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OZCHEM National Whole Rock Geochemistry Dataset

OZCHEM is Geoscience Australia's national whole-rock geochemical database. This release of OZCHEM contains over 50000 analyses of rocks, regolith and stream sediments from many regions of Australia. Each analysis includes a geographic location and a geological description, which includes the host stratigraphic unit, where known, and the lithology. Most samples have been collected by Geoscience Australia's field parties. OZCHEM is stored in an ORACLE relational database and is available in comma-delimited flat ASCII format. The data set is also bundled with documentation explaining the database structure and includes definitions of the database tables and columns (attributes).

Simple

Identification info

Date (Publication)
2007-01-01T00:00:00
Date (Creation)
2007-01-01
Edition

Revision

Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/65464

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Champion, D.C.

1
Author

Budd, A.R.

2
Author

Hazell, M.S.

3
Author

Sedgmen, A.

4
Status
Completed
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Point of contact

Main, P.

MEG Internal Contact
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
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W


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

Keywords
  • HVC_144627

Keywords
  • Thematic Data

Theme
  • data standards

  • geochemistry

  • geoscience databases

  • dataset

Keywords
  • AU

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

© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2007

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

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
OnLine resource

ACT data

ACT data

OnLine resource

Non Australian data

Non Australian data

OnLine resource

NSW data

NSW data

OnLine resource

NT data

NT data

OnLine resource

QLD data

QLD data

OnLine resource

SA data

SA data

OnLine resource

TAS data

TAS data

OnLine resource

VIC data

VIC data

OnLine resource

WA data

WA data

Resource lineage

Statement

These datasets are derived directly from Geoscience Australia's corporate Oracle OZCHEM Whole Rock Geochemistry Database.Only data that has been marked as open file is included. The ASCII extraction of the database is generated as ASCII comma-delimited file of the main tables that are part of or used by the OZCHEM database.

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Description

Mostly Geoscence Australia analytical and fieldsite data, but includes analytical data undertaken by commercial laboratories for GA, and (minor) analytical data undertakenby other labatories. Also field data supplied by state and territory surveys and universities for which analytical data was undertaken at GA.

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

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

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

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/a05f7892-d0ec-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)

Voice

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Name

dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/65464

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a05f7892-d0ec-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Creation)
2025-12-15T02:55:55.616Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-15T02:57:42.398Z
Date info (Creation)
2007-10-11T00:00:00

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
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E
W


Keywords

HVC_144627 data standards dataset geochemistry geoscience databases

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