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RB 87/00068 South Australian Quaternary volcanic province - Introductory paper and excursion guides.
Contains 3 half day excursion guides. The Quaternary volcanic province of SA occupies a small portion of the Lower Southeast, and constitutes a western extension to the Quaternary Newer Volcanics of central and western Victoria. This extension...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1987
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RB 80/00009 Groundwater pollution potential - Mount Gambier City Council rubbish dump. Report no. 2.
Investigations aimed to determine if leachate from the municipal dump is likely to reach the water table and travel toward the Blue Lake - Mount Gambiers water supply 1 km to the east. Network of observation wells were established to monitor the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1980
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RB 95/00019 Offshore Otway Basin - South Australia. A regional seismic interpretation including depth conversion of the onshore South Australia sector.
This report is on the Otway Basin, South Australian sector. It covers the structural and tectonic history and the methodology of the seismic interpretation. Contour maps enclosed are time and depth structures of the Sherbrook Group, Eumeralla...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1995
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RB 95/00017 Gas sampling from water bores in the northern Gambier Basin, South Australia.
In January 1993, 15 water bores in the South-East were sampled for headspace gas. 7 of these bores provided sufficient gas for compositional analysis of hydrocarbons. Methane values ranged from 25% to 92% of the total gas for these bores, with...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1995
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Marcollat. Progress, annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 23/9/2002 to 9/10/2008.
Exploration of an area located 50 km south-southwest of Keith aimed to test the potential of known Cambrian siliceous volcanic rocks for hosting massive base metal sulphide deposits plus possible disseminated and skarn-related precious metals,...-
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Published: 24 Nov 1908
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Bordertown. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/4/1969 to 31/3/1971.
A wide-ranging geochemical exploration programme has continued, testing soils of the region for mercury emissions from possible stratiform base metal sulphide orebodies that may exist in the Cambrian volcanic/metasedimentary basement, by performing...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1971
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Interpretation of aeromagnetic survey data, PEL 62, Otway Basin. Report.
20,300 line km of 400 m flight traverse spaced regional aeromagnetic data (with an 80 m mean terrain clearance) was processed, analysed and interpreted by specialist geophysical consultants using new, automated computing methods, to detect regional...-
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RB 00766 Otway Basin, paper no. 20. The occurrence of carbon dioxide in the Gambier Embayment.
Two oil exploration wells drilled in the southern on-shore part of the Gambier Embayment encountered quantities of Carbon dioxide gas. In Kalangadoo No.1, the gas was found in fractured, dolomitic sandstone of assumed Palaeozoic age and just below the...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1900
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RB 00747 Otway Basin study. The igneous rocks of the Padthaway Ridge.
Report reviews the limited data on these igneous rocks, giving summaries of their petrographic (hand specimen) descriptions, of outcrop occurrences, and of the nature of the predominant younger sedimentary cover, as deduced from isolated drillholes...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1900
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RB 71/00001 Regional stratigraphy of surficial deposits in the Murray Basin and Gambier Embayment.
This report deals with the regional stratigraphy of surficial deposits in the region of the Murray Basin and adjoining Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin. The aim is to place deposits described in selected earlier publications of anthropologists,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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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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BMR Otway Basin Proposal Post Cruise Report. Structure, Stratigraphy and Tectonic Development of the Great Australian Bight Basin and Offshore Otway and Gippsland Basin geochemistry.
The Otway Basin study is the third in a series of research cruises using the R/V Rig Seismic to the undertaken by BMR under its new initiative in marine geoscience. The aim of the cruise was to define the structural and stratigraphic framework of the...-
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Naracoorte. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/12/1996 to 9/12/1997.
Exploration carried out immediately south-east of Naracoorte targeted possible gold and base metals mineralisation which might occur in basement rocks under 100 m thickness of cover, within an inferred northerly continuation from Tasmania of the...-
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Lake Leake. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/9/1972 to 20/9/1973.
Exploration was carried out to evaluate the pozzolanic properties of volcanic ash occurring in the vicinity of Lake Leake. Twelve auger holes were drilled, from which bulk samples of up to 45 kg were collected and used in concrete mixing trials. The...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1973
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Millicent. Progress and final reports for the period 19/10/82 to 19/4/83.
Exploration for phosphates included a literature review of the Cainozoic history of the South-East, shallow auger drilling of 68 holes, averaging 3.5 metres, and geochemical sampling (soil, groundwater, surface waters and seawater). Results show that...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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Kingston [South-East]. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 18/6/1970 to 15/12/1970.
Outcropping small exposures of granitic rocks, found in nine isolated locations within and lying just to the east of the subject licence, were examined for their potential to host possible economic occurrences of molybdenum and tungsten mineralisation...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1970
