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Explanatory notes on layered geology maps, eastern Queensland 2020-2022

<div>Geoscience Australia’s Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program provides precompetitive information to inform decision-making by government, community and industry on the sustainable development of Australia's mineral, energy and groundwater resources. By gathering, analysing and interpreting new and existing precompetitive geoscience data and knowledge, we are building a national picture of Australia’s geology and resource potential. This leads to a strong economy, resilient society and sustainable environment for the benefit of all Australians. This includes supporting Australia’s transition to net zero emissions, strong, sustainable resources and agriculture sectors, and economic opportunities and social benefits for Australia’s regional and remote communities. The Exploring for the Future program, which commenced in 2016, is an eight year, $225m investment by the Australian Government.</div><div><br></div><div>This record contains geological notes on layered geology interpretation of twenty-nine 1:250 000 Sheet areas in eastern Queensland. The geology maps generated as part of this work were not released as a separate product but incorporated into the national layered geology product of Sanchez et al. (2024). There are five layers interpreted; pre-Neoproterozoic, Neoproterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Preparation of these layers involved figuratively peeling off successively older rocks and identifying and outlining the rocks thereby revealed. The notes provide comments on the rocks comprising each layer, and explain how the identity of the revealed rocks was arrived at where this is not obvious. The Cenozoic time slice was extracted from the 1:1 000 000 scale outcrop geology (Raymond et al., 2012) after removing the surficial deposits and without further interpretation.&nbsp;</div>

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Date (Creation)
2020-11-23T10:00:00
Date (Publication)
2024-08-05T23:14:42
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/149529

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/149529

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Author

Stewart, A.J.

External Contact
Name

GA Record

Issue identification

2024/26

Purpose

This Record is a set of explanatory notes for layered geology interpretation for twenty-nine 1:250 000 Sheet areas in eastern Queensland and form part of the work to generate the Layered Geology of Australia (Sanchez et al 2024). The explanatory notes provide comments on the rocks comprising each of the five layers interpreted (pre-Neoproterozoic, Neoproterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic), and explain how the identity of the revealed rocks was arrived at where this is not obvious, largely using potential field and borehole data.

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Resource provider

Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division

External Contact
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Point of contact

Beyer, E.

Internal Contact
Spatial representation type
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Project
  • EFTF – Exploring for the Future

Project
  • Australia’s Resources Framework

Keywords
  • Australia

Keywords
  • Solid geology

Keywords
  • Chronostratigraphic mapping

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
  • Geology not elsewhere classified

Keywords
  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
User

Any

Use constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2024

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Classification system

Australian Government Security Classification System

Associated resource

Association Type
Generated
Title

Layered geology of Australia

Citation identifier
149179

Citation identifier
ddb4a489-2e6c-437e-93c9-e90cd66aef69

Website

http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/149179

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice facsimile
OnLine resource

Download the Record (pdf) [1.0 MB]

Download the Record (pdf) [1.0 MB]

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    File decompression technique

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Resource lineage

Statement

<div>Draft record completed by author in March 2022. Revision and reformatting carried by E Beyer in May-June 2024. This Record informed the solid geology of Australia (eCat 149179) and its associated metadata.</div>

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
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Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Point of contact

Beyer, E.

Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Document
Name

GA Record

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

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Citation identifier
eCatId/149529

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Metadata linkage

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Date info (Creation)
2024-08-01T23:10:53
Date info (Revision)
2024-08-01T23:10:53

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

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Keywords

Australia’s Resources Framework EFTF – Exploring for the Future
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
Geology not elsewhere classified

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