Gondwanaland, is the name given to

the more southerly of two

supercontinents (the other being
Laurasia) that were part of the
Pangaea supercontinent that existed
from approximately 510 to 180 million
years ago(Mya).

The Perth Basin began forming in the
Late Permian age during the breakup
of gondwana as Australian continental
palate began rifting away from the
African and Indian continental palate

During the Permian, what is now the Perth
Basin was the eastern half of a rift valley
that formed as the continental plates were
pulled apart.

This pulling apart, which continued until
the Jurassic led to central area subsiding as
a graben allowing the sea to enter with the
subsequent deposition of transgressive
marine sediments.
The Perth Basin architecture is dominated by extensional faulting that formed
during sedimentation and controlled the distribution of the sediments.
The primary mechanism for sedimentation was originally subsidence creating
accommodation followed by fault extension and more recently, sediment loading.

i.e. the basin continuing to subside because of the weight of sediments within it.
The eastern boundary of the main Perth Basin is the Darling Fault,
topographically expressed as the Darling Scarp.
the basins were filled with glacial to pro-glacial marine (Holmwood Shale
and High Cliff and Woodynook sandstones) and deltaic sediments (Irwin
River and Rosabrook coal).

Deglaciation commenced in the Sakmarian and the rifts continued to fill
from the south to north with deltaic to progressively more marine
sediments
We have examined the type of raw material needed and how it
must accumulate in the natural environment. The next link in
the process is to examine what happens to this organic matter
(OM) when buried and subjected to increased temperature and
pressure.
Once the organic material is buried within the sea floor,
transformation begins. It is a slow process that occurs to the OM
There are three phases in the transformation of Organic material into
hydrocarbons: Diagenesis, Catagenesis, and Metagenesis (Tissot,
1997).
four requirement are necessary for large accumation of oil and gas
Source rock
Reservoir rock
Seal rock
Trap

The Permian source rocks appear to be mature for gas generation in large
tracts of the northern Perth Basin, either because of a relatively high
geothermal gradient or becauseof their depth of burial.
Most of the oil produced in from the Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic (onshore)
These Permian- and Early Triassic-age rift-sag deposits are
associated with the major petroleum system in the north
Perth Basin,