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  • The Corporate Administrative Records Collection of Geoscience Australia (GA) is a bi fold collection; consisting of electronic/digital documents and records in physical paper format. GA's corporate administrative records in physical format are created by the Records Management Unit upon request from staff members when their needs meet specific criteria. The files themselves are bound in cardboard folders and labelled and bar-coded according to their respective classification level and metadata information. Individually, the files are a detailed narrative of specific business activities; describing all of the administrative processes that occurred during an activity. The collection is organised according to a year series system; a method which has been constant throughout GA's evolution. The collection also consists of inherited physical records from various government departments. These include the AFFA series from the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Australia and the UB Series, sourced from the Uranium Branch. In collaboration with the relevant government departments, GA acceded custody of these series, and they are now managed in juxtaposition with the entire GA collection.

  • During the 1960's thru to the 1990's Geoscience Australia's predecessors, BMR and AGSO, conducted numerous deep field programs mapping the geology of the Australian Antarctic Territory. The field note books, recording the scientific observations, sample numbers, locations, and other anecdotal information, such as weather conditions and day-to-day life in the field are captured in these invaluable documents. They are currently held in the GA library archives, and publically available for all to enjoy. However, currently, the interested geologist or historian must physically visit GA to gain access to these sources of information. In order to make these valuable records more accessible to the world and in line with GA's policy of ensuring `geoscience data, information, and collections are discoverable and accessible as a public resource and that collections are captured and `made accessible to the community we are digitising and transcribing all the Antarctic field notebooks for web delivery.

  • A user interactive guide to Geoscience Australia's Antarctic information sources and related online content

  • Esri International User Conference Technical Workshops July 23-27 2012 San Diego California 13 Disc Sessions - See Session Listing pdf for an overview of agenda for the Workshop.

  • This disc contains PDF scans of uranium-related reports held by GA from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission archives. These reports date mostly from the 70s, with some which are much older (as early as 1901) but none newer than the early 80s. The reports are a mix of exploration reports, geological and geographical maps, proposals, feasibility studies, estimations, reserve information, drill hole data and drill cross section files. These reports pertain to the Alligator Rivers uranium field within Pine Creek region, including the Jabiluka, Koongarra, Nabarlek and Ranger regions. It is one of four discs containing reports concerning uranium in the Northern Territory.

  • This disc contains scanned PDF copies of uranium-related documents held by Geoscience Australia from the archives of the former Australian Atomic Energy Commission. These reports date from the early 1970s. The documents consist of feasibility studies, drill logs and assays which pertain to the Beverley uranium deposit in South Australia. Two other discs with PDF scans of exploration in South Australia also exist and may be of interest.

  • Of the four samples submitted for palynological analysis from the open cut at the Great Greta Colliery, two yielded plant microfossil assemblages of Early Permian age. Both assemblages belong to the APP 32 palynozone of Price (1997). Key species include: Praecolpatites sinuosus, Phaselisporites cicatricosa, Bascanisporites undosus, Barakarites rotatus, Protohaploxypinus spp., Marsupipollenites triradiatus, and Granulatisporites trisinus. Deposition occurred in a non-marine environment, as indicated by the occurrence of algal remains of Botryococcus sp. and Peltacystia sp. An index species, Camptotriletes biornatus Balme & Hennelly 1956, first described from the Greta Coal Measures, was not found in these two assemblages. These assemblages are younger than those reported from the Greta Coal Measures intersected in Tangorin DM DDH2, as they contain the index of the immediately overlying zone, Praecolpatites sinuosus (Balme & Hennelly) Bharadwaj & Srivastava 1969. Foster (in Roberts et al. 1996, pp. 407-411) has summarised the distribution of the APP32 within the Greta Coal Measures