26°43′53″S 141°00′21″E / 26.73139°S 141.00583°E
Location of the Cooper Basin in Australia
The Cooper Basin is a Permian-Triassic sedimentary geological basin in Australia. The intracratonic rift basin is located mainly in the southwestern part of Queensland and extends into northeastern South Australia. It is named after the Cooper Creek which is an ephemeral river that runs into Lake Eyre. For most of its extent, it is overlain by the Eromanga Basin. It covers 130,000 km2.[1]
The surface of the Cooper Basin is mostly desert, including parts of the Simpson Desert, the Channel Country and Sturt Stony Desert. Oil and gas exploration of the basin began in 1962.[2]
- ^ "Cooper Basin". Department of Primary Industries and Resources SA. 17 September 2010. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
- ^ Environmental Protection Agency (Queensland) (2002). Heritage Trails of the Queensland Outback. State of Queensland. p. 119. ISBN 0-7345-1040-3.