M. J. Jackson's research while affiliated with Geoscience Australia and other places
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Publications (12)
In the western part of the Mt Isa Inlier one of the most obvious lithostratigraphic correlations is the Torpedo Creek Quartzite (Lawn Hill Platform) and the Warrina Park Quartzite (Leichhardt River Fault Trough). These two sand bodies form the basal lithostratigraphic unit of their respective groups – McNamara and Mt Isa – and crop out as easily ma...
New stratigraphic, geochemical and palaeomagnetic data from the Peters Creek Volcanics are used to revise the correlations of part of the Palaeoproterozoic of northern Australia. The revised geological history for these cover rocks of the Murphy Inlier is extrapolated into the 1800–1700 Ma successions of the McArthur Basin and Mt Isa regions. New s...
Fifty-five new SHRIMP U–Pb zircon ages from samples of northern Australian ‘basement’ and its overlying Proterozoic successions are used to refine and, in places, significantly change previous lithostratigraphic correlations. In conjunction with sequence-stratigraphic studies, the 1800–1580 Ma rock record between Mt Isa and the Roper River is now c...
Sequence-stratigraphic interpretations of outcrop, drillcore, wireline and seismic datasets are integrated with SHRIMP zircon and palaeomagnetic determinations to provide a detailed chronostratigraphic basin framework for the base-metal-rich Palaeoproterozoic rocks of the southern McArthur, Lawn Hill and Mt Isa regions. The analysis forms a basis f...
Gamma-ray curves from surface outcrops together with U–Pb SHRIMP zircon dating are used to redefine the evolution of a Palaeoproterozoic sandy dolostone succession from northern Australia. This case history indicates that gamma-ray logging of surface sections should accompany lithostratigraphic logging or an inadequate interpretation of stratigraph...
A largely convergent setting is proposed for crustal, tectonic and basin evolution of the intracratonic regions of north-central Australia between 1800 and 1575 Ma. The new geodynamic model contrasts with previous proposals of widespread extension during the Leichhardt, Calvert and Isa intervals. Local transtensional to extensional structures exist...
The River Supersequence represents a 2nd-order accommodation cycle of approximately 15 million years duration in the Isa Superbasin. The River Supersequence comprises eight 3rd-order sequences that are well exposed on the central Lawn Hill Platform. They are intersected in drillholes and imaged by reflection seismic on the northern Lawn Hill Platfo...
Sequence-stratigraphic correlations provide a better understanding of sediment architecture in the Mt Isa and lower McNamara Groups of northern Australia. Sediments record deposition in a marine environment on a broad southeast-facing ramp that extended from the Murphy Inlier in the northwest to the Gorge Creek, Saint Paul and Rufous Fault Zones in...
Intriguing results from recent field research and SHRIMP zircon dating of rocks from the Palaeoproterozoic McArthur Basin, northern Australia, illustrate why a modern sequence stratigraphic approach to studying sedimentary successions is likely to provide better results than a more traditional lithostratigraphic approach. As the Proterozoic success...
Recognises 18 third-order stratigraphic sequences in a major transgressive-regressive facies cycle. A Givetian phase of crustal extension initiated the transgressive-regressive cycle. The cycle terminated in the Tournaisian, following a phase of slow thermal subsidence. Sequence and systems trace geometries, their stacking patterns, and component f...
A sequence stratigraphic study of 4 000 kilometres of seismic data and fifty wells from the northern part of the Canning Basin has improved vasdy our knowledge of the evolution of the basin succession and has identified new petroleum play concepts. The Devonian to Lower Carboniferous succession can be subdivided into at least sixteen 'Vail type' se...
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... These long-term sequences are punctuated by higher-frequency changes in sea level, which resulted in a number of subordinate sequences, commonly referred to as third-order sequences in previous Canning Basin studies (e.g., Southgate et al. 1993, Playford 2002, George et al. 2013), and they will be referred to as such here. However, the role of eustasy vs. local tectonism on the development of shorter-term sequences remains heavily debated, and the exact number of these sequences is uncertain ( Jackson et al. 1992;Southgate et al. 1993;Kennard et al. 1994;George et al., 1997George et al., , 2009Playford et al. 2009). ...
... Abrupt thickness changes across east-and northeast-striking normal faults (Derrick, 1982; Nijman et al., 1992b; Betts et al., 1996 ) suggest deposition during rifting . Sequence stratigraphic correlations indicate that fewer sequences are preserved in the northern terrane (Southgate et al., 1996 ). The Gunpowder Creek Formation and Moondarra Siltstone define a basin-wide marine transgression, culminating with a maximum flooding surface (Sami et al., 1997; McConachie and Domagala, 1997). ...
