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L104 Jervis Bay Power Station Site Seismic refraction survey, ACT, 1970

At the request of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology & Geophysics conducted a seismic refraction survey on the site chosen for construction of a nuclear power station. The purpose of the survey was to determine the foundation conditions at the site and the properties of the rocks in relation to excavation methods and support of the proposed structures. The bedrock of the area consists of Permian sandstone (Jervis Bay Sandstone) overlain in places by unconsolidated Quaternary beach and dune sands. During the seismic work it was found that the sandstone beds have a relatively wide range of seismic velocities; often a higher-velocity bed overlies a lower-velocity bed, and this makes seismic refraction work difficult and less accurate. This is confirmed by laboratory measurements of seismic velocities on drill cores. Thin beds of higher- and lower-velocity sandstones occur, some too thin to be resolved by the seismic method. The seismic profiles presented must be considered bearing in mind these difficulties, Haterial sufficiently consolidated for foundations is shallow, and the seismic velocities indicate that some blasting will be necessary to excavate to the desired depth of 10 feet above mean high water level.

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Date (Publication)
1970-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/76509

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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Geoscience Australia

Canberra
Author

Polak, E.J.

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Author

Hill, P.

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Record

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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

MNHD

Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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  • Geoscientific information

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Temporal extent

Time period
1970-01-12 1970-02-15
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
  • seismic refraction

Theme
  • seismic velocity

Theme
  • geophysics

Keywords
  • AU-ACT

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
  • Seismology and Seismic Exploration

Keywords
  • Published_External

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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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License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

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Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Statement

The Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC) proposes to construct a nUGlear power station at Jervis Bay, ACT, and the Electricity Commission of New South Wales has been entrusted with the site investigationo Investigations of the foundation conditions were made in 1969 and 19700 These consisted of diamond drilling by the

Electricity Commission of NSW, a reconnaissance geophysical survey by the Engineering Geophysics Group of the Bureau of Mineral Resources (Taylor, 1969), and an offshore seismic sparker survey by the University of NSW (Carter et al., 1969). During this time two possible sites were investigated, but on the basis of the 1969 investigations the Murray Beach area was chosen as the site for the power station. Following this decision a detailed seismic refraqtion

survey was made on the Mlurray Beach site by the Engineering Geophysics. Group of the Bureau of Hineral Resources between 12 January and 15 February 19700 The party consisted of: E.J. Polak and Po Hill, geophysicists; G. Jennings, technical officer; Ro Cherry and S. Hall, field assistants; and four field hands provided by the AAEC, which also carried out topographical surveying.

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Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/df8cb201-61e7-1a57-e044-00144fdd4fa6

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GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Dataset
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dataset

Alternative metadata reference

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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/76509

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/df8cb201-61e7-1a57-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Revision)
2018-04-20T06:11:05
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

Title

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 seismic refraction seismic velocity

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