Tectonic geography of the world's oldest petroleum play, the McArthur Basin

该项目旨在开发一个4D构造地理框架，以支持麦克阿瑟盆地的有效勘探。该项目将通过a)调查不断演变的构造环境，b)检查盆地内部的相互关系并追踪沉淀物的来源，c)使用新的同位素替代方法解开沉积地理，以及d)建立盆地随后的热史，来构建这一过程。通过该项目开发的技术将降低该盆地的石油勘探风险，并适用于澳大利亚其他地区和国际上的元古界石油勘探。

This projects aims to develop a 4D tectonic geography framework to support the effective exploration of the McArthur Basin. This project will construct this by a) investigating the evolving tectonic setting, b) examining intra-basin correlations and trace the source to sink sediment provenance, c) unraveling the depositional geography using novel isotopic proxies, and, d) constructing the subsequent thermal history of the basin. The techniques developed through this project will de-risk the exploration for petroleum in this basin, and be applicable in opening up Proterozoic petroleum elsewhere in Australia and internationally.