*** removed from website on advice from author *** 'Basins of Australia' map has been compiled as part of AGSO's studies of Australia's basins and continental margin. It shows outlines of all major sedimentary basins and sub-basins with their names both onshore and offshore. Outlines of sedimentary basins offshore were revised in 1995-96 to conform with new data/ideas on continental margin evolution and include volcanic margins features. The original compilation material included 44 published and unpublished contour maps (1977-1994) and 178 publications. The maps used for compilation varied in scale from 1:250 000 to 1:2 000 000, however, in some areas, where detailed maps were not available, small-scale maps (1:5 000 000 and even 1:10 000 000) were used to fill in the gaps. Large-scale maps have been generalised to conform to 1:6 000 000 scale of the final compilation. Most of the original maps reflected depth to basement (onshore basins, eastern and southern basins). In the absence of depth to the basement data, the deepest mapped horizon, or the horizon reflecting the main phase of rift basin development are portrayed (North West Shelf). The map shows outcrops of crystalline basement and Proterozoic basins. Different colour zones illustrate the age of oceanic crust. Plate tectonic elements, such as magnetic lineations, transform faults, continent-ocean boundary, subduction and collision zones are also included.

The approximate location of the Helidon Ridge (proposed name) - a basement ridge likely to define the hydrogeological boundary between the Surat and Clarence-Moreton basins in the GAB. To be used in conjunction with dataset 'Groundwater divide in the Hutton Sandstone boundary' (Geoscience Australia, Catalogue #77024, 2013) to define the easternmost boundary of the GAB. The approximate location of the Helidon ridge was interpreted from a GOCAD model layer of Base of Hutton Sandstone surface (Geoscience Australia dataset, Catalogue #76025, 2013). This data set provides an approximate location of Helidon ridge as a polygon in Shapefile format. The polygon represents the area in which the boundary is likely to be located, as the exact location is open to interpretation. Data is available in Shapefile format This data set was used in: Figure 5.3 in Ransley TR and Smerdon BD (eds) (2012) Hydrostratigraphy, hydrogeology and system conceptualisation of the Great Artesian Basin. A technical report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. Figure 5.3 in Smerdon BD and Ransley TR (eds) (2012) Water resource assessment for the Surat region. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia Figure 14 in Smerdon BD, Marston FM and Ransley TR (2012) Water resource assessment for the Surat region. Summary of a report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. 16pp. This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 75836.

Difference between 'pre-development' (1900-1920) and modern (2000-2010) groundwater levels at selected bore locations in the Great Artesian Basin This GIS data set was produced by CSIRO for the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment and used in Figure 7.5 of Ransley TR and Smerdon BD (eds) (2012) Hydrostratigraphy, hydrogeology and system conceptualisation of the Great Artesian Basin. A technical report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 76931. For further information contact Phil Davies, Research Projects Officer, CSIRO Land and Water, Waite Road, Urrbrae SA 5064

Thickness of Cenozoic sequence overlying the Great Artesian Basin. Data is available as isopachs in Shapefile format. This GIS data set was produced for the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment and used in Figure 3.1 of Ransley TR and Smerdon BD (eds) (2012) Hydrostratigraphy, hydrogeology and system conceptualisation of the Great Artesian Basin. A technical report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 76534.

Interpolated surface representing the spatial distribution of permeability within the following formations in the Great Artesian Basin: 1. Birkhead Formation 2. Cadna-owie and Bungil formations 3. Evergreen Formation 4. Hooray Sandstone and equivalents 5. Hutton Sandstone 6. Precipice Sandstone Data is available as a raster in ESRI Grid and ESRI ASCII grid formats. This GIS data set was produced for the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. Rasters were used in: Figure 5.26 of Ransley TR and Smerdon BD (eds) (2012) Hydrostratigraphy, hydrogeology and system conceptualisation of the Great Artesian Basin. A technical report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. Figure 5.11 of Smerdon BD and Ransley TR (eds) (2012) Water resource assessment for the Central Eromanga region. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. Figure 5.13 of Smerdon BD and Ransley TR (eds) (2012) Water resource assessment for the Surat region. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 76541.

