Marine Sediments (MARS) Database

The MARine Sediment (MARS) database contains detailed information on seabed sediment characteristics for samples collected from Australia's marine jurisdiction, including the Australian Antarctic Territory. It is an important scientific resource that includes sediment properties from seabed and sub-seabed samples spanning coastal, continental shelf and deep sea locations. Analytical properties include grain size, carbonate content, mineralogy, geochemical properties and age determinations. MARS currently holds approximately 100,000 sample records and new data are being added as they become available.


Please contact us at ausseabed@ga.gov.au if you wish to contribute marine sediment data to the MARS database. ausseabed@ga.gov Please contact us at ausseabed@ga.gov.au if you wish to contribute marine sediment data to the MARS database.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2009-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/69869

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Nichol, S.

 PSCD Internal Contact
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Resource provider

Place, Space and Communities Division

 External Contact
Point of contact

Audas, D.

 Place and Communities Internal Contact
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

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Maintenance and update frequency
Weekly
Keywords

  • Database

  • Oracle Database

Theme

  • marine survey

  • data

  • sedimentology

  • National dataset

  • marine

  • DC2020

Keywords

  • AU-EEZ

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Earth Sciences

Keywords

  • Published_External

Keywords

  • HVC_144639

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

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

Related Product

Search of MARine Sediments (MARS) Database

OnLine resource

MARS WMS webservices (please select Featuretype: ‘ausseabed:Seabed_Sediments_Collection’)

MARS WMS webservices (please select Featuretype: ‘ausseabed:Seabed_Sediments_Collection’)

Distribution format

OnLine resource

MARS WFS webservices (please select Featuretype: ‘ausseabed:Seabed_Sediments_Collection’)

MARS WFS webservices (please select Featuretype: ‘ausseabed:Seabed_Sediments_Collection’)

Distribution format

Resource lineage

Statement

The Marine Sediments database webservice was originally developed as a static webservice in 2018. The Marine Sediments (MARS) webservice was migrated to new infrastructure and republished in 2021 as part of a webservice upgrade. This resulted in a change to the service endpoint URL to https://warehouse.ausseabed.gov.au/geoserver/wms or https://warehouse.ausseabed.gov.au/geoserver/wfs with the featuretype ‘ausseabed:Seabed_Sediments_Collection’. The webservice provides data from Geoscience Australia’s MARS database and is now updated weekly.

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Description

Source data not available.

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-eef2-7506-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
Point of contact

Audas, D.

 Place and Communities Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Name

dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/69869

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a05f7892-eef2-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Creation)
2025-06-19T07:24:00.832Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-06-19T07:24:43.813Z
Date info (Creation)
2009-11-26T00:00:00

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

DC2020 HVC_144639 National dataset data marine marine survey sedimentology

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