Geoscience Australia Rock Properties WFS

This web service serves data from the Geoscience Australia Rock Properties database. The database stores the results of measurements of physical properties of rock and regolith specimens, including such properties as mass density, magnetic susceptibility, magnetic remanence and electrical conductivity. The database also records analytical process information such as method and instrument details where possible.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2015-01-01T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2015-01-01
Date (Revision)
2017-12-07
Date (Revision)
2019-12-12
Date (Revision)
2022-05-11
Date (Revision)
2025-07-03
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

Strategic Basins

 1
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

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Maintenance and update frequency
Annually
Keywords

  • geophysics

  • geology

  • bulk density

  • chargeability

  • electrical conductivity

  • electrical resistivity

  • gamma bulk density

  • Koenigsberger ratio

  • magnetic susceptibility

  • natural gamma

  • porosity

  • remanent magnetisation

  • sonic velocity

  • temperature

  • rock property

  • rock properties

  • Australia

  • water content

  • hydraulic conductivity

  • NMR relaxation

  • density

  • elasticity

  • magnetic remanence

  • national

  • permeability

  • seismic velocity

  • strength

  • web service

  • WFS

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

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

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

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

Classification
Unclassified
Service Version

1.1.0

Service Version

1.0.0

Service Version

2.0.0

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/rock-properties/wfs?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 WFS the value WFS 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

Geoscience Australia

 Voice facsimile
OnLine resource

Rock Properties WFS

Rock Properties WFS

Distribution format

  • OGC:WFS

OnLine resource

Download data dictionary (pdf) [1.3 MB]

Download data dictionary (pdf) [1.3 MB]

Resource lineage

Statement

This web service contains rock property data sourced from Geoscience Australia and other agencies from field mapping surveys, drilling programs, and geophysical laboratories. Service updated December 2019 to include three additional rock properties: hydraulic conductivity, NMR relaxation and water content. WMS point symbology was also reviewed, with changes to symbol shapes and colour scheme. PKCOLNO feature attribute removed, and WFS feature identifier (FID) changed from PKCOLNO attribute to RESULTNO attribute. Service updated May 2022 to include three additional rock properties: elasticity, strength and permeability.

Hierarchy level
Service

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
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/

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/22a844c2-8c8b-f3c7-e053-12a3070a1b49

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice facsimile

Type of resource

Resource scope
Service
Name

service

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/89631

Metadata linkage

http://ecat.ga.gov.au:8080/geonetwork/srv/api/records/22a844c2-8c8b-f3c7-e053-12a3070a1b49

Date info (Revision)
2025-07-03T04:42:34.248Z
Date info (Creation)
2015-01-01T00:00:00

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

 
 

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