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Karoonda. Final report at licence full surrender, combined with related partial surrender reports for Peake, Swan Reach, Waikerie and Malinong, covering the period 7/7/1980 to 6/7/1981.
Within the surrendered sections of the subject exploration licences in the Karoonda, Marmon Jabuk, Swan Reach, Blanchetown and Cooke Plains areas, following the conduct there of a 45.4 line km gravity survey and the drilling and geophysical logging of...-
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Published: 12 Jun 1981
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Petroleum geochemistry of the Otway Basin, and the significance of coastal bitumen strandings on adjacent southern Australian beaches. Volumes 1 to 5 source rock studies.
The standing of crude oil on the beaches of southern Australia was first recorded approximately 150 years ago. This material, known locally as coastal bitumen, was used by the early maritime visitors and settlers to caulk their vessels and is the...-
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RB 57/00017 Detailed observations on outcrop material from the Oodnadatta area.
Detailed field studies of outcropping material from the Oodnadatta and Wintinna 4 mile areas, supplemented by analyses and petrological descriptions of selected samples, has revealed a rock assemblage of considerable complexity. The results obtained...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 79/00157 Cambrian alkali playa-lacustrine sequence in the northeastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
Byilkaoora 1, a stratigraphic well drilled in the northeastern part of the Officer Basin in South Australia, intersected aeolian and fluvial sandstones and mudstones overlying 224 m of fine-grained, dolomitic, calcareous and argillaceous sediments...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 92/00066 South Australia - Otway Basin Area S92-1 petroleum prospects.
A promotional brochure for vacant offshore Otway Basin petroleum exploration acreage, designed for release overseas to potential corporate bidders, prior to gazettal of the area for permit applications in November 1992. Area S92-1 covering 4736 square...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1992
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Garford Homestead. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 12/4/1983 to 11/4/1984.
After a regional review of the absorbent clay mineral potential of known palygorskite and attapulgite - bearing Middle Tertiary palaeochannel sediments in an area centred 110 km south-west of Coober Pedy, a possibly economic partly-exposed attapulgite...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1984
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Stevenson Creek and Mount Bagot. Joint progress reports and technical reports to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 25/11/1980 to 24/11/1981.
Possible high-yielding oil shales of the Middle Cretaceous Toolebuc Formation, believed to be present within 125 m of the ground surface along the Dalhousie Anticline in the vicinity of previously drilled Pedirka Basin petroleum exploration wells...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1981
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Notes on the source affinity and thermal maturity of Eromanga Basin crude oils.
Gasoline range hydrocarbon analysis, carbon isotope analysis of C12+ saturates and aromatics and GC-MS analysis of C12+ naphthenes provide a consistent picture of the source affinity and thermal maturity of Cretaceous (Murta Member-type) and Jurassic...-
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Published: 06 Apr 1984
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Stansbury Basin, South Australia. Bitumen strandings on Kangaroo Island beaches. Field survey report.
Field examination of common asphaltite occurrences on Kangaroo Island beaches has concluded that they are relatively recent strandings of unknown origin and age. Their presumed sea floor mode of transport indicates a likely nearby source within the...-
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ExpNotes WINTINNA: Explanatory Notes WINTINNA
A new generation, first edition WINTINNA 1:250 000 scale geological map and explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's geological mapping program undertaken in the...-
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RB 70/00101 Permian palaeogeography and depositional environment of the Arckaringa Basin, South Australia.
The Arckaringa Basin, situated, in northern South Australia, is an intracratonic Permian basin, composed of deep marginal grabens or half grabens and a central area of shallow basement, the latter covered by only a thin sediment blanket. The...-
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Published: 10 Jul 1970
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RB 71/00125 Geology of the NARACOORTE 1:250 000 sheet area.
The most significant feature of the area, covered by the Naracoorte 1:250 000 sheet is the Padthaway Ridge which underlies all but the southernmost part of the area, where Mesozoic sediments, of the Otway Basin lap onto the ridge (Padthaway...-
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Published: 06 Aug 1971
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RB 73/00067 Studies in small scale geological mapping, South Australia. Corridor 4, Cooper Basin. Erts-I, type II. Report July 1972 to January 1973.
The area included in this section of the study extends from Lake Blanche into Queensland across the Haddon corner. The ground coverage is outlined in figure 1. The purpose of this preliminary investigation is to assess the usefulness of ERTS-I...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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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 2004/00003 Mineral and Petroleum prospectivity analysis of the proposed Square Kilometre Radiotelescope Array (SKA) site, Murnpeowie Station, South Australia
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a proposed radiotelescope receiver network that, when constructed, will have an effective collection area of one square kilometre, making it up to 100 times more sensitive than any present-day instrument on Earth....-
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Published: 01 Apr 2004
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RB 2014/00005 WINTINNA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SG53-14. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The WINTINNA 1:250 000 mapsheet area lies between latitudes 27° to 28° South and longitudes 133°30’ to 135°00’ East. This ~16 400 square km area includes the Marla and Cadney Park settlements, and is crossed by the Stuart Highway and Adelaide to...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2015
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RB 2014/00016 Where in darnation is Cordillo? Discovery of anticlines in the central Great Artesian Basin.
A personal memoir account by Dr. Wopfner concerning the circumstances and process of his scientific discovery during 1957 of the expansive Mesozoic-Cenozoic sedimentary anticlines which outcrop in low relief in the far north-eastern corner of South...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2014
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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RB 2000/00032 Source rock potential and algal matter abundance, Cooper Basin, South Australia.
The Late Palaeozoic Cooper Basin is a major source of hydrocarbons and is especially important in providing the natural gas needs of much of south-eastern Australia. The basin is now a mature petroleum province, with more than 1200 wells drilled and...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2000
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Geranium. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 5/3/1997 to 4/4/2001.
Evaluation of known Tertiary sedimentary diatomite occurrences in the central Murray Mallee was carried out by Agricola Mining Pty Ltd on three prospects located near Geranium. Rotary drilling, with variable recovery sections of bottomhole diamond...-
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