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RB 55/00050 Geology of Yorke Peninsula.
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 58/00130 Report on site investigation for SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd railway yards, Bute.
The site of a proposed silo at Bute was investigated by drilling two cable tool holes 15 m and 9 m deep. The drilling encountered surficial soil and red/green mottled clay of the Hindmarsh Clay overlying inferred Cambrian Parara Limestone which has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 58/00158 Lower Cambrian stratigraphy of the Flinders Ranges.
The distribution and relationships of Lower Cambrian units in the Flinders Ranges are illustrated by a panel diagram and sketch maps. A new rock name, Hawker Group, is introduced for six formations of Lower Cambrian age which represent a phase of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 86/00014 Narrina Pound groundwater sampling.
Well survey, geological reconnaissance and groundwater sampling were undertaken to assess potential for water supply. Groundwater quality ranges from 1000 to 2000 mg/l. The occurrence of deep water tables, suggests that this area has the potential to...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1986
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RB 79/00147 Cambrian Biostratigraphy Project. A preliminary report.
The Cambrian succession in South Australia is richly fossiliferous, but relatively little studied biostratigraphically. The Cambrian Biostratigraphy Project aims to provide a biostratigraphic framework similar to that available for the Cretaceous and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 76/00130 Barite deposits near Mount John, Out of Counties Flinders Ranges, ML 4319 and 4320 - J.H. Coad.
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Published: 14 Oct 1976
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RB 80/00044 Limestone and dolomite deposits, Port Wakefield area. Report no. 1 - Review and reconnaissance sampling, Hundred of Kulpara - Electricity Trust of SA.
The Electricity Trust of South Australia requires a source of high grade limestone or dolomite to be used in the planned industrial firing process for brown coal from the Wakefield coal deposit. A SADME survey of available literature, supplemented by...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1980
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RB 89/00053 Investigation of the Early Cambrian Parara Limestone - Yorke Peninsula SA.
Around Pavy Creek, the Parara Limestone disconformably overlies the Kulpara Formation and comprises dark blue-grey argillaceous limestone, with buff dolomite and skeletal packstone. Phosphate, pyrite, glauconite, and some fluorite occur in the...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1989
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RB 89/00089 Nepabunna - Proposed artificial recharge scheme.
Nepabunnas water supply has a salinity of 1300 mg/L and a high carbonate hardness (550 mg/L) which causes severe scaling in pipes. Artificial recharge was suggested as a means of introducing low salinity and hardness floodwaters into the aquifer....-
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Published: 01 Feb 1990
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Bull 039 The Geology of Yorke Peninsula
Yorke Peninsula lies between Spencer Gulf and Gulf St. Vincent. As its discoverer Matthew Flinders-wrote: "it is singular in its form, bearing some resemblance to a very ill-shaped leg and foot". This Bulletin deals with an area having an arbitrary...-
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RB 00667 Minlaton and Stansbury stratigraphic bores. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontology.
Minlaton Bore intersected 596 feet of Lower Permian (?lowermost Sakmarian) glacigenes and then a lower Middle to Lower Cambrian succession 2459 feet thick consisting in downward sequence of Ramsey Limestone (105 feet), red bed clastics (456 feet),...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1900
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RB 00727 Stansbury West 1. Palaeontological examination. Progress report no. 1.
Examination of drill cores from the Cambrian section of Stansbury West 1 indicates that the well intersected red bed clastics over the depth interval 1115-1950 feet KB, Parara Limestone from 1950 to 3315 feet, Kulpara Limestone 3315-5387, transitional...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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RB 00765 Curramulka limestone deposits, Yorke Peninsula. Drilling completion report - Site 2.
2 diamond drillholes (total 518 feet) and 22 air holes (total 1851 feet) have indicated the presence of 28.5 million tons of Lower Cambrian limestone containing over 85% calcium carbonate in a bed dipping at about 10 degrees southwards, and below...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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RB 00764 Curramulka limestone deposits, Yorke Peninsula. Drilling completion report - Site 1.
3 diamond boreholes (total 737 feet) and 8 air holes (total 1122 feet) were drilled in the Lower Cambrian Parara Limestone, half a mile south-west of Curramulka, to investigate the availability of commercial quality resources of limestone. Recovered...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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RB 67/00085 Minlaton stratigraphic no. 2 borehole, Yorke Peninsula. Drilling completion report.
This borehole was drilled to a total depth of 321 ft. 4 ins., and a complete cored section was obtained of the lower part of the Middle Cambrian Ramsay Limestone and of the Lower Cambrian Red Bed Clastics, in which thin bands of gypsum had been...-
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Published: 07 Nov 1968
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RB 69/00120 Reconnaissance survey for ballast, southern Yorke Peninsula, Co. Fergusson - South Australian Railways.
Ballast sources on southern Yorke Peninsula are listed and discussed with reference to quality and availability. Further work required to define reserves at each site is indicated. Cambrian limestones are available near Ardrossan and Curramulka but...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 71/00035 PARACHILNA, South Australia, sheet SH54-13 International Index.
The Parachilna 1:250 000 map area is about 250 road miles north of Adelaide, South Australia, and includes the eastern shore of Lake Torrens, the central Flinders Ranges and part of the Lake Frome Plains. The ranges are composed of folded Adelaidean...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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RB 71/00131 Reconnaissance for railway ballast, Redhill-Bowmans area - SA Railways.
A site in Barunga Sandstone (Tent Hill Formation equivalent) located 2.5 miles south east of Nantawarra Siding has been selected for testing. Previous quarrying operations from this unit in the area have disclosed the presence at many sites of clay in...-
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Published: 20 Aug 1971
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RB 73/00204 Completion and pump test report, Hawker town water supply standby bore no. 5 - EWS Department.
Following the failure because of drilling difficulties of No. 4a water supply bore (to be used as a standby water supply for the township of Hawker) site No. 5 was drilled about 100 m south-west of the existing production bore No. 2 (see Fig. 1). The...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 2002/00033 Correlation within Early Palaeozoic basins of eastern South Australia.
The great majority of lower Palaeozoic rocks in the Stansbury, Arrowie and Warburton Basins are of Cambrian age, although a few Early Ordovician fossils have been reported from drillholes in the sub-surface Warburton Basin. The Cambrian is the only...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2002
