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.

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
Resource provider	Environmental Geoscience Division
Point of contact	Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)	Voice
Point of contact	Petkovski, S.	Office of the Chief Scts Internal Contact

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Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

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geoscience

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mineralogy

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petrology

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mining

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Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

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{1}

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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

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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: Reviving an Old and Valuable Collection of Microscope Slides Through the Use of Citizen Science

Citation identifier: 127542

Citation identifier: 7b1c9fd8-721c-473c-8d09-f18da04ef35b

Website

http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/document/ga/127542

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

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

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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

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Association Type: null

Title: Thin Section Dynamic CSV

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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

OnLine resource: Reviving an Old and Valuable Collection of Microscope Slides Through the Use of Citizen Science

Reviving an Old and Valuable Collection of Microscope Slides Through the Use of Citizen Science

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.

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Title: Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

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

Website

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

Classification: Unclassified

Metadata

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urn:uuid/c6a1bfdb-a426-23b2-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Title: GeoNetwork UUID

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Contact

Role	Organisation / Individual Name	Details
Point of contact	Petkovski, S.	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 (Revision): 2018-04-22T08:19:58

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

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