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1972-73 marine seismic survey (part of), M/V Petrel, final report.
This report represents an evaluation by Shell's deep water exploration team of geophysical data collected during the 1972-73 survey by the MV Petrel in southern Australia. The Petrel survey was conducted with the object of investigating the...-
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Oakvale Station. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/3/1988 to 10/9/1990.
TARGET: Possible economic Pliocene or younger heavy mineral sand deposits in the Oakvale Station region of the north-western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Acquisition and processing of the major part of 33,000 line km of low-level airborne magnetic and...-
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Published: 24 Sep 1990
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Postmark. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 7/5/1970 to 5/5/1972.
Exploration for possible economic sedimentary uranium deposits in the Postmark area on the northern margin of the Murray Basin in South Australia comprised two airborne radiometric and scintillometric surveys together totalling approximately 1350...-
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Sturt Vale. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/4/1979 to 24/4/1980.
Continued uranium exploration in this area of the northern Murray Basin was aimed at following up anomalous radioactivity encountered during previous work, and further delineating the nature of the Tertiary sand development and associated uranium...-
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Published: 07 May 1980
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Beachport - Kangaroo Island offshore continental shelf area. Progress report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/4/1966 to 30/9/1966.
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Published: 06 Oct 1966
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RI 038 Tertiary Stratigraphy of Three Deep Bores in the Waikerie Area of the Murray Basin
Three observation bores were drilled within 1.5km of each other approximately 4km south-west from Waikerie. Depth ranged from 235 to 329m, substantially deeper than all othe bores in the area, and all Tertiary epochs are represented. The stratigraphic...-
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RB 00489 Palaeontology of Australian Oil and Gas Corporation's Loxton oil bore 1, Hundred Bookpurnong, part section 6B. Progress report no. 4.
Below 515 feet the boring passed through the following sequence: a) 515-635 feet - normal marine glauconitic limestones and marls, mostly of presumed Oligocene age; b) 635-1060 feet - paralic carbonaceous sands, silts and clays of Eocene age; c)...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1900
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RB 00718 Beach Petroleum Monash no. 1 well. Palynological examination of cores.
Microfloras in 8 drill core samples and 1 drill cuttings sample taken from Monash 1 have indicated and confirmed the presence of Palaeocene, Cretaceous and Permian sediments. Correlations in the Palaeocene are made with the type sequence in...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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RB 00713 Donna 1. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontological study.
Donna 1 well intersected 500 feet of Tertiary sediments and 1800 feet of Permian sands before drilling was suspended at 2300 feet. The formation at this level is presumed to be of Permian age, while the siliceous limestone cored between 2073 and 2078...-
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Published: 31 Jan 1900
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RB 00779 Miocene marine transgressions on Mutooroo, OLARY, at the northern margin of the Murray Basin.
Four samples of cuttings from two bores provide the first record of marine deposition at the northern margin of the Murray Basin near Mutooroo. At depths between 94.5 m and 127.5 m two marine units of glauconitic clay sand and minor limestone are...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1900
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RB 00533 Palaeontology of Murray Basin Oil Syndicate's Pinnaroo bore, Hundred of Pinnaroo, adjacent sections 59 and 67. Progress report no. 3.
From 850 to 1020 feet depth the boring has continued in Eocene carbonaceous silty sands and clays of the Knight Group. The sands in this interval are less uniform in grain size than those above 835 feet, and are markedly coarser below 995 feet....-
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Published: 01 Apr 1900
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RB 00687 Australian Oil Corp.'s North Renmark no. 1 well. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontology study.
North Renmark 1 was drilled 6 miles north of Renmark, to a total depth of 4018 feet. The well penetrated a sequence of Tertiary, Cretaceous and Permian rocks, mostly of marine origin, and has given the most complete section so far known from the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1900
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RB 00738 Chowilla Project. Reservoir geological investigations. Progress report no. 2. Proposed study of effects on groundwater regime, Co. Hamley.
It has been appreciated since the first geological report by Johnson, Hiern and Steel (RB 51/00136) that the filling of the proposed Chowilla Dam would cause some flushing downstream of saline groundwater present in sands beneath the Murray River...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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RB 2023/00001 New palynology results from western Murray Basin, South Australia
Palynological analysis has been undertaken on samples from 5 drillholes in the western Murray Basin, Alawoona area, South Australia, to provide a biostratigraphic framework and dating of the sediments. Late Middle to Late Eocene sediments, forming...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2023
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RB 2022/00003 Zircon provenance and sedimentary transport processes – implications for the late Neogene evolution and heavy mineral deposits of the western Murray Basin, South Australia.
Strandlines or elevated shorelines, located across the Murray Basin in south-eastern Australia, trace the preserved remnants of former emergent coastlines that developed during the Late Miocene (c. 7 to 4 Ma) marine regression. Strandline traces...-
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Published: 01 May 2022
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RB 65/00020 Stratigraphy of Late Cainozoic deposits in South Australia.
This paper sets out the stratigraphy of late Cainozoic deposits in the southern part of South Australia. The study includes the Murray, St Vincent and Spencer Gulf, West Coast and Eucla Basins and the adjoining uplands. Work has been concentrated on...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 71/00078 Australia - Antarctica separation and the Eocene transgression in southern Australia.
Stratigraphic evidence indicates major change in sedimentary regime in the Middle Eocene, close to the inferred onset of continental breakup. Deep sea drill core suggests an Antarctic ice sheet may have existed at this time, when Australasia was much...-
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Published: 24 May 1971
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RB 71/00125 Geology of the NARACOORTE 1:250 000 sheet area.
The most significant feature of the area, covered by the Naracoorte 1:250 000 sheet is the Padthaway Ridge which underlies all but the southernmost part of the area, where Mesozoic sediments, of the Otway Basin lap onto the ridge (Padthaway...-
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Published: 06 Aug 1971
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RB 73/00127 Foraminiferal biostratigraphy and age of three mid-Tertiary whale finds, and one of crabs, Saint Vincent and Murray Basins, SA.
Foraminiferal limestone matrix around a whale rib collected from the Port Willunga - Aldinga cliffs, St. Vincent Basin, is probably Oligo-Miocene in age, and from near the locally exposed top of Port Willunga Beds. Foraminiferal limestone matrices...-
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Published: 15 May 1973
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RB 62/00020 Chowilla Dam Project. Materials investigation, Woolpolool sand deposit.
A preliminary investigation has been made of an area near Lake Woolpolool to assess its suitability as a source of concrete sand for the Chowilla Dam Project. The work included logging of sections along existing test excavations, and the drilling of...-
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Published: 17 Jan 1966
