymetry, gravity, magnetic data, and physical rock samples.
- Analysis defines depocentres approximately 150 km long and 40 km wide with basin fill over 6 km thick.
- Data collection was part of structured Australian Government programs (New Petroleum 2003-2007, Offshore Energy Security 2007-2011).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Primary data formats are HTML and PDF, which may require extraction for computational analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia, Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Acquired under government programs via seismic surveys, multibeam mapping, gravity/magnetic measurements, and rock dredging.
- Time Range
- Data primarily collected 2003-2011; analysis presented in 2010.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-16 09:22:57.989766; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Capel and Faust basins, northern Lord Howe Rise, offshore eastern Australia.