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RB 59/00122 Auger boring of Happy Valley sand deposit (17/11/1964).
At Happy Valley, Pliocene freshwater sands and clays, capped by a lateritic horizon, are underlain by marine Blanche Point Marls of Eocene age. Boring has proved 2 million cubic yards of fine clayey sand with ¾ million cubic yards of waste material....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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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 78/00129 Potassium-argon (glauconite) dates for the basal Blanche Point Formation, St Vincent Basin, South Australia.
Investigations in the Myponga Basin have shown that there is no direct evidence for groundwater depletion. Currently there are 45 irrigation wells pumping from an unconfined/confined limestone aquifer. The potentiometric surface drops 5-6 metres...-
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Published: 19 Oct 1978
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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
