250 samples of sand recovered from a 1997 SA Government glass-making sand exploration programme undertaken in the Mount Compass area of the southern Mount Lofty Ranges were subjected to [grain] size analysis determinations. The samples were derived...

Evaluates economic potential of all stratigraphic units and recommends modification of Extractive Industry Zone. Contains 115 million tonnes of construction sand predominantly in North Maslin Sand Member and widespread weathered bedrock brick shale....

Results of pebble lithology and till fabric analysis are presented to reconstruct ice movements and environment of deposition during the Late Palaeozoic glaciation.

Well (100 metres) intersected 6 thin low yielding aquifers mostly in Tertiary and Permian sands.

Mount Compass is an important sand resource area. The ACI Glenshera sand pit, which supplies Australia's largest container glass plant at West Croydon with over 100 000 tonnes per year of glass sand, is also a major source of foundry sand. Four...

The Tookayerta Catchment is an area which is increasingly coming under pressure from its landowners for the development of local groundwater resources to irrigate dairy pastures, berry plantations and vineyards. The catchment encompasses two...

Buried Tertiary sand in the Mount Compass area, ~50 km south of Adelaide, was the target of exploration performed adjacent to the existing Glenshera sand pit. Aircore drilling (31 vertical holes, total 1269 m) defined an area containing a deposit of...

The late Palaeozoic Cape Jervis Formation of the Troubridge Basin in southern South Australia provides a sedimentological record of the glacial environment during the Permo-Carboniferous glaciation. The sedimentary sequence is divided into five...

Lower Permian sediments occur in all the main sedimentary basins of South Australia. The Cape Jervis Beds are described, and the Lake Phillipson Beds and Stuart Range Beds formally named. In general, the formations follow a sequence of boulder clay...

Foundation conditions for a ferry berth in a small inlet at Cape Jervis were investigated by three diamond drill holes up to 15m deep. The sea floor at the site is composed of sediments of Permian age. Rocky outcrops of Kanmantoo Group greywackes form...

Data, on numerous Permian samples from the Troubridge Basin, prepared for foraminifera and acid-resistant microfossils, are listed. By far the most important is a dark grey clay from Waterloo Bay, Yorke Peninsula, in which were found foraminifera...

An area located near Stansbury on southern Yorke Peninsula is being explored for possible buried sandstone-hosted sedimentary uranium deposits that may have been formed in the Tertiary and Permian strata, and also for possible unconformity-related...

Exploration of an area located in the upper South-East for possible economic coal or uranium mineralisation has consisted of office studies only, examining regional data to interpret whether favourable structural settings for coal deposition exist,...

A number of peripheral parts of the subject licence, in all comprising 54% of the originally granted area, have recently been relinquished by current holder Terramin, as part of the management conditions applying to the company's multi-licence...

Palynological analyses of samples from Meadows Bore 1 indicate the presence of Late Miocene to Early Pliocene sediments, correlated with the Monotocidites galeatus Zone. At the base of the Tertiary interval examined it appears that a wet rainforest...

Drillhole TER 1, funded by the TEISA program, was drilled to test basement depth and stratigraphy to the west of Minlaton, Yorke Peninsula. This drilling project followed TEISA aeromagnetic and geological surveys of the Peninsula in 1999, which had...

Hallett Cove is one of South Australia’s foremost natural science treasures. Exposed examples for prime geological concepts of superposition of strata, depositional unconformities (representing time breaks), and folding and faulting of sedimentary...

Hallett Cove is one of South Australia’s foremost natural science treasures. Exposed examples for prime geological concepts of superposition of strata, depositional unconformities (representing time breaks), and folding and faulting of sedimentary...

The MAITLAND Special 1:250,000 scale geological map covers the greater part of South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. The rocks in the map area comprise deformed Palaeoproterozoic and early Mesoproterozoic basement of the south-eastern Gawler Craton, and...