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RB 60/00039 New AMP building, Adelaide. Foundation stratigraphy.
A foundation test bore 200 feet deep, drilled at the site of a new Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP) building to be constructed on the south-western corner of North Terrace and King William Street, has intersected a Cainozoic sedimentary...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1965
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RB 60/00103 Phosphate reconnaissance sampling, Willunga and Noarlunga sub-basins.
Reconnaissance sampling of coastal and inland exposures of the Tertiary succession in the Willunga and Noarlunga sub-basins of the Saint Vincent Basin indicates that the P205 content of the sediments is below the average of normal marine carbonates. A...-
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Published: 25 May 1965
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RB 78/00057 Adelaide city stratigraphic drilling 1976, hydrogeological completion report.
Two exploration wells have been drilled through the Cainozoic sequence to Precambrian bedrock to provide stratigraphic and hydrogeological data. At the South Parklands site two aquifers were tested. The upper one yielded a large supply of marginally...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 94/00009 Soils, stratigraphy and engineering geology of near surface materials of the Adelaide Plains.
Metropolitan Adelaide is founded on a wide variety of soils that overlie sediments and rocks. Some of the soils and sediments react to seasonal and human-induced changes in water content with marked changes in volume. The black earths and...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1996
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RB 97/00045 Briefing on Adelaide South Parklands aquifer storage and recovery potential.
MESA has been approached by civil engineering firm B.C. Tonkin and Associates to help with assessing the possibility of developing an aquifer storage and recovery scheme in the Adelaide South Parklands. Their client the Adelaide City Council is...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1997
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RB 00693 Beach Petroleum NL's Troubridge Shoal 1 stratigraphic well. Subsurface stratigraphy.
Beach Petroleum Troubridge Shoal No. 1 Stratigraphic Well, drilled to a depth of 1600 feet intersected Recent, Subrecent and Tertiary sediments to 850 feet below which 750 feet of Lower Permian glacial marine rocks were intersected. The Tertiary...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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RB 74/00082 Cowandilla Primary School completion report, bore no. 1, section 92 Hundred of Adelaide - Public Buildings Department.
Following a quotation from this Department to sink a 6 inch water supply bore to a depth of approximately 137 metres (m) at Cowandilla Primary School a letter was received from Public Buildings Department dated 14th February, 1973, requesting the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 2007/00023 Surface geology of Adelaide City and eastern suburbs.
Newly compiled surface geological mapping data for the Adelaide City and inner eastern suburbs is presented as a draft map and explanatory notes. The distributions of Eocene to Holocene units of the St Vincent Basin have been reinterpreted from...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2007
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RB 2016/00008 Geological field excursion guide — Cenozoic Willunga Embayment: from Australo-Antarctic Gulf to Sprigg Orogeny.
INTRODUCTION TO THE GUIDE As superb exposures of fossiliferous strata, refreshed by coastal erosion and winter storms and backing popular beaches in what is now suburban Adelaide, the coastal cliff sections in the Willunga Embayment have attracted...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2016
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Northern Adelaide Plains groundwater review.
The availability of good quality groundwater from two Tertiary confined aquifers (T1 and T2) under the Northern Adelaide Plains (NAP) has encouraged the development of over 3000 hectares of horticulture in the area since the 1950s. At present,...-
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