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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Interpretation and modelling of new Browse Basin airborne magnetic data for igneous rocks and basement

Ron Hackney, Rowan Romeyn and Claire Orlov

ASEG Extended Abstracts 2015(1) 1 - 4
Published: 2015

Abstract

The Browse Basin on Australia's North West Shelf is a NE-trending Paleozoic to Cenozoic depocentre that contains more than 15 km of sediments. These sediments host significant hydrocarbon reserves, some of which are currently under development. The basin also has the potential to store large volumes of carbon dioxide. Recently-acquired aeromagnetic data over the Browse Basin provide new impetus for studies of the nature of basement, the role of structural inheritance and controls on the distribution of volcanic rocks. Initial interpretation of the new magnetic data has utilised magnetic source polygons and depth estimates derived from the tilt-angle filter. Exploration wells that intersect mainly volcanic flows or tuffaceous rocks tend to lie on or adjacent to source polygons. Computed tilt depths show that these sources tend to coincide with the depth to the top of volcanics in wells and that tilt depths extend deep into the basin (up to ~10 km). The magnetic susceptibility distribution inferred from minimally-constrained, regional-scale inversion models also indicates that magnetic anomalies arise from features deep in the basin and within basement. These results highlight the importance of understanding the role of volcanic rocks in basin evolution and their influence on reservoirs that may host hydrocarbons or that may be suitable for CO2 storage.

https://doi.org/10.1071/ASEG2015ab076

© ASEG 2015

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