Product catalogue
Australian Geological Provinces 2018.01 edition
The Australian Geological Provinces Database contains descriptions and spatial extents of the fundamental geological elements of the Australian continent and offshore surrounds. Province types include sedimentary basins, tectonic provinces such as cratons and orogens, igneous provinces, and metallogenic provinces. Spatial data has been captured largely at approximately 1:1M scale for intended use between 1:2M and 1:5M scale.
This edition (2018.01) of the dataset is NOT a complete representation of all of Australia's geological provinces. Further work is required to complete the national geological province collection. Additionally, not all the provinces supplied herein have undergone a rigorous quality assurance (QA) check to ensure the accuracy and completeness of their descriptions.
Where possible, provinces have been attributed with their age, contained lithostratigraphic units, relationships to other provinces, geological history, mineral resource occurrences, and selected published references. The geological definition of some provinces is contentious. While every effort has been made to achieve a consensus interpretation of each province, including significant collaboration with state and territory geological surveys, scientific debate may still occur about the nature and extent of some provinces.
The full 2D spatial extent (ie, including the extent of a province under any overlying cover material) of provinces has been captured. Additionally, the extent of outcrop of some provinces has also been captured. Where possible, the full extent outlines of provinces have been attributed with information about the source, accuracy, and observation method of those lines.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-03-13T00:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2018-03-16T04:27:32
- Date (Revision)
- 2018-03-20T05:12:46
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/116823
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/116823
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Author Raymond, O.L.
Co-author Totterdell, J.M.
Co-author Woods, M.A.
Co-author Stewart, A.J.
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- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
- Level of detail
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1:1000000
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2018-03-13T00:00:00 2018-06-30T00:00:00
Extent
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Irregular
Resource format
- Title
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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
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research
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Earth Sciences
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- {1}
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HVC_144616
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- Theme
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province
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- Theme
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basin
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- Theme
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sedimentary basin
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- Theme
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Geology
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stratigraphy
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mineral deposits
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resource assessment
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Published_External
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EFTF
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Resource constraints
- Title
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
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CC-BY
- Edition
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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
- 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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Download the data (ESRI Geodatabase)
Download the data (ESRI Geodatabase)
- OnLine resource
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Download the data (Mapinfo)
Download the data (Mapinfo)
- OnLine resource
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Download the data (shapefile)
Download the data (shapefile)
Resource lineage
- Statement
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The spatial data (polygons and lines) was compiled typically at or around 1:1 million scale from a wide range of published surface geology maps, bedrock or basement geology maps, borehole data, and geophysical imagery. Where province boundaries crossed jurisdictional borders, Geoscience Australia worked with State and Territory geological agencies to achieve an agreed spatial extent. Descriptive attribute data was compiled from authoritative published literature wherever possible, and names of these references are supplied with the data. Not all the data in this edition of the dataset (2018.01) has undergone rigorous quality control. All province descriptions in this edition of the dataset contain an indication of whether the data has been checked or not.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/GDA94 (EPSG:4283)
Metadata constraints
- Title
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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/af11c9e2-12ac-43a2-a085-edf24cd51c94
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Woods, M.
Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Name
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ESRI File Geodatabase format - version 10.2
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/116823
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-03-12T21:12:50
- Date info (Revision)
- 2018-04-20T05:50:20
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
- Edition
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551