Frequent ‘shows’ of hydrocarbons in Cambrian strata in South and Central Australia have considerably strengthened the belief in the petroleum potential of these Cambrian sediments. In South Australia, prospects for Cambrian hydrocarbon accumulations...

Recent drilling by the South Australian Department of Mines south of the Mount Toondina piercement structure, encountered a Devonian dolomite – anhydrite sequence below 2,925 feet. The Upper Devonian is overlain, probably with slight unconformity, by...

History Deposits of micaceous hematite ore near Williamstown, SA were formerly exploited for iron flux, and, more recently for cement and paint filler material. However, the mine had to be closed due to flooding of the site under the present South...

Basal sediments of the western Great Artesian Basin record the change from a continental to marine depositional environment during the early Cretaceous. The sequence consists of the Algebuckina Sandstone, the Cadna-Owie Formation and the Mount Anna...

Low grade, nickel bearing, weathered ultrabasic rocks that form a part of the Giles Complex in the North-West Province of South Australia were first discovered by a SA Mines Department field party in 1953. Since their discovery the weathered rocks,...

Despite the palaeoecological emphasis of most recent stromatolite research outside the USSR, controversy still exists regarding the environmental restriction of these organosedimentary structures and in some cases, analogies with modern occurrences...

The Arckaringa Basin, situated, in northern South Australia, is an intracratonic Permian basin, composed of deep marginal grabens or half grabens and a central area of shallow basement, the latter covered by only a thin sediment blanket. The...

Tectonic nomenclature is discussed and structural features are grouped by trend directions into 4 categories :(1) Northwest : Archaean fold belts of Yilgarn Block.(2) Northeast : Carpentarian and Adelaidean Fraser - Musgrave fold belt and...

The report aimed to place the Cainozoic and Quaternary stratigraphic units of various workers into a stratigraphic framework. Correlations based on lithology and biostratigraphy were made between northern and southern parts of the state and within the...

The SA Department of Mines drilled seven stratigraphic wells between 1969 and 1971 in the Arckaringa Basin. This study presents the stratigraphic information obtained and attempts to collate all available information in a synthesis of the Arckaringa...

The Pedirka is a Permian infrabasin beneath the western Great Artesian Basin. It lies mainly in the central north of South Australia and the southeast of the Northern Territory but a small part may also extend into Queensland. Much of the eastern...

Stratigraphic sections were measured in the Brighton Limestone and part of the upper transitional beds of the Tapley Hill Formation in quarries and natural outcrops at Brighton, Hallett Cove, Reynella, Noarlunga, Myponga, Orroroo and Tarcowie. Flat...

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During deposition of the Adelaide System (Late Precambrian) and Lower Cambrian Series, which together exceed 50 000 feet in thickness, an incompetent dolomite-siltstone sequence (Callanna Beds) formed the cores of piercement structures which were...

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The Gulf St. Vincent region of South Australia extends from Yorke Peninsula and part of Investigator Strait to the Mount Lofty - Kangaroo Island fold belt. This area includes the sediments of the Cainozoic St. Vincent Basin, the Permian Troubridge...

Pollen from deep-sea drillsites on the Ninetyeast Ridge reflects island floras that flourished. in the Paleocone and Oligocene, and showed pronounced similarity to Australian and New Zealand Early Tertiary floras. Although closer to southern...

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