Regolith Map of Australia Edition 1

A seamless Regolith Map of Australia drawn from field-defined regolith-landform data at approx 1:250k scale for QLD and NT, and additionally from SA regolith data derived from the South Australian Regolith Map (1:2 Million) published in 2012, and generalised by Geoscience Australia to 1:5 000 000 for matching with existing data.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2013-01-01T00:00:00
Date (Revision)
2019-05-09T02:57:16
Edition

1

Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/75626

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Geoscience Australia

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

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Main, P.

 MEG Internal Contact
Resource provider

Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division

 External Contact

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
5000000
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
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E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords

  • HVC_144616

Keywords

  • Regolith Map

Theme

  • regolith

Theme

  • geomorphology

Theme

  • landforms

Theme

  • mineral exploration

Theme

  • mapping

Keywords

  • AU-NT

  • AU-QLD

  • AU-SA

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Earth Sciences

Theme

  • DC2020

Keywords

  • Published_External

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
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

File download

High Resolution Version

Distribution format

  • pdf

OnLine resource

File download

Low Resolution Version

Distribution format

  • pdf

Resource lineage

Statement

The Regolith Map of Australia 1:5M scale dataset (2013 edition) is a seamless but partial national coverage of regolith-landform units, compiled for use at around 1:5 million scale. The data maps high-level regolith-landform units. The units appear as polygon geometries, and with attribute information identifying high-level regolith and landform nomenclatures and their hierarchy.

The 2013 dataset is a completely new portrayal of Australia's regolith from that presented much earlier in 1986, in which a whole of continent view of Australia's regolith was based on a simpler desktop-based 1:5 Million continental regolith terrain assessment, not directly linked with landforms and published by the Bureau of Mineral Resources Geology and Geophysics. The 2013 edition incorporates new published mapping in South Australia (2012), integrated with earlier field-based regolith-landform mapping data from the Northern Territory (2006) and later Queensland (2008). The attribute structure of the new dataset is also revised to be more compatible with the GeoSciML data standard, published by the IUGS Commission for Geoscience Information.

The map data is compiled largely from simplifying and edge-matching of 1:250 000 scale regolith compilation maps. Some source regolith and geologic maps ranging in scale from 1:50 000 to 1:1 million were used together with LANDSAT7, radiometric, magnetics, and gravity imagery, in addition to a 9second digital elevation model. In some areas where the only available geological maps were old and poorly located, some repositioning of mapping using recent satellite imagery or geophysics was employed.

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Dataset
Description

The map data is compiled largely from simplifying and edge-matching of 1:250 000 scale regolith compilation maps. Some source regolith and geologic maps ranging in scale from 1:50 000 to 1:1 million were used together with LANDSAT7, radiometric, magnetics, and gravity imagery, in addition to a 9second digital elevation model.

Equivalent scale

Denominator
5000000

Extent

N
S
E
W


Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/GDA94 / Geoscience Australia Lambert (EPSG:3112)

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/d82c63c2-4ccc-2699-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

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

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Main, P.

 MEG Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Name

dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/75626

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/d82c63c2-4ccc-2699-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Revision)
2018-04-20T05:50:21
Date info (Creation)
2013-03-18T00:00:00

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
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W


Keywords

DC2020 HVC_144616 geomorphology landforms mapping mineral exploration regolith

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