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University of Western Australia
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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Geology | Other Stratigraphy (Incl. Sequence Stratigraphy) | Sedimentology | Palaeoclimatology | Palaeontology | Marine Geoscience | Explosion Seismology
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Heritage not elsewhere classified | Preserving movable cultural heritage | Mineral Resources (excl. Energy Resources) not elsewhere classified | Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Oil and gas | Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Earth sciences |
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Evolution of a complex early Permian coarse-grained shoreline along a rift basin margin
Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology
Date: 31-03-2021
DOI: 10.2110/JSR.2020.063
Abstract: Tectonic activity in extensional basins has a profound control on accommodation and sediment supply through the interplay between footwall uplift and hanging-wall subsidence, and thus largely influences the three-dimensional architecture of syn-rift sequences. This is emphasized in areas close to major rift-border faults, where steep coastal reliefs and fluvial gradients produce compound facies zonation and stratigraphic styles with strong lateral variability. The lower Permian High Cliff Sandstone was deposited in an array of shallow marine environments along the margin of the northern Perth Basin during a protracted late Paleozoic rifting episode in Western Australian basins. The formation is composed of fluvio-deltaic and nearshore strata sharply overlying a thick succession of offshore mudstone that was deposited during a phase of tectonic quiescence. This basal contact likely reflects submarine erosion and is, therefore, interpreted as a regressive surface of marine erosion generated in response to forced regression. The facies arrangement consisting of interbedded sandstone, conglomerate, and heterolithic facies chiefly records the evolution of a low- to high-gradient paleoshoreline punctuated by coastal streams, steep sea cliffs, and back-barrier lagoons. Extraformational outsized clasts were probably emplaced by the erosion of exhumed basement and older sedimentary rocks through fluvial incision, wave sapping, or landsliding. The along-strike variability between low- and high-gradient shoreline deposits indicates a dynamic depositional setting with a complex tectonic influence. The basal regressive surface of marine erosion is attributed to footwall uplift during the early reactivation stage of basin-bounding normal faults and, therefore, records the initiation of a new syn-rift phase in the northern Perth Basin.
Frasnian reef evolution and palaeogeography, SE Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Australia
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1144/SP314.4
Controls on shelf-margin architecture and sediment partitioning on the Hammerhead shelf margin (Bight Basin, southern Australia)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2023
Geochemical and Crystallographic Study of Turbo Torquatus (Mollusca: Gastropoda) From Southwestern Australia
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1002/2017GC007287
Lithofacies and sequence development on an Upper Devonian mixed carbonate-siliciclastic fore-reef slope, Canning Basin, Western Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-1997
Deposition and deformation of an early Cretaceous trench-slope basin deposit, Torlesse Terrane, New Zealand
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 1992
MICROVERTEBRATE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF UPPER DEVONIAN (FRASNIAN) CARBONATE ROCKS IN THE CANNING AND CARNARVON BASINS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-2009
Syn‐rift sequence development in a fault‐controlled embayment (Early Permian Irwin River Coal Measures, Northern Perth Basin, Western Australia)
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2019
DOI: 10.1111/SED.12617
Stratigraphy and sedimentary features of the Tertiary Yandi channel iron deposits, Hamersley Province, Western Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2003
The origin of metavolcanic and associated argillaceous rocks at island bay, wellington, new zealand
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-1985
Corrigendum to Stratigraphic architecture of an Early-Middle Jurassic tidally influenced deltaic system (Plover Formation), Browse Basin, Australian North West Shelf [Marine Pet. Geol. 49 (2014) 59-83]
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2014
Survival brachiopod faunas of the end-Permian mass extinction from the southern Alps (Italy) and South China
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 18-04-2006
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756806001993
Abstract: Eight brachiopod species in seven genera are described from the Permian–Triassic boundary beds of South China and northern Italy. The brachiopods from northern Italy are described for the first time and include two new species: Orbicoelia dolomitensis Chen and Spirigerella ? teseroi Chen. The Permian affinity of these brachiopods and their stratigraphical position above the extinction horizon demonstrate that they are survivors from the end-Permian mass extinction. The surviving brachiopods from South China, which was located at the eastern margin of the Palaeo-Tethys Ocean, are considerably abundant and erse and are dominated by geographically widespread generalist elements adapted to a wide variety of environments. They were mostly limited to the Upper Permian to lowest Griesbachian. In contrast, the survivors in northern Italy, which was situated at the western margin of the Palaeo-Tethys, comprise elements ranging from the Carboniferous to Permian or widespread Tethyan genera. These survivors did not occur in the pre-extinction western Tethyan oceans but migrated into this region after the end-Permian extinction event. Disaster taxon Lingula proliferated slightly earlier in western Tethyan oceans than in eastern Tethyan regions following the event. Survival brachiopods from both regions appear to have a generic affinity, although they do not share any species. Both South Chinese and Italian survival faunas support the view that the survival interval is the duration when survivors are dominated by geographically widespread generalist organisms adapted to a wide variety of ecological conditions.
