Academic literature on the topic 'Geology, Structural Northern Territory Arunta Block'

The Neoproterozoic to Late Paleozoic-aged Amadeus Basin is a large (~170 000 km2) east–west-trending basin, bounded to the south by the Musgrave Province and to the north by the Arunta Block of the Northern Territory. Commercial oil and gas production is established in the northern part of the basin but the southern part is still a frontier exploration area. Vintage and new seismic reflection data have been used with well data along the south-eastern Amadeus Basin to construct a new structural and depositional model. Three major phases of deformation controlling deposition have been identified. The first phase is characterised by a SW–NE trending structural fabric and is thought to be older than the deposition of the first sediments identified above basement (Heavitree and Bitter Springs formations). The second phase corresponds to the Petermann Orogeny (580–540 Ma) and trends in a NW–SE orientation. The third phase is the Alice Springs Orogeny (450–300 Ma) and is oriented W–E to WNW–ESE in this part of the basin. This tectono-stratigraphic model involving three distinct phases of deformation potentially explains several critical observations: the lack of Heavitree reservoir at Mt Kitty-1, limited salt movements before the Petermann Orogeny (~300 Ma after its deposition) and salt-involved structures that can be either capped by the Petermann Unconformity and overlying Cambrian to Devonian sediments, or can reach the present day surface. Finally, this model, along with availability of good quality seismic data, opens new perspectives for the hydrocarbon exploration of the Amadeus Basin. Each of the tectonic phases impacts the primary petroleum system and underpins play-based exploration.

Актуальность рассматриваемой темы в том, что орогенные пояса материковой части Камчатского края насыщены полезными ископаемыми, приуроченных к поясам, образованным последовательным приростом окраин континента от древних с северо-запада к юго-востоку. Такими поясами с месторождениями Ag, Au, Sn, Hg, S являются Северо-Западно-Корякский олигоценовый и Южно-Корякский миоценовый, образованные на северной и южной границе Центрально-Корякской окраины позднемелового континента. Они сформированы в олигоцене и миоцене изолированными вулканогенами локальных андезитовых полей, прорванных гранитоидами тектонической активизации. С ними связаны рудные площади, локализация которых позволит обеспечить прирост запасов разрабатываемых россыпей платиноидов. Цель работы заключается в установлении тектонических закономерностей образования вулканогенов, связанных с ними рудных районов и получения новых данных по их прогнозу. В Северо-Западном поясе оформилась металлогеническая зона с Уннэйваямским, Гайчаваямским и Пальматкинским районами, сопряжёнными с одноименными вулканогенами, в Южно-Камчатском с Ветроваямским вулканогеном. Методология и методы исследования. Методология заключена в глыбово-клавишной структуре литосферы и её земной коры на активных окраинах континента. Методика основана на установлении системной связи структурных элементов геолого-геофизической системы тектоника-вулканогены . Результаты работ и их анализ. Предложена схема закономерностей размещения известных и прогнозируемых рудных районов, узлов юго-запада Корякского нагорья. Они обусловлены глыбово-клавишной тектоникой и локализованы в звеньях серии продольных субпараллельных разновозрастных региональных структур СВ простирания, последовательно наращивающих континент к юго-востоку. Звенья являются дискретными и определяют размеры рудных районов. Рассмотрены выделяемые звенья Северо-Западно-Корякского олигоценового и Южно-Корякского миоценового поясов. В первом СЗ поперечными межглыбовыми разломами литосферы образованы вулканогены гнездового типа. Они возникли на пересечении фундамента позднего мела и южной окраины сопредельной Пенжинской СФЗ поперечными межглыбовыми разломами. В пересечениях образуется литосферный столб вещества гранитоидной активизации верхней мантии и позднемелового осадочного разреза фундамента. Делается вывод, что в Южно-Корякском поясе вулканоген является линейным, образованным заключением линейного СВ Ветроваямского выступа фундамента и чехла между двумя поперечными межглыбовыми разломами. В нём рудоносными вторичными кварцитами создан Ильпинский рудный район с крупными месторождениями самородной серы с Ag, Au, Hg, S. Орогенный вулканизм на активных окраинах континентов сопряжён с основными элементами тектоники и магматизма, создавшими условия образования минерагенических таксонов. На примерах орогенных поясов олигоцена и миоцена очевидна роль геотектонических и металлогенических аспектов авторской методологии глыбово-клавишной структуры литосферы активных окраин. Она эффективна в прогнозе рудных площадей и их оценке последующими геологоразведочными работами. The relevance of the work is that the orogenic belts of the mainland of the Kamchatka Territory are saturated with minerals confined to the belts formed by the successive growth of the continental margins from the ancient ones from the north-west to the south-east. Such belts with deposits of Ag, Au, Sn, Hg, S are the Northwest Koryak Oligocene and South Koryak Miocene, formed on the northern and southern borders of the Central Koryak margin of the Late Cretaceous continent. They are formed in the Oligocene and Miocene by isolated volcanogens of local andesitic fields, broken by granitoids of tectonic activation. Ore areas are associated with them, the localization of which will ensure an increase in the reserves of developed placer deposits. The purpose of the work is to establish tectonic patterns of formation of volcanogens, associated ore regions and obtain new data on their forecast. In the North-Western zone, a metallogenic zone took shape with the Unneivayamsky, Gaichavayamsky and Palmatkinsky regions, associated with the same named volcanogenes, in the South Kamchatka - with the Vetrovayamsky volcanogen. Methodology and research methods. The methodology lies in the block-key structure of the lithosphere and its earths crust on the active margins of the continent. The methodology is based on establishing a systemic connection between the structural elements of the geological and geophysical system tectonics-volcanogens. The results of the work and their analysis. A scheme of patterns of distribution of known and predicted ore regions, nodes of the south-west of the Koryak upland is proposed. They are caused by block-key tectonics and are localized in the links of a series of longitudinal subparallel regionally different age structures of NE strike, successively expanding the continent to the southeast. The links are discrete and determine the size of the ore regions. The distinguished links of the Northwest Koryak Oligocene and South Koryak Miocene belts are considered. In the first northwestern region, nesting volcanogens are formed by transverse interblock faults of the lithosphere. They arose at the intersection of the Late Cretaceous foundation and the southern edge of the adjacent Penzhinsk structural-facial zone with transverse interblock faults. At the intersections, a lithospheric column of granitoid activation matter of the upper mantle and the Late Cretaceous sedimentary section of the basement is formed. It is concluded that the volcanogen in the South Koryak belt, has a linear nature, formed by the conclusion of a linear NE of Vetrovayamsk ledge of the basement and cover between two transverse interblock faults. There ore-bearing secondary quartzites created the Ilpinsk ore region with large deposits of native sulfur with Ag, Au, Hg, S. The orogenic volcanism on the active margins of the continents is associated with the basic elements of tectonics and magmatism, which created the conditions for the formation of minerogenic taxons. The role of geotectonic and metallogenic aspects of the authors methodology of the block-key structure of the active lithosphere margins is evident on the examples of the orogenic Oligocene and Miocene belts. It is effective in forecasting ore areas and evaluating them with subsequent exploration works

