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L098 Geotraverse seismic refraction survey, WA, 1969

During 1969, the Mundaring Geophysical Observatory collected seismic refraction data from explosions used by the Bureau of Mineral Resources No. 2 seismic party in the southwest of Western Australia. The seismic party exploded 37 charges up to 4,500 kilograms on a traverse from Balladonia through Kalgoorlie to Perth. Two mobile Willmore seismographs and permanent seismographs at Mundaring and Kalgoorlie recorded the resultant seismic waves.


Raw data for this survey are available on request from clientservices@ga.gov.au - Quote eCat# 76503 clientservices@ga.gov Raw data for this survey are available on request from clientservices@ga.gov.au - Quote eCat# 76503

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
1971-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/76503

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Geoscience Australia

Canberra
Author

Gregson, P.J.

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Author

Paull, E.P.

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Name

Record

Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

MNHD

Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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Temporal extent

Time period
1969-07-03 1969-11-27
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

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)
  • Seismology and Seismic Exploration

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  • HVC_144637

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  • Seismic Data seismic survey

Theme
  • seismic reflection

Theme
  • seismic refraction

Theme
  • seismic velocity

Theme
  • petroleum exploration

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  • AU-WA

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  • 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
Restricted
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

Download the file (misc)

Download the file (misc)

Resource lineage

Statement

During 1969, the Bureau of Mineral Resources No. 2 Seismic Party carried out seismic reflection probes along the Geotraverse from Balladonia, through Kalgoorlie, to Perth (Branson, 1971). The refracted waves from the explosions were recorded by the Mundaring Geophysical Observatory. The Seismological stations at Mundaring and Kalgoorlie; a semipermanent station at Southern Cross, and two roving field stations were used to record these events. The Meekatharra seismograph recorded one event.


The project of recording refracted waves was to supplement data collected during project FRUMP (Gregson & Woad, 1968) which had the following broad aims: (a) To investigate the deep structure and thickness

of the earthOs crust in the region of the south western Precambrian shield. Variations of the earth's crustal thickness occur, particularly near the edges of the continents, where these investigations should assist in determining the nature of the continent. (b) To investigate parameters of seismic waves in the upper part of the earth's mantle in this region. Geophysicists are interested in the structure of the globe as a whole, and

particularly in the mantle beneath a stable shield, such as exists in South Western Australia. (c) A better knowledge of the structure of the earth's crust, upper mantle, and their parameters will enable the Mundaring Observatory to locate local tremors more accurately.

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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/df7cb560-be2f-2e52-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

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Name

dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/76503

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/df7cb560-be2f-2e52-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au:80/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/df7cb560-be2f-2e52-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Revision)
2018-04-20T06:11:05
Date info (Creation)
2013-06-19T00:00:00

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

AU-WA HVC_144637 Published_External Seismic Data seismic survey petroleum exploration seismic reflection seismic refraction seismic velocity

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