Stratigraphic architecture of an Early-Middle Jurassic tidally influenced deltaic system (Plover Formation), Browse Basin, Australian North West Shelf
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2014
Syndepositional fault control on lower Frasnian platform evolution, Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Australia
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 04-2009
DOI: 10.1130/G25461A.1
Inferring sandstone grain size using spectral datasets
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
Miocene cooling in the northern Qilian Shan, northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, revealed by apatite fission-track and vitrinite-reflectance analysis
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 2001
Interplay of eustatic, tectonic and autogenic controls on a Late Devonian carbonate platform, northern Canning Basin, Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-06-2020
DOI: 10.1111/BRE.12468
Abstract: Frasnian reef complexes along the northern margin of the Canning Basin in northwestern Australia evolved during rifting of the Fitzroy Trough. Geological investigations of the Frasnian Hull platform, which developed on an active tilted fault‐block, reveal significant lateral and vertical facies variations superimposed on prominent metre‐scale cyclicity. This study uses numerical analyses of facies and magnetic susceptibility data from three measured sections along the Hull platform to test whether a tectonic signal can be distinguished from eustatic and other signals. Geostatistical analysis of facies variations reveals an exponential distribution of thin ( m) facies, characteristic of stochastic depositional processes. Thick subtidal facies predominate in the Guppy Hills (GH) and southeastern Hull Range (SHR) sections near the hangingwall margin, and thick shallow‐subtidal to intertidal facies dominate the Horse Springs drillcore (HD 14) section near the footwall margin. Power and wavelet spectral analyses indicate a strong periodic component Average Spectral Misfit and spectral optimisation methods confirm the presence of Milankovitch eccentricity signals and suggest the presence of obliquity and precession signals. However, the results also expose strong temporal and spatial variation providing evidence for tectonic control. Spectral analyses show strongest periodicity is recorded in short intervals that are not correlated across the platform and provide evidence of variations in sedimentation rate and hiatuses. Time series for the neighbouring GH and SHR sections show no overall statistical correlation, and Markov analysis indicates weakly ordered vertical facies transitions that do not correlate across the platform. Subtidal to intertidal facies data from HD 14 core suggest that at least 35% of the section is absent, almost obscuring the Milankovitch signal. The results indicate a complex set of controls on deposition on the Hull platform with local tectonic effects having produced spatio‐temporal moderation of the underlying eustatic signals and autogenic processes adding a localised stochastic response.
