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Published in Madeline Taylor, Tina Hunter, Agricultural Land Use and Natural Gas Extraction Conflicts, 2018
The other significant exemption of the RPIA is that of pre-existing activities. Resource activities are exempt from requiring a RIDA where the resource authority for the petroleum activity was issued or granted before 30 January 2012.57 Prior to 2012, the majority of unconventional gas activities and LNG export contracts had already commenced in some agricultural areas of Queensland, for example, in the Darling Downs.58 The Darling Downs is recognised as the ‘food bowl’ of Queensland, accounting for an estimated quarter of the state’s agricultural production. This fertile black volcanic soil region lies above some substantial unconventional gas basins – the Surat, Bowen and Clarence–Moreton. The Surat Basin is a geological basin that extends across an area of 270,000 km2, with two thirds of the Basin occupying a large part of southeast Queensland and the remainder in northern NSW. The communities in this region are situated above the Great Artesian Basin (GAB), the world’s largest and deepest artesian basin. These communities rely on the GAB for access to subsurface water for agricultural activities due to the arid nature of the land and low rainfall. The RPIA includes regional plans that address a broad range of land use regulation and zoning, of which agriculture is one use among an array of other equally important planning land uses. For example, PLAs are identified through regional planning governed by the Planning Act 2016 (Qld)59 and include the existing settlement area of a city, town or other community that is to be protected for the future growth of the existing settled area.60
Stratigraphic constraints on the Lower Cretaceous Orallo Formation, southeastern Queensland: U–Pb dating of bentonite and palynostratigraphy of associated strata
Published in Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2021
J. J. Cooling, J. L. Crowley, J. L. McKellar, J. S. Esterle, R. S. Nicoll, V. Bianchi
Today, the Surat Basin (Figure 1) covers over 300 000km2 of Queensland and New South Wales and contains important coal and coal-seam gas resources. It was deposited during the latest Triassic, Jurassic and Early Cretaceous in an intracratonic setting, and contemporaneously with the Eromanga Basin to the west and the Clarence-Moreton Basin to the east. In the latter basin, strata younger than Middle Jurassic have been eroded in the Queensland portion of it, although younger strata remain in its extension into New South Wales. Accommodation space was created through either thermal sag (Exon, 1976; Fielding et al., 1990) or via dynamic platform tilting (Korsch & Totterdell, 2009; Waschbusch et al., 2009).
Post-orogenic structural style and reactivation in the northern Bowen Basin, eastern Australia
Published in Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2021
A. Babaahmadi, P. Brooks, M. Grant
The central and southern parts of the Bowen Basin are overlain by the Surat Basin, filled by Jurassic detrital units and Lower Cretaceous marine sediments (Cook et al., 2013; Korsch & Totterdell, 2009) (Figures 1a and 2). The Surat Basin is a part of a large Mesozoic basin system in eastern Australia, including the Clarence–Moreton and Maryborough basins to the east, and the Eromanga Basin to the west (Cook et al., 2013). The northern part of the Bowen Basin is partially overlain by the Upper Cretaceous(?)–Paleogene sedimentary units of the Duaringa Basin, Cenozoic volcanic rocks, and some Mesozoic magmatic intrusions (Balfe et al., 1988; Malone et al., 1969) (Figure 1b).
Warrumbungle Volcano: facies architecture and evolution of a complex shield volcano
Published in Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2021
K. F. Bull, A. L. Troedson, S. Bodorkos, P. L. Blevin, M. C. Bruce, K. Waltenberg
The Gunnedah Basin is unconformably overlain by Surat Basin sequences of Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous age. The Surat Basin is a sub-basin of the Great Australian Basin that extends across central northern NSW and southern Queensland, is nearly flat lying on a regional scale, and consists largely of non-marine and marine siliciclastic sedimentary rocks and minor coal. The project area lies mainly within the Coonamble Embayment, a structural unit of the southern Surat Basin (Figure 3).