This data set comprises one of three archives of Geoscience Australia work in the project "A Consistent Approach to Groundwater Recharge Determination in Data Poor Areas". The project was carried out by CSIRO and Geoscience Australia and was funded by the National Water Commission Raising National Water Standards program. The data contained included Original data sourced for the project, Final data produced by the project, MXD's of maps created, and tools used within the project. The archives created for this project comprise: 1. Data archive. Data set stored in the GA CDS. Geocat Record number 79804 2. Adminstration and publication archive. Documents stored in TRIM Project P10/67 RECHARGE-DISCHARGE PROJECT 3. References archive. Endnote library located at \\nas\eg\water\References\Recharge_Discharge_Project.enl For more information about the creation of these archives, including the location of files, see TRIM D2014-102808 For more information about the project, see the following references: Leaney F, Crosbie R, O'Grady A, Jolly I, Gow L, Davies P, Wilford J and Kilgour P. 2011. Recharge and discharge estimation in data poor areas: Scientific reference guide. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship. 61 pp (GA Record No. 2011/46 GACat # 71941) Jolly I, Gow L, Davies P, O'Grady A, Leaney F, Crosbie R, Wilford J and Kilgour P. 2011. Recharge and discharge estimation in data poor areas: User guide for the recharge and discharge estimation spreadsheets and MapConnect. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship. 40 pp. (GA Record No. 2011/35 GeoCat # 71940) Pain, C.F., Gow, L.J, Wilford, J.R. and Kilgour, P. 2011. Mapping approaches to recharge and discharge estimation and associated input datasets. A report for CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship. (Professional Opinion No. 2011/01 GeoCat # 70392)

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Manila LiDAR Project 2011 Original Data Supply September 2011, provided by Fugro Spatial.

The OzCoasts web-based database and information system draws together a diverse range of data and information on Australia's coasts and its estuaries. Maps, images, reports and data can be downloaded and there are tools to assist with coastal science, monitoring, management and policy. The content is arranged into seven inter-linked modules: Search Data, Conceptual Models, Coastal Indicators, Habitat Mapping, Natural Resource Management, Landform and Stability Maps and Climate Change. The Climate Change module is the newest feature of the website and was developed in partnership with the Australian Government Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. The module provides information and tools to help communicate the risks of sea-level rise and other potential impacts of climate change on coastal areas. It includes an elevation data and a modelling portal for access to existing and new elevation data and derived products, including sea level inundation maps for Perth to Mandurah, Melbourne, Sydney, Hunter and Central Coast & Brisbane and Gold Coast. The inundation footprints illustrate three sea level rise scenarios: a low (0.5m), medium (0.8m) and high (1.1m) scenario for a 2100 time period, with values based on IPCC projections (B1 and A1FI scenarios) and more recent science. OzCoasts will also soon deliver the Coastal Eutrophication Risk Assessment Tool (CERAT) for the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water, and the Australian Riverscape Classification Service (AURICL) for the Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge (TRaCK) consortium. CERAT will help identify and prioritise land use planning decisions to protect and preserve the health of NSW estuaries. AURICL has a northern tropical focus, and is a dynamic and flexible system for classifying catchments and their rivers based on the similarity, or dissimilarity, of a wide range of parameters.

Map compiled on request from AGS Native Title Case QUD6040/2001 Proclamation 3 See 2008/3111 for particulars.

Map of Australia showing the distribution of black coal, brown coal and Coal Seam Gas bearing basins overlain by prohibited areas. This map and enlargements of the Sydney, Bowen/Surat and Arckaringa basins were provided to DoFD as part advice regarding CSG exploration and coal extraction on commonwealth lands. These maps and their subsets are in 'DRAFT' form and are for internal use only.

