*** removed from website on advice from author *** 'Basins of Australia' map has been compiled as part of AGSO's studies of Australia's basins and continental margin. It shows outlines of all major sedimentary basins and sub-basins with their names both onshore and offshore. Outlines of sedimentary basins offshore were revised in 1995-96 to conform with new data/ideas on continental margin evolution and include volcanic margins features. The original compilation material included 44 published and unpublished contour maps (1977-1994) and 178 publications. The maps used for compilation varied in scale from 1:250 000 to 1:2 000 000, however, in some areas, where detailed maps were not available, small-scale maps (1:5 000 000 and even 1:10 000 000) were used to fill in the gaps. Large-scale maps have been generalised to conform to 1:6 000 000 scale of the final compilation. Most of the original maps reflected depth to basement (onshore basins, eastern and southern basins). In the absence of depth to the basement data, the deepest mapped horizon, or the horizon reflecting the main phase of rift basin development are portrayed (North West Shelf). The map shows outcrops of crystalline basement and Proterozoic basins. Different colour zones illustrate the age of oceanic crust. Plate tectonic elements, such as magnetic lineations, transform faults, continent-ocean boundary, subduction and collision zones are also included.

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.

Modelled groundwater levels from 2010 to 2070 used to estimate the impact of climate change and future groundwater resource development on groundwater levels in the GAB. The modelling considered different scenarios of climate and groundwater development: Scenario A (historical climate and current development); Scenario C (future climate and current development) and Scenario D (future climate and future development). The future climate scenarios included the wet extreme (wet), the median (mid) and the dry extreme (dry). The raster grids "Cdry.grd"", "Cmid.grd" and "Cwet.grd" show predicted hydraulic head for the year 2070 based on projections of future climate and the continuation of current rates of groundwater extraction The files "Cdry-Base.grd", "Cmid-Base.grd" and ""Cwet-Base.grd" represent predicted differences between the hydraulic heads produced by Scenario C at 2070, and the modelled spatial distributions of hydraulic head for the year 2010 (Base scenario). The files "Cdry-A.grd", "Cmid-A.grd" and "Cwet-A.grd" represent predicted differences between hydraulic heads for 2070 produced by Scenario C and the current climate and development scenario (Scenario A). 'No data' value is 1e30 Cell size is 5000m x 5000m This data and metadata were produced by CSIRO for the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. For more information, please refer to Welsh WD, Moore CR, Turnadge CJ, Smith AJ and Barr TM (2012), "Modelling of climate and groundwater development. A technical report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment ". CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. Projection is Albers equal area conic, with central meridian 143 degrees longitude, standard parallels at -21 and -29 degrees latitude and latitude of projection's origin at -25.

Grids representing chemical parameter concentrations and isotopic variations in groundwater in the Great Artesian Basin for the following aquifers: Adori Sandstone; Cadna-owie - Hooray and equivalents; Hutton Sandstone and Winton-Mackunda Formation. (Note: Stable isotope carbon variations, Carbon-14 variation and Chlorine ratios produced for the Cadna-owie-Hooray and equivalents only) Hydrochemical parameters and isotopic variations mapped are: - Total dissolved solids (TDS) (mg/L) (adori_tds.txt, cad-hoor_tds.txt, hutton_tds.txt, wint-mack_tds.txt) - Total alkalinity (mg/L CaCO3) (adori_alk, cad-hoor_alk, hutton_alk, wint-mack_alk) - Sulphate (mg/L) ( adori_so4, cad-hoor_so4, hutton_so4, wint-mack_so4) - Fluoride (mg/L) ( adori_flu, cad-hoor_flu, hutton_flu, wint-mack_flu) - Sodium adsorption ratio (adori_sar, cad-hoor_sar, hutton_sar, wint-mack_sar) - Stable carbon isotope variations (d13C % PDB) ( tp-rs_13c_ch) - Carbon-14 variation (14C pMC) ( tp-rs_14c_ch) - Chlorine-36 to Chloride ratio ( t-rs_36clr_ch) Grid cell size (X, Y) = 0.015 DD, 0.015 DD. These GIS data sets were produced for the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment and used in Figures 8.2, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.8, 8.10, 8.12 and 8.13 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 76942.

