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2002 Riverland Aerial EM Survey. [metadata reference record to allow for geophysical data retrieval by users in a spatial search context].
During the period June through September 2002, the Commonwealth Government acquired some detailed airborne EM survey coverage of the Riverland irrigation district in eastern South Australia, for the purpose of assisting with research into salinity...-
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RB 86/00059 Berri East groundwater interception scheme hydrogeological investigation.
This detailed investigation evaluates data from both SADME drilling and investigations, and EWS drilling primarily in the alluvial sediments on Martins Bend. The aim was to determine aquifer properties, confirm water table gradients toward the river...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1986
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RB 82/00098 Murray Basin hydrogeological investigations progress report no. 4 - Upper Murray and northern region.
The drilling of a further 16 rotary holes, as part of continuing investigations by the E&WS Department into the effect of groundwater on River Murray salinity, has indicated that the northern and north-western limits of the Tertiary limestone...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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RB 98/00025 Hydrochemistry of groundwaters in the South Australian-Victorian Designated Area - Groundwater Border Agreement Act.
Hydrochemical data from a total of 165 bores along the 40 kilometre wide strip of the South Australian - Victorian Border Designated Area were used to provide a spatial, and temporal, hydrochemical framework of the groundwaters from the three main...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1998
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RB 89/00027 Re-assessment of groundwater resources for Zones 2A to 8A of the SA Designated Area, Border Groundwater Agreement.
The groundwater resources of a 20 km wide strip of land in each state along the SA-Vic border is jointly managed by both states. This Designated Area is divided into 22 management Zones and each state is required to limit groundwater withdrawals to...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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RB 92/00013 Murray Basin Hydrological Investigation drilling programme - Coastal Plain. Progress report no. 9.
Nine rotary mud groundwater investigation holes were drilled by SADME on the Murraylands Coastal Plain between July and November 1989, to total depths of between 82 m and 204 m. Composite logs of these holes are presented herein, together with those...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1991
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RB 97/00023 Hydrogeology of the Moorook New Residence irrigation district.
Following a request from the SA Department of Environment and Natural Resources at Berri in the Riverland, a hydrogeological assessment of the Moorook and New Residence irrigation areas was carried out. The water table aquifer occurs in fine to...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1997
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RB 95/00022 Five year technical review, 1991-1995 - Border (Groundwater Agreement) Act, 1985.
The Groundwater (Border Agreement) Act of 1985 legislated to provide a framework for the joint management of groundwater resources within a 40 km wide strip along the length of the South Australian and Victorian Border, which is referred to as the...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1995
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RB 89/00034 Murray Basin hydrogeological investigation. Drilling programme - Mallee region. Progress report no. 8.
Sixteen rotary holes were drilled between May and September 1983, to depths from 74 to 280 metres. Five were completed in the Murray Group unconfined aquifer and the remaining 11 in the Renmark Group confined aquifer. Potentiometric levels vary from...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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RB 91/00009 Border Groundwater Agreement five-year groundwater resource assessment review, 1986-1990. Report.
South Australian investigations have concentrated on defining the nature of the Tertiary limestone aquifer and determining aquifer recharge rates in Zones 3A-7A, to enable a reassessment of groundwater resources for Zones 2A-8A. An examination of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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RB 95/00037 Stonefield bedrock drilling, 1995.
Twenty-three vertical open RC drillholes with a total penetration of 2663 m were drilled by MESA during February and March 1995 along four W-E traverses in the Stonefield area near Truro, to determine bedrock geology and geochemistry below sedimentary...-
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Published: 01 May 1997
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RB 88/00056 Murray Basin hydrogeological investigation, drilling programme western margin (north). Progress report no. 6.
As part of a comprehensive investigation on the effect of groundwater on River Murray salinity, 23 investigation wells were drilled to depths of 44 to 229 metres. 8 wells were completed in the Murray Group unconfined aquifer with water table ranging...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1988
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RB 88/00088 Woolpunda Groundwater Interception Scheme Phase 4. Drilling and well discharge testing program.
15 new wells were drilled. Aquifer testing at 3 additional sites along the proposed 25 km Woolpunda Scheme reach confirms Murray Group aquifer transmissivity and specific yield of the order of 100-200 m3/d, and 0.02-0.03 respectively.-
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Published: 01 Nov 1988
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnerships DPY9-43 - Brownlow and DPY9-47 - Bower. Drilling projects' joint interim and final reports.
Copper and gold mineralisation associated with felsic, intermediate and mafic igneous intrusive rocks which have intruded Adelaidean and Cambrian metasediments in the Nackara Arc region has been the target of exploratory drilling conducted with the...-
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Morgan. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1977 to 1/9/1978.
During Dampier's exploration conducted near Morgan township in the western Murray Basin, the main target was possible economic coal measures in Cretaceous or Tertiary sediments, with the base metal potential of pre-Mesozoic basement rocks constituting...-
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Quondong. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/2/1979 to 15/2/1980. s and final reports to licence expiry for the period 16/2/1979 to 15/2/1980.
An open hole rotary mud drilling programme of 42 holes for 4939 m was used to evaluate the licence area for economic Tertiary fluvial sandstone - type uranium mineralisation, after previous and current explorers had identified buried uraniferous...-
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RB 74/00183 Re-assessment of aquifer data at Wanbi Research Station, with predicted effects of proposed withdrawals near Alawoona, Hd Mindarie section 32.
The Transmissivity of the Murray-Glenelg Group Limestone aquifer at Wanbi, 150km east of Adelaide, is 200 metres3/day/m. A specific yield of 2.5 x 10-3 can be used for predicting the maximum effects of withdrawals, but is not considered a reliable...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 2003/00013 North-western Murray Basin geological synthesis, South Australia.
The Murray Basin is an intracratonic basin filled with Cainozoic fluvial to shallow marine sediments. Deposition in the Eocene and early Oligocene was characterised by floodplain and swamp deposits, emplaced with occasional interbeds of shelly clays...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2003
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RB 2003/00009 Northern Murray Basin drilling and interpretations, 2001.
Stratigraphic drilling has been undertaken by PIRSA in the South Australian portion of the northern Murray Basin to investigate the stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Cainozoic sedimentary sequences, as well as the heavy mineral sand potential of...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2003
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RB 2000/00038 Qualco Sunlands groundwater control scheme - Stage 1: Aquifer testing for inter-aquifer leakage.
Aquifer testing at two sites in the Qualco Sunlands Irrigation Area showed there is no detectable leakage between the Loxton Sands perched aquifer and the underlying Murray Group Limestone aquifer, provided that representative readings were obtained...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2000
