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Thickness of Cenozoic weathering in the Great Artesian Basin
Thickness of Cenozoic weathering in the Great Artesian Basin.
Data is available as isopachs and raster. Isopachs are in Shapefile format. Rasters are in both ESRI grid and ASCII grid formats.
This GIS data set was produced for the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment and used in Figure 3.3 of Ransley TR and Smerdon BD (eds) (2012) Hydrostratigraphy, hydrogeology and system conceptualisation of the Great Artesian Basin. A technical report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia.
This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 76539.
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- 2013-01-01T00:00:00
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- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/76539
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Geoscience Australia
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Owner Commonwealth of Australia (Department of the Environment)
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geology
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groundwater
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stratigraphy
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Hydrogeology
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
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CC-BY
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4.0
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
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- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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SOURCE
Thickness data sourced from GABLOG (Habermehl 2001), PIRSA (2007), QDEX (Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines, 2012), Gibson et al 1974 and Geoscience Australia's 1:250K Geological Map series (Geoscience Australia, 2010)
REFERENCES
1. Geoscience Australia. 2010. 1:250 000 scale Geological Map series - Explanatory Notes (1960-1980). Geoscience Australia, Canberra
2. Gibson, D. L., B. S. Powell, et al. (1974). Shallow stratigraphic drilling, northern Cape York Peninsula, 1973. Record 1974/76. Australia, Bureau of Mineral Resources.
3. Habermehl, M. A. (2001). Wire-line logged water bores in the Great Artesian Basin, Australia - digital data of logs and water bore data acquired by AGSO. Australian Geological Survey Organisation Bulletin 245. Canberra, Bureau of Rural Sciences: ix, 98 p.
4. PIRSA (2007). Petroleum and geothermal in South Australia. 19th Edition (DVD). Adelaide, Primary Industries and Resources South Australia, Division of Minerals and Energy Resources.
5. Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines (2012) "Queensland Digital Exploration Reports (QDEX)". http://mines.industry.qld.gov.au/geoscience/company-exploration-reports.htm
METHOD
For the western Eromanga Basin, an averaged weathering thickness for each 1:250 000 Sheet area was derived from the explanatory notes or published geological maps.
For Central Eromanga Basin, Carpentaria Basin, Laura Basin and Surat Basin, weathering depth were derived from reports contained in descriptive lithological logs from Well Completion Reports.
Weathering thicknesses were derived from the QPED stratigraphic database where the logged information reported the alluvium and weathering thickness.
Thickness data were imported into ArcGIS as point sets and interpolated to create a surface using the Topo to Raster tool in the ArcGIS Spatial analyst toolset. The raster was clipped to the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment project boundary - offshore included (Ransley TR and Smerdon BD (eds) (2012) Hydrostratigraphy, hydrogeology and system conceptualisation of the Great Artesian Basin. A technical report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia).
Isopachs were generated from the raster, using the Contour tool in the 3d analyst toolset in ArcGIS.
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
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urn:uuid/dff1ed56-6d8b-4319-e044-00144fdd4fa6
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GeoNetwork UUID
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- English
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
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- Date info (Revision)
- 2018-04-22T08:46:04
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- 2013-06-25T00:00:00
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
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ISO 19115-1:2014
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ISO 19115-3
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551