Regional geology of NSW sedimentary basins
Over 60% of New South Wales is covered by sedimentary basins. In the east, the coal and coal seam methane rich Permian-Triassic Sydney-Gunnedah-Bowen Basin system is overlain by the gas-prospective Jurassic-Cretaceous Great Australian Basin, comprising the Clarence-Moreton, Surat and Eromanga Basins. To the west, the largely Devonian gas-prospective Darling Basin is also overlain by the Great Australian Basin and the Cainozoic Murray Basin. A number of older infra-basins, such as the Oaklands Basin, Gilgandra Sub-Basin and Paka Tank Trough are prospective for coal and gas.
Links to the detailed geology of major sedimentary basins in NSW are listed below.
- Detailed geology of the Clarence-Moreton Basin
- Detailed geology of the Darling Basin
- Detailed geology of the Eromanga Basin
- Detailed geology of the Gunnedah Basin
- Detailed geology of the Murray Basin
- Detailed geology of the Surat Basin
- Detailed geology of the Sydney Basin
