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Lake Frome East. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/9/1971 to 29/9/1972.
TARGET: Uranium in Tertiary sediments in the vicinity of Lakeside Bore. EXPLORATION: 2 vertical rotary mud holes for a total of 1044 feet were drilled and geophysically logged during September 1972. RESULTS: The radiometric logs did not show...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1972
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Lake Pundalpa. Progress reports for the period 7/9/1972 to 6/12/1973.
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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Millers Creek Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/1980 to 28/3/1986.
Following a review of existing regional geophysical and geological data for the north-western Stuart Shelf, grid-based gravity and ground magnetic surveys were run to further outline two broad gravity highs associated with discrete magnetic anomalies,...-
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RB 54/00104 Exploratory drilling Lake Eyre subsurface stratigraphy. (Includes palynological report by B.E. Balme in appendix).
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 54/00153 Investigations of Lake Eyre. Part 1 - The sediments of the Lake Eyre Basin, evaporites and brines, their constitution and age.
Four boreholes completed in Lake Eyre North and one in Lake Eyre South have provided further information on lake sediments and the stratigraphy of the Lake Eyre Basin. Modern lake sediments constitute a thickness of less than 15 feet in the deflated...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 60/00040 Geology of the MARREE 1:250 000 map area.
The MARREE mapsheet area lies in arid country about 400 miles north of Adelaide, South Australia. It includes the town of Marree, on the Alice Springs railway line, and part of the Birdsville and Strzelecki tracks. The area is covered mainly by flat...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1965
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RB 84/00058 Progress report: CURDIMURKA 1:250 000 geological map - Cainozoic geology.
Two sandstone sequences, one un-named and one equivalent to the Watchie Sandstone, have been recognized on CURDIMURKA. These sandstone sequences occur beneath the Etadunna Formation. Both are believed to be equivalent to the Eyre Formation. The...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1984
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RB 85/00008 Stratigraphic drilling of Cainozoic sediments near Lake Eyre, BMR 1983, well completion report.
10 fully cored shallow holes (total 543.2 m) were rotary mud drilled at four localities by the Australian Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources (BMR) to elucidate the cover stratigraphy, particularly the upper age limit of the Etadunna Formation,...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1985
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RB 87/00093 Age and habitat of a monospecific foraminiferal fauna from near-type Etadunna Formation, Lake Palankarinna, Lake Eyre Basin.
The foraminifer, unlike any previously recorded from Etadunna Formation, is identified as Buliminoides sp. cf.B. chattonensis' (Finlay), and is compared with 3 widely separated Late Oligocene forms (New Zealand, Northern Adelaide Plains, Rhine...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1987
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RB 83/00104 Data base for the Cainozoic of the Lake Eyre Basin, and proposed drilling project with Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics.
Includes surface and subsurface stratigraphic data, and a geological map at 1:500 000 scale. 18 bores were re-logged.-
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Published: 01 Dec 1983
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RB 76/00119 Silcrete sediments and stratigraphy.
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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RB 77/00037;RB 00802 Palynology of selected samples from the Poontana Structure, Frome Embayment.
18 drill cuttings samples taken from 4 mineral exploration holes were examined for making palynological age determinations. 11 samples were variously identified as being sediments of Middle Miocene freshwater or Early Cretaceous marine facies.-
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Published: 23 Mar 1977
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RB 79/00104 Regressive Tertiary Miocene lake system and silicified strandlines, Billa Kalina area, South Australia.
A system of parallel arcuate ridges dominates the topography of the Billa Kalina area; facies relationships indicate that they are silicified strandlines of a Miocene lake which have been etched out by later erosion. Clays and dolomites of the Miocene...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1979
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RB 81/00005 Stratigraphy of the TARCOOLA 1:250 000 map sheet area.
Brief summary progress report.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 79/00114 Palaeodrainage systems in western South Australia. Their detection by Landsat imagery, stratigraphic significance and economic potential.
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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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 81/00032 Stratigraphy and depositional environment of some silcretes in South Australia.
The widespread extent of silcretes in SA is demonstrated through stratigraphic relationships with palynologically dated sequences, and erosion of silcretes. The late Tertiary silcrete dominates the duricrusted landscape. Silica type varies according...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1981
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RB 80/00011 Non-marine molluscs from Miocene dolomitic limestones in the north of South Australia.
Land snails - Bothriembryon praecursor andMeracomelon lloydi' from the type section of Etadunna Formation at Lake Palankarinna and freshwater species of Syrioplanorbis,Physastra' and `Rivisessor' from dolomitic limestones near Billa Kalina and...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1980
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RB 90/00015 Correlation and depositional environment of Tertiary strata based on macrofloras in the southern Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia.
Plant macrofossils from silicified Cainozoic fluvial sediments on CURDIMURKA occur in 2 discrete suites. One suite has been found only in outcrops of silicified Eyre Formation in the Poole Creek Palaeochannel. This suite and the macroflora of the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1990
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RB 90/00022 Calcareous channel sand from the Etadunna Formation near Wangianna.
Specimens illustrate deposition by intermittent drainage in a possibly migratory channel. Well-sorted quartz grains from a mature sediment were deposited with a carbonate mud as matrix in the channel and silty mud precipitated in backwaters....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1990
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Starvation Lake. Progress reports and final report on regional exploration programme at licence surrender, for the period 13/1/1972 to 31/7/1972.
In a search for possible economic roll-front, blanket style uranium deposits within Tertiary sediments in part of the eastern Frome Embayment, the licensee undertook 1:75,000 scale geological mapping and exploratory auger drilling of the Quaternary...-
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