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Liu, S.F. | Czarnota, K. | Stewart, A.J.
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Introduction Our understanding of the geological history and resource potential of Australia has been underpinned by over half a century of surface geological mapping. A synthesis of this effort is captured in the 1:1 000 000 surface geology map of Australia (Raymond et al., 2012), which shows that ~80% of the bedrock geology of Australia is covered by a veneer of sediments and regolith. Now, the challenge is to continue to unravel the geological history and resource potential of Australia beneath this cover. With this goal in mind, Geoscience Australia (GA), in collaboration with state/territory geological surveys, is embarking on compiling a series of national solid geology maps based on time slices. These maps will be compiled at an optimal scale of 1:1,000,000 exploiting potential field datasets, radiometric coverages, seismic profiles, borehole data and regional solid geology compilations. In the interest of efficiency, solid geology compilations at scales between 1:500 0001:2 500 000 will be incorporated with minimum modification. The end product will be a series of national geology maps in chronostratigraphic order, including the 1:1 000 000 surface geology of Australia, pre-Cenozoic solid geology, and ultimately older time slices (to be determined). Current work Pre-Cenozoic Geology of South Australia, New South Walse and Victoria in conjunction with a program to construct a chronostratigraphic isopach map of the Murray Basin. Work also started to produce a Pre-Cenozoic Geology map of Northern Territory.
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