Offshore Canning Basin

Location map of the Offshore Canning Basin area showing major geological structure and basin boundaries

The Canning Basin extends offshore Western Australia to form the Offshore Canning Basin (Oobagooma Sub-basin/Fitzroy Trough, Broome Platform, Willara Sub-basin, Samphire Embayment, Wallal Platform and Wallal Embayment). The offshore portion of the basin contains up to 10 km of Ordovician to Tertiary marine and non-marine siliciclastics and marine carbonates.

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Updated: 1 July 2008