Polygons representing a regional interpretation of basement stratigraphic units as hydrostratigraphic units, in contact with the base of the Jurassic-Cretaceous sequence of the GAB. To be used in conjunction with dataset 'Base Great Artesian Basin hydrogeological units in contact with basement' (Geoscience Australia dataset, 2013, Catalogue # 75911) to represent areas of potential hydraulic interconnection between the Great Artesian Basin and basement units. Data is available in Shapefile format This GIS data set was produced for the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment and used in : Figure 5.8 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. Figure 5.12 of Smerdon BD, Welsh WD and Ransley TR (eds) (2012) Water resource assessment for the Carpentaria region. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia, plus Figure 7 in the corresponding summary report. Figure 5.4 of Smerdon BD and Ransley TR (eds) (2012) Water resource assessment for the Central Eromanga region. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia, plus Figure 7 in the corresponding summary report. Figure 5.7 of Smerdon BD and Ransley TR (eds) (2012) Water resource assessment for the Surat region. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia, plus Figure 10 in the corresponding summary report. Figure 5.4 of Smerdon BD, Welsh WD and Ransley TR (eds) (2012) Water resource assessment for the Western Eromanga region. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia, plus Figure 8 in the corresponding summary report. Figure 3.6 of Smerdon BD, Ransley TR, Radke BM and Kellett JR (2012) Water resource assessment for the Great Artesian Basin. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia, plus Figure 4 in the corresponding summary report. This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 75910.

Cenozoic surface geology overlying the Carpentaria and Laura basins showing boundaries of the Bulimba Cycle, Wyaaba Cycle and the Claraville Cycle sediment packages. Data is available as polygons in Shapefile format. This data set was used in: Figure 3.4 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. Figure 1.4 of Smerdon BD, Ransley TR, Radke BM and Kellett JR (2012) Water resource assessment for the Great Artesian Basin. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. Figure 5.10 of Smerdon BD, Welsh WD and Ransley TR (eds) (2012) Water resource assessment for the Carpentaria region. A 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 75843.

Boundary of basement inliers penetrating the Great Artesian Basin. These were used to delineate areas of no data in the dataset 'Water table elevation of the Great Artesian Basin' (Geoscience Australia dataset, catalogue #75830). Data is available in Shapefile format This GIS data set was produced for the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment and used in watertable maps in: Chapter 6 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. Regional watertable section of Smerdon BD, Welsh WD and Ransley TR (eds) (2012) Water resource assessment for the Carpentaria region. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia, plus Figure 10 in the associated summary report. Regional watertable section of Smerdon BD and Ransley TR (eds) (2012) Water resource assessment for the Central Eromanga region. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia, plus Figure 13 in the associated summary report. Regional watertable section of Smerdon BD and Ransley TR (eds) (2012) Water resource assessment for the Surat region. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia, plus Figure 14 in the associated summary report. Regional watertable section of Smerdon BD, Welsh WD and Ransley TR (eds) (2012) Water resource assessment for the Western Eromanga region. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia, plus Figure 12 in the associated summary report. This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 75841.

Thickness of the basal Jurassic-Cretaceous sandstone aquifers in the Carpentaria and Laura basins. 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 2.12 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. Figure 5.8 of Smerdon BD, Welsh WD and Ransley TR (eds) (2012) Water resource assessment for the Carpentaria region. A 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 76536. LINEAGE (continued from Lineage field) ------------------------------------------------------ REFERENCES (continued) Meyers, N. A. (1969). Carpentaria Basin. GSQ Report 34. Queensland, Geological Survey of Queensland. Mines Administration Pty Ltd. (1962). Cabot-Blueberry Marina No. 1, Authority to Prospect 61P, Queensland. Well Completion report. Report Q/61P/112. Company report 976. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland. Perryman, J. C. (1964). Midwood Exploratory Proprietary Ltd., Completion report, Burketown No.1, A-P 91P, Queensland. Company Report 1480. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland. Smart J, Grimes KG, Doutch HF and Pinchin J (1980) The Carpentaria and Karumba Basins, north Queensland. Bulletin 202. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Australia. Williams, L. J. (1976). GSQ Ebagoola 1 - Preliminary lithologic and composite log. Record 1988/14. Brisbane, Queensland Department of Mines and Geological Survey of Queensland. Williams, L. J. and L. M. Gunther (1989). GSQ Dobbyn 1 - Preliminary lithologic and composite log. Record 1989/22. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland. METHOD: Data was imported into ArcGIS as point sets. The isopach value field was used to interpolate a surface using the Topo to Raster tool in the Spatial analyst toolset. Isopachs were generated from the raster using the Contour tool in the 3d analyst toolset in ArcGIS. The raster and isopachs were clipped to a boundary created from : 1. Gilbert River Formation and equivalents sourced from inset C of Plate 2 The Geology of the Carpentaria and Karumba Basins Queensland 1980 which is part of the Carpentaria and Karumba Basins, North Queensland Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 202. J.Smart, K.G.Grimes, H.F.Doutch & J.Pinchin. ISBN 0642046182 2. Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment project boundary.

