Amadeus Basin

The Amadeus Basin (English: Amadeus Basin ) is approximately 170,000 km ² large sedimentary basins of the Australian craton ( continental core ) in Central Australia. It is located in the south of the Northern Territory and extends from there into the state of Western Australia. It is named after lying in this basin Lake Amadeus, which was in turn named after the Spanish I. King Amadeus.

Geology

In the sedimentary basins are located up to 14 km powerful marine and non- marine deposits that originated from the Paleoproterozoic to the Neoproterozoic. The nearby sedimentary basins Officer Basin, Georgina Basin and Ngalia Basin and the Amadeus Basin were probably once part of the Centralian Superbasin. This was deformed during the Petermann orogeny from the Late Neoproterozoic to Cambrian and fragmented during the Alice Springs orogeny in the Paleozoic.

The Amadeus Basin are the Uluru Kata Tjuta and Kings Canyon as well as the.

Raw materials

The Amadeus Basin includes the Mereenie oil field and the Palm Valley Gas Field at Hermannsburg, this is the most important energy source for the Northern Territory. A large part of the natural gas flowing through the pipeline to Darwin, while the oil is transported to Alice Springs refineries to Adelaide.