Product catalogue
Major crustal boundaries of Australia
The 'Major crustal boundaries of Australia' map synthesizes more than 30 years of acquisition of deep seismic reflection data across Australia, where major crustal-scale breaks have been interpreted in the seismic reflection profiles, often inferred to be relict sutures between different crustal blocks. The widespread coverage of the seismic profiles now provides the opportunity to construct a map of major crustal boundaries across Australia. Starting with the locations of the crustal breaks identified in the seismic profiles, geological (e.g. outcrop mapping, drill hole, geochronology, isotope) and geophysical (e.g. gravity, aeromagnetic, magnetotelluric) data are used to map the crustal boundaries, in map view, away from the seismic profiles. For some of these boundaries, a high level of confidence can be placed on the location, whereas the location of other boundaries can only be considered to have medium or low confidence. In other areas, especially in regions covered by thick sedimentary successions, the locations of some crustal boundaries are essentially unconstrained.
The 'Major crustal boundaries of Australia' map shows the locations of inferred ancient plate boundaries, and will provide constraints on the three dimensional architecture of Australia. It allows a better understanding of how the Australian continent was constructed from the Mesoarchean through to the Phanerozoic, and how this evolution and these boundaries have controlled metallogenesis. It is best viewed as a dynamic dataset, which will have to be further refined and updated as new information such as seismic reflection data becomes available.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2015-01-01T00:00:00
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2
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- 2015-01-01T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/83223
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/25/555C181CC0EAE
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Geoscience Australia
Canberra Author Korsch, R.J.
1 Author Doublier, M.P.
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Custodian RD
Owner Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Custodian Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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- 2500000
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- Geoscientific information
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Resource format
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Product data repository: Various Formats
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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
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GIS Dataset
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AU
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- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
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Earth Sciences
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Resource constraints
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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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- License
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- License
Resource constraints
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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- OnLine resource
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Download the data package (File geodatabase and shape file)
Download the data package (File geodatabase and shape file)
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Source data not available.
Metadata constraints
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
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urn:uuid/1613ca9b-1763-2245-e053-12a3070a078b
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GeoNetwork UUID
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- English
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- UTF8
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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dataset
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
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- Citation identifier
- eCatId/83223
- Date info (Revision)
- 2018-04-20T06:05:46
- Date info (Creation)
- 2015-05-15T00:00:00
Metadata standard
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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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