Hillsborough Basin

Hillsborough Basin. The basin, defined geophysically during a phase of oil exploration during the 1960fs, lies largely offshore from Mackay. It trends northwest towards Proserpine, inshore from Repulse Bay, and covers an area of about 75 x... 

Mineralogy. The distribution of the major elements (expressed as oxides) in the main oil shale seams in three basins (The Narrows Graben, Duaringa and Hillsborough Basins) are listed in Table I. The most apparent variations are in the inorganic components of the carbonaceous units (Humpy Creek seam in the Narrows Graben brown-black oil shale and... 

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