Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0560955

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0560955

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The neo- and seismo-tectonics of northwestern Australia. Australia's two largest earthquakes occurred in NW Australia (magnitudes 7 and 7.9 in 1941 and 1906). Onshore and offshore geologic evidence indicates other such events in recent geological history. Our present seismic database records no such events. We propose to document the nature, frequency, intensity, distribution and possible causes of seismicity in NW Australia, through deployment of seismograph arrays. We will test the effects of basement reactivation, determine the crustal structure beneath the cratonic mass, examine onshore and offshore faults, determine local and regional stress orientations and investigate implications for petroleum production in the region, and whether natural resource extraction causes local seismicity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 15-08-2005

End Date: 04-12-2008

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $375,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geology | Structural Geology | Earthquake Seismology | Geotectonics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Oil and gas | Oil and gas |

Other Keywords

Earthquake Seismology | Geology | Geotectonics | Oil and gas | Structural Geology

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