Conodont Biostratigraphy of the upper Devonian reef complexes of the Canning Basin, Western Australia

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The Yilgarn online GIS displays a wide range of data including geological datasets, topographical data, geophysical images and seismic traverses, whole rock geochemistry and geochronology samples. It provides an aeromagnetic interpretation (lithology distribution and structure) and a geological interpretation of the Archaean Yilgarn Craton, one of Australia's key mineral provinces. The online GIS also focuses on the Leonora-Neale Transect, by providing a detailed solid geology interpretation of the section. The Yilgarn Craton occurs within Western Australia and covers 10% of the Australian continent. Exposure of bedrock is extremely poor throughout the region and most known mineral deposits occur within or adjacent to sparse outcrop. The online GIS provides a view through the poorly magnetised cover to display bedrock distribution. Interpreted rock types of the region include granite, granitic gneiss, layered intrusions and sills. Interpreted structural elements include lithological banding, faults, and dyke swarms. Also presented are several surrounding and partially overlying Proterozoic and Phanerozoic basins and provinces. The Yilgarn Craton is arguably Australia's premier mineral province, attracting more than half the mineral exploration expenditure, and producing two thirds of the gold and most of the nickel mined in the country. For this reason, the online GIS provides the ability to display all deposits in the region or the option of displaying gold or nickel deposits only. Distribution of mineral deposits can be compared to other data layers including geology, and aeromagnetic domains. This map has been produced as a GeoPDF, which is an extension to the standard PDF file format viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Layers can be turned off and on to customise the view of the data, similar to using Geographic Information System tools. In addition, GeoPDF maps are georeferenced to be compatible with other coordinated geographic data. Coordinate locations and distances can be retrieved automatically. A plug-in to view GeoPDF using Adobe Acrobat Reader is available as a free download ( http://terragotech.com/solutions/map2pdf_reader.php ).

The North Pilbara project's main objective is to assist industry in their development off exploration strategies. In order to do this, we provide high-quality data sets such as this GIS, which provides different views of the same area, allowing correlation, comparison, and analysis at a broad scale across the entire North Pilbara. The advantage of this GIS is that it packages Geoscience Australia's primary data holdings for the entire region into a convenient digital package that can be manipulated and integrated with proprietary data in standard mapping applications. The North Pilbara GIS provides industry with a decision-making context, or wide-spaced framework. The lack of context is due the fact that industry commonly only have restricted data holdings over their leases. Therefore, regional synthesis data sets provide a context and framework for exploration decisions made on more spatially limited data. The North Pilbara GIS provides many new digital data sets, including a number of variations of the magnetics, gravity, and gamma-ray spectrometry. A solid geology map, and derivative maps, mineral deposits, geological events, and Landsat 5-TM provide additional views. This data set complements the 1:1.5 Million scale colour atlas (announced in June-July issue 58 of AusGeoNews). This provision of a regional digital data set will be an invaluable tool for exploration companies making comparative, correlative, and analytical decisions on the prospectivity of the North Pilbara. Just a few of the new aspects of the GIS include: <ul> <li>the under cover shape of prospective rocks with a new digital solid geology map;</li> <li>all the images generated by the project (magnetics, gravity, Landsat, and radiometrics);</li> <li>the imaging of several large shear zones, and complexity in granites;</li> <li>compilation of geochemistry and geochronology;</li> <li>a new chemical map based on radiometrics;</li> <li>identification of the source regions of transported regolith</li> </ul> This map has been produced as a GeoPDF, which is an extension to the standard PDF file format viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Layers can be turned off and on to customise the view of the data, similar to using Geographic Information System tools. In addition, GeoPDF maps are georeferenced to be compatible with other coordinated geographic data. Coordinate locations and distances can be retrieved automatically. A plug-in to view GeoPDF using Adobe Acrobat Reader is available as a free download ( http://terragotech.com/solutions/map2pdf_reader.php ).

The Northern Australian Project online GIS, which has been chiefly designed to highlight the results of geochronological research within the project area, was first published in 2003 and updated in July 2004. GIS data reference layers include 1: 250,000, 1: 1 million, and 1: 2,500,000 geological data, regional geophysical images and a topographic map image. The geochronology and fluid inclusion points have been linked live to Geoscience Australia's OZROCKS, OZCHRON and PETROG Oracle databases. Forms display data to the user from these databases using customised query statements. Queries directed to geological layers display information derived from static ArcInfo shapefiles. The North Australia Project geochronology research has chiefly targeted the Arunta Block, Davenport Geosyncline, and the Granites-Tanami Block provinces within the project area. This map has been produced as a GeoPDF, which is an extension to the standard PDF file format viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Layers can be turned off and on to customise the view of the data, similar to using Geographic Information System tools. In addition, GeoPDF maps are georeferenced to be compatible with other coordinated geographic data. Coordinate locations and distances can be retrieved automatically. A plug-in to view GeoPDF using Adobe Acrobat Reader is available as a free download ( http://terragotech.com/solutions/map2pdf_reader.php ).

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H51/B1-135 Contour interval: 25

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