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RB 84/00068 Notes on the Mesozoic sequence and pre-Mesozoic basement, SADME Muloorina 1 water well.
The drill core recovered from the Muloorina Ridge bedrock over the hole depth interval 616.5 to 618 m in Muloorina 1 stratigraphic drillhole comprises a laminated siltstone resembling Tapley Hill Formation. Palynological examination of the drillhole...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1984
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RB 86/00020 Preliminary palynostratigraphy of SADME Finniss 2 well, southwestern Eromanga Basin.
The Cyclosporites hughesii spore / pollen subzone and its correlative Odontochitina operculata dinoflagellate zone have been recognized from Bulldog Shale in Finniss-2, 5 km west of Alberrie Creek railway station. Palynological evidence shows that...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1986
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RB 86/00058 (Revised edition, 2016) Excursion guide. Silcrete field workshop, South Australia, August 19-30, 1985.
Guide covers an area extending from the western margin of Lake Torrens to Coober Pedy, and down to Ceduna. Characteristics of the silcretes in the Tertiary sequences, field relationships, and other criteria which might be used to interpret processes...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1916
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RB 86/00085 Coal exploration drilling in the Clayton area, Marree.
Drilling of 4 holes and a review of existing geological data aimed to assess the potential for coal in the Late Cretaceous Winton Formation. Clayton-3 was cored to a depth of 150 metres as a stratigraphic hole. It intersected Quaternary, Tertiary and...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1986
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RB 87/00059 Palynological dating and correlation of Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous sediments around part of the southern margin of the Eromanga Basin.
Investigation aimed to evaluate environments of deposition and problems of dating the Cadna-owie Formation and basal Bulldog Shale.-
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Published: 01 Mar 1987
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RB 78/00030 Coober Pedy town water supply groundwater investigations report no. 2 - EWS Department.
The proposed town water well SR11 (60 metres) 22 km NE of Coober Pedy was drilled and tested. Water quality is acceptable.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 78/00032 ABMINGA and DALHOUSIE 1:250 000 sheets water well survey.
Survey of 140 water wells. The main aquifers are the Cadna-owie Formation / Algebuckina Sandstone.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 78/00095 Micropalaeontology of selected samples from the Stuart Creek Opalfield, ANDAMOOKA 1:250 000 map sheet.
Foraminifera and palynomorphs in boreholes SCC16, SCC19 and SCC21 are consistent with Aptian age and correlate with the lower part of the Marree Formation.-
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Published: 10 Aug 1978
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RB 80/00038 Vesuvius opal diggings.
Small quantities were mined from 1977 to 1978. The opal infills joints in leached and weathered Cretaceous shale. Considerable potential exists for further small finds of opal.-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 80/00115 Progress report. Project 0172, COOBER PEDY 1:250 000 sheet.
Compilation is complete. Geological problems and points of interest are discussed.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1980
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RB 81/00017 Sarda Bluff, Ouldburra Hill and England Hill opal diggings.
These diggings have produced precious opal within weathered Cretaceous Marree Subgroup, infilling fractures in claystone, capped by ?Miocene silcrete. At Sarda Bluff and Ouldburra Hill opal with colour also cements coarse sandstone, some of which may...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 82/00038 Mesozoic and Cambrian stratigraphy of Santos borehole CBH-2, near Blanchewater Hill, EL 691.
CBH-2 intersected Mesozoic carbonaceous sandstones and shales overlying a flat lying red bed sequence of possible Cambrian age, with an ill defined contact between 602 and 609 metres depth. ? Cambrian rocks may belong to the Curnamona Cratonic Nucleus...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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RB 82/00041 Stuart Highway realignment water well rotary drilling program. Mirikata to Pootnoura Creek.
12 of 16 holes were successfully completed in the Cadna-owie Formation aquifer, with yields ranging from 1.5 to over 10 L/sec.-
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Published: 01 Jun 1982
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RB 82/00092 Margin of the Eromanga Basin South Australia. A review.
The geology is reviewed, with emphasis on exposure and surface expression of the basin and regional geological mapping aspects. Prior to 1978, the term Great Artesian Basin was used to refer to the Eromanga Basin in SA. Discusses early contributions...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1982
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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 84/00034 Petrography of three rocks from Curdimurka.
Sandstone cemented by limonite near Cockatoo Bore represents the uppermost unit of Algebuckina Sandstone (Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous). 2 sandstones replaced by haematite from Finniss Springs station represent either Cadna-owie Formation or...-
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Published: 01 May 1984
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RB 85/00014 Dissolution by pore fluids and the introduction of a variety of minerals as new matrices in sediments from CURDIMURKA.
5 rock samples indicate arenaceous sediments have been subject to strong dissolution by pore fluids at a time after lithification. The resultant high porosity has either remained open, or has been filled or partially filled by dolomite, mixed sulphate...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1985
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RB 87/00031 Coober Pedy Opalfields. Geology of the precious stones field and results of the subsidised exploration program, 1981 (Volume 1).
Production 1978 - 1985 has averaged $25 000 000 per year. Mining is now mainly by mechanized methods in underground workings, most of the older shallower fields having been worked out. All areas of deeply weathered Bulldog Shale, or Russo Beds...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1987
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RB 87/00033 Glendambo town water supply - 1985 and 1986 investigations.
Glendambo, 298 km NW of Port Augusta, is currently supplied with 5000 mg/L groundwater. Drilling has located a small area of 2000 mg/L water. Hydraulic and recharge estimates indicate a sustained yield of about 1 ML/year. Because the town is located...-
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Published: 01 Jan 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
