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Rowley Sub-basin, Roebuck Basin, Release Areas W10-3, W10-4 ...

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Permian Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Paleogene Neogene System<br />

Quat.<br />

Epoch<br />

Pleist.<br />

Plio.<br />

Middle Upper Lower Middle Upper Lower Upper Pal. Eocene Olig. Miocene<br />

Lower<br />

Loping.<br />

Guad.<br />

Cisuralian<br />

Carb. Penn.<br />

<strong>Rowley</strong><br />

<strong>Sub</strong>-<strong>basin</strong><br />

V V<br />

Bedout<br />

High<br />

V<br />

Bedout<br />

<strong>Sub</strong>-<strong>basin</strong><br />

Lithostratigraphy Mega Sequence<br />

Tectonic Events<br />

Unnamed Units<br />

Unnamed Units<br />

Unnamed Units<br />

Miria Marl<br />

Toolonga Calcilutite<br />

Nelson Rocks<br />

Formation<br />

Mermaid Formation<br />

Broome Sandstone<br />

Egret Formation<br />

Baleine Formation<br />

Depuch Formation<br />

Bedout Formation<br />

Keraudren<br />

Formation<br />

Cossigny Member<br />

<strong>Rowley</strong> Keraudren<br />

Volcs Fm<br />

Locker Shale<br />

Bedout Volcanics<br />

Liveringa Group<br />

Noonkanbah Formation<br />

Poole Sandstone<br />

Grant Group<br />

Cz2<br />

P 3<br />

Cz1<br />

PASS 2<br />

Mz6<br />

PASS 1<br />

Mz5<br />

SAG 4<br />

Mz4<br />

SAG 3<br />

Mz3<br />

SAG 2<br />

Mz2<br />

EXT 3<br />

Mz1<br />

SAG 1<br />

Pz3<br />

TRANS 1<br />

Australia Northern Margin-<br />

Eurasia plate collision. NE-SW<br />

left-lateral oblique-slip<br />

reactivation of older structure<br />

Initiation of northward plate<br />

drift of Australia. N-S?<br />

Compressive event. Uplift<br />

followed by minor fault<br />

reactivation<br />

Initiation of Australia Southern<br />

Margin-Antarctic seafloor<br />

spreading<br />

Major M0 spreading ridgejump<br />

in the India Ocean.<br />

NW-SE? Oblique-slip<br />

reactivation and inversion,<br />

Oobagooma <strong>Sub</strong>-<strong>basin</strong><br />

Australia Western Margin-<br />

India plate separation. WNW-<br />

ESE extension. Minor uplift<br />

and fault reactivation<br />

Australia NWS-Argo Land<br />

plate separation. NNW-SSE<br />

extension. Uplift and erosion.<br />

Rift shoulder development on<br />

outer margin<br />

Fitzroy Movement III. Australia<br />

NWS-Unknown plate<br />

separation. NNW-SSE<br />

extension. Uplift and erosion.<br />

Rift shoulder development on<br />

outer margin<br />

Fitzroy Movement II. NW-SE<br />

transpressional anticlines,<br />

Fitzroy Trough<br />

Fitzroy Movement I. NW-SE<br />

oblique-slip fault reactivation<br />

along the North Turtle Hinge<br />

Zone<br />

Bedout Movement. <strong>Basin</strong>wide<br />

uplift and erosion. Volcanism.<br />

Change from fault controlled<br />

subsidence to thermal<br />

subsidence<br />

Transition from NE-SW<br />

intracratonic extension to<br />

NNW-SSE extension. NW-SE<br />

fault reactivation, ENE-SSW<br />

fault development.<br />

Separation of Australia NWS-<br />

SIBUMASU terrane<br />

Meda Transpressional event<br />

in Canning <strong>Basin</strong><br />

09-4231-5<br />

Figure 4. Stratigraphy of the <strong>Roebuck</strong> <strong>Basin</strong> (after Smith, 1999; Smith et al, 1999).

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