In exposures near Hartley and Monarto, and in the Paragum-1 borehole south of Monarto, it is shown that Oligocene marine transgression over an irregular topography of early Palaeozoic metasediment and granite first deposited a basal, marginal- marine,...

Three groundwater observation wells have been drilled at locations north-west of Murray Bridge to determine the effect of increased stream flows down the Rocky Gully and Preamimma Creeks. Rocky Gully Creek will be capable of accepting about 10 000 m...

Cable tool and rotary drilling of 8 holes has enabled the geological sequence and general hydrology to be determined in the area to appraise its potential as a disposal site for stormwater runoff from urbanised Monarto.

Shelly fragments amongst poorly sorted, dark grey subrounded quartz sands below Murray Group limestones were examined. It was believed that these might equate to marginal marine or paralic facies of Late Eocene Buccleuch Group. The earliest Tertiary...

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...

Foraminiferal investigation of 3 SADME groundwater observation bores in relation to 2 already studied, resulted in the recognition of lithologically uncharacteristic marine Tertiary units on the margin of the Angas / Bremer Irrigation Area. A...

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...

To investigate the effect of groundwater on River Murray salinity, 10 observation wells were completed in the Renmark Group confined aquifer and 1 in shallow basement near Swan Reach. Depths vary from 31 to 174 metres. Potentiometric surface varies...

Most of the samples contained Subbotina angiporoides' and 'Guembelitria triseriata which confirm an Early Oligocene age. However at 7 and 8 metres, G. triseriata' was found in the absence of 'S. angiporoides'. While the absence of a species is not...

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...

SADME Coonalpyn Downs 1 intersected the full sequence of Buccleuch Group lithologies and penetrated the top of the Renmark Group. Drilling ceased at 105.1 metres, due to unconsolidated sands caving in on the drill string, and pre-Tertiary basement was...

More than 400 samples (cuttings and core) from 26 petroleum wells in the South Australian part of the Gambier Basin were examined. Their lithology and foraminiferal fauna were recorded and their age and environment of deposition deduced where...

No new work - data collection and review only. The subject areas flanking known outcropping uraniferous basement rocks of the Padthaway Ridge were taken up to explore for possible economic sandstone-type uranium deposits that may have formed in...

Exploration for possible Cambrian stratabound base metal sulphide deposits over an area in the vicinity of Meningie has targeted a number of N-S strike-elongated intense aeromagnetic and gravity anomalies presumed to originate in Kanmantoo Group...

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Thirteen contiguous exploration licences located along the western margin of the Tertiary Murray Basin were taken up by CRA to search for economic buried brown coal / lignite deposits of the type already known from small discoveries that had been made...

TARGET: Possible Tertiary brown coal deposits near Sedan, in the western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Evaluation of data as obtained earlier by SADM/SADME drilling and more recently by subject licensees Thiess/CSR from rotary mud vertical open hole and...

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The Murray Basin is a shallow, saucer-shaped Tertiary basin covering an area of 120 700 square miles extending from the western foot of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales and Victoria to the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia. Geophysical work...

Three observation bores were drilled within 1.5km of each other approximately 4km south-west from Waikerie. Depth ranged from 235 to 329m, substantially deeper than all othe bores in the area, and all Tertiary epochs are represented. The stratigraphic...