Georgina Basin

The Georgina Basin (English: Georgina Basin ) is a 330,000 km ² sedimentary basins of the Australian craton ( continental core ) in the central and northern Australia. The largest part of the basin is located in the Northern Territory, the smaller in Queensland. It is named after the Georgina River, a watercourse which flows through a portion of this basin.

In the sedimentary basins are located about 4 km thick marine and non- marine deposits that originated from the Neoproterozoic to the late Paleozoic before 850-330 million years ago. With the other nearby sedimentary basins, the Amadeus Basin and Officer Basin, which emerged at the same time, it should once have been part of the Centralian Superbasin in Australia that has been fragmented by different sequences of tectonic activities.

The sedimentary basins superposed partially Aileron Province, Tennant Region, the Murphy Inlier, McArthur Basin and South Nicholson Basin, the Lawn Hill Platform, Kalkarindji province and the Carpentaria Basin.

Economically important are the deposits of phosphate, which also includes the deposit of Wonarah. in the south are lead and zinc deposits and there are likely to petroleum deposits are located in the sedimentary basins. Geological investigations for metals, diamonds, magnesium, oil and oil are currently being undertaken.