Product catalogue
Australian Stratigraphic Units Database
<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The database contains about 17500 currently approved stratigraphic names and over 36000 variations, most of which are superseded, obsolete, or misspelt versions of the current names.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 stratnames@ga.gov <p>Email contact: mailto:stratnames@ga.gov.au
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Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 1949-01-01T00:00:00
- Date (Revision)
- 2018-01-24T21:36:25
- Date (Revision)
- 2020-05-10T23:56:34
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Creation
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/21884
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Author Raymond, O.L.
Author Brown, C.E.
Custodian Brown, C.E.
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Brown, C.E.
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- Geoscientific information
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Daily
Resource format
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Product data repository: Various Formats
- Website
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
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HVC_144619
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stratigraphy
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geoscience databases
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National dataset
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geology
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AU-EEZ
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- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
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Earth Sciences
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DC2020
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Published_External
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Resource constraints
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
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CC-BY
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4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Operated on by
- Title
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Australian Stratigraphic Units WFS
- Citation identifier
- 144563
- Citation identifier
- 704cee02-c7cd-4d45-addf-3cd73aff0820
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
- OnLine resource
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Australian Stratigraphic Units Database
Australian Stratigraphic Units Database
- OnLine resource
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Australian Stratigraphic Units WFS
Australian Stratigraphic Units WFS
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OGC:WFS
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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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.
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Application
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Australian stratigraphic unit information is sourced from indexing of published geological literature.
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Metadata constraints
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/a05f7892-8ca9-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Brown, C.E.
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/21884
- Date info (Revision)
- 2018-04-20T05:50:26
- Date info (Creation)
- 1999-07-12T00:00:00
Metadata standard
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-3
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551