A tailored field trip for geoscientists working in the resource industry.

This field trip proposes to visit representative sections of the main Carboniferous and Permian formations exposed in narrow strips along the eastern faulted margins of the Perth and Carnarvon basins of Western Australia.

Led by Dr. David W. Haig (Senior Honorary Research Fellow, UWA), Dr Antoine Dillinger (Sedimentologist), and Dr. Dan Mantle (Senior Palynologist).

Cretaceous to Modern Carbonates (blue pins on map)

Coral Bay – Cape Range – Exmouth Gulf

Carboniferous – Permian – Triassic siliciclastics (yellow pins on map)

Northern Perth Basin – Southern Carnarvon Basin

During the Late Palaeozoic, the Perth and Carnarvon basins formed part of a series of north-trending intracratonic rift basins along the western coast of Australia, connected to the main East Gondwana interior rift extending from New Guinea, Timor, and the Palaeo-Tethys in the north, and East Antarctica and India to the south.

The Carboniferous-Permian interval in such basins forms long-term records of palaeo-climatic transitions from full glacial to warm and humid postglacial conditions.

Contact Antoine Dillinger (antoine.dillinger [@] mgpalaeo.com.au) for more information