Great Artesian Basin and Laura Basin groundwater recharge areas

Areas of groundwater intake beds for the Great Artesian Basin, including regionally variable local recharge in some places.


Data is available as polygons in Shapefile format.


This GIS data set was produced for the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment and used in:

Figures 2.2 and 5.29 of Ransley TR and Smerdon BD (eds) (2012) Hydrostratigraphy, hydrogeology and system conceptualisation of the Great Artesian Basin. A technical report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia.


Figure 1.4 in Smerdon BD, Ransley TR, Radke BM and Kellett JR (2012) Water resource assessment for the Great Artesian Basin. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia.


This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 75842.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2013-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/75842

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Geoscience Australia

 Canberra
Author

Geoscience Australia

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Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

EGD
Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Owner

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Australia
Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Department of the Environment)
Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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6000000
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  • Geoscientific information

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Unknown
Keywords

  • GIS Dataset

Theme

  • groundwater

Theme

  • boundaries

Keywords

  • AU-NSW

  • AU-QLD

  • AU-SA

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Hydrogeology

Keywords

  • Published_External

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

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CC-BY

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4.0

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

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Unclassified
Language
English
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UTF8

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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
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Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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OnLine resource

File download

Download the file (shp)

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  • shp

Resource lineage

Statement

Polygons were extracted from the following sources:

1. Habermehl, M. A. and J. E. Lau (1997). Hydrogeology of the Great Artesian Basin Australia (Map at scale 1:2,500,000). Canberra, Australian Geological Survey Organisation. [Available from http://www.ga.gov.au catalogue number 72665]

2. Mesozoic Geology of the Carpentaria and Laura Basins, Geoscience Australia dataset, 2012.

3. Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2010 edition. Geoscience Australia

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Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
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https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

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Unclassified

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urn:uuid/d9838342-57db-09d4-e044-00144fdd4fa6

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English
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UTF8
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Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Dataset
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dataset

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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

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Citation identifier
eCatId/75842

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/d9838342-57db-09d4-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Revision)
2018-04-22T08:44:45
Date info (Creation)
2013-04-04T00:00:00

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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Keywords

boundaries groundwater

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