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Late Eocene - Pliocene stratigraphy of the Langhorne Sub-basin (north-western Padthaway Archipelago, South Australia).
The following Tertiary units were identified : Kongorong Fm, Narrawaturk Fm, Buccleuch Fm, Ettrick Fm, Mannum Fm, Kalibar Limestone, Parilla Sand and North West Bend Fm. All of these units are separated by unconformities. Erosional surfaces,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 37/00082 Stratigraphical and faunal sequence in Canopus bore no. 1, PL 1644, north of Renmark, South Australia.
In the stratigraphic sequence penetrated by Canopus Bore No. 1, five formations are present. From the surface to a depth of 185 feet, the boring passed through Recent surface sand and kunkar followed by medium to coarse sands of Plio-Pleistocene age....-
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Published: 27 Apr 1954
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RB 41/00058 Mid-Tertiary sequence at Mannum, South Australia.
Excavation for the pumping station at Mannum exposed a mid-Tertiary sequence of calcareous sandstones and clays with an abrupt change in sedimentation within the sequence. Three marine formations are recognized: the Mannum Formation, the Finniss Clays...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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RB 41/00102 Tertiary outcrops in the Hundred of Anna and Brownlow, TRURO military sheet.
Remnants of transgressive mid-Tertiary limestones occur at 413 feet above sea level (513 above datum level Port Adelaide, relative to bench mark 20/A, Truro R.S.) in and to the north of Levi's Creek, Section 229E, Hundred of Anna, and on Section 26,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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RB 51/00121 Chowilla Dam site, River Murray. Stratigraphy and micropalaeontology.
Five stratigraphic bores at Chowilla Dam Site intersected Post-Tertiary river sands and silts, equivalents of the Loxton Sands grading downwards into highly glauconitic siltstone of the Bookpurnong Beds and, in two bores, Shelly glauconitic marls,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 53/00059 Lower Murray dam site investigation, stratigraphy.
Two bores on the west bank of the River Murray in the Hundred of Finniss intersected part of the Mannum Formation and the Ettrick Formation before entering weathered granite. Site 5, Bore 1, 2 miles east of Mannum had the lower part of the Mannum and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 55/00065 Woodside (Lakes Entrance) Oil Co. NL. Bundy 1, NSW. Palaeontological report.
Bundy No. 1 well near the eastern margin of the Murray Basin intersected a sequence 1340 feet thick of non marine lignitic sands and silts of Tertiary age. The oldest are Eocene and the youngest probably Pliocene. The well bottomed in granite at 1340...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 55/00066 Woodside (Lakes Entrance) Oil Co. NL. Balranald 1, NSW. Palaeontological report.
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 55/00093 Lower Murray dam sites - Teal Flat report on geological investigations (drill logs in separate report 55/93, main report in 55/93A).
Three potential damsites on the lower Murray River near Mannum were investigated by drilling and geological mapping. Two holes at Site 4 and one at Site 5 showed Tertiary sediments overlying granite bedrock at depth exceeding 24m. Exploration was...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 55/00114 Teal Flat dam site.
Six bores on the eastern bank of the River Murray at the Teal Flat Damsite in the Hundred of Younghusband intersected post Miocene sediments before bottoming in weathered Kanmantoo bedrock. A seventh bore intersected typical Mannum Formation limestone...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 60/00111 River Murray drainage investigation. Progress report no. 2 - stratigraphy and micropalaeontology of bores and surface sections.
Stratigraphic data are provided for: Waikerie Pumping Station - cliff section, Waikerie Bore No. 1, Waikerie Bore No. 1A, Ramco Heights Bore No. 1, Sunlands Pumping Station - cliff section, Sunlands Bore No. 2 and Tolleys Rising Main section (all in...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1965
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RB 49/00102 Stratigraphy of the Murray Basin in South Australia.
The Murray Basin is an area of Mesozoic and Tertiary sedimentation divided into two main units the Murray Basin proper separated by structural highs, the Padthaway “Horst”, from the Gambier Sunklands. Knowledge of the Mesozoic in the Murray Basin...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1959
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RB 42/00075 Advance note on younger Tertiary sediments in the Murray Basin between Loxton and Morgan.
Drainage problems in the Loxton Irrigation area have called for a clearer understanding of the stratigraphy of the area between Loxton and Morgan. Apart from Quaternary sediments, the sequence is normal marine, in which five formations may be...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 44/00037 Murray Basin stratigraphy. Samples collected by Frome-Broken Hill.
Rock samples collected from outcrops on the margin of the Murray Basin were examined and the formations from which they were taken identified. Material from the Marne River in Hundred of Ridley was of particular interest. In this area marginal...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 46/00031 Stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Swan Reach bridge site.
Drilling at Swan Reach passed through Mannum Formation into the upper sediments of the Ettrick Formation. Mannum Formation limestone is exposed in the river cliffs while the river has cut down into the Ettrick. About 60 - 70 feet of silty sands cover...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
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RB 47/00049 Type section of the Morgan Limestone and Cadell Marl Lens, 4 miles south of Morgan.
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
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RB 47/00085 Murray Basin Oil Syndicate - Pinnaroo Bore. (Palaeontology of sediments) Final report and summary.
Contains a description of the biostratigraphic determinations made on drill cuttings samples recovered from below 1047 feet depth in the subject drillhole. Metamorphic basement rocks were encountered at 1191 feet depth, and drilling ceased at 1260...-
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Published: 18 Sep 1958
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RB 78/00089;Env 02960 Appraisal drilling results, Anna Coalfield, Murray Basin, South Australia.
At the Anna Coalfield, the November 1976 appraisal drilling by SADME of 2 rotary mud, partly cored vertical boreholes with a total penetration of 159.62 m (including 28.36 m of continuous ?NQ coring over the coal-bearing section) has confirmed the...-
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Published: 11 May 1978
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RB 77/00031 Oligocene marine transgression at Hartley and Monarto, southwestern margin of the Murray Basin.
In exposures near Hartley and Monarto, and in the Paragum-1 borehole south of Monarto, it is shown that Oligocene marine transgression over an irregular topography of early Palaeozoic metasediment and granite first deposited a basal, marginal- marine,...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1977
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RB 82/00036 Oligo-Miocene transgressive Mannum Formation near Mannum, Murray Basin.
Analyses of key benthonic and planktonic foraminifera from this thin transgressive deposit, and of boundary criteria, indicate a date close to the Janjukian / Longfordian Australian Stage boundary, and close to the international Oligocene / Miocene...-
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Published: 01 May 1982
