RESEARCH ARTICLE
Review of Exhumation and Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration in Australia
A. Mavromatidis1, P. Soupios*, 2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2008Volume: 1
First Page: 1
Last Page: 9
Publisher Id: TOPEJ-1-1
DOI: 10.2174/1874834100801010001
Article History:
Received Date: 12/02/2008Revision Received Date: 3/03/2008
Acceptance Date: 12/03/2008
Electronic publication date: 10/4/2008
Collection year: 2008
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The subsidence history of sedimentary basins is recorded and can be relatively easily reconstructed from the preserved stratigraphic sequence. Uplift events, above sedimentary base level are expressed only by hiatuses or unconformities. Hence, quantifying the exhumation associated with uplift is intrinsically more problematic than quantifying the burial associated with the subsidence. Detailed study of the exhumation in basins is of particular significance since can provide crucial information about the petroleum exploration and for investigating the dynamic driving forces of basin uplift events. The aim of this article is to evaluate the magnitudes of exhumation in two well known petroliferous basins, the Cooper Eromanga Basins of South Australia and Queensland, based on different techniques and to consider the implications for petroleum exploration.