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... Previous workers placed an unconformity and sequence boundary at the base of the upper Wollogorang Formation (Jackson et al., 1997;Rawlings, 2002). Based on SHRIMP U-Pb analyses (Page et al., 2000), Jackson et al. (1997) suggested a 5-million-year hiatus at this contact. ...
... Furthermore, basinal during lowstand periods of siliciclastic material. These stratigraphic models were relatively well documented of large scale carbonate systems that interacting with major sources of siliciclastic Input (9,10,11). Several sub-environments such as tidal, deltas, lagoons and reefal facies can coexist, and sediment accumulation, emersion, erosion, and sediment starvation can occur simultaneously. The siliciclastic input is related to shelf exposure and erosion. ...
... At the base of the Isa Superbasin, the interpreted un/disconformity separating the Isa and Calvert superbasins may represent the 'Gun Unconformity', well documented from the Lawn Hill Platform and Mount Isa regions where it represents a break in sedimentation between the Calvert to Isa superbasins, representing a gap in the rock record of as much as ca 20-25 Ma (e.g. Domagala et al., 2000;Southgate et al., 2000;Jackson et al., 2005;Neumann et al., 2009). Unconformably overlying Isa Superbasin sequences, is the Roper Superbasin, locally represented by the South Nicholson Group. ...
... The McArthur Group overlies the Tawallah Group and is a sequence of interbedded carbonate rocks, mudstones, sandstones, and talus breccias (Kunzmann et al., 2019). The Nathan Group overlies the McArthur Group and primarily comprises dolomite and sandstone lithologies (Jackson and Southgate, 2000). The Roper Group is the youngest Mesoproterozoic sequence in the McArthur Basin and it largely consists of quartz sandstones, siltstones and shales (Jackson et al., 1986(Jackson et al., , 1987. ...
... Further west, the MTI ( Fig. 1b and 6) consists of a c. 1900-1850 Ma crystalline basement and a thick sedimentary succession of three superbasins formed during a poly-phase rifting history accompanied with basaltic magmatism that spanned c. 200 m.yr. (e.g., Betts et al., 2006;Gibson and Champion, 2019;Gibson et al., 2017;Giles and Nutman, 2002;Scott et al., 2000). Intermittent shortening occurred along an E-W direction at c. 1740-1710 Ma (Blaikie et al., 2017) and NNE-SSW at c. 1650 Ma and reference therein). ...
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... The various lithofacies and their associations have been investigated in numerous earlier studies (Miall, 1977;Wescott and Ethridge, 1980;Nemec and Steel, 1988;Mjos and Prestholm, 1993;Hwang et al., 1995;Junnila and Young, 1995;Kneller and Branney, 1995;Miall, 1996;Krassay et al., 2000;Boyd et al., 2006;Ielpi, 2012;Wang et al., 2020) and we refer here to these studies. We carried out some additional lithofacies analyses of the coal measures (see Section 4.1) in order to identify cycles, with the objective to deepen the understanding of the sedimentary environment of these coal-measure cycles (Diesel and Wolff-Fischer, 1986;Diessel and Gammidge, 1998). ...
... The George Fisher (169 Mt at 9.0% Zn, 3.3% Pb, and 53 g/t Ag; Glencore, 2021), Hilton, and Mount Isa deposits are hosted by siltstones and mudstones of the Urquhart Shale Formation, which was deposited ca. 1,652 ± 7 Ma (Page and Sweet, 1998;Page et al., 2000) and is part of the Mount Isa Group ( Figure 1D, Gun and Loretta supersequences; Southgate et al., 2000). The mudstones and siltstones are variably carbonaceous and pyritic but contain a high proportion of carbonate and feldspar (Neudert, 1983;Painter et al., 1999;Rieger et al., 2020b). ...
... The geological framework of the Mount Isa Province has been summarised and reworked numerous times since the first major government mapping campaigns in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s (Betts et al., 2006;Blake, 1987;Blake & Stewart, 1992;Foster & Austin, 2008;Southgate et al., 2000). These frameworks divide the province into both north-south-trending tectonic domains including the Western Succession/Fold Belt, Kalkadoon-Leichardt Belt and Eastern Succession/Fold Belt, and stratigraphic divisions. ...
