This report deals comprehensively with the physiography, prospect geology, and ore genesis, and includes an assessment of the iron ore reserves and other mineral resources of an area which has been almost the sole source of the iron ore used in...

A regional geological survey covered 15 standard 1-mile map sheets. Detailed mapping established a 50 000 ft sequence of Archaean sedimentation of gneissose, schistose and granitoid rocks, migmatite, quartzite, dolomite and haematitic quartzite. These...

Mineral prospecting in the Olary Province began many years ago, about the time of discovery of the great Broken Hill lode of New South Wales. Although many discoveries were made, and a number of mines worked, no significant producers survived from the...

This publication is the result of a joint investigation, by the Department of Mines and the Division of Soils of the C.S.l.R.O., of the soils of the Adelaide metropolitan area. The object of the work was to obtain information on the distribution of...

This publication details the stratigraphy of the Murray Basin Province of South Australia. The work leading up to this report has played a major part in the understanding of the sedimentary succession of this important basin-area of the State. The...

This report has been prepared to collate the present knowledge on distribution, occurrence, accessibility and composition of these rocks and to bring together all relevant analytical data available, with appropriate references where applicable. It was...

Regional geological mapping of the area was initiated in 1959 and was completed in 1964. All tracks in the area were traversed and detailed mapping confined to critical localities and to areas where this was considered desirable. Geological boundaries...

Summarised stratigraphic data are presented for 93 bores in the Adelaide Plains Sub-Basin of the St. Vincent Basin from hundred of Dublin to hundred of Noarlunga, including the Adelaide City area on the Para Fault Block. For the purposes of this...

The soils and geology of the then metropolitan zone with particular regard to building foundations were discussed by Aitchison et al. (1954) in Bulletin 32 of the South Australian Department of Mines. The changes in urban development indicated above...

The Gawler Ranges extend across northern Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, and comprise an extensive tract of extrusive rocks consisting of red feldspar porphyry. The Ranges were discovered and named by Edward John Eyre in 1839, in the course of...

The need for a second dam site in the Torrens Gorge was recognized by the Engineering and Water Supply Department many years ago. The Kangaroo Creek Dam, located in the Mount Lofty Ranges 14 miles northeast of Adelaide, has been constructed to provide...

Yorke Peninsula lies between Spencer Gulf and Gulf St. Vincent. As its discoverer Matthew Flinders-wrote: "it is singular in its form, bearing some resemblance to a very ill-shaped leg and foot". This Bulletin deals with an area having an arbitrary...

The Peake and Denison Ranges comprise four northerly trending Precambrian inliers in the southwestern portion of the Great Artesian Basin. The Peake Metamorphics (?Early Proterozoic), the oldest rocks exposed, are composed of interlayered meta basalts...

The Early Cretaceous sediments reveal a story of prolonged cold climate, glaciations, oscillating sea level and tectonic changes, is the culmination of detailed geological research over many years and includes data from ongoing Geological Survey of...

Volume 2 outlines the methodologies used and the details of the data on which conclusions have been reached. Each chapter includes the details of the field procedures for collecting samples and the laboratory and analytical procedures employed. The...

After its formation as a single sedimentary entity the Great Artesian Basin provided a marine environment only during the Cretaceous Aptian, Albian and early Cenomanian in South Australia. Santos' Oodnadatta 1 well (1957), continuously cored through...

The Wirrealpa and Aroona Creek Limestones are early Middle Cambrian formations which crop out in the Flinders Ranges of eastern South Australia. They are up to 140 m thick and are underlain and overlain conformably by thick red bed sequences. This...

The northern Flinders Ranges were opened up by pastoralists from about 1850 onwards; mineral discoveries date from about 1860 in the Mount Painter Province. The region has been one of desultory mining activities since that date, principally for...

The extremely thick succession provides one of the most complete sedimentary records for the Late Proterozoic. The term geosyncline is used in a non-genetic sense for the basin in which deposition occurred during the Adelaidean and Cambrian. Only the...

The latest publication on the geology of South Australia represents the findings of over 150 years of geological investigations that have been conducted in South Australia. It is designed to provide the reader with a comprehensive account of the...