Heavitree Quartzite, a Neoproterozoic (ca 800-760 Ma), high-energy, tidally influenced, ramp association, Amadeus Basin, central Australia

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 127-139

  Lindsay, J F ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amadeus Basin; Heavitree Quartzite; Neoproterozoic; Ramp setting; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CLASTIC ROCK; PROTEROZOIC; QUARTZITE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033078932     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.1999.00693.x     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. ALLEN J. R. L. 1980. Sand waves: a model of origin and internal structure. Sedimentary Geology 26, 281-328.
2. ANDERTON R. 1976. Tidal-shelf sedimentation: an example from the Scottish Dalradian. Sedimentology 23, 429-458.
3. CALVER C. R. & LINDSAY J. F. 1998. Ediacarian sequence and isotope stratigraphy of the Officer Basin, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 45, 513-532.
4. CLARK D. 1979 Heavitree Quartzite stratigraphy and structure near Alice Springs, N. T. Northern Territory Geological Survey, Alice Springs Report MBR 79/23 (unpubl.).
5. DAM G., LARSEN M. & SONDERHOLM M. 1998. Sedimentary response to mantle plumes: implications from Paleocene onshore successions, west and east Greenland. Geology 26, 207-210.
6. DECKELMAN J. A. 1995. Central Australia's Ngalia Basin has geologic, marketing obstacles. Oil and Gas Journal 93, 74-80.
7. DOTT R. H. JR & BYERS C. W. 1981. SEPM research conference on modern shelf and ancient cratonic sedimentation, the orthoquartzite-carbonate suite revisited. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 51, 329-347.
8. DOTT R. H. JR, BYERS C. W., FIELDER G. W., STENZEL S. R. & WINFREE K. E. 1986. Aeolian to marine transition in Cambro-Ordovician cratonic sheet sandstones of the northern Mississippi valley, USA. Sedimentology 33, 345-367.
9. FEDO C. M. & COOPER J. D. 1990, Braided fluvial to marine transition: the basal Lower Cambrian Wood Canyon Formation, southern Marble Mountains, Mojave Desert, California. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 60, 220-234.
10. GRAVESTOCK D. I. & LINDSAY J. F. 1994, Summary of 1993 seismic exploration in the Officer Basin, South Australia. PESA Journal 22, 65-75.
11. GREY K. & BLAKE D. H. Neoproterozoic (Cryogenian) stromatolites from the Wolfe Basin, east Kimberley, Western Australia; correlation with the Centralian Superbasin. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences (in press).
12. GROTZINGER J. P. 1986, Cyclicity and paleoenvironmental dynamics, Rocknest Platform, northwest Canada. Geological Society of America Bulletin 97, 1208-1231.
13. GUTZMER J. & BEUKES N. J. 1998. Earliest laterites and possible evidence for terrestrial vegetation in the Early Proterozoic. Geology 26, 263-266.
14. HADDOX C. A. & DOTT R. H. JR 1990. Cambrian shoreline deposits in northern Michigan. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 60, 697-716.
15. HAMBERG L. 1991. Tidal and seasonal cycles in an early Cambrian shallow marine sandstone (Hardeberga Formation in Scania, southern Sweden). In: Smith D. G., Reinson G. E., Zaitlin B. A. & Rahmani R. A. eds. Clastic Tidal Sedimentology, pp. 255-273. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 16.
16. KORSCH R. J. & LINDSAY J. F. 1989, Relationships between deformation and basin evolution in the Amadeus Basin, central Australia. Tectonophysics 158, 5-22.
17. LEVELL B. K. 1980. A late Precambrian tidal shelf deposit, the Lower Sandfjord, Finnmark, North Norway. Sedimentology 27, 538-557.
18. LINDSAY J. F. 1987a. Late Proterozoic evaporites in the Amadeus Basin, central Australia and their role in basin tectonics. Geological Society of America Bulletin 99, 852-865.
19. LINDSAY J. F. 1987b. Sequence stratigraphy and depositional controls in Late Proterozoic - Early Cambrian sediments of Amadeus Basin, central Australia. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 71, 1387-1403.
20. LINDSAY J. F. 1991. New evidence for ancient metazoan life. Bureau of Mineral Resources Bulletin 236, 91-95.
21. LINDSAY J. F. (Editor) 1993. Geological Atlas of the Amadeus Basin. Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Canberra.
22. LINDSAY J. F. (Editor) 1995. Geological Atlas of the Officer Basin, South Australia. Australian Geological Survey Organisation and Department of Mines and Energy, South Australia.
23. LINDSAY J. F. & KORSCH R. J. 1989. Interplay of tectonics and sea-level changes in basin evolution: an example from the intracratonic Amadeus Basin, central Australia. Basin Research 2, 3-25.
24. LINDSAY J. F. & KORSCH R. J. 1991. The evolution of the Amadeus Basin, central Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources Bulletin 236, 7-32.
25. LINDSAY J. F., KORSCH R. J. & WILFORD J. R. 1987. Timing the breakup of a Proterozoic supercontinent: evidence from Australian intracratonic basins. Geology 15, 1061-1064.
26. LINDSAY J. F. & LEVEN J. F. 1996. Evolution of a Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic intracratonic setting, Officer Basin, South Australia. Basin Research 8, 403-424.
27. PETTIJOHN F. J., POTTER P. E. & SIEVER R. 1987. Sand and Sandstones. 2nd edition. Springer-Verlag, New York.
28. POWELL C. MCA., PREISS W. V., GATEHOUSE C. G., KRAPEZ B. & LI Z. X. 1994. South Australian record of a Rodinian epicontinental basin and its mid-Neoproterozoic breakup (∼700 Ma) to form the Palaeo-Pacific Ocean. Tectonophysics 237, 113-140.
