Product catalogue
Australian Hydrochemistry Data
Geoscience Australia and its predecessors have analysed hydrochemistry of water sampled from boreholes (both pore water and groundwater), surface features, and rainwater. Sampling was undertaken during drilling or monitoring projects, and this dataset represents a significant subset of stored analyses.
Water chemistry including isotopic data is essential to better understand groundwater origins, ages and dynamics, processes such as recharge and inter-aquifer connectivity and for informing conceptual and numerical groundwater models. This GA dataset underpins a nationally consistent data delivery tool and web-based mapping to visualise, analyse and download groundwater chemistry and environmental isotope data.
This dataset is a spatially-enabled groundwater hydrochemistry database based on hydrochemistry data from projects completed in Geoscience Australia. The database includes information on physical-chemical parameters (EC, pH, redox potential, dissolved oxygen), major and minor ions, trace elements, nutrients, pesticides, isotopes and organic chemicals. Basic calculations for piper plots colours are derived from Peeters, 2013 - A Background Color Scheme for Piper Plots to Spatially Visualize Hydrochemical Patterns - Groundwater, Volume 52(1) < https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.12118>.
Upon loading the data to the database, all hydrochemistry data are assessed for reliability using Quality Assurance/Quality Control procedures and all datasets were standardised.
This data is made accessible with open geospatial consortium (OGC) web services and is discoverable via the Geoscience Australia Portal (<a href=" https://portal.ga.gov.au/">https://portal.ga.gov.au/</a>). This dataset is published with the permission of the CEO, Geoscience Australia.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-06-07T00:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-06-23T05:23:57
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/100521
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/100521
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Author Carey, H.
Author Northey, J.E.
Author Peljo, M.
Author Lem, A.X.
Author Ray, J.
Author Wallace, L.
Author Sundaram, B.
Author Schroder, I.F.
Author Cook, S.
- Purpose
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Provide government, industry and the community with consistent and transparent access to hydrochemistry analyses data held in Geoscience Australia databases.
- Status
- Under development
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Carey, H.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Extent
Extent
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Continual
- Keywords
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HVC_144638
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- Theme
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hydrochemistry
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- ANZLIC Thematic Search Words Register
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GEOSCIENCES Geochemistry
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GEOSCIENCES Hydrogeology
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- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research
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Earth Sciences
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Geochemistry
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Environmental Sciences
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Inorganic Geochemistry
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Geochemistry not elsewhere classified
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Organic Geochemistry
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- Theme
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Hydrogeology
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- Project
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Exploring for the Future
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- Keywords
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Published_External
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Resource constraints
- Title
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
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CC-BY
- Edition
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4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Informed
- Title
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Hydrochemistry Analyses WFS
- Citation identifier
- 101424
- Citation identifier
- 5c138090-3d99-4fb1-9ebc-2214cb3cadf4
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Informed
- Title
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Hydrochemistry Service WMS
- Citation identifier
- 134354
- Citation identifier
- d0b36531-9428-4d7e-85d8-ed0b020bff9e
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Informed
- Title
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Hydrochemistry Service WFS
- Citation identifier
- 134353
- Citation identifier
- 0089d34f-d4f3-47fe-9c57-3ceae95e6ae8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Resource lineage
- Statement
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The data resides in the enterprise database environment and has been sourced from a variety of places including (but not limited to) internal GA sampling programs, Mineral and Petroleum Exploration companies, State Geological Surveys and Water Authorities.
The information contained within this dataset has been selected from the GA corporate data with the following business logic applied: a.Security rating of the data is open file b.Only active records are included c.Only Australian Records are included d.A decision was made to allocate coordinates from its parent sample or borehole to provide a spatial reference.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
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EPSG/GDA94 (EPSG:4283)
- Title
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European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-11-12T00:00:00
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details European Petroleum Survey Group
http://www.epsg-registry.org/
Metadata constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/248d8db4-b15f-454d-ae05-fd58b9eee6a2
- Title
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Carey, H.
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/100521
- Date info (Creation)
- 2016-06-07T17:27:37
- Date info (Revision)
- 2018-04-11T05:00:56
Metadata standard
- Title
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3
- Title
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
- Edition
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551