Shelf-margin architecture and shoreline processes at the shelf-edge: Controls on sediment partitioning and prediction of deep-water deposition style
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2018
Early Triassic recovery of the brachiopod faunas from the end-Permian mass extinction: A global review
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2005
Stratal architecture and platform evolution of an early Frasnian syn-tectonic carbonate platform, Canning Basin, Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-06-2013
DOI: 10.1111/SED.12041
Controls on shelf-margin architecture and sediment partitioning during a syn-rift to post-rift transition: Insights from the Barrow Group (Northern Carnarvon Basin, North West Shelf, Australia)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
The intraplate Mangaroon Orogeny and its role in the Paleoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the Australian continent
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2022
Radiolarians in offscraped seamount fragments, aorangi range, New Zealand
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-1993
Mineralisation of filamentous cyanobacteria in Lake Thetis stromatolites, Western Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-01-2018
DOI: 10.1111/GBI.12272
Abstract: Stromatolites are cited as some of the earliest evidence for life on Earth, but problems remain in reconciling the paucity of microfossils in ancient carbonate ex les with the abundance of microbes that help construct modern analogues. Here, we trace the mineralisation pathway of filamentous cyanobacteria within stromatolites from Lake Thetis, Western Australia, providing new insights into microfossil preservation in carbonate stromatolites. Lake Thetis cyanobacteria exhibit a spectrum of mineralisation processes that include early precipitation of Mg-silicates, largely controlled by the morphochemical features of the cyanobacteria, followed by aragonite formation that is inferred to be driven by heterotrophic activity. Fossilised cyanobacteria with high-quality morphological preservation are characterised by a significant volume of authigenic Mg-silicates, which have preferentially nucleated in/on extracellular organic material and on cell walls, and now replicate the region once occupied by the cyanobacterial sheath. In such specimens, aragonite is restricted to the outer sheath margin and parts of the cell interior. Cyanobacteria that display more significant degradation appear to possess a higher ratio of aragonite to Mg-silicate. In these specimens, aragonite forms micronodules in the sheath zone and is spatially associated with the inferred remains of heterotrophic bacteria. Aragonite also occurs as an advancing front from the outer margin of the sheath where it is commonly intergrown with Mg-silicates. Where there is no evidence of Mg-silicates within filaments, the fidelity of microfossil preservation is poor. In these cases, in idual filaments may no longer be visible under light microscopy, and little organic material remains, but filament traces remain detectable using electron microscopy due to variations in aragonite texture. These data provide further evidence that authigenic silicate minerals play a crucial role in the fossilisation of micro-organisms in their absence, carbonate crystal growth potentially mediated by heterotrophic microbial decay may largely obliterate morphological evidence for life within stromatolites, although mineralogical traces may still be detectable using electron microscopy.
Controls on deep-water sand delivery beyond the shelf edge: Accommodation, sediment supply, and deltaic process regime
Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology
Date: 29-01-2020
DOI: 10.2110/JSR.2020.2
Abstract: Stratigraphic models typically predict accumulation of deep-water sands where coeval shelf-edge deltas are developed in reduced-accommodation and/or high-sediment-supply settings. On seismic data, these relationships are commonly investigated on a small number of clinothems, with a limited control on their lateral variability. Advanced full-volume seismic interpretation methods now offer the opportunity to identify high-order (i.e., 4th to 5th) seismic sequences (i.e., clinothems) and to evaluate the controls on shelf-to-basin sediment transfer mechanisms and deep-water sand accumulation at these high-frequency scales. This study focuses on the Lower Barrow Group (LBG), a shelf margin that prograded in the Northern Carnarvon Basin (North West Shelf, Australia) during the Early Cretaceous. Thanks to high-resolution 3D seismic data, 30 clinothems (average time span of ∼ 47,000 years) from the D. lobispinosum interval (142.3–140.9 Ma) are used to establish quantitative and statistical relationships between the shelf-margin architecture, paleoshoreline processes, and deep-water system types (i.e., quantitative 3D seismic stratigraphy). The results confirm that low values of rate of accommodation/rate of sediment supply (δA/δS) conditions on the shelf are associated with sediment bypass, whereas high δA/δS conditions are linked to increasing sediment storage on the shelf. However, coastal process regimes at the shelf edge play a more important role in the behavior of deep-water sand delivery. Fluvial-dominated coastlines are typically associated with steep slope gradients and more mature, longer run-out turbidite systems. In contrast, wave-dominated shorelines are linked to gentle slope gradients, with limited development of turbidite systems (except rare sheet sands and mass-transport deposits), where longshore drift currents contributed to shelf-margin accretion through the formation of extensive strandplains. In this context, reduced volumes of sand were transported offshore and mud belts were accumulated locally. This study highlights that variations from fluvial- to wave-dominated systems can result in significant lateral changes in shelf-margin architecture (i.e., slope gradient) and impact the coeval development of deep-water systems (i.e., architectural maturity). By integrating advanced tools in seismic interpretation, quantitative 3D seismic stratigraphy represents a novel approach in assessing at high resolution the controls on deep-water sand delivery, and potentially predicting the type and location of reservoirs in deep water based on the shelf-margin architecture and depositional process regime.
