Diagenesis and Petrophysics of the Early Permian Moogooloo Sandstone, Southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia¹

Julian C. Baker,² Peter J. Havord,³ Ken R. Martin,⁴ and K. Ameed R. Ghori⁵

©Copyright 2000. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved.
¹Manuscript received September 15, 1998; revised manuscript received June 7, 1999; final acceptance September 3, 1999.
²K. R. Martin Pty. Ltd., 27 Kawanna Street, Mudjimba, Queensland 4564, Australia, and Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia. Present address: Reservoir Solutions Pty. Ltd., Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies, 2643 Moggill Road, Pinjarra Hills, Queensland 4069, Australia; e-mail: j.baker@mailbox.uq.edu.au
³Geological Survey of Western Australia, Mineral House, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, Western Australia 6004, Australia. Present address: Santos Ltd., 60 Edward Street, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia; e-mail: Peter.Havord@santos.com.au
⁴K. R. Martin Pty. Ltd., 27 Kawanna Street, Mudjimba, Queensland 4564, Australia; e-mail: krbh.martin@bigpond.com
⁵Geological Survey of Western Australia, Mineral House, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, Western Australia 6004, Australia; e-mail: a.ghori@dme.wa.gov.au
The paper benefited from thoughtful reviews by journal referees Michael D. Wilson and Richard E. Larese, and is published with permission of the Director of the Geological Survey of Western Australia. Stable isotope analyses and K-Ar dating were done in the Stable Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory of the Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Queensland.

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