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Upper Darling Floodplain hydrochemistry data

<div>This dataset comprises hydrochemistry results for groundwater, surface water, and rainwater samples collected as part of the Upper Darling Floodplain groundwater study. Associated methods, interpretation, and integration with other datasets are found in the Upper Darling Floodplain geological and hydrogeological assessment (Geoscience Australia Ecat ID:149689). This project is part of the Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program, an eight-year, $225 million Australian Government funded geoscience data and precompetitive information acquisition program. The dataset contains 68 groundwater samples, 17 surface water samples, and four rainwater samples. Groundwater samples are from the Cenozoic formations within the alluvium of the Darling River, the Great Artesian Basin, and the Murray geological basin. Surface water samples are from the Darling River, and rainwater samples were taken within the study area. Subsets of the samples were analysed for major ions and trace metals, stable isotopes of water (δ2H and δ18O), radiocarbon (14C), stable carbon isotopes (δ13C), strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr), sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) isotopes, chlorine-36 (36Cl), noble gases, and Radon-222. The results were used to inform a range of hydrogeological questions including aquifer distribution and quality, inter-aquifer connectivity, and groundwater-surface water connectivity.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div>

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2024-04-19T12:00:00
Date (Publication)
2024-06-28T03:49:44
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/149472

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/149472

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Author

Walsh, C.

Internal Contact
Author

Buckerfield, S.

Internal Contact
Author

Raiber, M.

External Contact
Author

Suckow, A.

External Contact
Purpose

The purpose of this product is to provide the hydrochemistry data collected as part of the Upper Darling Floodplain groundwater project as a complete dataset and readily downloadable product. It is also available through the Geoscience Australia portal ( https://portal.ga.gov.au/).

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Resource provider

Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division

External Contact
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Point of contact

Buckerfield, S.

Internal Contact
Spatial representation type
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

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Temporal extent

Time period
2022-06-10 2023-07-10
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol

FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

Name of the resource

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Description

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Project
  • EFTF – Exploring for the Future

  • Upper Darling Floodplain

  • Darling River

Keywords
  • hydrochemistry

Keywords
  • groundwater

Keywords
  • groundwater systems

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
  • Inorganic Geochemistry

  • Isotope Geochemistry

Keywords
  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Addressee
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
User

Any

Use constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2024

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
Classification system

Australian Government Security Classification System

Associated resource

Association Type
Informed
Title

Exploring for the Future - Upper Darling Floodplain, northwest New South Wales. Geological and hydrogeological assessment

Citation identifier
149689

Citation identifier
26cc44ac-ef60-4b4b-af9a-c349d6e9e940

Website

http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/149689

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice facsimile
OnLine resource

Download the data (xlsx) [221 KB]

Download the data (xlsx) [221 KB]

Distribution format
  • xlsx

    File decompression technique

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Resource lineage

Statement

<div>The samples analysed to create this dataset were collected across multiple field campaigns in June-July 2022, October 2022, March 2023, and June-July 2023. The analyses were conducted by multiple professional laboratories. Details of laboratories, analytical procedures, and quality assurance/quality control are included in the Geological and hydrogeological investigations of the Upper Darling River Floodplain, northwest New South Wales and associated appendices (Geoscience Australia Ecat ID:149689). </div>

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/GDA94 / geographic 2D (EPSG: 4283)

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/5803ab0b-d148-41ff-b12e-e58874576484

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Point of contact

Buckerfield, S.

Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/149472

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5803ab0b-d148-41ff-b12e-e58874576484

Date info (Creation)
2025-04-15T02:44:41.325Z
Date info (Creation)
2024-06-27T23:59:53
Date info (Revision)
2025-04-15T02:45:21.698Z

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
http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

Spatial extent

N
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Keywords

Darling River EFTF – Exploring for the Future Upper Darling Floodplain
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
Inorganic Geochemistry Isotope Geochemistry

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