Outcrop geology was obtained directly from the following 1:250 000 map sheets: Marble Bar, Nullagine, Port Hedland and Yarrie. This dataset consists of both raster and vector data. Raster data which is unsigned 8 bit integer, can be viewed in Arc/Info, ArcView, MapInfo, ERMapper, ERViewer and ArcExplorer. Raster data which is 4 byte real data, can only be viewed and manipulated with an image processing package such as ERMapper.

This user guide describes the important instructions for using the Tasmanian Extreme Wind Hazard Standalone Tool (TEWHST). It aims to assist the Tasmanian State Emergency Service (SES) to view the spatial nature of extreme wind hazard (and how it varies depending on the direction of the extreme wind gusts). This information indicates detailed spatial texture for extreme hazard, which can provide guidance for understanding where the local-scale hazard (and impact) is expected to be the greatest for any particular event depending on the intensity and directional influence of the broad-scale severe storm. The tool provides spatial information at the local scale (25 metre resolution) of the return period extreme wind hazard (3-second gust at 10 metre height; variation with direction) where the broad-scale regional hazard is provided by the Australian and New Zealand Wind Loading Standard (AS/NZS 1170.2, 2002).

The surface geology of Queensland ranges in age from Palaeoproterozoic to Recent. The oldest rocks largely occur in the Mount Isa and Georgetown Inliers in the northwest and central north of the state respectively. These rocks have undergone greenschist to amphibolite facies metamorphism and were extensively intruded by granite during the Mesoproterozoic. Metamorphics of Meso to Neoproterozoic age occur in the Coen Inlier in eastern Cape York, in the Hughenden-Charters Towers-Townsville region to the south and east of Georgetown, and also further south in the Anakie Inlier. During Cambrian to Ordovician times, extensive carbonate dominated, marine sedimentation took place in the Georgina Basin, West and southwest of Mount Isa. These rocks were subsequently faulted and gently folded prior to the Devonian, perhaps during the mid-Ordovician Thompson Orogeny. Silurian to Devonian marine sedimentation is preserved in the Hodgkinson and Broken River Basins in the north east of the state while similar aged, arc related deposits accumulated in the New England Orogen which occupies a 200 km wide coastal strip between Bowen and Brisbane in the southeast of the State. The Hodgkinson - Georgetown region and New England Orogen were extensively intruded by granite during Carboniferous to Permian times. Permian to Triassic sediments of the Galilee and Bowen Basins outcrop in the central east of the state while similar aged sediments accumulated to the east and southeast within the New England Orogen. Widespread sedimentation during the Jurassic to Cretaceous (Carpentaria, Eromanga, Mulgildie, Surat, and Laura Basins) blanketed large areas of older bedrock, particularly in the central, southern and south western parts of the state. Finally, Cainozoic cover units comprise approximately half the surface geology with sand plain (Czs), sand plain with dunes (Czd), colluvium (Qrc), alluvium (Qa), and Tertiary to Quaternary basalt flows comprising the major components. The data set was initially compiled from older regional data sets including those covering the Eromanga, Surat and Carpentaria-Karumba Basins. Extensive areas were recompiled using more recent 1:250 000 and 1:100 000 scale mapping, particularly in the Georgetown-Charters Towers-Ebagoola region, and also the area of the New England Orogen. The data set includes nearly 1800 named, informal or unnamed units.

The National Marine Bioregionalisation is a major scientific project headed by the National Oceans Office, designed to help define ecosystem boundaries in Australia's ocean territory. It brings together and illustrates the complexity and variability of marine environments and supports Australia's Oceans Policy commitment to an ecosystem-based approach to oceans management.

This record describes digital data compilation product, where several individual items are grouped for delivery on single CD-ROM. Content and number of items included in the compilation package can vary, depending on size of the individual items. The contents of this CD-ROM are as follows: Catalog # Title 30630 Broken Hill and Curnamona regolith landforms maps 500k 30629 Broken Hill interpreted lithology

