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RB 72/00237 Forensic Science and Motor Vehicles Department buildings, TA 300, 301, Hd Adelaide. Foundation investigations, design stage - Public Buildings Department.
Drilling to determine foundation conditions for the proposed Forensic Science and Motor Vehicles Buildings was requested by Mr. A. Dancauskis of the Public Buildings Department. The two buildings will be from 6 to 9 stories high, will have basements,...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1972
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RB 61/00108 Immanuel College, Camden Park, bore no. 1 stratigraphy and micropalaeontology.
Water bore No. 1 located at Immanuel College in Camden Park, 4½ miles south-west of Adelaide, was sunk to a total depth of 350 feet on a portion of the Para Fault Block bounded by two splinters of the Para Fault. Recent to Pleistocene clays overlie...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 74/00185 Adelaide subway study reconnaissance drilling North Adelaide. Report on geological investigations - Director General of Transport.
A programme of reconnaissance drilling has been completed in the North Adelaide and Torrens Valley areas to assist in the selection of a route for the proposed Adelaide Metropolitan Subway. The drilling was carried out to augment knowledge of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 75/00081 Reconnaissance survey, Foundry and Glass Sand Project. Report no. 2.
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 73/00238 Blanche Point Banded Marl - An alternative bearing horizon beneath the city of Adelaide.
The main horizon used in the past for City buildings with piled or piered foundations has been the Hallett Cove Sandstone. It is encountered at depths of 10 to 20 m below an area including most of the City Central Business District, but has been...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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RB 74/00082 Cowandilla Primary School completion report, bore no. 1, section 92 Hundred of Adelaide - Public Buildings Department.
Following a quotation from this Department to sink a 6 inch water supply bore to a depth of approximately 137 metres (m) at Cowandilla Primary School a letter was received from Public Buildings Department dated 14th February, 1973, requesting the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 76/00032 Hilton Bridge, Burbridge Road, secns Parklands, Hd Adelaide. Foundation investigations - South Australian Railways.
Three cable tool holes have been drilled to investigate the foundation conditions for a proposed new bridge over the railway line, on Burbridge Road, Hilton. Drilling disclosed a near horizontal sequence of Quaternary and Tertiary sediments which are...-
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Published: 11 Mar 1976
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RB 2007/00023 Surface geology of Adelaide City and eastern suburbs.
Newly compiled surface geological mapping data for the Adelaide City and inner eastern suburbs is presented as a draft map and explanatory notes. The distributions of Eocene to Holocene units of the St Vincent Basin have been reinterpreted from...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2007
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RB 2016/00008 Geological field excursion guide — Cenozoic Willunga Embayment: from Australo-Antarctic Gulf to Sprigg Orogeny.
INTRODUCTION TO THE GUIDE As superb exposures of fossiliferous strata, refreshed by coastal erosion and winter storms and backing popular beaches in what is now suburban Adelaide, the coastal cliff sections in the Willunga Embayment have attracted...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2016
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Northern Adelaide Plains groundwater review.
The availability of good quality groundwater from two Tertiary confined aquifers (T1 and T2) under the Northern Adelaide Plains (NAP) has encouraged the development of over 3000 hectares of horticulture in the area since the 1950s. At present,...-
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A new geological map of Hallett Cove.
Hallett Cove is one of South Australia’s foremost natural science treasures. Exposed examples for prime geological concepts of superposition of strata, depositional unconformities (representing time breaks), and folding and faulting of sedimentary...-
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ExpNotes MAITLAND: Explanatory Notes MAITLAND
The MAITLAND Special 1:250,000 scale geological map covers the greater part of South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. The rocks in the map area comprise deformed Palaeoproterozoic and early Mesoproterozoic basement of the south-eastern Gawler Craton, and...-
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