Darling Sedimentary Basin Explained

The Darling Sedimentary Basin, or simply the Darling Basin, is located in western New South Wales, bordered in the north by the line Broken Hill-Wilcannia -Cobar and stretching southward towards the Murray River.^{[1] [2]} It is an old sedimentary basin dated by Late Cambrian/Silurian to Early Carboniferous.^[3] It is an intra-cratonic depositional center, mostly filled with Devonian sedimentary rocks up to 8 km in thickness. It is overlaid by the Eromanga Basin in the north and the Murray Basin in the south. It covers the area on over 100,000 km².^{[4] [5]}

Darling and Murray basins are separated by the Lachlan Fold Belt.^[6]

Major troughs and sub-basins include Cobar Basin, Mt Hope Trough, Rast Trough and Melrose Trough.^[7]

The Moomba to Sydney Pipeline crosses the area.^[4]

See also

• Darling River

Notes and References

1. https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/energy/province-sedimentary-basin-geology/petroleum/onshore-australia/darling-basin Basin Details and Geological Overview
2. http://www.geomaps.com.au/scripts/griffithdarlingbasin.php Griffith in the Darling Basin
3. The present-day state of tectonic stress in the Darling Basin, Australia: Implications for exploration and production . 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.07.021 . 2016MarPG..77..776R . Rajabi . Mojtaba . Tingay . Mark . Heidbach . Oliver . Marine and Petroleum Geology . 2016 . 77 . 776 .
4. Phillip M Cooney, Ricky M Mantaring (2004), Interpretation of the Petroleum Potential of the Darling Basin, a Process of Integration and Iteration,
5. https://meg.resourcesregulator.nsw.gov.au/geoscience/geology/sedimentary-basins/darling-basin Darling Basin
6. https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/Potential%20cumulative%20impacts%20on%20river%20flow%20volume%20from%20increased%20groundwater%20extraction%20under%20the%20Murray%20Darling%20Basin%20Plan.pdf Potential cumulative impacts on river flow volume from increased groundwater extraction under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
7. ROBERT KINGHAM, Geology of the Murray-Darling Basin — Simplified Lithostratigraphic Groupings