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RB 60/00055 Auger boring of Hackham clay deposit.
Near horizontally bedded Upper Eocene sediments comprising Blanche Point Marls, Tortachilla Limestone and South Maslin Sands, have been test bored at Hackham in the Noarlunga Basin, in the search for a bentonite - type clay deposit which might provide...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1965
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RB 79/00109 Stratigraphy of a deep bore in the Noarlunga Embayment.
The 170 m deep E&WS Seaford Sewerage Treatment Bore passed through a Cainozoic succession comprised of undifferentiated Quaternary and Oligocene, and Eocene Port Willunga Formation, Chinaman Gully Formation, Blanche Point Formation, Tortachilla...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1979
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RB 79/00101 Northeast area light rail line borings - Palaeontology investigations.
Samples examined from two engineering boreholes indicate that they penetrated Blanche Point Formation and probably also the South Maslin Sand Member of the Maslin Sands.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 77/00123 Eocene to Miocene stratigraphy of the Willunga Embayment. Notes on Ostracoda from Willunga Embayment boreholes WLG 38, WLG 40 and WLG 42.
The Willunga Embayment of the St. Vincent Basin is one of the classic areas of Cainozoic geology in South Australia with published studies dating back over the past century. This present study reassesses the geology of the Middle Eocene to Early...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 95/00004 Willunga Basin. Review of hydrogeology and water budget.
The Willunga Basin is a groundwater resource being stressed by groundwater abstraction for agricultural purposes. The Southern Vales Water Resources Committee, in conjunction with MESA, DENR and SA WATER, are developing groundwater management...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1995
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RB 97/00045 Briefing on Adelaide South Parklands aquifer storage and recovery potential.
MESA has been approached by civil engineering firm B.C. Tonkin and Associates to help with assessing the possibility of developing an aquifer storage and recovery scheme in the Adelaide South Parklands. Their client the Adelaide City Council is...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1997
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RI 050 Eocene to Miocene Stratigraphy of the Willunga Embayment
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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 74/00031 Biostratigraphy of two boreholes near the northern margin of the Willunga Sub-basin.
Boreholes B2/73, B3/73 intersected (i) thin Quarternary units over ?Plio-Pleistocene Carisbrooke Sand, uncomformably overlying (without intervening Port Willunga Beds) (ii) an Eocene succession (correlated with the lower part of Reynolds' standard...-
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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