Modelled groundwater levels from 2010 to 2070 used to estimate the impact of climate change and future groundwater resource development on groundwater levels in the Cape York area of the GAB. The modelling considered different scenarios of climate and groundwater development: Scenario A (historical climate and current development); Scenario C (future climate and current development) and Scenario D (future climate and future development). The future climate scenarios included the wet extreme (wet), the median (mid) and the dry extreme (dry). This data set contains spatial data that were created from the outputs from climate change scenario models using on the Cape York groundwater flow model. The subfolder "heads" contains various raster grid representations of spatial distributions of hydraulic head for the year 2070 that were output by the respective climate change scenario model, based on projections of future climate. For each climate change scenario there are three outputs: one for each modelled aquifer thickness (100, 150 and 200metres). The folder "differences" contains various raster grid representations of differences between the spatial distributions of hydraulic head that were output by climate change scenario models and by either (a) the respective "A scenario" model or (b) the respective "Base scenario" model (the modelled hydraulic head for the year 2010.) 'No data' value is 1e30 for heads rasters, -9999 for differences rasters Cell size is 5000 m x 5000 m This data and metadata were produced by CSIRO for the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. For more information, please refer to Welsh WD, Moore CR, Turnadge CJ, Smith AJ and Barr TM (2012), "Modelling of climate and groundwater development. A technical report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment ". CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. Projection is Albers equal area conic, with central meridian 143 degrees longitude, standard parallels at -21 and -29 degrees latitude and latitude of projection's origin at -25.

Thickness of Paleogene-Neogene sequence overlying 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 3.2 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. Figure 3.3 of Smerdon BD, Ransley TR, Radke BM and Kellett JR (2012) Water resource assessment for the Great Artesian Basin. A 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 76538. LINEAGE (Continued from Lineage field due to space constraints) METHOD: Data covering the areas of Upper Darling, Lower Namoi was supplied by the NSW government. Contours in the Macquarie region NSW were interpreted from the Cenozoic isopachs taken from Macaulay, S. & Kellett, J. (2009) Lower Balonne Deep Lead tertiary isopach contours captured from a National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality report (Chamberlain, T. & Wilkinson, K., 2004; Kellett et.al. 2004). Isopachs in the southern portion of the GAB were captured from the Cainozoic Structural Features page 22 of Palaeogeographic Atlas of Australia: Cainozoic (Langford & Wilford, 1995) Isopachs over the Poolowanna Trough and Cooper Basin region were taken from Tertiary Stratigraphy and Tectonics, Eromanga Basin (Moussavi-Harami, R. & Alexander, E., 1998) Isopachs in the central Eromanga Basin, Queensland came from Senior 1978. Position and boundary of the Condamine Basin from Klohn, Crippen & Berger, 2011 - feasibility of injecting CSG water into the central Condamine Alluvium - Summary. Report prepared for department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland, 8p. Isopachs came from the Cainozoic Structural Features page 22 of Palaeogeographic Atlas of Australia: Cainozoic (Langford & Wilford, 1995) Drill-hole data sourced from PIRSA (2007) and GABLOG (Habermehl, 2001) databases, Gibson et al 1974, and well completion reports from GSQ (Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines, 2012). Data were used to interpolate a surface using the Topo to Raster tool in the ArcGIS Spatial analyst toolset and the resulting raster was clipped to the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource project boundary. Isopach contours were generated from the raster, using the Contour tool in the 3d analyst toolset in ArcGIS. METHOD