Seismic and stratigraphic evidence for reef expansion and onset of aridity on the Northwest Shelf of Australia during the Pleistocene

Stephen J Gallagher; Malcolm W Wallace; Peter W Hoiles; John M Southwood

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Seismic and stratigraphic evidence for reef expansion and onset of aridity on the Northwest Shelf of Australia during the Pleistocene

Stephen J Gallagher, Malcolm W Wallace, Peter W Hoiles, John M Southwood

MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Published : 2014

DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2014.06.011

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Malcolm Wallace Author Earth Sciences

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Funding Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Guy Holdgate for various stratigraphic discussions about Northwest Shelf stratigraphy. We also Brian Pratt (the handling editor) and an anonymous reviewer whose constructive comments improved the text. Geoscience Australia (Andrew Jones and Andrew Heap) and Woodside Petroleum kindly provided the seismic data. The wireline log data were donated by Occam Technology (Mike Wiltshire). Woodside Petroleum (Neil Marshall) and Advanced Geomechanics allowed access to sample and log cores BHC4 and BHC1. The work was partly funded by an ARC Linkage project on the Northwest Shelf LP0219312 and ARC DP0558150.