Thin Sections Collection

Thin sections of rocks collected during Geoscience Australia mapping programs over many decades. The collection preserves a physical record of samples for future reference by GA, industry and university researchers.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
1948-01-01T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2019-03-19T04:23:55
Date (Revision)
2019-03-26T22:58:10
Date (Revision)
2019-04-09T01:08:53
Edition

Creation

Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/74505

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/http://dx.doi.org/10.26186/5c9aae9d36172

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Geoscience Australia

 1
Author

Webber, E.

 2
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Poignand, B.

 Office of the Chief Scts Internal Contact
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Keywords

  • Resource

Theme

  • geoscience

  • mineralogy

  • petrology

  • mining

Keywords

  • AU

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Earth Sciences

Keywords

  • Published_External

{1}

  • EFTF

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

Associated resource

Association Type
null
Title

Geological Samples And Observations Web Map Service - WMS

Citation identifier
126198

Citation identifier
9557db76-5b88-4d19-beee-be1ac60e1a52

Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/126198

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type
null
Title

Geological Samples And Observations Web Feature Service - WFS

Citation identifier
126191

Citation identifier
ff12e47c-65c1-4149-8987-070091d103a4

Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/126191

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type
null
Title

Thin Section Dynamic CSV

Identifier

Description

This provides a dynamically generated CSV of the Thin Section microscope slides currently catalogued within Geoscience Australias samples database

Website

https://services.ga.gov.au/gis/field-geology/wfs?request=GetFeature&service=WFS&version=2.0.0&typenames=fieldsite:SpecimenView&outputFormat=CSV&CQL_FILTER=fieldsite:specimentype=%27thin%20section%27

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

Thin Section Dynamic CSV

Thin Section Dynamic CSV

OnLine resource

Geological Samples And Observations Web Feature Service - WFS

Geological Samples And Observations Web Feature Service - WFS

OnLine resource

Geological Samples And Observations Web Map Service - WMS

Geological Samples And Observations Web Map Service - WMS

Resource lineage

Statement

Thin sections of rocks collected during Geoscience Australia mapping programs over many decades.

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Description

The thin sections are all associated with Geoscience Australia, including thin sections collected for phd and collaborative work within GA.

Extent

N
S
E
W


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/c6a1bfdb-a426-23b2-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Poignand, B.

 Office of the Chief Scts Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Collection
Name

GA Sample

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/74505

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/c6a1bfdb-a426-23b2-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Creation)
2025-06-25T23:14:30.28Z
Date info (Creation)
2025-06-13T02:43:54.755Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-06-25T23:17:00.452Z
Date info (Creation)
2012-08-07T00:00:00

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

EFTF geoscience mineralogy mining petrology

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