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Copies of 4 published papers co-authored by author, and 7 maps, in back cover pocket.
Bibliography: leaves 203-218.
[232] leaves : ill., maps (some col.) ; 30 cm.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1989

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The Arunta Inlier preserves a complex structural history, subject to a series of igneous, metamorphic and deformational events from the Paleoproterozoic to the mid-Paleozoic. U-Pb detrital zircon ages from Paleoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic sediments at Ormiston Gorge coincide with the timing of various tectonic phases in the Arunta Inlier. First order interpretations suggest that the Northern Arunta Inlier was the source of the oldest zircons recorded at ~1820 Ma, coinciding with the timing of the Stafford Event. The Strangways Orogeny at ~1770 Ma and 1730 Ma is the earliest deformation preserved in the Central Arunta Inlier and is probably the source of zircons accumulated in these sediments. Zircons post-dating the Strangways Orogeny are likely sourced from the Southern Arunta Inlier, coinciding with the Argilke Tectonic Event at ~1680 Ma, the Chewings Orogeny at ~1600 Ma, the Anmatjira Uplift Phase at 1500-1400 Ma and the emplacement of the Teapot Granite Complex at ~1140 Ma. The Neoproterozoic Heavitree Range Quartzite sediments represent initial deposition in the Amadeus Basin, which forms the remnant of a once much larger intracratonic basin in central Australia known as the Centralian Superbasin. The Arunta Inlier was exhumed from beneath the Centralian Superbasin during the Devonian-Carboniferous Alice Springs Orogeny, forming a series of subbasins including the Amadeus, Ngalia and Georgina Basins. North-south crustal compression during this Orogeny reactivated a series of steep north-dipping Mesoproterozoic fault structures including the Redbank shear zone and the Ormiston thrust zone. The northern Amadeus Basin is characterised by coupled basement and cover deformation, producing a series of basement-rooted south-propagating thrusts, which penetrate the basal Heavitree Range Quartzite. Structural cross-sections constructed across the Ormiston region propose a series of splay thrusts within the Ormiston thrust zone, with the basement and Heavitree Quartzite heavily deformed. The conformably overlying Bittersprings Formation comprises salts and evaporates, interpreted as a detachment layer. 40Ar/39Ar muscovite dating of mylonitic shear zones at Ormiston Gorge have constrained ‘peak deformation’ conditions in the region to a minimum age of 350 ± 3 Ma. Mineral assemblages formed in the surrounding areas reflect greenschist to lower amphibolite facies metamorphism, with temperatures reaching at least 350°C.
Thesis (B.Sc.(Hons)) -- University of Adelaide, School of Physical Sciences, YEAR