Cooper Basin

The Cooper Basin is the name of a sedimentary geological basin in Australia.

The Cooper Basin is located mainly in the north-east part of South Australia and extends into south-west Queensland. It is named after the Cooper Creek which is an ephemeral river which runs into Lake Eyre.

The surface of the Cooper Basin is mostly desert, including parts of the Simpson Desert, the Channel Country and Sturt's Stony Desert.

Within the basin exploration companies have conducted extensive research to discover if the area is appropriate for large-scale production. They have drilled and measured the temperature in many holes, estimating that hot granite rocks at 3.5 km deep are 240°C.^[1] The Cooper Basin has been selected for the site of a geothermal project, because these rocks are the hottest in the world at economic drilling depths and away from volcanoes. [bearbeiten]

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