The Surat Basin in Australia contains six sedimentary cycles, each hundreds of metres thick, spanning the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The cycles, thought to result from global sea-level changes, are described in documents from the Australian Ocean Data Network. The dataset was last updated on 2026-04-16.
Use Cases
- Modeling sedimentary basin evolution based on described cycles of high-energy and low-energy deposition.
- Correlating local basin stratigraphy with global sea-level oscillations mentioned in the description.
- Analyzing paleoenvironmental transitions from braided streams to marine settings based on described facies changes.
Strengths
- Describes six distinct sedimentary cycles, each hundreds of metres thick.
- Links basin stratigraphy to nine global sea-level oscillations.
- Provides detailed paleoenvironmental interpretations for Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Time Range
- Jurassic and Cretaceous periods
- Freshness
- 2026-04-16
- Geography
- Surat Basin, Australia