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2002 Riverland Aerial EM Survey. [metadata reference record to allow for geophysical data retrieval by users in a spatial search context].
During the period June through September 2002, the Commonwealth Government acquired some detailed airborne EM survey coverage of the Riverland irrigation district in eastern South Australia, for the purpose of assisting with research into salinity...-
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Mutooroo [Station]. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 11/9/1989 to 6/9/1994.
Exploration for possible heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits within Tertiary sediments on the northern margin of the Murray Basin comprised aircore drilling (28 holes, total 744 m) in the Mutooroo station area, 50 km south-east of Olary. The...-
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Murray Bridge. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 14/1/1994.
Exploration was undertaken by BHP along the western margin of the Murray Basin, between Lake Alexandrina and Cambrai township, for possible economic heavy mineral sands and for exhalative sedex-style volcanogenic/stratabound base metal deposits, both...-
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Gypsum deposits of South Australia [a commodity review - as updated].
53 individual gypsum deposits are catalogued and described.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1997
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RB 60/00005 Report on an exploratory resistivity survey of the Waikerie - Renmark area.
In November 1964 this exploratory survey found good hydrological - geophysical correlation for the sedimentary formations to depths of 100 feet in the Murray River irrigation areas between Waikerie and Renmark. Analysis indicates that the sands,...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1965
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RB 59/00999 Yumali township water supply.
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Published: 01 Apr 1959
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RB 60/00010 CHOWILLA 4-mile sheet (geological mapping). Preliminary report.
Geological sections drawn across the CHOWILLA 4-mile mapsheet area have been prepared from drillers' lithologs of 36 bores. The existence of a number of distinctive marker horizons and paleontological age determinations enable a provisional...-
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Published: 13 Jan 1965
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RB 60/00026 Chowilla Dam Project, rip-rap investigation, Lowbank quarry site. Progress geological report, February 1965.
A quarry site located near Lowbank on the River Murray, 7 miles east of Waikerie, has been geologically mapped and partly explored by drilling 14 vertical diamond holes with a total depth penetration of 702 feet. Marine sandy limestone and calcareous...-
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Published: 12 Feb 1965
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RB 60/00079 Nulla Nulla refraction seismic and gravity survey.
During March 1965 a combined refraction seismic and gravity survey was carried out on behalf of Australian Oil and Gas Corporation Ltd by the SADM seismic party. The primary aim of the survey was to assess a probable sedimentary trough located in PEL...-
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Published: 14 Apr 1965
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RB 78/00111 Geophysical investigations over three aeromagnetic anomalies in the Meningie area.
Aim was to locate 3 anomalies more precisely to assist in location of drill sites test for mineralization. The results in 2 of the areas indicate anomalies are caused by narrow bands of magnetic material. The source of the anomaly in the third area...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 82/00051 Management proposal for the groundwater resources along the State border of South Australia and Victoria.
The groundwater licensing authorities in the States of South Australia and Victoria recognize that future development of the lands adjacent to the border will depend on the groundwater resource underlying those lands. In most areas there, shallow...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1982
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RB 84/00102 Silica sand deposits near Lake Alexandrina.
4 Quaternary silica sand deposits were assessed by 47 auger holes. The deposits comprise backshore dunes marginal to the lake and are a potential source of replenishment sand for metropolitan beaches. Only 1 deposit is mined at present, Nalpa no. 1...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1984
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RB 88/00014 Petroleum exploration and development in South Australia (5th edition).
In South Australia since 1958, 140,400 km of seismic have been recorded (75,500 onshore) and 882 wells drilled (of which 16 are offshore wildcats and 238 are development wells). Exploration and development have taken place in three distinct phases....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1988
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RB 86/00066 New record and tectonic implications of a high-level Lepidocyclina-bearing limestone, Bremer Valley, eastern Mount Lofty Ranges.
The distinctive large, benthonic, shallow marine foraminifer Lepidocyclina howchini has been identified, with an associated benthonic microfauna, in limestone in a borrow pit located in the Bremer Valley 3 km east of Kanmantoo. The limestone is a...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1986
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RB 77/00006 Hydrogeology of the Angas Bremer irrigation area. A summary of the understanding of the problem in 1976.
Groundwater investigations in the Milang-Langhorne Creek area have been in progress since 1968, with the aim of determining the safe yield of the confined aquifer. The main water use in the area (now referred to as the Angas-Bremer irrigation area at...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 80/00141 Angas-Bremer irrigation area groundwater recharge.
Within the Angas - Bremer Irrigation Area, the source of the groundwater being taken currently primarily for the large-scale irrigation of lucerne fodder crops is the confined low salinity Tertiary limestone aquifer. The extent of pumping from bores...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1980
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RB 90/00078 South Australia - Exploration Towards 2000. Seminar, Adelaide, 13 December, 1990. Extended abstracts.
A seminar designed to heighten industry interest in South Australia as a place in which to search for minerals and petroleum was organised by the Department of Mines and Energy at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 13 December 1990. A number of data...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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RB 96/00015 Regional groundwater impacts of irrigation development in the eastern Riverland.
A regional groundwater model has been constructed of the Loxton Sands watertable aquifer in the eastern Riverland, over an area extending eastwards from Overland Corner to the State border. It is being used to quantify the salt load impacts on the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1995
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RB 96/00014 Clayton water supply - Aquifer storage and recovery investigation.
Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) is being developed as a solution to provide an emergency town water supply in a location where blue- green algae make River Murray water unfit for domestic use during summer. Algae-free river water will be injected...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1998
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RB 99/00002 Risk assessment modelling for irrigation development in the Angas Bremer irrigation area.
Recently imposed water resource management controls in the Angas - Bremer Irrigation Area have reduced the local irrigators' aggregate groundwater allocation to within the sustainable limits of the basin, primarily by conversion of their licences...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1999
