Product catalogue
Layered Geology Of Australia WFS
The Layered Geology of Australia web map service is a seamless national coverage of Australia’s surface and subsurface geology. Geology concealed under younger cover units are mapped by effectively removing the overlying stratigraphy (Liu et al., 2015). This dataset is a layered product and comprises five chronostratigraphic time slices: Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic, Neoproterozoic, and Pre-Neoproterozoic. As an example, the Mesozoic time slice (or layer) shows Mesozoic age geology that would be present if all Cenozoic units were removed. The Pre-Neoproterozoic time slice shows what would be visible if all Neoproterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic units were removed. The Cenozoic time slice layer for the national dataset was extracted from Raymond et al., 2012. Surface Geology of Australia, 1:1 000 000 scale, 2012 edition. Geoscience Australia, Canberra.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-07-10T09:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-08-06T01:35:03
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Custodian Beyer, E.
MEG Internal Contact
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- Geoscientific information
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research
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Earth Sciences
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WFS
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web service
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Australia
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Solid geology
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Layered geology
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Chronostratigraphic Mapping
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EFTF
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Exploring For The Future
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Geosciences
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Geology
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Cenozoic
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Mesozoic
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Paleozoic
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Neoproterozoic
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Pre-Neoproterozoic
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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
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- License
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- License
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Operates on
- Title
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Layered geology of Australia
- Citation identifier
- 149179
- Citation identifier
- ddb4a489-2e6c-437e-93c9-e90cd66aef69
- Service Version
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2.0.0
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1.1.0
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1.0.0
- Coupling Type
- Tight
Contains Operations
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GetCapabilities
- Distributed computing platform (DCP)
- WebServices
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The GetCapabilities operation is used to obtain service metadata, which is a machine-readable (and human-readable) description of the server's information content and acceptable request parameter values.
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SERVICE
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TEXT
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The mandatory SERVICE parameter indicates which of the available service types at a particular server is being invoked. When invoking GetCapabilities on a WMS the value WMS shall be used.
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- false
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- false
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REQUEST
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TEXT
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The mandatory REQUEST parameter indicates which service operation is being invoked. To invoke the GetCapabilities operation, the value GetCapabilities shall be used.
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- false
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VERSION
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TEXT
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The optional VERSION parameter indicates the service type version number to use. In response to a GetCapabilities request that does not specify a version number, the server shall respond with the highest version it supports.
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- true
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- false
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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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Layered Geology Of Australia
Layered Geology Of Australia
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OGC WFS
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Resource lineage
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The data in this web service has been created as part of Geoscience Australia's Exploring for the Future program and is the third staged release of Geoscience Australia's national chronostratigraphic layered geology mapping program commenced under the EFTF, and builds on the first release for the Tennant Creek-Mount Isa area (Stewart, 2018) and the second release for the North Australian Craton (Stewart et al., 2020). This product includes updates to the North Australian Craton layered solid geology of Stewart et al (2020) including incorporation of the East Tennant layered solid geology of Clark et al. (2021), replacement of the Western Australian portion of the dataset with more recent source data from the Geological Survey of Western Australia (2020), and modification of polygons and stratigraphic information at boundaries between the North Australian Craton dataset and the adjoining states. The national layered geology layers were compiled using various datasets and checked against the available drill hole data from state and territory geological survey and GA databases (primarily Vizy and Rollet, 2023). Interpretations were compiled at 1:250 000 scale and the final product is best utilised at 1:1 million scale. For further information please refer to https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/149179.
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- Service
Reference System Information
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EPSG/GDA94 (EPSG:4283)
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European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-11-12T00:00:00
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details European Petroleum Survey Group
http://www.epsg-registry.org/
Reference System Information
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EPSG/WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
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European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-11-12T00:00:00
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details European Petroleum Survey Group
http://www.epsg-registry.org/
Metadata constraints
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/a7758f02-c086-4a16-a7e3-9926ac62cc0e
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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 facsimile Owner Woods, M
Geoscience Australia Internal Contact Custodian Beyer, E.
MEG Internal Contact Point of contact Woods, M.
MEG Internal Contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Service
- Name
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service
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/149727
- Date info (Creation)
- 2016-02-10T09:49:39
- Date info (Revision)
- 2016-05-04T13:18:07
Metadata standard
- Title
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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
- Edition
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551