The Darling Sedimentary Basin, or simply the Darling Basin, is located in western New South Wales, bordered in the north by the line Broken Hill-Wilcannia -Cobar and stretching southward towards the Murray River.Basin Details and Geological OverviewGriffith in the Darling Basin It is an old sedimentary basin dated by Late Cambrian/Silurian to Early Carboniferous. It is an intra-cratonic depositional center, mostly filled with Devonian sedimentary rocks up to 8 km in thickness. It is overlaid by the Eromanga Basin in the north and the Murray Basin in the south. It covers the area on over 100,000 km2.Phillip M Cooney, Ricky M Mantaring (2004), Interpretation of the Petroleum Potential of the Darling Basin, a Process of Integration and Iteration, Darling Basin
Darling and Murray basins are separated by the Lachlan Fold Belt.Potential cumulative impacts on river flow volume from increased groundwater extraction under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
Major troughs and sub-basins include Cobar Basin, Mt Hope Trough, Rast Trough and Melrose Trough.ROBERT KINGHAM, Geology of the Murray-Darling Basin — Simplified Lithostratigraphic Groupings
The Moomba to Sydney Pipeline crosses the area.
See also Darling River
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