Datasets

The mesac Open Data Portal datasets contain detailed records of seismic surveys and geochemical data, and they are made available here to industry, researchers and the public.

  • Interpreted basement geology to the Murray Basin and surrounds.

    The purpose of this interpretation is to provide an initial framework for the basement to the Murray Basin upon which to plan the Geological Survey of South Australia’s MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative drilling project targeting the Delamerian...
      Map Published: 07 Jul 2020
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  • AusLAMP magnetotelluric survey - data subset [plus processing results for the PACE Copper - funded, Gawler Craton survey portion]. Data package.

    The Australian Lithospheric Architecture Magnetotelluric Project (AusLAMP) is a major new geophysical research program that is under way to map the electrical resistivity structure of the continental lithosphere, by utilising deep-sounding...
      Dataset Published: 04 Apr 1918
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  • Delamerian Cover Thickness Modelling.

    Crystalline basement in the Delamerian Project area is defined as Ordovician and older rocks which were affected by the Cambro-Ordovician Delamerian Orogeny and older tectonic events. It thus includes the rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline, Kanmantoo...
      Model Published: 19 Aug 1920
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  • Delamerian AusLAMP Model.

    AusLAMP is a collaborative national project aiming to cover Australia with long period magnetotelluric (MT) survey data acquired on an array having ~55 km spaced stations. Signatures from past tectonothermal events which have deposited conductive...
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  • Mount Painter Inlier basement regional geology 3D Model (3D pdf version 1).

    The Mount Painter and Mount Babbage Inliers, located in the north-eastern Flinders Ranges, consist predominantly of Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic metasediments and granites, and Neoproterozoic to Cambrian sediments of the Adelaide Geosyncline....
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  • Flinders Ranges Earthquake Hypocentres 3D Model (3D pdf version 1).

    A joint Geoscience Australia – PIRSA survey of earthquake activity within the Flinders Ranges region, which was conducted from September 2003 to July 2005, used 18 seismographs (including some Australian National Seismic Imaging Resource equipment)...
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  • RB 2020/00023 Delamerian project area magnetic source depth models

    The results of a study undertaken to produce depth estimates to the top of magnetic anomaly sources are presented within this report. The area of interest is located within the present-day preserved footprint of the ~500 Ma Delamerian Orogenic Belt,...
      Document Published: 01 Aug 2020
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  • 1998 Mount Painter area HyMap survey. Mineral maps Data Package.

    HyVista Corporation was contracted by PIRSA during July 2012 to process HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data acquired over the Mount Painter region of SA on 28/3/1998. The nominal pixel size acquired was 4.5 m x 4.5 m, within a surveyed area of...
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  • RB 2009/00019 Assessment of mineral prospectivity of the northern Flinders Ranges using GIS analysis.

    The northern Flinders Ranges region is underlain by rocks predominantly belonging to two contrasting geological provinces: the metamorphic and igneous Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic Mount Painter and Mount Babbage Inliers, and the sediments of...
      Document Published: 01 Dec 2009
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  • Delamerian gravity and TMI datasets.

    The best available ground gravity and aeromagnetic data from South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria which were acquired over the region of the Delamerian Orogen have been merged into continuous datasets to facilitate geological interpretation,...
      Dataset Published: 19 Aug 1920
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  • Northern Flinders Ranges Prospectivity Data Package.

    The purpose of this data package is to provide end-users with the GIS datasets used for the 2009 modelling of mineral potential in the Northern Flinders Ranges. The package contains subsets of SA 1:100 000 scale surface geology (polygons) and...
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  • 2003 Pine Creek area HyMap survey. Mineral maps Data Package.

    HyVista Corporation was contracted by DMITRE during August-September 2013 to process an archived set of HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data of the Earth's surface radiance properties, that had previously been acquired on 13/3/2002 from a survey...
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  • 2003 Mount Grainger region HyMap survey. Mineral maps Data Package.

    HyVista Corporation was contracted by DMITRE during August-September 2013 to process an archived set of HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data of the Earth's surface radiance properties, that had previously been acquired on 26/2/2003 from a survey...
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  • 2003 Anabama region HyMap survey. Mineral maps Data Package.

    HyVista Corporation was contracted by DMITRE during August-September 2013 to process an archived set of HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data of the Earth's surface radiance properties, that had previously been acquired on 26/2/2003 from a survey...
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  • 2002 PIMA_PIRIE HyMap survey, Port Pirie area. Mineral maps Data Package.

    HyVista Corporation was contracted by DMITRE during August-September 2013 to process an archived set of HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data of the Earth's surface radiance properties, that had previously been acquired on 13/3/2002 from a survey...
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  • 2002 PIRIE_WATER HyMap survey, Port Pirie area. Mineral maps Data Package.

    HyVista Corporation was contracted by DMITRE during August-September 2013 to process an archived set of HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data of the Earth's surface radiance properties, that had previously been acquired on 13/3/2002 from a survey...
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  • Cultana basement regional geology 3D Model.

    The Cultana basement 3D Geological Model covers a region which includes the Roopena, and western half of the Cultana, 1:100,000 mapsheet areas. The subsurface geology that has been modelled comprises a succession of deformed Palaeoproterozoic...
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  • South Australia - 1:2 000 000 scale State geological map (first digital edition).

    The latest knowledge of the surface geology of South Australia is displayed on the 2020 edition of the state geology map newly released by the Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA). It is a product of the GSSA’s ongoing statewide geological...
      Map Published: 01 Nov 1920
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  • Regolith map of the southern Gawler Ranges margin (300 dpi & 600 dpi pdf formats).

    This inaugural regolith map of the southern Gawler Ranges margin provides a valuable regional overview of the main regolith types and their associated landforms, plus a general outline of the major areas of bedrock or regolith-dominated terrain, as...
      Map Published: 14 Jul 2016
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  • Fleurieu Peninsula Earthquake Hypocentres 3D Model (3D pdf version 1)

    For populating the subject 3D model, records of 100 earthquake events, that had occurred between 2007 to mid-2015 in an area of the Fleurieu Peninsula with the densest seismograph coverage, were selected from the South Australian earthquake catalogue....
      Model Published: 17 Nov 1915
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