Definitions for "Great Artesian Basin"
Extensive area of inland Australia filled with Mesozoic sedimentary rocks and containing an important resource of artesian water.
a large store of underground water underlying the arid central and eastern regions of Australia.
Largest artesian ground-water basin in the world. It underlies approximately one-fifth of Australia and extends beneath the arid and semi-arid parts of Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory, stretching from the Great Dividing Range to the Lake Eyre depression. The Basin covers a total area of more than 1.7 million square kilometres and has an estimated water storage of 8,700 million megalitres.