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- ISSN: 2202-0586
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oa 3D Geological Model of the Yilgarn-Officer-Musgrave (YOM) Region
- Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
- Source: ASEG Extended Abstracts, Volume 2013, Issue ASEG2013 - 23rd Geophysical Conference, Dec 2013, p. 1 - 3
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- 01 Dec 2013
Abstract
In 2011, Geoscience Australia collected 484 km of deep crustal seismic reflection data. The survey traverses the northeast Yilgarn Craton, western Officer Basin and the western Musgrave Province. The aim of the survey was to obtain structural information about a relatively unexplored region of the Officer Basin, as well as provide insights into the crustal-scale architecture of the surrounding region. The broad scale architecture is of particular interest because it delineates the boundary between two major continental blocks; the Musgrave Province and the Yilgarn Craton.
This study presents a geological framework for the region using a three-dimensional model as a medium for visualisation and is a virtual representation of the geology of the region. It derives from interpretations made by integrating spatial geoscience datasets collected at the Earth’s surface. The most significant constraint for the subsurface geology comes from the deep crustal seismic reflection survey, 11GA-YO1.
The resulting model is a georeferenced, closed volume that represents a geological framework to be tested and understood within the context of geodynamic models for the region.
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