West Basin Lake, Australia

Figure 12. Results of particle size analysis of a sample from West Basin Lake. Australia. A Histogram B Cumulative frequence curve plotted using arithmetic- scales C Cumulative frequency curve plotted using probability-0 scales.

Gell, P. A., P. A. Barker, P. De Deckker, W. M. Last L. Jelicic, 1994. The Holocene history of West Basin Lake, Victoria, Australia chemical changes based on fossil biota and sediment mineralogy. J. Paleolim. 12 235-258. 

Whereas the majority of the black coals in the northern hemisphere, including the USA and Europe, were formed during the Carboniferous age, the black coals of Australia are, in the main, Permian. The latter include the coals from the two major basins -the Sydney and the Bowen - and also large deposits in the Galilee Basin (Queensland), at Oaklands (N.S.W.), Lake Phillipson (South Australia) and Collie (West Australia) as well as the deep coal in the Cooper Basin (the Cooper Basin is in the N.E. corner of South Australia extending into the S.W. corner of Queensland (refer Fig. 1)). 

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