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Mulyungarie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 13/5/1972 to 12/5/1973.
Ongoing exploration for possible economic sandstone-type uranium deposits formed in Tertiary palaeochannels in the Yarramba area, 50 km north-west of Cockburn, has included further open hole rotary drilling and downhole geophysical logging (176 holes...-
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Uranium in Tertiary stream channels, Lake Frome area, South Australia.
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RB 41/00077 Quaternary stratigraphic record at Lake Eyre North and the evolution of existing topographic forms.
Fossiliferous Quaternary lacustrine deposits of the Lake Eyre Basin are exposed in escarpments along the margins of Lake Eyre, North and were intersected in shallow boreholes in the area. These are described in detail and their distribution shown on...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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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 83/00076 Palynology of selected Cainozoic samples from Tarcoola 1:100 000 map sheet.
An Eocene age is determined for one sample from Tarcoola TPS-13R bore, a Pliocene age for a sample from Tarcoola TPS-15 bore, and a Plio-Pleistocene age for a sample from Tarcoola TPS-17 bore. A sample examined from Tarcoola TPS-14 bore contained no...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1983
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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 86/00025 Report on mapping of the northern sector of the Wangianna 1:100 000 map sheet area.
The lowermost outcropping unit is the Bulldog Shale, overlain by the Coorikiana Sandstone, which includes a number of facies, ranging from quiet water marine to shoreline and possibly fluvial. Above is the Oodnadatta Formation. Tertiary units include...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1986
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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 83/00019 1:250 000 Geological Series - Explanatory Notes. DALHOUSIE, South Australia.
The geomorphology of DALHOUSIE broadly consists of stony uplands which include mound springs in the west, and dunefield lowlands in the east on the edge of the Simpson Desert. Strongly folded ?Adelaidean sediments are overlain by a more gently folded...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1984
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RB 81/00087 Review of the geology and hydrocarbon exploration history of the Duntroon Basin gazetted area, offshore South Australia.
The Duntroon Basin is an ESE-trending Mesozoic to Tertiary sedimentary embayment in the continental shelf, located SE of the Great Australian Bight Basin and west of Kangaroo Island. The report includes a discussion of the stratigraphy based on...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1981
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RB 83/00051 Palynology of selected samples from Lake Eyre Bore 8A and Jackboot Bore.
A Palaeocene age is determined for 2 samples from Lake Eyre bore 8a, and a Late Cretaceous age for 1 sample from Jackboot bore. Both of these holes are located in the Lake Eyre South region.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 83/00092 Quaternary glacial cycles recorded in the Lake Millyera region, southern Strzelecki Desert.
Following the drying of the very extensive Tertiary lakes, there were 3 complex Pleistocene climatic cycles, or portions thereof, reflecting changes in the world climate related to glacial / interglacial episodes. Describes and interprets 4...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1983
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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 84/00052 Reconnaissance sampling of palygorskitic clay, Garford Palaeochannel - Coober Pedy.
Hand auger and channel sampling was carried out at 23 localities on the margins of playa lakes within the palaeochannel. Large areas of Garford Formation clay, possibly suitable as industrial absorbents, are likely in the centre of the palaeochannel....-
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Published: 01 Jul 1984
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RB 84/00042 Progress report on mapping of the Mesozoic and Quaternary of the Curdimurka region.
Results of mapping, particularly basal Mesozoic sandstone unit, description of sections and borehole study of cuttings from 14 holes.-
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Published: 01 Jun 1984
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RB 76/00119 Silcrete sediments and stratigraphy.
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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RB 81/00001 Progress report on the geology of the Curdimurka region.
Geology is summarised based on literature and recent geological mapping. The Adelaidean outcrops in the Willouran Ranges where it is folded, fractured and cut by partly diapiric crush zones. The oldest Adelaidean, Callanna Beds, occurs as blocks in...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 81/00068 Late Cainozoic nonmarine mollusca of the Lake Frome area and other selected localities from northern South Australia.
This report concerns the stratigraphic setting and palaeontology of nonmarine Mollusca to complement continuing investigations by R. A. Callen in Lake Frome and southern Strzelecki Desert, and to provide supporting data on palaeoecology and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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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
