Product catalogue
L059 Alice Springs observatory sites seismic refraction survey, NT, 1962
Seismic refraction investigations were made at five sites in the vicinity of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, by
the Bureau of Mineral Resources in August 1962. This work was done, at the request of the Bureau of Mineral Resources Observatory Group, to select the most suitable site for a seismological observatory. In view of the desirable features for such a site - a bedrock having a high seismic velocity and a bedrock at shallow depth - a site about three miles west of Alice Springs is recommended as the most suitable; the bedrock material has a velocity of 17,800 ft/s and the thickness of overburden is less than 20 ft.
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- Date (Publication)
- 1965-01-01T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/76438
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Geoscience Australia
Canberra Author Jones, B.F.
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Custodian MNHD
Owner Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Custodian Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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- Geoscientific information
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1962-08-30 1962-08-31
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- As needed
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Product data repository: Various Formats
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
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Seismology and Seismic Exploration
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HVC_144637
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Seismic Data seismic survey
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seismic refraction
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seismic velocity
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geophysics
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petroleum exploration
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AU-NT
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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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- Restricted
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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- Unclassified
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- English
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Distribution Information
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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Download the file (misc)
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Resource lineage
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On the 30th and 31st of August 1962, during the period that the Bureau of Mineral Resources seismic party No.2 was based in Alice Springs making final preparations for the 1962 GilesCarnegie survey, some seismic shallow-refraction work was done in the area to investigate the suitability of several proposed seismological observatory sites. The work was done at the request of the Observator,y Group of the Bureau of Mineral Resources. A seismological observator,y site requires a solid rock foundation on which to house the seismological instruments. The physical criteria tOOe~sed in the selection of the site were: (a) bedrock having a high seismic velocity (b) bedrock at shallow depth. Five possible sites, all on Precambrian outcrops, were investigated.
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
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- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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urn:uuid/dedbfd1f-11eb-72e2-e044-00144fdd4fa6
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GeoNetwork UUID
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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dataset
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
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- Citation identifier
- eCatId/76438
- Date info (Revision)
- 2018-04-20T06:09:36
- Date info (Creation)
- 2013-06-11T00:00:00
Metadata standard
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-3
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551