The surface geology of New South Wales comprises rocks ranging in age from the Palaeoproterozoic to recent. The oldest rocks are the strongly deformed and metamorphosed Willyama Supergroup of the Curnamona Craton in far western New South Wales. Neoproterozoic to Cambrian shallow marine to continental sediments and volcanics overlie the margin of the Curnamona Craton. The south-eastern part of New South Wales is dominated by the Palaeozoic sediments, volcanics and granites of the Lachlan Orogen. These rocks occur from the eastern Victorian border to the Cobar region and underlie the southern highlands. North-eastern New South Wales is underlain by the Palaeozoic to Mesozoic rocks of the New England Orogen. The Lachlan and New England Orogens are overlain by sedimentary basins of Permian to Recent age. Permian to Cretaceous sediments of the Sydney-Bowen, Gunnedah and Clarence-Moreton Basins overlie the two orogens in eastern New South Wales. Sediments of the Mesozoic Eromanga, Surat and Berri Basins occur in the north and west of New South Wales; and the Cainozoic Murray Basin covers the majority of the south-west of the state. The Cainozoic regolith units of New South Wales are represented in this dataset according to a simplified classification scheme which is being applied nationally at 1:1 000 000 scale. The dataset was generalised largely from the 2003 version of the New South Wales Department of Mineral Resources (NSWDMR) state digital geology dataset, comprising 1:250 000 to 1:100 000 scale mapping data. Some areas (denoted in the dataset metadata) have been recompiled from more recent mapping data sourced from NSWDMR. In other areas, such as the Broken Hill region and the Murray Basin region, 1:500 000 and 1:1 000 000 scale data was incorporated from published regional maps. Compilation of the seamless state dataset necessarily involved much edgematching of source datasets due to their varying ages and original compilation scales. Adjustment of some older geological datasets was made using geophysical data interpretation where particularly poor edgematching or spatial accuracy (± 1 km) was identified in source data.

This record describes digital data compilation product, where several individual items are grouped for delivery on single CD-ROM. Content and number of items included in the compilation package can vary, depending on size of the individual items. The contents of this CD-ROM are as follows: Catalog # Title 21285 Bathurst regolith landforms, 1:250 000 scale map 250k 30631 Cobar regolith landforms. A regional overview of regolith landforms 500k 25238 Cootamundra, interpreted geology based on geophysics and previous geological mapping 250k

This record describes digital data compilation product, where several individual items are grouped for delivery on single CD-ROM. Content and number of items included in the compilation package can vary, depending on size of the individual items. The contents of this CD-ROM are as follows: Catalog # Title 34684 Mount Isa geology 250k 36813 Mount Isa Inlier lithostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy 100k 21949 Mount Isa Inlier and Environs 1:500 000 GIS package (version 1.2) 500k

Data used to produce the predicted Sodium map for the Cadna-owie - Hooray Aquifer in the Hydrogeological Atlas of the Great Artesian Basin (Ransle et. al., 2015). There are four layers in the Cadna-owie - Hooray Aquifer Sodium map data A. Location of hydrochemistry samples (Point data, Shapefile) B. Predicted Concentration (Filled contours , Shapefile) C. Predicted Concentration Contours (Contours, Shapefile) D. Prediction Standard Error (Filled contours , Shapefile) The predicted values provide a regional based estimate and may be associated with considerable error. It is recommended that the predicted values are read together with the predicted error map, which provides an estimate of the absolute standard error associated with the predicted values at any point within the map. The predicted standard error map provides an absolute standard error associated with the predicted values at any point within the map. Please note this is not a relative error map and the concentration of a parameter needs to be considered when interpreting the map. Predicted standard error values are low where the concentration is low and there is a high density of samples. Predicted standard errors values can be high where the concentration is high and there is moderate variability between nearby samples or where there is a paucity of data. Concentrations are Sodium as Na in mg/L. Coordinate system is Lambert conformal conic GDA 1994, with central meridian 134 degrees longitude, standard parallels at -18 and -36 degrees latitude. The Cadna-owie - Hooray Aquifer Sodium map is one of 14 hydrochemistry maps for the Cadna-owie - Hooray Aquifer and 24 hydrochemistry maps in the Hydrogeological Atlas of the Great Artesian Basin (Ransley et. al., 2014). This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 81695. References: Hitchon, B. and Brulotte, M. (1994): Culling criteria for 'standard' formation water analyses; Applied Geochemistry, v. 9, p. 637-645 Ransley, T., Radke, B., Feitz, A., Kellett, J., Owens, R., Bell, J. and Stewart, G., 2015. Hydrogeological Atlas of the Great Artesian Basin. Geoscience Australia. Canberra. [available from www.ga.gov.au using catalogue number 79790]

This dataset provides the spatially continuous data of seabed gravel (sediment fraction >2000 µm), mud (sediment fraction < 63 µm) and sand content (sediment fraction 63-2000 µm) expressed as a weight percentage ranging from 0 to 100%, presented in 0.0025 decimal degree (dd) resolution raster grids format and ascii text file. The dataset covers the Petrel sub-basin in the Australian continental EEZ. This dataset supersedes previous predictions of sediment gravel, mud and sand content for the basin with demonstrated improvements in accuracy. Accuracy of predictions varies based on density of underlying data and level of seabed complexity. Artefacts occur in this dataset as a result of insufficient samples in relevant regions. This dataset is intended for use at the basin scale. The dataset may not be appropriate for use at smaller scales in areas where sample density is insufficient to detect local variation in sediment properties. To obtain the most accurate interpretation of sediment distribution in these areas, it is recommended that additional samples be collected and interpolations updated.