Type Geological formation Region Western Australia | Country Australia Primary Slate | |
The Cattamarra Coal Measures is a Jurassic fossil locality on Western Australia. They are part of the Perth basin, and are a sequence of non-marine, probably fluviatile sandstones, shales and silts including bituminous coal, and are up to 300 m thick. The Cattamarra Coal Measures conformably overly the Eneabba Formation.
The Cattamarra Coal Measures are a tight gas sand gas reservoir.
There are well preserved fossil insects from the Jurassic age in the deposit.
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