Lawsonite-bearing veins in Torlesse rocks
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-1987
Platform-margin collapse during Famennian reef evolution, Canning Basin, Western Australia
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 1995
Oxic facies and the Late Devonian mass extinction, Canning Basin, Australia
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 04-2014
DOI: 10.1130/G35249.1
Geochemical and microstructural characterisation of two species of cool-water bivalves (<i>Fulvia tenuicostata</i> and <i>Soletellina biradiata</i&
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 31-03-2017
Abstract: Abstract. The shells of two marine bivalve species (Fulvia tenuicostata and Soletellina biradiata) endemic to south Western Australia have been characterised using a combined crystallographic, spectroscopic and geochemical approach. Both species have been described previously as purely aragonitic however, this study identified the presence of three phases, namely aragonite, calcite and Mg-calcite, using XRD analysis. Data obtained via confocal Raman spectroscopy, electron probe microanalysis and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) show correlations between Mg ∕ S and Mg ∕ P in F. tenuicostata and between Sr ∕ S and S ∕ Ba in S. biradiata. The composition of the organic macromolecules that constitute the shell organic matrix (i.e. the soluble phosphorus-dominated and/or insoluble sulfur-dominated fraction) influences the incorporation of Mg, Sr and Ba into the crystal lattice. Ionic substitution, particularly Ca2+ by Mg2+ in calcite in F. tenuicostata, appears to have been promoted by the combination of both S- and P-dominated organic macromolecules. The elemental composition of these two marine bivalve shells is species specific and influenced by many factors, such as crystallographic structure, organic macromolecule composition and environmental setting. In order to reliably use bivalve shells as proxies for paleoenvironmental reconstructions, both the organic and inorganic crystalline material need to be characterised to account for all influencing factors and accurately describe the vital effect.
Tepee-shaped agglutinated microbialites: An example from a Famennian carbonate platform on the Lennard Shelf, northern Canning Basin, Western Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2004
Early Permian sediment provenance and paleogeographic reconstructions in southeastern Gondwana using detrital zircon geochronology (Northern Perth Basin, Western Australia)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2018
Full-volume 3D seismic interpretation methods: A new step towards high-resolution seismic stratigraphy
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 08-2019
Abstract: Following decades of technological innovation, geologists now have access to extensive 3D seismic surveys across sedimentary basins. Using these voluminous data sets to better understand subsurface complexity relies on developing seismic stratigraphic workflows that allow very high-resolution interpretation within a cost-effective timeframe. We have developed an innovative 3D seismic interpretation workflow that combines full-volume and semi-automated horizon tracking with high-resolution 3D seismic stratigraphic analysis. The workflow consists of converting data from seismic (two-way traveltime) to a relative geological time (RGT) volume, in which a relative geological age is assigned to each point of the volume. The generation of a horizon stack is used to extract an unlimited number of chronostratigraphic surfaces (i.e., seismic horizons). Integrated stratigraphic tools may be used to navigate throughout the 3D seismic data to pick seismic unconformities using standard seismic stratigraphic principles in combination with geometric attributes. Here, we applied this workflow to a high-quality 3D seismic data set located in the Northern Carnarvon Basin (North West Shelf, Australia) and provided an ex le of high-resolution seismic stratigraphic interpretation from an Early Cretaceous shelf-margin system (Lower Barrow Group). This approach is used to identify 73 seismic sequences (i.e., clinothems) bounded by 74 seismic unconformities. Each clinothem presents an average duration of approximately 63,000 years (fifth stratigraphic order), which represents an unprecedented scale of observation for a Cretaceous depositional system on seismic data. This level of interpretation has a variety of applications, including high-resolution paleogeographical reconstructions and quantitative analysis of subsurface data. This innovative workflow constitutes a new step in seismic stratigraphy because it enables interpreters to map seismic sequences in a true 3D environment by taking into account the full variability of depositional systems at high frequency through time and space.
