Australian Stratigraphic Units Database  


Authors / CoAuthors

Raymond, O.L. | Brown, C.E. | Brown, C.E.

Abstract

<p>The Australian Stratigraphic Units Database (ASUD) is the national authority on stratigraphic names in Australia. It originated as the National Register of Stratigraphic Names in 1949. The register was originally set up to help geoscientists adhere to the then newly created Australian Code of Stratigraphic Nomenclature (Lenz, et al, 1996). All information was held in a card file system until 1979 when the database was first developed electronically. The database now records information on all Australian stratigraphic units and their usage in published literature. <p>The database contains about 17500 currently approved stratigraphic names and over 36000 variations, most of which are superseded, obsolete, or misspelt versions of the current names. This information is based on over 16000 published references. <p>The database is maintained by Geoscience Australia on behalf of the Australian Stratigraphy Commission, a standing committee of the Geological Society of Australia. <p>Procedures can be queried at: http://www.ga.gov.au/data-pubs/datastandards/stratigraphic-units? <p>Data can be queried and downloaded at the ASUD website at: https://asud.ga.gov.au/ <p>Email contact: mailto:stratnames@ga.gov.au

Product Type

dataset

eCat Id

21884

Contact for the resource

  Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)  
Cnr Jerrabomberra Ave and Hindmarsh Dr GPO Box 378
Canberra
ACT
2601
Australia

  Point of contact

 

Keywords

  • HVC_144619
( Theme )
  • stratigraphy
( Theme )
  • geoscience databases
( Theme )
  • National dataset
( Theme )
  • geology
  • AU-EEZ
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
  • Earth Sciences
( Theme )
  • DC2020
  • Published_External

Publication Date

1949-01-01T00:00:00

Creation Date

Security Constraints

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem    

Classification - unclassified

Legal Constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence    

Access - license

Use - license

Status

Purpose

Maintenance Information

daily

Topic Category

geoscientificInformation

Series Information

Lineage

The Australian Stratigraphic Units Database (ASUD) originated as the National Register of Stratigraphic Names in 1949. The register was originally set up to help geoscientists adhere to the (then) newly created Australian Code of Stratigraphic Nomenclature (Lenz, et al, 1996). All information was held in a card file system until 1979 when the database was first developed electronically. The database now records information on all Australian stratigraphic units and their usage in literature, making it a centralised reference point for all Australian stratigraphic unit information. The database is also the repository for definition descriptions for these units. For many digital databases and digital geological maps, the database can act as an authority table with the potential to automatically provide information on the related parentage, age and province.

Parent Information

Extents

[-85, -0.001, 72, 172]

Reference System

Spatial Resolution

Service Information

Associations

Association Type - operatedOnBy

Australian Stratigraphic Units WFS    

eCat Identifier - 144563,

UUID - 704cee02-c7cd-4d45-addf-3cd73aff0820

Downloads and Links

Australian Stratigraphic Units Database  

Australian Stratigraphic Units WFS  

Source Information

Australian stratigraphic unit information is sourced from indexing of published geological literature. 72.0 172.0 -85.0 0.0