Darling Sedimentary Basin

Sedimentary basin in western New South Wales

This article is about the geological basin. For the Murray Darling River catchment area, see Murray-Darling basin.

The Darling Sedimentary Basin, or simply the Darling Basin, is located in western New South Wales, bordered in the north by the line Broken Hill-Wilcannia -Cobar and stretching southward towards the Murray River.[1][2] It is an old sedimentary basin dated by Late Cambrian/Silurian to Early Carboniferous.[3] It is an intra-cratonic depositional center, mostly filled with Devonian sedimentary rocks up to 8 km in thickness. It is overlaid by the Eromanga Basin in the north and the Murray Basin in the south. It covers the area on over 100,000 km2.[4][5]

Darling and Murray basins are separated by the Lachlan Fold Belt.[6]

Major troughs and sub-basins include Cobar Basin, Mt Hope Trough, Rast Trough and Melrose Trough.[7]

The Moomba to Sydney Pipeline crosses the area.[4]

## See also

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* Darling River

## References

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1. ^ Basin Details and Geological Overview
2. ^ Griffith in the Darling Basin
3. ^ Rajabi, Mojtaba; Tingay, Mark; Heidbach, Oliver (2016). "The present-day state of tectonic stress in the Darling Basin, Australia: Implications for exploration and production". Marine and Petroleum Geology. 77: 776. Bibcode:2016MarPG..77..776R. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.07.021.
4. ^ a b Phillip M Cooney, Ricky M Mantaring (2004), Interpretation of the Petroleum Potential of the Darling Basin, a Process of Integration and Iteration, doi:10.1071/ASEG2004ab020
5. ^ Darling Basin
6. ^ Potential cumulative impacts on river flow volume from increased groundwater extraction under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
7. ^ ROBERT KINGHAM, Geology of the Murray-Darling Basin — Simplified Lithostratigraphic Groupings