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Bull 033 The Geology and Iron Ore Resources of the Middleback Range Area
This report deals comprehensively with the physiography, prospect geology, and ore genesis, and includes an assessment of the iron ore reserves and other mineral resources of an area which has been almost the sole source of the iron ore used in...-
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Bull 037 Geology and Mineral Resources of Southern Eyre Peninsula
A regional geological survey covered 15 standard 1-mile map sheets. Detailed mapping established a 50 000 ft sequence of Archaean sedimentation of gneissose, schistose and granitoid rocks, migmatite, quartzite, dolomite and haematitic quartzite. These...-
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Bull 034 Regional Geology and Mineral Resources of the Olary Province
Mineral prospecting in the Olary Province began many years ago, about the time of discovery of the great Broken Hill lode of New South Wales. Although many discoveries were made, and a number of mines worked, no significant producers survived from the...-
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Bull 036 Stratigraphy of the Murray Basin in South Australia
This publication details the stratigraphy of the Murray Basin Province of South Australia. The work leading up to this report has played a major part in the understanding of the sedimentary succession of this important basin-area of the State. The...-
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Bull 041 Geology and Mineral Resources of the Andamooka and Torrens Area
Regional geological mapping of the area was initiated in 1959 and was completed in 1964. All tracks in the area were traversed and detailed mapping confined to critical localities and to areas where this was considered desirable. Geological boundaries...-
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Bull 042 Cainozoic Foraminifera and Stratigraphy of the Adelaide Plains Sub-Basin, South Australia
Summarised stratigraphic data are presented for 93 bores in the Adelaide Plains Sub-Basin of the St. Vincent Basin from hundred of Dublin to hundred of Noarlunga, including the Adelaide City area on the Para Fault Block. For the purposes of this...-
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Bull 045 The Petrology Of The Eastern Gawler Ranges Volcanic Complex
The Gawler Ranges extend across northern Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, and comprise an extensive tract of extrusive rocks consisting of red feldspar porphyry. The Ranges were discovered and named by Edward John Eyre in 1839, in the course of...-
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Bull 044 Engineering Geology of the Kangaroo Creek Dam
The need for a second dam site in the Torrens Gorge was recognized by the Engineering and Water Supply Department many years ago. The Kangaroo Creek Dam, located in the Mount Lofty Ranges 14 miles northeast of Adelaide, has been constructed to provide...-
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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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Bull 005 The Geology and Prospects of the Region to the South of the Musgrave Ranges, and the Geology of the Western Portion of the Great Australian Artesian Basin
Contains appendix articles on the following: Flora of the country between Oodnadatta and the Musgrave and Everard Ranges (Appendix 1). Author White, S.A. Pages 61-63 Results of magnetic and astronomical observations. (Appendix 2 in: Geology of country...-
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Bull 006 The Geology of the Moonta and Wallaroo mining District.
The Wallaroo and Moonta Copper Mining District is situated in the hundred of Wallaroo, county of Daly, on the eastern shore of Spencer's Gulf. The potential metalliferous area, however, extends into the hundreds of Kadina and Tiparra, to the E. and S....-
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Bull 050 Precambrian and Palaeozoic Geology of the Peake and Denison Ranges
The Peake and Denison Ranges comprise four northerly trending Precambrian inliers in the southwestern portion of the Great Artesian Basin. The Peake Metamorphics (?Early Proterozoic), the oldest rocks exposed, are composed of interlayered meta basalts...-
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Bull 057 Early Cretaceous sediments reveal a story of prolonged cold climate, glaciations, oscillating sea level and tectonic changes. Volume 1.
The Early Cretaceous sediments reveal a story of prolonged cold climate, glaciations, oscillating sea level and tectonic changes, is the culmination of detailed geological research over many years and includes data from ongoing Geological Survey of...-
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Bull 040 Cretaceous Biostratigraphy of the Great Artesian Basin in South Australia
After its formation as a single sedimentary entity the Great Artesian Basin provided a marine environment only during the Cretaceous Aptian, Albian and early Cenomanian in South Australia. Santos' Oodnadatta 1 well (1957), continuously cored through...-
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Bull 047 The Sedimentology of the Cambrian Wirrealpa and Aroona Creek Limestones
The Wirrealpa and Aroona Creek Limestones are early Middle Cambrian formations which crop out in the Flinders Ranges of eastern South Australia. They are up to 140 m thick and are underlain and overlain conformably by thick red bed sequences. This...-
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Bull 043 Regional And Economic Geology of the Mount Painter Province
The northern Flinders Ranges were opened up by pastoralists from about 1850 onwards; mineral discoveries date from about 1860 in the Mount Painter Province. The region has been one of desultory mining activities since that date, principally for...-
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Bull 018 The Pre-Cambrian-Cambrian Succession The General and Economic Geology of these Systems, in portions of South Australia
The correct stratigraphical succession of certain post-glacial formations, having a very limited range, however, can be determined in this southern portion of the Mount Lofty Range. During the previous six years the writer has had an opportunity of...-
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Bull 053 The Adelaide Geosyncline: Later Proterozoic Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, Pataeontology and Tectonics
The extremely thick succession provides one of the most complete sedimentary records for the Late Proterozoic. The term geosyncline is used in a non-genetic sense for the basin in which deposition occurred during the Adelaidean and Cambrian. Only the...-
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Bull 052 Stratigraphy and Tectonics of the Worumba Anticline and Associated Intrusive Breccias
The Worumba Anticline contains in its core a complex of intensely deformed and brecciated Callanna and Burra Group sediments and volcanics, surrounded by a less deformed rim sequence of unconformably overlying Umberatana Group sediments. The...-
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Bull 054 Geology of South Australia. Volume 1: The Precambrian.
The geology of South Australia represents over 150 years of geological investigations in South Australia. It is designed to provide the reader with a comprehensive regional account of the products of sedimentation, deformation, metamorphism and...-
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