Authors / CoAuthors
Black, J. | Carson, C.J.
Abstract
During the 1960's thru to the 1990's Geoscience Australia's predecessors, BMR and AGSO, conducted numerous deep field programs mapping the geology of the Australian Antarctic Territory. The field note books, recording the scientific observations, sample numbers, locations, and other anecdotal information, such as weather conditions and day-to-day life in the field are captured in these invaluable documents. They are currently held in the GA library archives, and publically available for all to enjoy. However, currently, the interested geologist or historian must physically visit GA to gain access to these sources of information. In order to make these valuable records more accessible to the world and in line with GA's policy of ensuring `geoscience data, information, and collections are discoverable and accessible as a public resource and that collections are captured and `made accessible to the community we are digitising and transcribing all the Antarctic field notebooks for web delivery.
Product Type
nonGeographicDataset
eCat Id
87802
Contact for the resource
Custodian
Owner
Custodian
Cnr Jerrabomberra Ave and Hindmarsh Dr GPO Box 378
Canberra
ACT
2601
Australia
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- Resource
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
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- Earth Sciences
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- Published_Internal
Publication Date
2015-01-01T00:00:00
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unknown
Topic Category
geoscientificInformation
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Parent Information
Extents
[-90.0, -60.0, 45.0, 160.0]
Reference System
Spatial Resolution
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Existing Antarctic field note books currently publically accessible in the GA library archives will be transcribed and delivered on-line. All information, regardless of content, in the field notebooks is currently available to the public. This project is simply aiming to make the information more accessible, and searchable and discoverable on-line, with the assistance of National Archives. No personal details within the field note books will be transcribed. 45.0 160.0 -90.0 -60.0