-
RB 86/00024 Sediment organism zonation and the evolution of Holocene tidal sequences in southern Australia.
Regressive intertidal sequences, with well developed zonation of flora and fauna, occur extensively around the margins of the 2 major SA gulfs and within small embayments along the exposed coastline of Eyre Peninsula. This paper summarises and...-
Document
Published: 01 Apr 1986
-
RB 88/00093 Fowlers Bay rotary drilling report and revision of the Quaternary geology around Fowlers Bay.
Shallow drilling (<30 metres) at 14 sites intersected a regressive coastal sequence of Quaternary bioclastic sediments deposited in coastal aeolian, littoral, lagoonal and evaporative-lagoonal environments. Major calcrete carapaces assist the...-
Document
Published: 01 Dec 1988
-
RB 96/00010 Musgrave Proclaimed Wells Area groundwater assessment.
The County Musgrave Proclaimed Wells Area on Eyre Peninsula, situated mainly near Elliston and extending eastwards towards Lock, contains a number of small groundwater lenses of potable quality which are surrounded by brackish to saline groundwater....-
Document
Published: 01 Jan 1994
-
RB 92/00021 Petrological data on the evolution of the Great Australian Bight.
Sedimentation in the Great Australian Bight (GAB) has occurred in a variety of settings from the initial intra-cratonic rift to the modern carbonate shelf. An extensive palaeodrainage system, remnants of which are still preserved, supplied clastic...-
Document
Published: 01 Apr 1992
-
RB 95/00022 Five year technical review, 1991-1995 - Border (Groundwater Agreement) Act, 1985.
The Groundwater (Border Agreement) Act of 1985 legislated to provide a framework for the joint management of groundwater resources within a 40 km wide strip along the length of the South Australian and Victorian Border, which is referred to as the...-
Document
Published: 01 Jun 1995
-
RB 96/00044 Padthaway Proclaimed Wells Area groundwater status report.
The Padthaway Formation and Bridgewater Formation aquifers provide a high quality groundwater resource in the Padthaway Proclaimed Wells Area (PWA). The resource supports an irrigated agriculture and horticulture industry. Irrigation is concentrated...-
Document
Published: 01 Apr 1997
-
PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY8-30 - Eucla Basin Eocene and Pleistocene low-stand beach ridge marine heavy mineral placer prospects. Drilling project final report.
The Nundroo Range and Bookabie Range are prominent south-west facing, yet effectively previously undrilled, preserved palaeogeomorphic beach ridge /coastal dune features which are located ~200 km west of Ceduna and ~100 km south of the...-
Document
-
Wirrulla, Cungena, Mortana, Kolballa and Calca. Joint progress reports and joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 18/8/1989 to 17/12/1991.
TARGET: Possible heavy mineral sands emplaced within Tertiary sediments in the Wirulla, Poochera, Inkster and Streaky Bay areas. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance 10-15 km spaced and infill 100 m spaced reverse circulation drilling to pre-Tertiary basement...-
Document
-
RB 2022/00001 Resource potential review for lime sand on Kangaroo Island.
This document aims to establish an appropriate geological framework and resource potential baseline for DEM's knowledge about lime sand on Kangaroo Island (KI), by showing and discussing what new lime sand resource areas are available, based on the...-
Document
Published: 01 Feb 2022
-
HandBk 009 - Quaternary Molluscs of South Australia. Ludbrook N.H. 1984 (reprinted version)
This work aims to thoroughly assist the student and collector in identifying the Quaternary molluscs preserved in SA rocks. Many of the molluscan fossils occurring in Late Pleistocene deposits are representatives of still living species, although...-
Document
-
RB 68/00025 Reconnaissance geological survey of the STREAKY BAY and NUYTS 1:250 000 areas.
The Streaky Bay and Nuyts 1:250 000 map areas are located on the western side of Eyre Peninsula. Precambrian greenschist and amphibolite facies metamorphics of the Gawler Platform are intruded by Lower Proterozoic or Carpentarian granites, gneisses...-
Document
Published: 25 Feb 1969
-
RB 68/00093 Water resources of the South-East of SA. Progress report no. 1. Regional geo-hydrology, Counties Cardwell, Buckingham, Grey, MacDonnell and Robe.
The purpose of this report is to assess the potential groundwater resources of the area using existing data in the Mines Department records. A previous assessment (HICKS), using a different approach, produced a quantity for groundwater safe yield...-
Document
Published: 01 Jan 1969
-
RB 65/00020 Stratigraphy of Late Cainozoic deposits in South Australia.
This paper sets out the stratigraphy of late Cainozoic deposits in the southern part of South Australia. The study includes the Murray, St Vincent and Spencer Gulf, West Coast and Eucla Basins and the adjoining uplands. Work has been concentrated on...-
Document
Published: 01 Jan 1967
-
RB 71/00125 Geology of the NARACOORTE 1:250 000 sheet area.
The most significant feature of the area, covered by the Naracoorte 1:250 000 sheet is the Padthaway Ridge which underlies all but the southernmost part of the area, where Mesozoic sediments, of the Otway Basin lap onto the ridge (Padthaway...-
Document
Published: 06 Aug 1971
-
RB 73/00070 Fossiliferous marine and non-marine Cainozoic rocks from the eastern Eucla Basin, South Australia.
Outcrop and subsurface samples taken from various sources, that represent all the Cainozoic marine formations of the eastern Eucla Basin, have been studied. The current stratigraphic knowledge of these formations in SA is summarised. A marine...-
Document
Published: 14 Mar 1973
-
RB 73/00080 Report on the Geological Society of Australia specialist group in sedimentology, Robe Field Conference, 1973.
The 1973 Robe Field Conference of the Specialist Group in Sedimentology comprised informal lectures on carbonate deposition and the role of algae in carbonate precipitation in volcanic lakes of western Victoria, supratidal dolomites of Queensland,...-
Document
Published: 19 Mar 1973
-
RB 73/00125 Photogeological interpretation of the islands of the western Continental Shelf, SA.
Photogeological interpretation of the islands of the continental shelf of the western coastline of South Australia indicates that all islands are crystalline basement. The larger islands have a thin cover of calcareous aeolianite and more recent...-
Document
Published: 01 Jan 1973
-
RB 72/00190 Two Cainozoic fossiliferous sands from Waterloo Bay, Yorke Peninsula, SA, Hd Melville, Co. Fergusson.
One sand has benthonic foraminifera of Upper Eocene age, and is referred to Rogue Formation, correlating also with basal Port Willunga Beds. The other sand is from a Pleistocene "aeolianite" sequence, Bridgewater formation. Its microfauna, mostly...-
Document
Published: 02 Oct 1972
-
RB 73/00226 Preliminary report. Geology of islands of the western Continental Shelf of South Australia.
There is no abstract created for this record-
Document
Published: 01 Jan 1973
-
RB 2005/00004 Palynological evidence for late Eocene and late Miocene early Pliocene sediments of Flinders Island, South Australia
Palynological analysis and dating of 45 sediment core samples, obtained from several rotary drillholes that have recently been drilled to explore for buried diamonds and kimberlite indicator minerals on Flinders Island, South Australia, has indicated...-
Document
Published: 01 May 2005
