Product catalogue
Australian Seabed Sediments Collection
This dataset contains point data describing physical properties of marine sediments as held within the Geoscience Australia Marine Sediment database (MARS) for samples acquired by marine surveys that occurred between 1905 and 2017. Samples were collected from within the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone, plus waters within Australian Antarctic Territory, waters around Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) and outside the EEZ within the Timor Sea and waters around Papua New Guinea. Samples are sourced from a range of organisations, with sampling technique, spatial accuracy and sample preservation varying between surveys. Attributes include survey ID and name, sample ID, sampling method, water depth and location information. Sediment properties include %mud, %sand, %gravel, mean grain size and texture (classified using the Folk (1954) nomenclature for sediments). There is no consistent datum and projection due to the time span, differing collecting organisations and method of measurement across the dataset. All data is referenced to WGS 84 unless stated otherwise.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-08-10T00:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2018-08-17T05:13:48
- Date (Revision)
- 2018-10-18T01:59:20
- Date (Revision)
- 2018-10-18T04:13:03
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122355
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/http://dx.doi.org/10.26186/5b76556b396c0
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Resource provider Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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- Status
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Resource provider Environmental Geoscience Division
External Contact
- Spatial representation type
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1905-01-01 2017-12-31
Extent
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Resource format
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Product data repository: Various Formats
- Website
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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
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sediments
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- Keywords
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seabed
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texture
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grain size
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- Product
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Published_External
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Resource constraints
- Title
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
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CC-BY
- Edition
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4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
- OnLine resource
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Download the data (ESRI geodatabase)
Download the data (ESRI geodatabase)
- OnLine resource
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Explore and download the data via Ausseabed Marine Data Portal
Explore and download the data via Ausseabed Marine Data Portal
Resource lineage
- Statement
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This is an amalgamation of data acquired throughout various marine surveys held within the Geoscience Australia database. Data has been extracted directly from the original database to create this dataset.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/f1704e99-1e96-41c7-85a6-ef93ba0a41d6
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Name
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Australian Seabed Sediments Collection
Alternative metadata reference
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/122355
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-08-17T03:43:50
- Date info (Revision)
- 2018-08-17T03:43:50
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
- Edition
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551