L117 Northern New Guinea Basin Airborne Seismic Survey, 1970

During the period September to December 1970 the Bureau of Mineral Resources (BMR) carried out an experimental airborne seismic survey in swamp and other areas of the Northern New Guinea Basin, which are inaccessible to conventional seismic land operations. A helicopter was used to place explosives, shooting equipment and geophones connected to sonobuoy transmitters into position on the ground. Seismic signals are received from the sonobuoy transmitters and recorded on a conventional recording system mounted in an aircraft flying over the seismic field set-up at the time of each shot. Preliminary investigations indicated that the airborne seismic technique is practicable and operationally feasible for use in the swamp areas of the Northern New Guinea Basin.

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Date (Publication)
1970-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/76515

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Geoscience Australia

 Canberra
Author

Jones, P.

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Author

Harrison, P.L.

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Record

Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

MNHD
Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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Temporal extent

Time period
1970-09-01 1970-12-31
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

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Title

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

Keywords

  • Seismic Data

  • seismic survey

Theme

  • geophysics

Keywords

  • PG

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Seismology and Seismic Exploration

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

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CC-BY

Edition

4.0

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

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Restricted
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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
Language
English
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UTF8

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Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Download the file (misc)

Download the file (misc)

Resource lineage

Statement

The BMR proposes to carry out an experimental airborne seismic survey in teh Sepik-Ramu area of the New Guinea Basin between September and December 1970. The survey area is located in the T.P.N.G. Permit to Explore

P41 held jointly by the Continental Oil Co, of Australia Ltd. (the Operator) and New Guinea Cities Service Inc.


The airborne seismic survey has been proposed to overcome the limitations of conventional seismic work. It should be able to provide relatively rapid seismic reconnaiflsance of any area of the swamplands.

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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/df903782-423c-19c6-e044-00144fdd4fa6

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GeoNetwork UUID

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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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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

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Citation identifier
eCatId/76515

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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/df903782-423c-19c6-e044-00144fdd4fa6

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

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

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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

geophysics

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