29. RUNKEL A. C., MCKAY R. M. & PALMER A. R. 1998. Origin of a clastic cratonic sheet sandstone: stratigraphy across the Sauk II - Sauk III boundary in the upper Mississippi Valley. Geological Society of America Bulletin 110, 188-210.
30. SHAW R. D. 1991. The tectonic development of the Amadeus Basin, central Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources Bulletin 236, 429-561.
31. SHAW R. D. & WELLS A. T. 1983. Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Sheet SF/53-14. Bureau of Mineral Resources 1:250 000 Geological Series Map Sheet and Explanatory Notes.
32. SIMPSON E. L. & ERIKSSON K. A. JR 1990. Early Cambrian progradational and transgressive sedimentation patterns in Virginia: an example of the early history of a passive margin. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 60, 84-100.
33. SMITH A. M. 1992. Subaqueous giant (15 m) and supergiant (40 m) dunes from the Lower Permian Vryheid Formation of the Karoo Supergroup, northern Natal, South Africa, interpreted as part of a shoreface ridge. Sedimentary Geology 77, 215-224.
34. SMITH A. M. & TAVERNER-SMITH R. 1988. Early Permian giant cross-beds near Nqutu, South Africa, interpreted as part of a shoreface ridge. Sedimentary Geology 57, 41-58.
35. TIRSGAARD H. 1993. The architecture of Precambrian high energy tidal channel deposits: an example from the Lyell Land Group (Eleonore Bay Supergroup), northeast Greenland. Sedimentary Geology 88, 137-152.
36. VAIL P. R. 1987. Seismic stratigraphy interpretation using sequence stratigraphy. Part 1: Seismic stratigraphy interpretation procedure. In: Bally A. W ed. Atlas of Seismic Stratigraphy, Vol. 1, pp. 1-10. AAPG Studies in Geology 27.
37. VAIL P. R., HARDENBOL J. & TODD R. G. 1984. Jurassic unconformities, chronostratigraphy, and sea-level changes from seismic stratigraphy and biostratigraphy. In: Schlee J. S. ed. Interregional unconformities and hydrocarbon accumulations, pp. 129-144. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 36.
38. VAIL P. R., MITCHUM R. M. JR & THOMPSON S. 1977a. Seismic stratigraphy and global changes of sea level. Part 3: Relative changes of sealevel from coastal onlap. In: Payton C. E. ed. Seismic stratigraphy -applications to hydrocarbon exploration, pp. 63-81. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 26.
39. VAIL P. R., MITCHUM R. M. JR & THOMPSON S. 1977b. Seismic stratigraphy and global changes of sea level. Part 4: Global cycles of relative changes of sea level. In: Payton C. E. ed. Seismic stratigraphy-applications to hydrocarbon exploration, pp. 83-97. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 26.
40. VAN WAGONER J. C., MITCHUM R. M., POSAMENTIER H. W. & VAIL P. R. 1987. Seismic stratigraphy interpretation using sequence stratigraphy. Part 2: Key definitions of sequence stratigraphy. In: Bally A. W. ed. Atlas of Seismic Stratigraphy, Vol. 1, pp. 11-14. AAPG Geologists Studies in Geology 27.
41. VON DER BORCH C. C., CHRISTIE-SLICK N. & GRADY A. E. 1988. Depositional sequence analysis applied to Late Proterozoic Wilpena Group, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 35, 59-71.
42. WAKELIN-KING G. 1994. Proterozoic play challenges Amadeus Basin explorers. Oil and Gas Journal 92, 52-55.
43. WALKER R. G. 1985. Ancient examples of tidal sand bodies formed in open, shallow seas. In: Tillman R. W., Swift D. J. P & Walker R. G. eds. Shelf Sands and Sandstone Reservoir, pp. 303-341. SEPM Short Course 13.
44. WALTER M. R. 1980. Adelaidean and Early Cambrian stratigraphy of the southwestern Georgina Basin: correlation chart and explanatory notes. Bureau of Mineral Resources Report 214.
45. WALTER M. R., VEEVERS J. J., CALVER C. R. & GREY K. 1995. Neoproterozoic stratigraphy of the Centralian Superbasin, Australia. Precambrian Research 73, 173-195.
46. WEIL A. B., VAN DER VOO R., MAC NIOCAILL C & MEERT J. G. 1998. The Proterozoic supercontinent Rodinia: paleomagnetically derived reconstructions for 1100 to 800 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 154, 13-24.
47. WELLS A. T., FORMAN D. J., RANFORD L. C. & COOK P. J. 1970, Geology of the Amadeus Basin. Bureau of Mineral Resources Bulletin 100.
48. WELLS A. T., RANFORD L. C., STEWART A. J., COOK P. J. & SHAW R. D. 1967. The geology of the north-eastern part of the Amadeus Basin, Northern Territory. Bureau of Mineral Resources Report 113.
49. WILLIAMS I. R. 1992. Geology of the Savory Basin, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australian Bulletin 141.
50. WILLIAMS I. R. 1994. The Neoproterozoic Savory Basin, Western Australia. In: Purcell P. G. & Purcell R. R. eds. The sedimentary basins of Western Australia, pp. 841-850. Western Australian Branch of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Perth.
51. ZHAO J-X., MCCULLOCH M. T. & BENNETT V. C. 1992. Sm-Nd and U-Pb zircon isotopic constraints on the provenance of sediments from the Amadeus Basin, central Australia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 56, 921-940.
52. ZHAO J-X., MCCULLOCH M. T. & KORSCH R. J. 1994. Characterization of a plume-related ∼800 Ma magmatic event and its implications for basin formation in central-southern Australia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 121, 349-367.