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The Permo-Trias sic Bowen Basin is the northernmost structural element of the ca. 2000 km long Bowen—Gunnedah—Sydney Basin System in eastern Australia (Figure 1). The Bowen Basin formed through back-arc extension and foreland subsidence prior to the break-up of Gondwana, resulting in a series of distinct domains reflecting basement morphology and the effects of tectonism (Fielding et al., 1990; Murray, 1990; de Caritat and Braun, 1992). It contains up to 10 000 m of terrestrial and shallow marine siliciclastic sediments (Totterdell et al., 1995), and is economically significant, containing abundant coal and widespread accumulations of coal seam and natural gas.
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Golding, S.D., Collerson, K.D., Uysal, I.T., Glikson, M., Baublys, K., Zhao, J.X. (2000). Nature and source of carbonate mineralization in Bowen Basin coals, Eastern Australia. In: Glikson, M., Mastalerz, M. (eds) Organic Matter and Mineralisation: Thermal Alteration, Hydrocarbon Generation and Role in Metallogenesis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9474-5_14
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