Australian National Lexicon of Geologic Units

The national standard lexicon of geologic units, including: age, lithology, geologic relationships for all Australian geological units, and a record of their use in literature. Links to Geological Provinces and Geological Maps.


The collection is maintained by Geoscience Australia on behalf of the Australian Stratigraphy Commission, a standing committee of the Geological Society of Australia.


<b>Value: </b>The lexicon standardises terminology for geologic units, thereby enabling integration of different geologic studies and datasets.


<b>Scope: </b>Covers all Australian Territories, including Australia's Antarctic Territories. The database contains over 17,500 current stratigraphic names and over 36,000 variations, most of which are superseded, obsolete, or misspelt versions of the current names.


The publicly accessible portion of this collection is made available through the Australian Stratigraphic Units Database (ASUD), the national authority on stratigraphic names in Australia and can be accessed here:

<a href=" https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/21884">https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/21884</a>

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Date (Creation)
1949-01-01
Date (Publication)
2022-04-04T02:26:06
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/144619

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Codespace

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Author

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Purpose

The lexicon standardises terminology for geologic units, thereby enabling integration of different geologic studies and datasets.

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On going
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Resource provider

Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division

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Point of contact

Brown, C.

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Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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Annually

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

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FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

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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

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Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

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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

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Unclassified

Associated resource

Association Type
Was informed by
Title

Guide to the Australian stratigraphic names database

Citation identifier
14898

Citation identifier
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https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/14898

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Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Resource lineage

Statement

<b>Source: </b>The data was collected by Geoscience Australia staff from scientific literature and reports from Government, industry and academia.<br />

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<b>Form: </b>This collection consists of the Australian Stratigraphic Units Database and associated bibliographic information. <br />

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This Collection record was created to enhance the discoverability and management of the individual products contained in the collection. See the individual eCat records for product specific lineage.

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

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

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

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Unclassified

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Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Brown, C.

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Geoscience Australia (GA) High Value Collection

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Citation identifier
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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/c379170d-9255-4b0d-89b4-01fcb880449a

Date info (Creation)
2021-01-06T03:53:29
Date info (Revision)
2021-01-06T03:53:29

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

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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

 
 

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Keywords

AU-EEZ DC2020 Geology HVC - High Value Collection HVC_144619 Published_External Stratigraphy
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EARTH SCIENCES

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