Aug 29, 2023 · The Great Australian Bight Marine Park was declared on the 17 April 1998 to protect the Southern Right whale and the Australian sea lion and a representative strip of the unique benthic environment. The total area of the park is 19,769 km2 and includes two overlapping areas, the Marine Mammal Protection Zone and the Benthic Protection Zone (BPZ).

Aug 31, 2022 · The Bight Basin formed during the break-up of eastern Gondwana in the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous. It extends for ~2000 km along the Australian southern margin (Figure 1) and comprises a series of extensional depocentres. No significant hydrocarbons have been found in the basin, which remains Australia’s largest exploration frontier.

Dec 19, 2023 · Deposits also exist in the Eucla Basin around the Great Australian Bight in South Australia and Western Australia. In Western Australia, deposits are distributed from the southern tip of the state to Derby and are located at the present coastline or as relic deposits up to …

Jun 27, 2014 · Basins of the Great Australian Bight Region: Geology and Petroleum Potential. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Continental margins Program, Folio 5: Stagg, H.M.J. and Willcox, J.B. 1991: Structure and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Bremer Basin, Southwest Australia. BMR Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, Vol: 12, pp. 327-337

The Great Australian Bight is the most extensive physiographic feature on the southern margin of the Australian continent. Spanning 1500 km of coastline between Cape Pasley in the west and Cape Catastrophe in the east, the seabed within the Bight comprises a broad continental shelf and continental slope that descends to 4500 m water depth (

Jan 11, 2023 · The rainfall pattern is concentric around the extensive arid core of the continent, which in the west and along parts of the Great Australian Bight extends to the coast. Around this arid centre there is a broken margin of more humid conditions which increases the level of precipitation as it nears the coast, particularly in the east of the ...

Feb 22, 2017 · GOVERNMENT RELATIONS - COMMITTEES - Senate Enquiry Submission - Oil or Gas Exploration in the Great Australian Bight - October 2016 2016/4610 PROCUREMENT - REPORTING - Minchin Senate Order for Grants Reporting - Ministerial 2016/5882

Jun 27, 2014 · The permit areas are situated in the central Great Australian Bight, off southern Australia, and are located mostly within the frontier Ceduna Sub-basin, in the eastern part of the Bight Basin. The exploration permits were awarded to Murphy Australia Oil Pty Ltd and Santos Offshore Pty Ltd (EPP43) and Chevron Australia New Ventures Pty Ltd ...

Jun 27, 2014 · Coastal regions with high wind resources (wind speeds above 7.5m/s) include the west coast south of Shark Bay to Cape Leeuwin, along the Great Australian Bight and the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, to western Victoria and the west coast of Tasmania.

Australian margin and central Great Australian Bight. Canberra: AGSO, record 2000/6. Hoatson DM & Blake DH. 2000. Geology and economic potential of the Palaeoproterozoic layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions in the East Kimberley, Western Australia. Canberra: AGSO, bulletin 246. Hoatson D, Blake D, Wygralak A, et al. 2000. Kakadu & Nitmiluk National