Thickness of the Rolling Downs group in the Great Artesian Basin Data is available as a raster in both ESRI grid and ASCII grid formats. This GIS data set was produced for the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment and used in Figure 5.29 of Ransley TR and Smerdon BD (eds) (2012) Hydrostratigraphy, hydrogeology and system conceptualisation of the Great Artesian Basin. A technical report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 76540.

Modelled groundwater levels from 2010 to 2070 used to estimate the impact of climate change and future groundwater resource development on groundwater levels in the Cape York area of the GAB. The modelling considered different scenarios of climate and groundwater development: Scenario A (historical climate and current development); Scenario C (future climate and current development) and Scenario D (future climate and future development). The future climate scenarios included the wet extreme (wet), the median (mid) and the dry extreme (dry). This data set contains spatial data that were created from the outputs from climate change scenario models using on the Cape York groundwater flow model. The subfolder "heads" contains various raster grid representations of spatial distributions of hydraulic head for the year 2070 that were output by the respective climate change scenario model, based on projections of future climate. For each climate change scenario there are three outputs: one for each modelled aquifer thickness (100, 150 and 200metres). The folder "differences" contains various raster grid representations of differences between the spatial distributions of hydraulic head that were output by climate change scenario models and by either (a) the respective "A scenario" model or (b) the respective "Base scenario" model (the modelled hydraulic head for the year 2010.) 'No data' value is 1e30 for heads rasters, -9999 for differences rasters Cell size is 5000 m x 5000 m This data and metadata were produced by CSIRO for the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. For more information, please refer to Welsh WD, Moore CR, Turnadge CJ, Smith AJ and Barr TM (2012), "Modelling of climate and groundwater development. A technical report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment ". CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. Projection is Albers equal area conic, with central meridian 143 degrees longitude, standard parallels at -21 and -29 degrees latitude and latitude of projection's origin at -25.

Modelled groundwater levels from 2010 to 2070 used to estimate the impact of climate change and future groundwater resource development on groundwater levels in the Cape York area of the GAB. The modelling considered different scenarios of climate and groundwater development: Scenario A (historical climate and current development); Scenario C (future climate and current development) and Scenario D (future climate and future development). The future climate scenarios included the wet extreme (wet), the median (mid) and the dry extreme (dry). This data set contains spatial data that were created from the outputs from climate change scenario models using on the Cape York groundwater flow model. The subfolder "heads" contains rasters of spatial distributions of hydraulic head for the year 2070 that were output based on projections of future climate and projections of future groundwater extraction (Scenario D). For each climate change scenario there are three outputs: one for each modelled aquifer thickness (100, 150 and 200 metres). The subfolder "differences" contains rasters of differences between the spatial distributions of hydraulic head that were output by future use scenario models and by either (a) the respective "A scenario" model or (b) the respective "Base scenario" model (the modelled hydraulic head for the year 2010). 'No data' value is 1e30 for heads rasters, -9999 for differences rasters Cell size is 5000m x 5000m For more information, please refer to Welsh WD, Moore CR, Turnadge CJ, Smith AJ and Barr TM (2012) "Modelling of climate and groundwater development. A technical report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment ". CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. Projection is Albers equal area conic, with central meridian 143 degrees longitude, standard parallels at -21 and -29 degrees latitude and latitude of projection's origin at -25.

