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Volume 19, Issue 1-2
  • ISSN: 0812-3985
  • E-ISSN: 1834-7533

Abstract

In 1985, the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources recorded 500 km of deep seismic reflection data across the Arunta Block and the Ngalia and Amadeus Basins in central Australia. Large offset shots and expanding reflection spreads were also recorded coincident with the near-vertical incidence reflection data in the Arunta Block and the northern part of the Amadeus Basin to better define seismic velocity variations throughout the crust. In the northern part of the Amadeus Basin lateral and vertical variations in seismic velocity or variable dip in the reflectors can be detected throughout the 10 km thick sedimentary sequence, thus providing useful constraints on lithological or facies variations. A new method of mapping lateral velocity variations below weathering has been developed for interpreting first break data from conventional reflection shots, and has enabled the presence of a northerly-dipping fault in crystalline rocks to be detected in a part of the Arunta Block with few outcrops. The detailed velocity variations measured in selected localities is assisting with the proper migration and interpretation of both shallow and deep reflections.

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