The Fossilbrook area was examined to find whether it contains any alluvial deposits suitable for large-scale working, but none was found

During the period 16th August to 30th September a survey was conducted over a part of the Great Artesian Basin in south-western Queensland by the BMR Helicopter Gravity Party. The surveyed area, shown on Plate 1, comprises the Gravity readings were taken on an approximate 7 x 7 mile grid as part of the reconnaissance helicopter gravity coverage of the sedimentary basins of Australia.

This Record describes a vibration investigation made by the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics at the request of the Alliance Assurance Company Ltd. It was believed that breakage of a number of windows in the curtain walls of the Company's building, Alliance Chambers, at 408 Collins Street, Melbourne, might be caused by vibrations. The purpose of this investigation was to measure the amplitude and frequency of vibrations on different floors, and to trace the source of the vibrations.

This report is an outline of the symposium on 'Groundwater in the Arid Zones' conducted by the International Association of Scientific Hydrology (I.A.S.H.) at Athens, Greece from the 11th to the 21st October, 1961..

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This Record describes a seismic refraction survey along part of the Forth River near Devonport, Tasmania. The aim of the survey, which was requested by the Hydro-Electric Commission of Tasmania, was to ascertain the depth to the bedrock and the type of bedrock on the site proposed for a dam.

Palynological examination of cores and cuttings from the subsidised A.O.G. Wentworth No.1 well, Murray Basin, New South Wales, indicates that the well passed from Tertiary into Lower Cretaceous marine sediments at either 1283-1335 feet or 140-1455 feet and into probable Lower Permian beds at 1615-1645 feet. The well was completed in conglomerates, probably also of Lower Permian age, at a total depth of 2081 feet. Examination of samples from the Oaklands-Coorabin coalfield, to obtain a guide to the age of the pre-Mesozoic section of Wentworth No.1, demonstrated that the coal measures are equivalent in age to the Upper Coal Measures of the Sydney Basin, that they overlie Lower Permian (?)marine beds which, by virtue of their common content of Leiosphaeridae, compare in age with the Wentworth Permian section.