Thickness of the basal Jurassic-Cretaceous sandstone aquifers in the Carpentaria and Laura basins. Data is available as isopachs and raster. Isopachs are in Shapefile format. Rasters are in both ESRI grid and ASCII grid formats. This GIS data set was produced for the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment and used in: Figure 2.12 of Ransley TR and Smerdon BD (eds) (2012) Hydrostratigraphy, hydrogeology and system conceptualisation of the Great Artesian Basin. A technical report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. Figure 5.8 of Smerdon BD, Welsh WD and Ransley TR (eds) (2012) Water resource assessment for the Carpentaria region. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 76536. SOURCE DATA (continued from lineage field due to space constraints) Harrison, J., W. J. Greer, et al. (1961). Completion report, Delhi-Santos Mornington Island Nos 1 and 2 wells. Company Report 696. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland. Laing, A. C. M. (1958). Final report on AAO Number 8 (Karumba). Mines Administration PL, Brisbane. Company report 226. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland. McConachie, B. A., J. N. Dunster, et al. (1989). Jackin Creek 1, Well completion report, A-P 373P, Carpentaria Basin, Queensland. Company Report 20580. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland. McConachie BA, Dunster JN, Wellman P, Denaro TJ, Pain CF, Habermehl MA and Draper JJ 1997 - Chapter 9; Carpentaria lowlands and gulf of Carpentaria regions. In: Bain JHC and Draper JJ (eds.) North Queensland Geology. AGSO Bulletin 240. Queensland department of Mines and Energy Australia, 365-397. Meyers, N. A. (1969). Carpentaria Basin. GSQ Report 34. Queensland, Geological Survey of Queensland. Mines Administration Pty Ltd. (1962). Cabot-Blueberry Marina No. 1, Authority to Prospect 61P, Queensland. Well Completion report. Report Q/61P/112. Company report 976. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland. Perryman, J. C. (1964). Midwood Exploratory Proprietary Ltd., Completion report, Burketown No.1, A-P 91P, Queensland. Company Report 1480. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland. Smart J, Grimes KG, Doutch HF and Pinchin J (1980) The Carpentaria and Karumba Basins, north Queensland. Bulletin 202. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Australia. Williams, L. J. (1976). GSQ Ebagoola 1 - Preliminary lithologic and composite log. Record 1988/14. Brisbane, Queensland Department of Mines and Geological Survey of Queensland. Williams, L. J. and L. M. Gunther (1989). GSQ Dobbyn 1 - Preliminary lithologic and composite log. Record 1989/22. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland.

Grids representing chemical parameter concentrations and isotopic variations in groundwater in the Great Artesian Basin for the following aquifers: Adori Sandstone; Cadna-owie - Hooray and equivalents; Hutton Sandstone and Winton-Mackunda Formation. (Note: Stable isotope carbon variations, Carbon-14 variation and Chlorine ratios produced for the Cadna-owie-Hooray and equivalents only) Hydrochemical parameters and isotopic variations mapped are: - Total dissolved solids (TDS) (mg/L) (adori_tds.txt, cad-hoor_tds.txt, hutton_tds.txt, wint-mack_tds.txt) - Total alkalinity (mg/L CaCO3) (adori_alk, cad-hoor_alk, hutton_alk, wint-mack_alk) - Sulphate (mg/L) ( adori_so4, cad-hoor_so4, hutton_so4, wint-mack_so4) - Fluoride (mg/L) ( adori_flu, cad-hoor_flu, hutton_flu, wint-mack_flu) - Sodium adsorption ratio (adori_sar, cad-hoor_sar, hutton_sar, wint-mack_sar) - Stable carbon isotope variations (d13C % PDB) ( tp-rs_13c_ch) - Carbon-14 variation (14C pMC) ( tp-rs_14c_ch) - Chlorine-36 to Chloride ratio ( t-rs_36clr_ch) Grid cell size (X, Y) = 0.015 DD, 0.015 DD. These GIS data sets were produced for the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment and used in Figures 8.2, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.8, 8.10, 8.12 and 8.13 of Ransley TR and Smerdon BD (eds) (2012) Hydrostratigraphy, hydrogeology and system conceptualisation of the Great Artesian Basin. A technical report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 76942.