Amadeus Basin
The Amadeus Basin (English: Amadeus Basin ) is an approximately 170,000 km² sedimentary basin of the Australian craton (mainland core) in Central Australia . It is located in the south of the Northern Territory and extends from there to the state of Western Australia . It is named after lying in the basin Lake Amadeus , which in turn after the Spanish King I. Amadeus was named.
geology
In the sedimentary basin there are up to 14 kilometers thick marine and non-marine deposits, which were formed from the Paleoproterozoic to the Neoproterozoic . The nearby Sedimentary Basin , Officer Basin , Georgina Basin, and Ngalia Basin, as well as the Amadeus Basin, were believed to have once been part of the Centralian Superbasin . This was deformed during the Petermann orogeny from the late Neoproterozoic to the Cambrian and fragmented during the Alice Springs orogeny in the Paleozoic .
In the Amadeus Basin lie the Uluṟu and Kata Tju liegena as well as the Kings Canyon .
raw materials
The Amadeus Basin contains the Mereenie oil field and the Palm Valley Gasfield near Hermannsburg , which is the most important source of energy for the Northern Territory. Much of the natural gas flows through the pipeline to Darwin , while the oil is transported from Alice Springs to the refineries in Adelaide.
literature
- JF Lindsay, RJ Korsch: The evolution of the Amadeus Basin, central Australia. In: RJ Korsch, JM Kennard (Ed.): Geological and geophysical studies in the Amadeus Basin, central Australia. Bulletin 236, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Australia 1991, pp. 7-32.
- RD Shaw: The tectonic development of the Amadeus Basin, central Australia. In: RJ Korsch, JM Kennard (Ed.): Geological and geophysical studies in the Amadeus Basin, central Australia. Bulletin 236, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Australia 1991, pp. 429-462.
Web links
- Amadeus Basin. at Geoscience Australia
- Amadeus Basin at Northern Territory Geological Survey
- Detailed information on earthbyte.org
Individual evidence
- ^ Leon Bagas, Northern Territory Geological Survey: Geology of Kings Canyon National Park . Government Printer of the Northern Territory, Darwin 1988, ISBN 0-7245-1315-9 .
- ^ Jenny Stanton: The Australian Geographic Book of the Red Center . Australian Geographic, Terrey Hills, New South Wales 2000, ISBN 1-86276-013-6 , pp. 56 .
Coordinates: 25 ° 0 ′ S , 132 ° 0 ′ E