THE GEOLOGICAL AND STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK OF THE OFFSHORE KIMBERLEY BLOCK (BROWSE BASIN) AREA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Abstract

The Offshore Kimberley Block area is mainly held under petroleum exploration permit by a group of companies of which B.O.C. of Australia Ltd. is operator. Exploration activities of the Group have shown the area to be a distinctive and separate major sedimentary basin, which it is proposed to term the Browse Basin. The basin is separated from the Bonaparte Gulf Basin in the north by the Londonderry Arch, and from the Offshore Canning Basin to the south by the Leveque Platform. It covers an area of over 60,000 square miles.