The Eromanga Basin is a large Mesozoic sedimentary basin in central and northern Australia. It covers parts of Queensland, the Northern Territory, South Australia, and New South Wales, and is a major component of the Great Artesian Basin. The Eromanga Basin covers 1,000,000 km2[1] and overlaps part of the Cooper Basin.
The basin is made of sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, coal, shale, and red beds.[2] Two impact structures have been identified in the basin, Mount Toondina crater and Tookoonooka crater.
In Queensland and South Australia the Eromanga Basin has been explored and developed for petroleum production.[3] Commercial quantities of gas were first discovered in 1976 and oil in 1978.[1] The basin contains Australia's largest onshore oilfield, the Jackson oil field.[4] Moomba is the centre of South Australia's oil production in the basin.
The geology of the portion of the Eromanga Basin in New South Wales remains under-explored.[3]
During the middle of the Cretaceous period much of inland Australia was flooded by the Eromanga Sea, which shares its name with the contemporary Basin. Various fossil sites spanning the region record a diversity of marine life, including Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaurs, that were abundant in the Eromanga Sea during the Aptian and Albian ages.[5]
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^ ab"Eromanga Basin - Geological Overview". NSW Department of Primary Industries. Archived from the original on 14 April 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
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Australia. It lies deeply buried within Mesozoic sedimentary rocks of the EromangaBasin and is not visible at the surface. Tookoonooka was discovered using...
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the field. It processes oil from several oil fields in the EromangaBasin and Cooper Basins. The field was discovered in 1981 and contains 350 million...
be broken into the EromangaBasin in the west and the Surat Basin to the east. The Sydney Basin extends north into the Gunnedah Basin, which goes even further...
Great Artesian Basin. Beneath the Eromangabasin in the mantle below 200 km is a region of fast seismic wave transmission. The Surat Basin is made up of...
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feature rising out of an otherwise relatively flat desert area of the EromangaBasin. An impact origin was first suggested in 1976, challenging the earlier...
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overlaid by the EromangaBasin in the north and the Murray Basin in the south. It covers the area on over 100,000 km2. Darling and Murray basins are separated...
Zealand. The Eromanga Sea was an inland sea across what would be Australia that formed in the Early Cretaceous. The sea reached the EromangaBasin from the...
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eastern boundaries of the Surat Basin. The Nebine Ridge delineates the boundary between the Surat Basin and the EromangaBasin to the west. The Nebine Ridge...
halecomorph (? Ionoscopiformes) fish from the Toolebuc Formation of the EromangaBasin, Queensland". www.qm.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 2022-08-05.{{cite web}}:...
natural gas strike was made. Oil was found in the region in 1961. The EromangaBasin, also located in South West Queensland has been explored and developed...
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deposition directly from glaciers is limited to the Early Cretaceous of the EromangaBasin in southern Australia. Flowering plants (angiosperms) make up around...
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deposition directly from glaciers is limited to the Early Cretaceous of the EromangaBasin in southern Australia. There are a large number of important fossil...
processes gas from approximately 130 wells in 45 gas fields in the EromangaBasin. Processed gas is transmitted via the 755 km South West Queensland Pipeline...
is 840 kilometres (520 mi) long between the Ballera gas plant in the EromangaBasin in southwestern Queensland and Mount Isa, a significant mining community...
rocks represent the remnants of the river plains that filled the basin left by the Eromanga Sea - an inland sea that covered large parts of Queensland and...
in the Northern Territory; the Gippsland and Otway basins in Victoria and the Cooper-Eromangabasin in South Australia and Queensland. In 2014–2015 Australia...
part of the Marree Subgroup of the Rolling Downs Group, located in the EromangaBasin of South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales. It is the lowermost...
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