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Coming soon in an
AJES near you
Thematic issue — Evolution of the Bowen,
Gunnedah and Surat Basins, eastern Australia
RJ Korsch and JM Totterdell (guest editors)
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 56(3)
Volume 56 Issue 3 will be a thematic issue of 10 papers summarising
the main results generated during the National
Geoscience Mapping Accord's project Sedimentary basins of eastern
Australia, which studied the evolution and petroleum potential
of the Early Permian–Middle Triassic Bowen and Gunnedah
Basins and the Early Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Surat Basin in
Queensland and New South Wales.
Key objectives of the project were to: (i) enhance our knowledge
of, and develop models for, the origin and evolution of the
Gunnedah, Surat, southern Bowen and associated basins in eastern
Australia; (ii) relate these models to potential hydrocarbon
occurrences as a basis for future exploration and assessment of
resources; (iii) update the understanding of the geology of the
basins; and (iv) provide information to explain the distribution of
known, potential and undiscovered occurrences of fossil fuels.
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