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RB 57/00089 Report on test boring of sand deposit, section 133 Hundred of Willunga.
Boring has intersected basal Tertiary North Maslin Sands under Tortachilla Limestone. The age of the underlying clays is tentatively regarded as Permian. An estimated 60 000 cubic yards of overburden covers 220 000 cubic yards of sand within the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 58/00068 Report on palaeontological examination of auger samples from Hackham, pt secn 17 Hd Noarlunga, County Adelaide.
45 Auger samples were examined from 8 bores at Hackham, 18 miles south of Adelaide, in the Noarlunga Basin. An upper Reserve sequence of South Maslin Sands - Tortachilla Limestone - Blanche Point Marls is recognised on the basis of distinct...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 60/00039 New AMP building, Adelaide. Foundation stratigraphy.
A foundation test bore 200 feet deep, drilled at the site of a new Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP) building to be constructed on the south-western corner of North Terrace and King William Street, has intersected a Cainozoic sedimentary...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1965
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RB 60/00055 Auger boring of Hackham clay deposit.
Near horizontally bedded Upper Eocene sediments comprising Blanche Point Marls, Tortachilla Limestone and South Maslin Sands, have been test bored at Hackham in the Noarlunga Basin, in the search for a bentonite - type clay deposit which might provide...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1965
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RB 60/00103 Phosphate reconnaissance sampling, Willunga and Noarlunga sub-basins.
Reconnaissance sampling of coastal and inland exposures of the Tertiary succession in the Willunga and Noarlunga sub-basins of the Saint Vincent Basin indicates that the P205 content of the sediments is below the average of normal marine carbonates. A...-
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Published: 25 May 1965
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RB 81/00009 Stratigraphic outline of the Longyear Bore, southern Adelaide Plains.
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Published: 03 Feb 1981
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RB 82/00071 Late Eocene and Late Oligocene age of limestones at Kingscote, Kangaroo Island.
Tertiary fossiliferous limestones with a total thickness probably less than 10 metres crop out along the coast for about 2 km SW from Kingscote jetty. 3 limestone units are present, 1 Late Eocene and 2 Late Oligocene.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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RB 79/00109 Stratigraphy of a deep bore in the Noarlunga Embayment.
The 170 m deep E&WS Seaford Sewerage Treatment Bore passed through a Cainozoic succession comprised of undifferentiated Quaternary and Oligocene, and Eocene Port Willunga Formation, Chinaman Gully Formation, Blanche Point Formation, Tortachilla...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1979
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RB 77/00123 Eocene to Miocene stratigraphy of the Willunga Embayment. Notes on Ostracoda from Willunga Embayment boreholes WLG 38, WLG 40 and WLG 42.
The Willunga Embayment of the St. Vincent Basin is one of the classic areas of Cainozoic geology in South Australia with published studies dating back over the past century. This present study reassesses the geology of the Middle Eocene to Early...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 00693 Beach Petroleum NL's Troubridge Shoal 1 stratigraphic well. Subsurface stratigraphy.
Beach Petroleum Troubridge Shoal No. 1 Stratigraphic Well, drilled to a depth of 1600 feet intersected Recent, Subrecent and Tertiary sediments to 850 feet below which 750 feet of Lower Permian glacial marine rocks were intersected. The Tertiary...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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RB 71/00061 Stratigraphy and engineering properties of the soil and rock horizons beneath the Adelaide city area, Hds Adelaide and Yatala.
The geological conditions and rock and soil properties existing beneath the Adelaide city area, have, of necessity, become more important as both the size of buildings, and the extent of construct ion has increased. Drilling and excavation in the area...-
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Published: 08 Apr 1971
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RB 63/00073 Stratigraphy and micropalaeontology of the Willunga bore WB1, a re-examination.
In the light of accumulated stratigraphic and foraminiferal data a re-examination has been made of the Willunga Bore W.B. 1 , drilled in 1951 - 1952 3½ miles east of the coastal type section of the Tertiary sequence in the Willunga Sub-basin and St....-
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Published: 23 Sep 1966
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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 75/00031 Drilling of the Tatachilla sand deposit, secn 142 Hd Willunga, Co. Adelaide - Pioneer Concrete (SA) Pty Ltd.
Rotary drilling of 16 holes at the Tatachilla sand deposit on the northern margin of the Willunga Basin indicates total reserves of 3.6M cubic metres of construction sand and 0.8M cubic metres of filling sand. Overburden and waste totol 2.3M cubic...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 75/00050 Drillhole intersections of Eocene sediments, northern margin Willunga Sub-basin.
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Published: 01 Apr 1975
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RB 75/00078 Test drilling for sand, pt secn 143 Hd Willunga, Co. Adelaide - Chaplin Holdings Pty Ltd.
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 74/00119 Test drilling for sand, secn 143 Hd Willunga. Butterworth Earth Movers Pty Ltd. Maslin Beach extractive industry zone.
One rotary drill hole 52.5m deep encountered a typical Tertiary sequence of Blanche Point Formation, South Maslin Sand and North Maslin Sand overlying Adelaidean basement. The lower 18m of North Maslin Sand are potentially of construction sand quality.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 74/00031 Biostratigraphy of two boreholes near the northern margin of the Willunga Sub-basin.
Boreholes B2/73, B3/73 intersected (i) thin Quarternary units over ?Plio-Pleistocene Carisbrooke Sand, uncomformably overlying (without intervening Port Willunga Beds) (ii) an Eocene succession (correlated with the lower part of Reynolds' standard...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 74/00112 Scout drilling for construction sand, secns 151 and 152 Hd Willunga. Pioneer Concrete Pty Ltd. Maslin Beach extractive industry zone.
Drilling for construction sand near the northern margin of the Willunga Basin intersected the Eocene succession unconformably overlain by Quaternary units. Two of three holes penetrated into the target North Maslin Sand, but were abandoned before...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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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
