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RB 83/00036 Guide to Excursion A. Archaean, Proterozoic and Lower Palaeozoic geology, Eyre Peninsula and the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Fourth International Symposium in Antarctic Earth Sciences.
Excursions are on Archaean - Middle Proterozoic geology of Gawler Craton, Precambrian geology of the Adelaide Geosyncline and Cambrian of the Flinders Ranges.-
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Published: 01 May 1983
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RB 83/00056 Edeowie 1. Well completion report.
Edeowie 1 (TD 984 metres), which aimed to identify a series of seismic reflectors mapped by SADME beneath the eastern Lake Torrens piedmont plain, has intersected a stratigraphic sequence with features indicating that complex structural changes occur...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 84/00099 Nepabunna water supply - 1983 drilling.
Well drilled to 120 metres had airlift yield of 12 L/s from Cambrian limestone aquifer, which has good potential for stream recharge and capable of supplying the 1.2 L/s peak discharge required. Salinity is 950 mg/L. Confirms effectiveness of deep...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1984
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RB 85/00026 Report of a gravity survey over the eastern Arrowie Basin, South Australia.
Survey was located on 7 seismic lines. Gravity interpretation indicates deep basement structure associated with Precambrian sediments. Features within the Tertiary - Cainozoic units are delineated. Further work is recommended to investigate possible...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1986
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RB 86/00094 Bibliography on whole rock and trace element geochemistry of sedimentary rocks and sediments 1956-1985.
This bibliography was completed as part of the student third year field work placement of the author. The field work experience is part of the requirement for earning the BA degree in Library Studies at the South Australian Institute of Technology....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1986
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RB 88/00020 1:250 000 geological series - Explanatory Notes CURNAMONA - South Australia.
The area mapped includes most of the area south of Lake Frome between the Flinders and Barrier Ranges, and part of the Olary Hills. Basin nomenclature has been revised for the Cainozoic. Drilling by CSR, Minad and Petromin NL has been used in the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1988
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RB 79/00147 Cambrian Biostratigraphy Project. A preliminary report.
The Cambrian succession in South Australia is richly fossiliferous, but relatively little studied biostratigraphically. The Cambrian Biostratigraphy Project aims to provide a biostratigraphic framework similar to that available for the Cretaceous and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 82/00001 Supergroup classification in the Adelaide Geosyncline.
The term Adelaide Geosyncline is still appropriate and does not prejudice its interpretation in terms of modern tectonic theory. 3 new supergroups are proposed. The early Adelaidean Warrina Supergroup combines the Callanna Group and Burra Group, while...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1982
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RB 79/00058 Reaphook Hill scholzite deposit. MLs 4114, 4368 - C.W. Johnston.
The rare zinc phosphate mineral, scholzite, has been found in gossans developed on Early Cambrian Parachilna Formation siltstone and sandstone near Reaphook Hill in the Flinders Ranges. Other rare phosphate minerals, including tarbuttite,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 82/00056 Interpretation of regional geophysical data in the Olary region, South Australia.
Gravity and detailed aeromagnetic data, as summarised in the Metallic Exploration Index Series for CURNAMONA and OLARY, are interpreted. Other detailed geophysical and geological work is incorporated. The interpretation aims to define the areal...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1986
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RB 90/00078 South Australia - Exploration Towards 2000. Seminar, Adelaide, 13 December, 1990. Extended abstracts.
A seminar designed to heighten industry interest in South Australia as a place in which to search for minerals and petroleum was organised by the Department of Mines and Energy at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 13 December 1990. A number of data...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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RB 91/00102 Mississippi Valley type lead-zinc mineralization, northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
Recent advances in the understanding of the target Cambrian stratigraphy and its palaeogeographic setting, in combination with a realistic mineralization model, have established that the southern Arrowie Basin platform margin could be host to a...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1992
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RB 91/00101 Lead-zinc drilling investigations, 1989. Wirrealpa area, SA.
Potential target areas for Mississippi Valley style lead zinc mineralization were drill tested by 31 open drill holes totalling 825 metres. Postulated eastern extensions of low grade, flat-lying lead (-zinc) mineralisation were confirmed at the Eric...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1991
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RB 99/00032 Trial dewatering of the BHP dolomite quarry at Ardrossan, South Australia.
Trial dewatering of the quarry, which is excavated in fractured and well-bedded Cambrian dolomite, took place for at least 56 days during early 1994, but pumping was terminated when a further significant water level drawdown could not be achieved. Ten...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1999
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RB 88/00041 Review of lead-zinc mineralization in South Australia - Adelaide Geosyncline and inliers, Stuart Shelf.
Mineralization is widespread both geographically and stratigraphically, but many areas are under-explored. Past exploration was generally focussed on copper. Further investigation is recommended in the following units and areas: . Cambrian - Hawker...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1988
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RB 88/00096 Proterozoic Ediacara fauna and Cambrian archaeocyatha of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
This paper describes the type fossil occurrences, their present-day geological setting and, as deduced from properties of the host sediments, their interpreted palaeogeographic locations and palaeoenvironmental depositional facies which probably...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1988
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RB 89/00089 Nepabunna - Proposed artificial recharge scheme.
Nepabunnas water supply has a salinity of 1300 mg/L and a high carbonate hardness (550 mg/L) which causes severe scaling in pipes. Artificial recharge was suggested as a means of introducing low salinity and hardness floodwaters into the aquifer....-
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Published: 01 Feb 1990
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RB 90/00045 Palaeozoic sedimentary basins of South Australia.
Widespread marine to paralic Cambrian-Ordovician strata form the major Early Palaeozoic succession in South Australia. The Late Palaeozoic succession consists chiefly of non-marine Late Carboniferous to Permian sediments although restricted marine...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1990
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RB 89/00074 Industrial and non metallic minerals - Operations in South Australia.
This data package discusses mining and processing operations of the major non metallic and industrial mineral commodities in South Australia and is of interest to those in the industry and to manufacturers and suppliers of a range of machinery and...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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RB 96/00034 1996 MESA petroleum industry survey.
A consultant to MESA interviewed approximately 30 petroleum industry personnel throughout Australia from April to July, 1996. The aims of the customer feedback poll were to measure the Petroleum Division's performance in promoting and regulating the...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1996
