Solid Geology of the North Australian Craton WFS

<b>This web service will be decommissioned on 04/07/2025. It has been superseded by the Layered Geology of Australia web service which is located at https://services.ga.gov.au/gis/rest/services/2021PotentialAcreageReleaseAreas/MapServer.</b>


The Solid Geology of the North Australian Craton web service delivers a seamless chronostratigraphic solid geology dataset of the North Australian Craton that covers north of Western Australia, Northern Territory and north-west Queensland. The data maps stratigraphic units concealed under cover by effectively removing the overlying cover (Liu et al., 2015). This dataset comprises five chronostratigraphic time slices, namely: Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic, Neoproterozoic, and Pre-Neoproterozoic.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2020-04-07T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2020-04-24T06:33:30
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

Czarnota, K
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research

  • Earth Sciences

Keywords

  • WFS

  • web service

  • Geosciences

  • Geology

  • solid geology

  • North Australian craton

  • chronostratigraphic mapping

  • Cenozoic

  • Mesozoic

  • Paleozoic

  • Neoproterozoic

  • pre-Neoproterozoic

  • Exploring for the Future

  • EFTF

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified
Service Version

2.0.0

Service Version

1.1.0

Service Version

1.0.0

Coupling Type
Tight

Contains Operations

Operation Name

GetCapabilities

Distributed computing platform (DCP)
WebServices
Operation Description

The GetCapabilities operation is used to obtain service metadata, which is a machine-readable (and human-readable) description of the server's information content and acceptable request parameter values.

Connect Point

http://services.ga.gov.au/gis/services/SolidGeologyOfTheNorthAustralianCraton/MapServer/WFSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WFS

Name

SERVICE

Type name

TEXT

Parameter direction
Description

The mandatory SERVICE parameter indicates which of the available service types at a particular server is being invoked. When invoking GetCapabilities on a WMS the value WMS shall be used.

Optionality
false
Repeatability
false
Name

REQUEST

Type name

TEXT

Parameter direction
Description

The mandatory REQUEST parameter indicates which service operation is being invoked. To invoke the GetCapabilities operation, the value GetCapabilities shall be used.

Optionality
false
Repeatability
false
Name

VERSION

Type name

TEXT

Parameter direction
Description

The optional VERSION parameter indicates the service type version number to use. In response to a GetCapabilities request that does not specify a version number, the server shall respond with the highest version it supports.

Optionality
true
Repeatability
false
Operates On

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

[WFS Service Title]

[WFS Service Title]

Distribution format

  • OGC WFS

Resource lineage

Statement

The solid geology layers delivered in this web service were produced predominantly from interpretation of magnetic and gravity datasets, i.e. the Total Magnetic Intensity Grid of Australia (2019) – greyscale first vertical derivatives (1VD), and GA’s Complete Bouguer Gravity Anomaly Colour Composite Image of Onshore Australia (2016). These were calibrated with available drill hole data from state and territory geological surveys and GA databases, as well as with available solid and surface geology maps, particularly: 1) the GA's 1:1 M scale surface geology of Australia (2012), published 1:250 k scale map sheets, 2) Northern Territory Geological Survey geological maps (NTGS; 2000-2008), 1:500,000 scale regional solid/interpretation geology maps by NTGS (Pine Creek, 2005; Tennant Region, Donnellan N, and Johnstone A, 2004); 3) The Geological Survey of Queensland detailed solid geology and structure dataset (2018); 4) Basement Geology of Northern Queensland (Liu, 2009); 5) 2017 Canning Basin SEEBASE study and GIS data package (FROGTECH Geoscience, 2018), and 6) The Geological Survey of Western Australia 1:500,000 Interpreted Bedrock Geology of Western Australia (GSWA, 2016), 1:250,000 scale solid geology maps in the Kimberley area (Phillips, C, de Souza Kovacs, N, Hollis, JA, Eacott, GR and Maidment, D (compilers) 2018) and 1:250,000 scale solid geology maps in the Tanami-Arunta area (Eacott, GR, Haines, PW, de Souza Kovacs, N, Maidment, D and Spaggiari, CV (compilers) 2018). Interpretations were compiled at 1:250 k scale and the final product is best utilised at this scale.

Hierarchy level
Service

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/GDA94 (EPSG:4283)

Title

European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry

Date (Publication)
2008-11-12T00:00:00
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details

European Petroleum Survey Group

 http://www.epsg-registry.org/

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)

Title

European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry

Date (Publication)
2008-11-12T00:00:00
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details

European Petroleum Survey Group

 http://www.epsg-registry.org/

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
urn:uuid/fd4790e2-53eb-4cb7-bb96-d9593b2e8bdb

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

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

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Publisher

Woods, M.A.

Type of resource

Resource scope
Service
Name

service

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/135361

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/3065463c-3762-4b85-93ec-d8355a847bcb

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/fd4790e2-53eb-4cb7-bb96-d9593b2e8bdb

Date info (Creation)
2025-06-16T07:13:57.253Z
Date info (Creation)
2016-02-10T09:49:39
Date info (Revision)
2025-06-16T07:14:36.423Z

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
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

Cenozoic EFTF Exploring for the Future Geology Geosciences Mesozoic Neoproterozoic North Australian craton Paleozoic WFS chronostratigraphic mapping pre-Neoproterozoic solid geology web service
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research
Earth Sciences

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