Officer Basin

The Officer Basin (English: Officer Basin ) is approximately 410,000 km ² large sedimentary basins of the Australian craton ( continental core ), the bulk of which is located in Western Australia and extends to South Australia. It is named after Officer Creek, a watercourse which flows through a small section of the basin.

In the sedimentary basins are located up to 10 km thick marine and non- marine deposits that originated from the Neoproterozoic to the late Paleozoic. Components of the Paleozoic were found only in South Australia. With the other nearby sedimentary basins Amadeus Basin and Georgina 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.