Marine Sediments (MARS) Database

Authors / CoAuthors

Nichol, S.

Abstract

The MARine Sediment (MARS) database contains detailed information on seabed sediment characteristics for samples collected from Australia's marine jurisdiction, including the Australian Antarctic Territory. It is an important scientific resource that includes sediment properties from seabed and sub-seabed samples spanning coastal, continental shelf and deep sea locations. Analytical properties include grain size, carbonate content, mineralogy, geochemical properties and age determinations. MARS currently holds approximately 100,000 sample records and new data are being added as they become available. Please contact us at ausseabed@ga.gov.au if you wish to contribute marine sediment data to the MARS database.

Product Type

dataset

eCat Id

69869

Contact for the resource

Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Cnr Jerrabomberra Ave and Hindmarsh Dr GPO Box 378
Canberra
ACT
2601
Australia

Point of contact

Contact instructions: PSCD

Resource provider

Keywords

DatabaseOracle Database

( Theme )

marine survey

( Theme )

data

( Theme )

sedimentology

( Theme )

National dataset

( Theme )

marine

AU-EEZ

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

Earth Sciences

( Theme )

DC2020

Published_External

HVC_144639

Publication Date

2009-01-01T00:00:00

Creation Date

Security Constraints

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Classification - unclassified

Legal Constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Access - license

Use - license

Status

Purpose

Maintenance Information

weekly

Topic Category

geoscientificInformation

Series Information

Lineage

The Marine Sediments database webservice was originally developed as a static webservice in 2018. The Marine Sediments (MARS) webservice was migrated to new infrastructure and republished in 2021 as part of a webservice upgrade. This resulted in a change to the service endpoint URL to https://warehouse.ausseabed.gov.au/geoserver/wms or https://warehouse.ausseabed.gov.au/geoserver/wfs with the featuretype ‘ausseabed:Seabed_Sediments_Collection’. The webservice provides data from Geoscience Australia’s MARS database and is now updated weekly.

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Extents

[-69.536, -8.473405, 40.8543, 171.8011]

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