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Bundulla. Progress reports for the period 24/5/79 to 19/10/82.
Airborne and ground magnetic surveys were conducted in the Bundulla area of the Nullarbor Plain (SA), prior to drilling a prominent circular aeromagnetic feature. 2 percussion/rotary mud holes, each drilled to TD 369.5 m, penetrated crystalline...-
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Bunabie Rockhole, Hughes and Nullarbor Plain. Progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/10/1980 to 19/10/1982.
Roxby Downs - type base metal deposits, potentially associated with linear and discrete magnetic anomalies of unknown origin in the basement, were the prime targets of exploration in an area extending between Koonalda and Hughes, adjacent to the SA/WA...-
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Koonalda. Progress reports for the period 7/8/79 to 18/7/82.
Following an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, two rotary percussion holes totalling 819 m were drilled on negative magnetic anomalies to reach pre-Mesozoic basement (gabbro and meta-sandstone) in the Koonalda area of the Nullarbor Plain. No...-
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RB 56/00062 Melton Pastoral Company bores. Stratigraphic correlation.
Eight bores drilled in the Eucla Basin for the Melton Pastoral Company have been examined. The most easterly bore, number 34, intersected the most complete marine sequence encountered in the area, passing through Miocene (Nullarbor Limestone) and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 60/00030 Report on reconnaissance seismic refraction survey in the South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin, 1964.
A reconnaissance seismic refraction survey was carried out in the South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin, to determine the general shape of the basin and to assess the feasibility of using seismic methods in the area. Some of the refractors...-
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Published: 18 Feb 1965
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RB 48/00119 Material from the western portion of the Eucla Basin.
Samples collected by J. O. Galloway, consultant for Oil Drilling and Exploration consist of Pleistocene fossiliferous sandy limestone and weathered mollusca from the Eyre Plain, Wilson Bluff Limestone from Wilson Bluff and Nullarbor Limestone from the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 47/00020 Subsurface stratigraphy of the Maralinga area, South Australia
Logging of sludge samples taken from 18 water bores drilled in an area of previously unknown stratigraphy located between Watson and Maralinga has established a sequence of about 1000 feet of Marinoan shales and sandstones resting on diorite. These...-
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Published: 23 Jul 1958
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RB 79/00083 Ooldea no. 1 and Reid nos 1 and 1A. Well completion reports.
Three stratigraphic wells (Ooldea no. 1, Reid no. 1, and Reid no. 1A) were drilled by the South Australian Department of Mines during 1976 in an area that includes margins of the Officer, Arckaringa and Eucla basins. Principal objectives were to test...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 91/00098 Geological observations of Old Homestead Cave, Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia.
Observations of karst events at Old Homestead Cave on the Nullarbor Plain add further evidence for a regional, post-emergence Nullarbor karst history or succession of events. Litho-stratigraphy and facies have exerted a control on dissolution and...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1991
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RB 99/00026 TEM survey on the Nullarbor Plain near Hughes, South Australia.
A TEM survey that was carried out across the area between an extensive linear topographic depression in the western Nullarbor Plain and the Trans Australian Railway line corridor has identified the expected 50 metre thick resistive layer (Nullarbor...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1999
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RB 90/00029 Seismic study of the offshore Denman and Eucla Basins.
Four horizons were mapped (top of basement, top of Permian, top of Cretaceous and Sea Floor). The Denman Basin is a 50 km wide, north-south trending depression in Early Palaeozoic - Precambrian bedrock, infilled with up to 400 metres of Permian...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1991
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RB 90/00030 Duntroon geophysical study.
The Duntroon Basin is located in the centre of the Southern Rift System between the Bight and the Otway Basins, west and SW of Kangaroo Island. It is limited to the north by the Proterozoic Gawler Craton. The formation of the basin is related to the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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RB 89/00006 GILES, TALLARINGA and BARTON 1:250 000 sheet. Water well survey.
Of 124 wells visited, salinity was measured from 41 wells and 95 wells which were not located were added to the Bore General File. Groundwater used for stock and domestic purposes ranges in salinity from 400 ppm to 25 000 ppm. Other wells have...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1989
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RB 92/00024 Aboriginal stone tools: a geological study of source, nature and distribution in the Nullarbor Plain region.
Examination of the lithologies of Aboriginal artefacts from western South Australia has been undertaken and the lithologies categorised. Stone tools were manufactured from a range of indurated silicified materials, derived from abundant local...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1992
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RB 89/00039 SADME Nundroo 1, 2 and 3 well completion report.
The Nundroo basement drilling project was proposed in February 1987 by SADME's Regional Geology Branch as the first phase of investigation of the little known rocks of the south-western Gawler Craton. Previous drilling in this area had been restricted...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1989
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Permit EPP 26 - Duntroon Basin. Surrender report.
This EPP 26 surrender report has been furnished to the SA offshore Designated Authority as a result of the application made on 21/8/96 by BHP Petroleum for permission for the joint venture to surrender the permit, before committing to unwanted...-
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Published: 19 Feb 1997
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[SADME] Colona drilling program. [Geological results] Data package.
AIM: The Colona Drilling Project aimed to test concealed basement in the vicinity of two ground magentic profiles that have been run across the most south-western, teardrop - shaped aeromagnetic anomaly of the Fowler Suture Zone. METHODS: 45 vertical...-
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Murrawijinie, Denman, Koonalda and Cook [Wigunda]. Progress and final reports for the period 7/7/80 to 27/7/81.
Cretaceous sediments in the Eucla Basin portion lying within South Australia's far west were investigated for their oil shale potential. This search was prompted by a recorded occurrence of a thick, oily Cretaceous shale horizon intersected in a...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1981
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Assessment of seal potential in the Duntroon Basin.
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Published: 20 Oct 1995
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PEL 4, Eucla, Denman and Bight Basins. Progress and technical reports for the period 13/9/68 to 18/4/74.
PEL 4 was granted to Outback Oil Co. NL on 14/11/68 to succeed the onshore part of the former OEL 33 in the Eucla Basin region, and allow continuity of exploration in a little known petroleum province. Early in licence Year One Outback Oil succeeded...-
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Published: 08 Apr 1974
