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RB 88/00093 Fowlers Bay rotary drilling report and revision of the Quaternary geology around Fowlers Bay.
Shallow drilling (<30 metres) at 14 sites intersected a regressive coastal sequence of Quaternary bioclastic sediments deposited in coastal aeolian, littoral, lagoonal and evaporative-lagoonal environments. Major calcrete carapaces assist the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1988
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RB 89/00012 Footprints in Quaternary coastal sediments, western South Australia.
Human and animal footprints are preserved in 2 different settings near Clare Bay. Macropod tracks occur in laminated beach sediment of Late Pleistocene age (c. 110 000 year BP). They are preserved beneath a former prograding coastal fore-dune complex...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1989
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Kyancutta. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 6/9/1985 to 5/9/1986.
Marketable quality gypsum was the major commodity sought in Recent salt lakes and marginal dunes of a large swamp in the Kyancutta area. Reconnaissance mapping, plus hand or power auger drill sampling of the near-surface sediments, has identified...-
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Lake Greenly, Lake Malata. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 6/9/85 to 5/9/86.
TARGET: Potentially commercial gypsum, salt or silica occurrences in Holocene paralic lakes and marginal dunes, in an area immediately north-east of Coffin Bay. EXPLORATION: Bulk sampling of lacustrine evaporitic sediments and related aeolian deposits...-
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Lake Malata. Final report for the period 6/9/85 to July 1987.
A final stage of gypsum exploration in the Lake Malata area, 70 km north-west of Port Lincoln, was carried out under mineral claims and retention leases which were cancelled in 1991. Drilling of 62 auger holes (total 258 m) proved a resource of 1.2 Mt...-
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ExpNotes MAITLAND: Explanatory Notes MAITLAND, SI 53-12.
The MAITLAND Special 1:250,000 scale geological map covers the greater part of South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. The rocks in the map area comprise deformed Palaeoproterozoic and early Mesoproterozoic basement of the south-eastern Gawler Craton, and...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2006
