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Broch 061 Geology of McLaren Vale Wine Region 2000 (see BROCH 060 for 2010 version)
McLaren Vale, one of South Australia's major wine producing regions, is nestled in a geological province known as the Willunga Embayment, just a short drive south of Adelaide. From the sediments which were deposited in the basin-shaped embayment,...-
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RB 74/00029 Scout drilling for brick clay in the Willunga Basin and shale at Clarendon - Southern Clays Pty Ltd.
Thirteen scout auger holes were drilled in the Willunga Basin and a further six holes in the Clarendon area to locate clay and shale deposits suitable for brick manufacture. Abundant Pleistocene clay in the Willunga-Aldinga area may not be suitable...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 2016/00008 Geological field excursion guide — Cenozoic Willunga Embayment: from Australo-Antarctic Gulf to Sprigg Orogeny.
INTRODUCTION TO THE GUIDE As superb exposures of fossiliferous strata, refreshed by coastal erosion and winter storms and backing popular beaches in what is now suburban Adelaide, the coastal cliff sections in the Willunga Embayment have attracted...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2016
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RB 2022/00013 Neoproterozoic to Cenozoic geology of the Clarendon-Ochre Cove Fault scarp geological excursions to Old Noarlunga and Ochre Point, Geological Society of Australia, SA Division
Outcrops in the banks of the Onkaparinga River at Old Noarlunga, and in coastal cliffs near Ochre Point between Moana and Maslin Bay, South Australia, provide a record of late Neoproterozoic, (including early Ediacaran) and Cenozoic sedimentation and...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2022
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A new geological map of Hallett Cove.
Hallett Cove is one of South Australia’s foremost natural science treasures. Exposed examples for prime geological concepts of superposition of strata, depositional unconformities (representing time breaks), and folding and faulting of sedimentary...-
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