Great Barrier Reef, Ribbon Surficial Cover Facies maps

The Bureau of Mineral Resources has developed a reconnaissance-style mapping technique for documenting surficial cover on reefs. These maps exhibit only surficial facies. Subsurface facies will be integrated on future maps. A simple bathymetric classification has been applied to these maps with the differentiation of supratidal, intertidal and subtidal zones. The intertidal zone is confined to upper and lower levels that approximate highest astronomical tide and low water datum at Townsville respectively. Map resolution is variable over the reef and generally it decreases with increasing water depth. Maximum resolution has been retained where possible, to provide the user with the means of location on these reefs.


Compiled 1982 by B.M. Radke BMR

Edited 1983 by G.W. D'Addario

Cartography by G.A. Young, R.A. Swoboda

Drawn by G.A. Young


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Identification info

Date (Publication)
1984-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/19031

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Radke, B.M.

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Publisher

Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Department of Resource and Energy

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Name

Great Barrier Reef surficial cover facies maps

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

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Resource provider

Doc Fisher Geoscience Library

 Internal Contact
Point of contact

Doc Fisher Geoscience Library

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Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
10000
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

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

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf

  • EARTH SCIENCES

Keywords

  • Thematic Map

  • Geoscience

Theme

  • marine

Keywords

  • AU-QLD

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Earth Sciences

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Addressee
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
User

Any
Use constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

(c) Commonwealth of Australia 1984

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

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

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

Classification
Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

OnLine resource

Download Ribbon No. 5 Reef, Queensland Map (tif) [165.2 MB}

Download Ribbon No. 5 Reef, Queensland Map (tif) [165.2 MB}

OnLine resource

Download Ribbon No. 5 Reef, Queensland Map (pdf) [9.6 MB}

Download Ribbon No. 5 Reef, Queensland Map (pdf) [9.6 MB}

OnLine resource

Doc Fisher Geoscience Library (physical holding)

Doc Fisher Geoscience Library (physical holding)

Resource lineage

Statement

The bases of these maps have been compiled using orthophotomaps supplied by the Australian Survey Office. Information input is from several sources to provide control for airphoto interpretation of facies boundaries.

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Document
Other

Thematic Map

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Source data not available.

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Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
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https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/a05f7892-8746-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

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

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Type of resource

Resource scope
Document
Name

Map

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/19031

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a05f7892-8746-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Creation)
2025-05-21T01:21:44.626Z
Date info (Creation)
2025-05-15T23:57:39.061Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-05-21T01:22:49.897Z
Date info (Creation)
1999-07-07T00:00:00

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

 
 

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

marine
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
EARTH SCIENCES

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