The Darling Sedimentary Basin, or simply the Darling Basin is located in western New South Wales, bordered in the north by the line Broken Hill-Wilcannia -Cobar and stretching southward towards the Murray River.[1][2] It is an old sedimentary basin dated by Late Cambrian/Silurian to Early Carboniferous.[3] It is an intra-cratonic depositional center, mostly filled with Devonian sedimentary rocks up to 8 km in thickness. It is overlaid by the Eromanga Basin in the north and the Murray Basin in the south. It covers the area on over 100,000 km2.[4][5]
Darling and Murray basins are separated by the Lachlan Fold Belt.[6]
Major troughs and sub-basins include Cobar Basin, Mt Hope Trough, Rast Trough and Melrose Trough.[7]
The Moomba to Sydney Pipeline crosses the area.[4]
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- ^ Basin Details and Geological Overview
- ^ Griffith in the Darling Basin
- ^ The present-day state of tectonic stress in the Darling Basin, Australia: Implications for exploration and production
- ^ a b Phillip M Cooney, Ricky M Mantaring (2004), Interpretation of the Petroleum Potential of the Darling Basin, a Process of Integration and Iteration, doi:10.1071/ASEG2004ab020
- ^ Darling Basin
- ^ Potential cumulative impacts on river flow volume from increased groundwater extraction under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
- ^ ROBERT KINGHAM, Geology of the Murray-Darling Basin — Simplified Lithostratigraphic Groupings