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RB 86/00077 Review of the structure, geology and hydrocarbon potential of the Otway Basin in South Australia.
Highlights of the above 4 parts of the report include: 1) A brief review of the Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cainozoic tectonic history. 2) The limited amount of useable seismic, aeromagnetic and gravity data hampers structural definition of the basin....-
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Published: 01 Oct 1986
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RB 77/00050 Groundwater resources available for South-East town water supplies, review no. 3, Naracoorte.
Naracoorte town water supply can be increased by drilling additional production wells to the confined Knight Group sand aquifer which occurs at a depth of about 150 m below the town. D-rawdown interference from nearby production wells is expected to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 83/00063 Allens sand quarry, section 715, Hd Blanche). Results of auger drilling, 1981 - 82 - I.A. and C.H. Allen.
18 auger holes have outlined probable reserves of 80 000 tonnes of construction sand in Middle Eocene Tartwaup Formation below 57 000 tonnes of overburden. Allens Quarry (formerly Knight's Quarry) is the only exposure of Early Tertiary sediments in...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 84/00100 Palynostratigraphy of Argonaut A1, Lake Bonney 1 and Kalangadoo 1 wells, Otway Basin.
16 samples produced sparse, poorly preserved microfloras. In Argonaut-A1 palynofloras are correlated with Late Cretaceous and Eocene zones, with an unconformity between Cretaceous and Tertiary. Local unconformities may occur in the Campanian section....-
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Published: 01 Dec 1984
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RB 77/00087 South-East water resources, Mundulla town water supply. Progress report no. 2.
A recent scout well drilled into the confined Dilwyn Formation (formerly Knight Group) at Mundulla intersected only low permeability sediments unsuitable for development. However, this does not rule out the possibility that a suitable aquifer will be...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 78/00009 EWS Department - Mount Gambier town water supply standby well no. 7.
The first of a series of high yielding standby wells exploring the confined aquifer was drilled to 208 metres using both rotary and cable tool. Production interval is from 184.6 to 205.3 metres in unconsolidated sands of Dilwyn Formation.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 77/00069 South-East water resources well survey - Confined aquifer in the Kingston-Lucindale area.
All water wells visited in this area intersect the confined aquifer. An inspection has shown that of a total of 178 wells, 49 were leaking at the surface. Total maximum surface leakage is estimated as 1 x 106 m-Vyear with 3 wells responsible for 75%...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 78/00041 Naracoorte planning study engineering geology investigations - B. Turner and Associates.
Naracoorte Corporation area straddles two northwesterly trending dune ridges and their corresponding flats. Cemented limestones of the Bridgewater Formation and Gambier Limestone, occasionally mantled by windblown sands, form the two ridges; younger...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 78/00036 Kingston town water supply completion report for well no. 11 - EWS Department.
New production water well was drilled to 71 metres.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00076 Naracoorte town water supply, completion report for well no. 10 - EWS Department.
A new town water supply well, Naracoorte no. 10, encountered permeable confined aquifer sands at 160 m depth. Subsequent testing showed the well to have a yield of from 6000 to 7000 cubic m/day at a recommended pump intake depth of 85 m, with less...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 93/00014 Blue Lake hydrogeological investigation progress report no. 1. Assessment of available hydrogeological data.
The Blue Lake is a valued water resource for the City of Mt Gambier and there is increasing community concern regarding its longer term sustainable use. The lake is groundwater fed and there is known contamination of the unconfined aquifer in the...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1993
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RB 98/00005 Padthaway Irrigation Area, South-East, South Australia. Groundwater quality investigation. Drilling program, December 1996 - January 1997.
In the main irrigation area of the Padthaway Proclaimed Wells Area, viticulture is the dominant form of agriculture, and has been since the early 1970s. Local groundwater, extracted from the underlying Quaternary unconfined aquifer, is used...-
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Published: 20 Feb 1998
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RB 93/00051 Otway Basin hydrogeological investigation. Phase 2 - Groundwater residence times.
Stable isotopes (deuterium, carbon-13 and oxygen-18) and radiocarbon (carbon-14) have been used in conjunction with chemical data to evaluate recharge mechanisms, groundwater residence time and palaeohydrology within the confined Dilwyn Formation sand...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1994
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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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RB 00718 Beach Petroleum Monash no. 1 well. Palynological examination of cores.
Microfloras in 8 drill core samples and 1 drill cuttings sample taken from Monash 1 have indicated and confirmed the presence of Palaeocene, Cretaceous and Permian sediments. Correlations in the Palaeocene are made with the type sequence in...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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RB 00717 Beach Petroleum NL Monash no. 1 well subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontology.
Beach Petroleum NL Monash 1 exploratory well located 5 miles north-west of Monash, and 20 miles south-west of Renmark, was drilled to a total depth of 3445 feet. The well penetrated a sequence of Tertiary, Cretaceous and Permian sedimentary rocks,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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RB 00678 Oil Development NL's Mount Salt 1. Palaeontology progress report no. 1.
Examination of Cores 1 to 12 indicates that between 995 and 2916 feet Mt Salt No.1 intersected the Upper Eocene Dartmoor Formation and between 3142 and 3152 the Bahgallah Formation (Paleocene to Lower Eocene). Between 3152 and 3679 feet the well...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 00734 Stratigraphy and correlation of the marine sediments of the Gambier Embayment (Otway Basin).
The sediments of the Gambier Embayment are mainly of Cretaceous and Tertiary age. Lower Cretaceous subsurface units have been referred to outcropping rocks of the Otway and Merino Groups, but satisfactory criteria for their identification with...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1900
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RB 69/00129 Late Paleocene in the Otway Basin. Biostratigraphy and age of key microfaunas.
A planktonic foraminiferal fauna from below the Rivernook Member of the Dilwyn formation in Victoria is important in earliest Tertiary correlations and age determinations in the Otway Basin. This fauna and the Rivernook fauna, previously described are...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1969
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RB 71/00125 Geology of the NARACOORTE 1:250 000 sheet area.
The most significant feature of the area, covered by the Naracoorte 1:250 000 sheet is the Padthaway Ridge which underlies all but the southernmost part of the area, where Mesozoic sediments, of the Otway Basin lap onto the ridge (Padthaway...-
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Published: 06 Aug 1971
