Multistage deformation of linked fault systems in extensional regions: An example from the northern Perth Basin, Western Australia

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 897-903

  Song, T ^a   Cawood, P A ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fault reactivation; Linked fault system; Perth Basin; Transfer fault

Indexed keywords

BASIN ANALYSIS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT ZONE; GONDWANA; PERMIAN; RIFTING; TRANSFER ZONE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033509728     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.1999.00752.x     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. CROSTELLA A. 1995. An evaluation of the hydrocarbon potential of the onshore northern Perth Basin, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia Report 43.
2. DRUMMOND B. J., ETHERIDGE M. A., DAVIES P. J. & MIDDLETON M. F. 1988. Half-graben model for the structural evolution of the Fitzroy trough, Canning basin, and implications for resource exploration. The APEA Journal 28(1), 76-86.
3. DULA W. F. Jr. 1991. Geometric models of listric normal faults and rollover folds. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 75, 1609-1625.
4. GIBBS A. D. 1990. Linked fault families in basin formation. Journal of Structural Geology 12, 795-803.
5. GROSHONG J. R. H. 1989. Half-graben structures: balanced models of extensional fault-bend folds. Geological Society of America Bulletin 101, 96-105.
6. HARRIS L. B. 1994. Structural and tectonic synthesis for the Perth Basin, Western Australia. Journal, of Petroleum Geology 17, 129-156.
7. IASKY R. P. & MORY A. J. 1994. Structural and tectonic framework of the onshore northern Perth Basin. Journal of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysics 24, 585-592.
8. JONES D. K. 1976. Perth Basin. In: Leslie R. B. Evans M. J. & Knight C. L. ed. Economic Geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea, Volume 3, Petroleum, pp. 108-126. Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Monograph 7.
9. MARSHALL J. F., LEE C. S., RAMSAY D. C. & MOORE A. M. G. 1989. Tectonic controls on sedimentation and maturation in the offshore north Perth Basin. Journal of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists 29, 450-465.
10. MCCLAY K. & KHALIL S. 1998. Extensional hard linkages, eastern Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Geology 26, 563-566.
11. MIDDLETON M. F., WILDE S. A., EVANS B. A., LONG A. & DENTITH M. C. 1993. A preliminary interpretation of deep seismic reflection geophysical data from the Darling Fault Zone, Western Australia. Exploration Geophysics 24, 711-718.
12. MORLEY C. K. 1995. Developments in the structural geology of rifts over the last decade and their impact on hydrocarbon exploration. In: Lambiase J. J. ed. Hydrocarbon Habitat in Rift Basins, pp. 1-32. Geological Society of London Special Publication 80.
13. MORLEY C. K., NELSON R. A., PATTON T. L. & MUNN S. G. 1990. Transfer zones in the East African Rift System and their relevance to hydrocarbon exploration in rifts. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 74, 1234-1253.
14. MORY A. J. & IASKY R. P. 1996. Stratigraphy and structure of the onshore northern Perth Basin, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia Report 46.
15. MOUSTAFA A. R. 1997. Controls on the development and evolution of transfer zones: the influence of basement structure and sedimentary thickness in the Suez rift and Red Sea. Journal of Structural Geology 19, 755-768.
16. PEACOCK D. C. P. & SANDERSON D. J. 1991. Displacement, segment linkage, and relay ramps in normal fault zones. Journal of Structural Geology 13, 721-276.
17. PLAYFORD P. E., COCKBAIN A. E. & LOW G. H. 1976. Geology of the Perth Basin, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia Bulletin 124.
18. POWELL C. MCA., ROOTS S. R. & VEEVERS J. J. 1988. Pre-breakup continental extension in East Gondwanaland and the early opening of the eastern Indian Ocean. Tectonophysics 155, 261-283.
19. QUAIFE P., ROSSER J. & PAGNOZZI S. 1994. The structural architecture and stratigraphy of the offshore northern Perth Basin, Western Australia. In: Purcell P. G. & Purcell R. R. eds. The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia: Proceedings of Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth, 1994, pp. 811-822. PESA Limited, WA Branch, Perth.
20. SPRING D. E. & NEWELL N. A. 1993. Depositional systems and sequence stratigraphy of the Cretaceous Warnbro Group, Vlaming Subbasin, Western Australia. The APEA Journal 33, 190-204.
21. SUPPE J. 1983. Geometry kinematics of fault-bend folding. American Journal of Science 283, 684-721.
22. WHITE N. J., JACKSON J. A. & MCKENZIE D. P. 1986. The relationship between the geometry of normal faults and that of the sedimentary layers in their hanging walls. Journal of Structural Geology 8, 897-909.