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RB 49/00102 Stratigraphy of the Murray Basin in South Australia.
The Murray Basin is an area of Mesozoic and Tertiary sedimentation divided into two main units the Murray Basin proper separated by structural highs, the Padthaway “Horst”, from the Gambier Sunklands. Knowledge of the Mesozoic in the Murray Basin...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1959
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RB 82/00098 Murray Basin hydrogeological investigations progress report no. 4 - Upper Murray and northern region.
The drilling of a further 16 rotary holes, as part of continuing investigations by the E&WS Department into the effect of groundwater on River Murray salinity, has indicated that the northern and north-western limits of the Tertiary limestone...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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RB 96/00015 Regional groundwater impacts of irrigation development in the eastern Riverland.
A regional groundwater model has been constructed of the Loxton Sands watertable aquifer in the eastern Riverland, over an area extending eastwards from Overland Corner to the State border. It is being used to quantify the salt load impacts on the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1995
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RB 92/00013 Murray Basin Hydrological Investigation drilling programme - Coastal Plain. Progress report no. 9.
Nine rotary mud groundwater investigation holes were drilled by SADME on the Murraylands Coastal Plain between July and November 1989, to total depths of between 82 m and 204 m. Composite logs of these holes are presented herein, together with those...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1991
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RB 92/00015 Regional hydrogeology of the Loxton-Noora area, Murray Basin, South Australia.
The Loxton-Noora area is underlain by 3 aquifer systems - the Pliocene Sands water table aquifer, the confined Murray Group limestone and the deepest, the confined Renmark Group aquifer. Both confined aquifers contain groundwater of 20-25 000 mg/L...-
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Published: 01 May 1992
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RB 97/00023 Hydrogeology of the Moorook New Residence irrigation district.
Following a request from the SA Department of Environment and Natural Resources at Berri in the Riverland, a hydrogeological assessment of the Moorook and New Residence irrigation areas was carried out. The water table aquifer occurs in fine to...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1997
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RB 91/00009 Border Groundwater Agreement five-year groundwater resource assessment review, 1986-1990. Report.
South Australian investigations have concentrated on defining the nature of the Tertiary limestone aquifer and determining aquifer recharge rates in Zones 3A-7A, to enable a reassessment of groundwater resources for Zones 2A-8A. An examination of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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RB 95/00037 Stonefield bedrock drilling, 1995.
Twenty-three vertical open RC drillholes with a total penetration of 2663 m were drilled by MESA during February and March 1995 along four W-E traverses in the Stonefield area near Truro, to determine bedrock geology and geochemistry below sedimentary...-
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Published: 01 May 1997
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RB 88/00088 Woolpunda Groundwater Interception Scheme Phase 4. Drilling and well discharge testing program.
15 new wells were drilled. Aquifer testing at 3 additional sites along the proposed 25 km Woolpunda Scheme reach confirms Murray Group aquifer transmissivity and specific yield of the order of 100-200 m3/d, and 0.02-0.03 respectively.-
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Published: 01 Nov 1988
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RB 89/00049 Aspects of stratigraphy and structure in relation to the Woolpunda Groundwater Interception Scheme, Murray Basin, South Australia.
Micropalaeontological and biostratigraphic studies have been used. Groundwater flow systems were investigated near the Woolpunda Groundwater Interception Scheme (WGIS) - a major area of saline groundwater discharge to the Murray River. Structure was...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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RB 96/00017 River Murray water resource management. Assessment of salt load impacts and drainage hazard for new irrigation development along the River Murray in South Australia.
The Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) has a commitment in the national interest to managing the health of the River Murray and floodplain environment by mitigating both decreases in river water quality and associated environmental degradation...-
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Published: 01 May 1996
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnerships DPY9-43 - Brownlow and DPY9-47 - Bower. Drilling projects' joint interim and final reports.
Copper and gold mineralisation associated with felsic, intermediate and mafic igneous intrusive rocks which have intruded Adelaidean and Cambrian metasediments in the Nackara Arc region has been the target of exploratory drilling conducted with the...-
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Morgan. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1977 to 1/9/1978.
During Dampier's exploration conducted near Morgan township in the western Murray Basin, the main target was possible economic coal measures in Cretaceous or Tertiary sediments, with the base metal potential of pre-Mesozoic basement rocks constituting...-
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Quondong. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/2/1979 to 15/2/1980. s and final reports to licence expiry for the period 16/2/1979 to 15/2/1980.
An open hole rotary mud drilling programme of 42 holes for 4939 m was used to evaluate the licence area for economic Tertiary fluvial sandstone - type uranium mineralisation, after previous and current explorers had identified buried uraniferous...-
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Bull 036 Stratigraphy of the Murray Basin in South Australia
This publication details the stratigraphy of the Murray Basin Province of South Australia. The work leading up to this report has played a major part in the understanding of the sedimentary succession of this important basin-area of the State. The...-
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RB 2003/00013 North-western Murray Basin geological synthesis, South Australia.
The Murray Basin is an intracratonic basin filled with Cainozoic fluvial to shallow marine sediments. Deposition in the Eocene and early Oligocene was characterised by floodplain and swamp deposits, emplaced with occasional interbeds of shelly clays...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2003
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RB 2003/00009 Northern Murray Basin drilling and interpretations, 2001.
Stratigraphic drilling has been undertaken by PIRSA in the South Australian portion of the northern Murray Basin to investigate the stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Cainozoic sedimentary sequences, as well as the heavy mineral sand potential of...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2003
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RB 2000/00004 Mallee region groundwater modelling - Report no. 1.
A five-layer finite difference groundwater flow model (MODFLOW) was developed for the Mallee Region to determine the impacts of irrigation on water levels and salinities. The model was calibrated for steady-state conditions over the entire modelled...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2000
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RB 2000/00037 Qualco Sunlands groundwater control scheme - Stage 2: QS9 drilling and well testing completion report.
The contract drilling of three production wells, three combined interflow/production wells, three interflow wells, one observation well and seven drainage wells was carried out by Thompson Drilling Company as part of Stage 2 of the Qualco Sunlands...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2000
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Marne River Catchment - Groundwater assessment.
The Marne River is a main tributary catchment for the River Murray, which generates ephemeral flows in wet years. Concerns have been expressed at the construction of large dams in the headwaters of the catchment, about their impacts on streamflow,...-
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