The Missing Link in the Tasmanides: Evaluating Tectonic Evolution and Resource Exploration Potential of the Southern Thomson Fold Belt (ARC Linkage Project administered by the University of Newcastle) (2015–2020)
Abstract:
Understanding the Thomson Orogen, which straddles the NSW-Qld border, is critical for developing
geodynamic models for the evolution of eastern Australia, and assessing resource potential. However, it lies
under the Great Artesian Basin. This project focusses on groundtruthing geophysical acquisition studies
using drillcore from a targeted drilling program, designed to maximise the available tectono-stratigraphic
information. The outcome will be a 3-D geological map of the region, which can be interrogated for mineral
exploration targeting, and from which 4-D evolutionary geodynamic models of eastern Australian can be
integrated.