Effects of middle-late Permian sea-level changes and mass extinction on the formation of the Tieqiao skeletal mound in the Laibin area, South China
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2009
Sedimentology and ichnology of two Lower Triassic sections in South China: Implications for the biotic recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2016
Middle Permian paleomagnetism of the Sydney Basin, Eastern Gondwana
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2017
Whole-rock RbSr isochrons and pseudo-isochrons from turbidite suites from the Torlesse accretionary prism, New Zealand
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-1991
From quantitative 3D seismic stratigraphy to sequence stratigraphy: Insights into the vertical and lateral variability of shelf-margin depositional systems at different stratigraphic orders
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2019
Stratigraphic architecture and evolution of the early Paleoproterozoic McGrath Trough, Western Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2000
Palaeokarst development in a lower Frasnian (Devonian) platform succession, Canning Basin, northwestern Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1999
Survival strategies of brachiopod faunas from the end-Permian mass extinction
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2005
Sequence development of a latest Devonian-Tournaisian distally-steepened mixed carbonate-siliciclastic ramp, Canning Basin, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2016
The depositional record of the Frasnian/Famennian boundary interval in a fore-reef succession, Canning Basin, Western Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2002
Unique marine Permian–Triassic boundary section from Western Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2004
Glacial incursion on a Neoproterozoic carbonate platform in the Kimberley region, Australia
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 09-2001
The applicability of modern tidal analogues to pre‐vegetation paralic depositional models
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-03-2018
DOI: 10.1111/SED.12461
Deformation processes in an accretionary prism: a study from the Torlesse terrane of New Zealand
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1990
Proterozoic turbiditic depositional system (Tanami Group) in the Tanami region, northern Australia, and implications for gold mineralisation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2012
Tectonic control on development of a Frasnian–Famennian (Late Devonian) palaeokarst surface, Canning Basin reef complexes, northwestern Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2004
Discussion and reply tectonic control on development of a Frasnian – Famennian (Late Devonian) palaeokarst surface, Canning Basin reef complexes, northwestern Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2006
Deep-water Stromatolites, Canning Basin, Northwestern Australia
Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology
Date: 10-1999
DOI: 10.2307/3515399
Discovery of a 400 km2 honeycomb structure mimicking a regional unconformity on three-dimensional seismic data
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 15-10-2019
DOI: 10.1130/G46484.1
Abstract: Recognition of seismic unconformities is crucial for interpreting basin history from seismic reflection data sets in both siliciclastic and carbonate settings. While it is well established that non-erosional changes in sedimentary facies can create seismic reflections that mimic seismic unconformities (i.e., pseudo-unconformities), these features are generally considered to be localized and uncommon, and, therefore, are largely overlooked during interpretation. Diagenetic alteration of strata can also affect the morphology of seismic reflectors and mislead seismic interpreters. This study is based on a three-dimensional (3-D) seismic data set and documents a 400 km2 honeycomb structure (HS) masquerading as a regional erosional unconformity in the Oligocene–Miocene carbonate strata of Australia’s North West Shelf. This HS is located at the transition between the topsets and the foresets of clinoforms of carbonate to marly composition. The HS expression in 3-D seismic data cross sections is irregular, giving the HS the appearance of a truncated surface that could erroneously be interpreted as a regional seismic unconformity. Closer examination reveals that the HS crosscuts chronostratigraphic clinoform reflectors, and frequency extraction processing shows that the HS dominantly falls within a lower-frequency band than the clinoform reflectors. The morphology of the HS (i.e., continuous with densely packed cells) and its time-transgressive nature suggest that it has a burial diagenetic origin. This suggests that creation of pseudo-unconformities at basin scale by burial diagenesis may lead to surface misidentification, with negative consequences for paleoenvironmental studies and petroleum exploration activities.
The pilot application of geochemical sourcing to an inland Pilbara archaeological landscape in north-western Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2021
Spherulitic microbialites from modern hypersaline lakes, Rottnest Island, Western Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-05-2020
DOI: 10.1111/GBI.12400
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