Geoscience Australia (GA) is currently undertaking a process of revising the Australian National Earthquake Hazard Map using modern methods and an updated catalogue of Australian earthquakes. This map is a key component of Australia's earthquake loading standard, AS1170.4. Here we present an overview of work being undertaken within the GA Earthquake Hazard Project towards delivery of the next generation earthquake hazard map. Knowledge of the recurrence and magnitude (including maximum magnitude) of historic and pre-historic earthquakes is fundamental to any Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment (PSHA). Palaeoseismological investigation of neotectonic features observed in the Australian landscape has contributed to the development of a Neotectonic Domains model which describes the variation in large intraplate earthquake recurrence behaviour across the country. Analysis of fault data from each domain suggests that maximum magnitude earthquakes of MW 7.0-7.5±0.2 can occur anywhere across the continent. In addition to gathering information on the pre-historic record, more rigorous statistical analyses of the spatial distribution of the historic catalogue are also being undertaken. Earthquake magnitudes in Australian catalogues were determined using disparate magnitude formulae, with many local magnitudes determined using Richter attenuation coefficients prior to about 1990. Consequently, efforts are underway to standardise magnitudes for specific regions and temporal periods, and to convert all earthquakes in the catalogue to moment magnitude. Finally, we will review the general procedure for updating the national earthquake hazard map, including consideration of Australian-specific ground-motion prediction equations. We will also examine the sensitivity of hazard estimates to the assumptions of certain model components in the hazard assessment.

The Georgina-Arunta deep seismic reflection line (09GA-GA1) has provided an image of the entire crust in this part of central Australia. At a first approximation, beneath the Neoproterozoic-Devonian sedimentary basins, the crust can be divided into four distinct regions, namely, the Aileron, Irindina and Davenport Provinces, and the Ooratippra Seismic Province. Each of these regions is separated from each other by major, crustal-scale faults. The observed crustal architecture has implications for geodynamic models for the evolution of the region, implying amalgamation of these crustal blocks in the Paleoproterozoic and major shortening and basin inversion in the Paleozoic.

Many aspects of the evolution and overall architecture of the Australian southern rifted margin are consistent with current models for the development of non-volcanic rifted margins. However, when examined in detail, several key features of the southern margin provide useful points of comparison with the Atlantic and Alpine Tethyan margins from which these models derive. Extensive petroleum industry and government seismic and geophysical data sets have enabled detailed mapping of the basins of the southern margin and an improved understanding of its tectonostratigraphic evolution. Australia's southern rifted continental margin extends for over 4000 km, from the structurally complex margin south of the Naturaliste Plateau in the west, to the transform plate boundary adjacent to the South Tasman Rise in the east. The margin contains a series of Middle Jurassic to Cenozoic basins-the Bight, Otway, Sorell, Gippsland and Bass basins, and smaller depocentres on the South Tasman Rise (STR). These basins, and the architecture of the margin, evolved through repeated episodes of extension and thermal subsidence leading up to, and following, the commencement of sea-floor spreading between Australia and Antarctica. Break-up took place diachronously along the margin, commencing in the west at ~83 Ma and concluding in the east at ~ 34 Ma. In general, break-up was not accompanied by significant magmatism and the margin is classified as 'non-volcanic' (or magma-poor). Initial NW-SE ultra-slow to slow seafloor spreading (latest Santonian-Early Eocene), followed by N-S directed fast spreading (Middle Eocene-present), resulted in: (1) an E-W oriented obliquely- to normally-rifted marginal segment extending from the westernmost Bight Basin to the central Otway Basin; (2) an approximately N-S oriented transform continental margin in the east (western Tasmania-STR), and (3) a transitional zone between those end-members (southern Otway-Sorell basins).

Models of seabed sediment mobilisation by waves and currents over Australia's continental shelf environment are used to examine whether disturbance regimes exist in the context of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH). Our study shows that it is feasible to model the frequency and magnitude of seabed disturbance in relation to the dominant energy source (wave-dominated shelf, tide-dominated shelf or tropical cyclone dominated shelf). Areas are mapped where the recurrence interval of disturbance events is comparable to the rate of ecological succession, which meets criteria defined for a disturbance regime. We focus our attention on high-energy, patch-clearing events defined as exceeding the Shields (bed shear stress) parameter value of 0.25. Using known rates of ecological succession for different substrate types (gravel, sand, mud), predictions are made of the spatial distribution of a dimensionless ecological disturbance index (ED), given as: ED = FA (ES/RI), where ES is the ecological succession rate for different substrates, RI is the recurrence interval of disturbance events and FA is the fraction of the frame of reference (surface area) disturbed. Maps for the Australian continental shelf show small patches of ED-seafloor distributed around the continent, on both the inner and outer shelf. The patterns are different for wave-dominated (patches on the outer shelf trending parallel to the coast), tide-dominated (patches crossing the middle-shelf trending normal to the coast) and cyclone-dominated (large oval-shaped patches crossing all depths). Only a small portion of the shelf (perhaps ~10%) is characterised by a disturbance regime as defined here. To our knowledge, this is the first time such an analysis has been attempted for any continental shelf on the earth.