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Bundulla. Progress reports for the period 24/5/79 to 19/10/82.
Airborne and ground magnetic surveys were conducted in the Bundulla area of the Nullarbor Plain (SA), prior to drilling a prominent circular aeromagnetic feature. 2 percussion/rotary mud holes, each drilled to TD 369.5 m, penetrated crystalline...-
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Bunabie Rockhole, Hughes and Nullarbor Plain. Progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/10/1980 to 19/10/1982.
Roxby Downs - type base metal deposits, potentially associated with linear and discrete magnetic anomalies of unknown origin in the basement, were the prime targets of exploration in an area extending between Koonalda and Hughes, adjacent to the SA/WA...-
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Lake Tallacootra. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/9/1972 to 20/9/1974.
In a search for possible Proterozoic - Cainozoic unconformity - related, concealed sedimentary uranium deposits in an area of the Eucla Basin located 60 km north of Fowlers Bay, 42 rotary mud drillholes totalling 1432.4 m were put down on 5 traverses...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1974
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Ifould Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/9/1972 to 20/9/1974.
Continuing exploration for possible buried economic Tertiary sediment-hosted uranium deposits in the vicinity of Ifould Lake consisted of ground truthing of aerial radiometric anomalies by scintillometer surveys and chemical analysis of auger...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1974
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Koonalda. Progress reports for the period 7/8/79 to 18/7/82.
Following an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, two rotary percussion holes totalling 819 m were drilled on negative magnetic anomalies to reach pre-Mesozoic basement (gabbro and meta-sandstone) in the Koonalda area of the Nullarbor Plain. No...-
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RB 37/00143 Report on the geological reconnaissance survey of the southern portion of the Eucla Basin and of part of the Warburton Ranges.
The Eucla Basin (or Nullarbor Plains Basin) is the name that has been given to that sedimentary basin which corresponds to much the same area as the geographical region, the Nullarbor Plains of Australia. Since one of the major rock-types of the basin...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 38/00036 Reconnaissance survey of the Eucla Basin. Stratigraphy and palaeontology.
Material collected during a reconnaissance survey of the coastal portion of the Eucla Basin by Frome Broken Hill Company Limited belonged to 6 distinct formations: surface kunkar; Pleistocene to Recent acolianites; Pleistocene marine sandy limestones;...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 56/00062 Melton Pastoral Company bores. Stratigraphic correlation.
Eight bores drilled in the Eucla Basin for the Melton Pastoral Company have been examined. The most easterly bore, number 34, intersected the most complete marine sequence encountered in the area, passing through Miocene (Nullarbor Limestone) and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 60/00030 Report on reconnaissance seismic refraction survey in the South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin, 1964.
A reconnaissance seismic refraction survey was carried out in the South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin, to determine the general shape of the basin and to assess the feasibility of using seismic methods in the area. Some of the refractors...-
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Published: 18 Feb 1965
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RB 49/00124 Palaeontological examination of material from north of the Eucla Basin.
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 48/00119 Material from the western portion of the Eucla Basin.
Samples collected by J. O. Galloway, consultant for Oil Drilling and Exploration consist of Pleistocene fossiliferous sandy limestone and weathered mollusca from the Eyre Plain, Wilson Bluff Limestone from Wilson Bluff and Nullarbor Limestone from the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 87/00094 Ooldea 3. Well completion report and tectonic modelling.
Ooldea 3 diamond drillhole is located on the western margin of the Gawler Craton where thin Tertiary (ca. 16 metres) and Palaeozoic (ca. 75 metres) sediments, of the Eucla and Officer Basins respectively, overlie Archaean to Early Proterozoic basement...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1987
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RB 79/00083 Ooldea no. 1 and Reid nos 1 and 1A. Well completion reports.
Three stratigraphic wells (Ooldea no. 1, Reid no. 1, and Reid no. 1A) were drilled by the South Australian Department of Mines during 1976 in an area that includes margins of the Officer, Arckaringa and Eucla basins. Principal objectives were to test...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 88/00043 Discovery of Lepidocyclina (Foraminiferida) in the Eucla Basin.
The large, extinct, benthonic foraminifera Lepidocyclina, which has "tropical" affinities, has been found at two localities in the Nullarbor Limestone that outcrops on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin. The species is apparently the usual,...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1988
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RB 91/00098 Geological observations of Old Homestead Cave, Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia.
Observations of karst events at Old Homestead Cave on the Nullarbor Plain add further evidence for a regional, post-emergence Nullarbor karst history or succession of events. Litho-stratigraphy and facies have exerted a control on dissolution and...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1991
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RB 99/00027 Report on a water search program over the Yalata-Ooldea Road.
A Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) survey was used to prospect for groundwater at three locations on the road between Yalata and Ooldea, on the thesis that water would be available in either deeper overburden or fractured basement. Overburden targets...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1999
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RB 99/00026 TEM survey on the Nullarbor Plain near Hughes, South Australia.
A TEM survey that was carried out across the area between an extensive linear topographic depression in the western Nullarbor Plain and the Trans Australian Railway line corridor has identified the expected 50 metre thick resistive layer (Nullarbor...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1999
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RB 90/00029 Seismic study of the offshore Denman and Eucla Basins.
Four horizons were mapped (top of basement, top of Permian, top of Cretaceous and Sea Floor). The Denman Basin is a 50 km wide, north-south trending depression in Early Palaeozoic - Precambrian bedrock, infilled with up to 400 metres of Permian...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1991
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RB 89/00010 Groundwater supply, Yalata Community.
A replacement well for Tallowan 1 was drilled 100 metres east of Tallowan 2 to a depth of 72 metres. Production tests showed that the well was capable of producing 3.5 L/s with 6.4 metres of drawdown. Groundwater with a salinity of about 10 000 mg/L...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1989
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RB 89/00039 SADME Nundroo 1, 2 and 3 well completion report.
The Nundroo basement drilling project was proposed in February 1987 by SADME's Regional Geology Branch as the first phase of investigation of the little known rocks of the south-western Gawler Craton. Previous drilling in this area had been restricted...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1989
