The northern end of the St. Vincent Basin in the Port Wakefield area consists of two well marked sub-basins of unequal area divided by a meridional fault passing along the east side of a median basement block. A deep trough occurs along the western...

Logging of sludge samples taken from 18 water bores drilled in an area of previously unknown stratigraphy located between Watson and Maralinga has established a sequence of about 1000 feet of Marinoan shales and sandstones resting on diorite. These...

A seismic cross-section along the Lock-Tuckey portion of the Polda Basin shows that bedrock is between 600 m and 900 m deep. Bedrock probably, consists of either Mt. Wedge type grits and con-glomerates or weathered crystalline basement. The basin...

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Visits in Victoria included the Herman Research Laboratory and Exploration Geology Group of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, and the Latrobe Valley Coalfields. The S.E.C.V. system of classifying brown coal on the basis of colour, texture,...

Report summarises drilling and geology. Regional drilling programme included rotary drilling near Lock coal deposit. Only P21 intersected coal.

The subject exploration licence was taken up for a 1-year term to enable ETSA and SADME to jointly conduct exploration for possible Triassic coal basins that might be concealed beneath alluvial cover in sparsely drilled areas to the north and...

Drilling within preferred mining area of the deposit was undertaken to obtain coal quality and tonneage data.18,100 mm diameter cored holes (554 metres) and 18 open holes (3138 metres) were drilled to delineate optimum mining area (6529 : 4 MW558 -...

At the Anna Coalfield, the November 1976 appraisal drilling by SADME of 2 rotary mud, partly cored vertical boreholes with a total penetration of 159.62 m (including 28.36 m of continuous ?NQ coring over the coal-bearing section) has confirmed the...

The Telford Basin is an asymmetrically shaped synclinal basin containing sediments of upper Triassic-Jurassic age, which cover a 25 square km area. Sub-bituminous coal occurs in three major series of seams which are informally termed the Leigh Creek...

State Government and exploration company data are compiled into a review of the geology and resource potential of the region. Attention is directed to the relative lack of basic lithological, petrophysical and biostratigraphic data, despite the...

Palynological analysis was undertaken on two coal samples and a shale sample from within and just above the Lower Series Coal Seams of the Telford Basin, Leigh Creek.- The lowermost coal was dominated by monolete spores and the upper coal by...

The Barabba Gravity Low in the Northern Adelaide Plains has been interpreted as a southerly dipping trough-like depression in Precambrian bedrock, infilled with Tertiary and covered by a blanket of Quaternary sediments. All margins of this feature are...

15 rotary coreholes have been drilled within EL 281 held by the Director-General, SA Department of Mines and Energy, to assess the potential of three areas, viz. the Pidinga Lakes, Lake Tallacootra and Chundie Swamps. All lignitic core recovered from...

Based on results of SADM seismic refraction surveys Mucka Culda no. 1, 17 km NE of Colton, was drilled on shotpoint 6W of the Mount Wedge seismic traverse, for coal potential of the Polda Basin. Lignite was found in the thick Tertiary section. Absence...

The author worked as wellsite geologist for a large exploration company during 1977. This report summarises the operational methods employed, and describes a system of encoding borehole data for computer processing. The report may serve as a basis for...

Attempts have been made previously to correlate coal seams and interpret depositional environments and tectonics relative to the four Triassic coal deposits at Leigh Creek (Parkin 1953; Taylor 1954; Johns 1970, 1975; Johns and Townsend 1975). This...

Two major palaeodrainage systems of Tertiary age, with watersheds of up to 35 000 square km and channel lengths of 200-250 km, have been recognised and delineated using LANDSAT imagery, during 1:250 000 scale geological mapping in western South...

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Programme of fully cored shallow holes. Aim was to investigate stratigraphy of the palaeochannels, relate this to the geology and evaluate economic potential of channel confined sediments, to test for lignite, sedimentary uranium, alluvial gold, heavy...