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GSWA Explanatory Notes

Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety

Geological Survey of

Western Australia

www.dmirs.wa.gov.au

Canning Basin (CA)

PW Haines, RM Hocking, AJ Mory, HJ Allen, and C KRAPF

Type

Basin

Lithology

sedimentary rocks

Parent unit

Phanerozoic basins

Child units

Child Units

Constituent lithostratigraphic units

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Affected by events

Point Moody Extension

Red Bluffs Extension

Van Emmerick Extension

Samphire Marsh Extension

Tectonic setting

basin: intracratonic basin

Summary

No summary narrative found.

Distribution

No distribution narrative found.

Description

No description narrative found.


Geochronology
Canning Basin	Maximum age	Minimum age
Age (Ma)	488	66
Age	Paleozoic	Mesozoic

No geochronology narrative found.


Contact relationships

No contact relationship narrative found.

Tectonic setting

No tectonic setting narrative found.

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Child units
Tectonic unit name	Unit code	Age (Ma)	Type
Ryan Shelf	CAN	323–100	Sub-basin
Anketell Shelf	CAA	323–100	Sub-basin
Tabletop Shelf	CAP	323–100	Sub-basin
Sherriff Shelf	CAH	323–190	Sub-basin
Oobagooma Sub-basin	CAM	419–66	Sub-basin
Wallal Embayment	CAE	485–66	Sub-basin
Billiluna Shelf	CAB	485–66	Sub-basin
Lennard Shelf	CAL	485–201	Sub-basin
Gregory Sub-basin	CAG	485–66	Sub-basin
Crossland Platform	CAC	485–66	Sub-basin
Fitzroy Trough	CAF	485–66	Sub-basin
Canning Basin, Lucas Outlier	CAU	485–252	Inlier/Outlier
Broome Platform	CAR	485–66	Sub-basin
Wallal Platform	CAWP	485–66	Sub-basin
Samphire Graben	CAS	485–66	Sub-basin
Barnicarndy Graben	CABA	485–66	Sub-basin
Willara Sub-basin	CAI	485–66	Sub-basin
Barbwire Terrace	CAW	485–66	Sub-basin
Kidson Sub-basin	CAK	485–100	Sub-basin
Balgo Terrace	CAO	485–252	Sub-basin
Cobb Embayment	CANC	485–290	Sub-basin

Recommended reference for this publication

Haines, PW, Hocking, RM, Mory, AJ, Allen, HJ and KRAPF, C (partial report), Canning Basin (CA): Geological Survey of Western Australia, WA Geology Online, Explanatory Notes extract, viewed 05 August 2025. <www.dmp.wa.gov.au/ens>

This page was last modified on 04 April 2024.

Grid references in this publication refer to the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94). Locations mentioned in the text are referenced using Map Grid Australia (MGA) coordinates, Zones 49 to 52. All locations are quoted to at least the nearest 100 m.

Capitalized names in text refer to standard 1:100 000 map sheets, unless otherwise indicated.

WAROX is GSWA’s field observation and sample database. WAROX site IDs have the format ‘ABCXXXnnnnnnSS’, where ABC = geologist username, XXX = project or map code, nnnnnn = 6 digit site number, and SS = optional alphabetic suffix (maximum 2 characters).

All isotopic dates are based on U–Pb analysis of zircon and quoted with 95% uncertainties, unless stated otherwise. U–Pb measurements of GSWA samples were conducted using a sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) in the John de Laeter Centre at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.

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