Money Shoal Basin
The Money Shoal Basin ( English Money Shoal Basin ) is a sedimentary basin on the northern coast of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory in Australia . It encompasses parts of the mainland on the coastline, the Cobourg Peninsula , the Van Diemen Gulf , Melville Island and Bathurst Island , and extends undersea to western New Guinea .
This basin contains sandstone , mudstone , marl and coal . The sedimentary basin was formed from the Jurassic to the Eocene 205 to 36 million years ago. The rock layers reach a thickness of 200 m in the east and 4 km in the west, where they reach the Bonaparte Basin . The layers partially overlay the Pine Creek Orogenic and the Arafura Basin .
There are eight oil rigs in the sedimentary basin that produced little oil. In the Arafura basin below there may be petroleum. There are also large deposits of mineral sands and also bauxite , manganese and phosphate .
Web links
- Detailed map of the Money Shoal basin
- nt.gov.au : Location map of the sedimentary basins in the Northern Territory
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 11 ° 55 ′ 48 ″ S , 131 ° 48 ′ 36 ″ E