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  • SUMMARY Geoscience Australia operates and maintains a state-of-the-art network of stations and sophisticated instrumentation that monitors natural and anthropogenic (human-made) hazards in Australia and around the globe through its Geophysical Network Section. The key responsibilities for the Geophysical Network Section are to: operate and maintain the Australian National Seismic Network (ANSN) and Urban Monitoring (UM) networks; operate and maintain Australian Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) seismic, hydro-acoustic and infrasound technologies, as part of Australia's commitment to support monitoring of worldwide nuclear testing; operate and maintain a national network of geomagnetic observatories which forms a part of a global observatory network; provide technical expertise and advice to Geoscience Australia projects, such as the National Geospatial Reference Systems Risk Research Group and the JATWS (Joint Australian Tsunami Warning System); and, provide technical and operational support to the Risk Research Group for significant Australian earthquake events and aftershock deployment studies. Geophysical data archives are stored on-site and can be freely downloaded from GA or international data centres. Seismic data can be accessed at GA and Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) and geomagnetic data at INTERMAGNET. Seismic data from Geoscience Australia's Geophysical Networks feeds into important hazard maps including the probabilistic national earthquake hazard map and the probabilistic Tsunami hazard map. Geomagnetic data feeds into the International Geomagnetic Reference Field and has been used to develop the first 3-D conductivity map of Australia. Key words: Geophysical Networks, geomagnetism, earthquake, tsunami, nuclear monitoring

  • Proterozoic Uranium Mineralising events on Australian Uranium Resources base, 1:5 000 000 October 2007 Version (PDF and JPG)

  • Proterozoic Lead-Zinc Mineralising events on Australian Lead-Zinc Resources base, 1:5 000 000 (Map 1) December 2007 version

  • This map has been produced for a court case for the Fair Work Ombudsman. The points on the map were sourced from documents supplied by the Fair Work Ombudsman. Boundaries sourced from AMB v2.0 Refer to Advice Register 679. Location M:\advice\fwo

  • Australia & PNG Metallogenic map 1:5m

  • A geotechnical landscape map of Australia has been drawn depicting regions of constant [geological and physical] (NOT geophysical {Ed}) properties for road construction. The map, drawn at a scale of 1:2 500 000 for clarity, has a true accuracy of a 1:5 000 000 scale map, and is based on the four variables - landform, underlying lithology, soil type and [surficial] lithology - which are the principal [geological and physical] determinants for road construction. The origins and interpretation of the source maps together with a description of the legend of the geotechnical landscape map are described in this Report. Precis {Ed}: A map delineating regions with differing geotechical properties with particular application to road construction.

  • This map shows the distribution and age of major stratigraphic, intrusive and medium- to high-grade metamorphic units of onshore Australia. Units on the map represent stratigraphic supergroups, regional intrusive associations and regional metamorphic complexes.

  • Two full-colour map sheets (at 1:5 million and 1:10 million scales) that show the continental extent and age relationships of Proterozoic mafic and ultramafic rocks and associated mineral deposits throughout the continent. These rocks have been assigned to 30 Magmatic Events (ME) ranging in age from the Early Palaeoproterozoic ~2455 Ma (ME 1) to the Early Cambrian ~520 Ma (ME 30). The presence and correlation of these Magmatic Events into five Major Crustal Elements and 28 provinces are represented in a Time-Space-Event Chart on Sheet 2. Enlarged inset maps on Sheet 1 provide in more detail the polygon and line data of certain regions, and other inset maps on Sheet 2 show the distribution of Proterozoic and Archaean rocks, mineral deposits and occurrences, and five Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs). This national map supersedes two similar 'Proterozoic Mafic-Ultramafic Magmatic Events' maps relating to Western Australia (2006; GeoCat 64813) and the Northern Territory-South Australia (2007; GeoCat 65257). A user guide to the map series is described in Geocat 66624. A georeferenced image of the map Australian Proterozoic Mafic-Ultramafic Magmatic Events (Sheet 1) is also provided. The image shows spatial distribution of Proterozoic (2500 Ma to 545 Ma) mafic-ultramafic magmatic events in Australia. The map illustrates for the first time, the continental extent and age relationships of Proterozoic mafic and ultramafic rocks and their associated mineral deposits. The image has been georeferenced using ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 software. Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 False Easting: 0.00000000 False Northing: 0.00000000 Central Meridian: 134.00000000 Standard Parallel 1: -18.00000000; Standard Parallel 2: -36.00000000 Latitude Of Origin: 0.00000000 The package contains five files contained in a ZIP file [ZIP 25MB]: geo_national_mafic_part1_300dpi1.rrd geo_national_mafic_part1_300dpi1.xml geo_national_mafic_part1_300dpi1.aux geo_national_mafic_part1_300dpi1.jpg geo_national_mafic_part1_300dpi1.jwg <h3>Related products:</h3><a href="https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=GEOCAT_DETAILS&amp;catno=66624">Guide to Using the Australian Proterozoic Mafic-Ultramafic Magmatic Events Map</a> <a href="https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=GEOCAT_DETAILS&amp;catno=70461">Proterozoic Mafic-Ultramafic Magmatic Events Resource Package</a> <a href="https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=GEOCAT_DETAILS&amp;catno=69347">Archean Mafic-Ultramafic Magmatic Events Resource Package</a> <a href="https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=GEOCAT_DETAILS&amp;catno=69935">Guide to using the Australian Archean Mafic-Ultramafic Magmatic Events Map</a> <a href="https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=GEOCAT_DETAILS&amp;catno=69213">Proterozoic Large Igneous Provinces: Map Sheets 1 and 2</a> <a href="https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=GEOCAT_DETAILS&amp;catno=70008">Guide to using the Map of Australian Proterozoic Large Igneous Provinces</a>