Carboniferous–Permian facies and tectono-stratigraphic successions of the glacially influenced and rifted Carnarvon Basin, western Australia

The Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia is a rift basin that contains a thick (up to 5 km) succession of late Carboniferous–early Permian glacially influenced marine sedimentary strata. These rocks accumulated in near-polar paleolatitudes along the uplifted and glaciated margin of the west Australian Shield (Pilbara Craton). Three stratigraphic successions (I, II, III) can be recognised, each characterised by distinct facies associations that …