Datasets

The mesac Open Data Portal datasets contain detailed records of seismic surveys and geochemical data, and they are made available here to industry, researchers and the public.

  • RB 76/00147 Explanatory Notes for the CHOWILLA 1:250 000 geological map.

    The CHOWILLA 1:250 000 map area lies in the north-western part of the Murray Basin, between latitudes 33° and 34°S and longitudes 139°30' and 141°E. Its eastern boundary is the South Australian - New South Wales state border. The area includes...
      Document Published: 01 Mar 1977
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  • RB 93/00009 Petroleum exploration and development in South Australia (9th edition).

    This brochure includes a description of the status of the upstream petroleum industry in SA and includes historical highlights, SADME role statement, and basic advice regarding public sector geophysical services and data availability. There is a...
      Document Published: 01 Mar 1993
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  • Annual and Technical Reports for GEL 353.

    GEL 353 was granted to New World Energy Solutions Pty Ltd on 25th August 2008. GEL 353 is located over the early Permian Renmark Trough area of the Murray Basin and is thought to contain up to 3500m of sediments at its deepest point overlying a pre...
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  • 2009 Renmark Magnetotelluric Survey.

    The 2007 Renmark Magnetotelluric Survey was primarily an undergraduate honours research project designed to investigate the geothermal prospectivity of the Renmark Trough. The survey was carried out by students of the University of Adelaide, with full...
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  • 1981 and 1983 seismic surveys, Overland Corner OC81 and OC83, final reoprt.

    AIM: The principal objective of the OC81 Seismic Survey and a calculated, normal moveout velocity-based seismic reflection time stratigraphic well tie to North Renmark 1 was to determine the areal extent of the prospective Permian (and Devonian?)...
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  • 1987 seismic survey, Cooltong, final report.

    AIM: A detailed grid of 9 lines totalling 71.6 line kms was shot in this survey to firm up two previously recognised but insufficiently profiled leads mapped on line OC85-22, near the Renmark Trough Permian depocentre. METHODS: Survey dates: 23 July -...
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  • Murray Basin. Source rock studies.

    Contains source rock analysis data and interpretations for core and cuttings samples from 3 wells in the Renmark Trough.
      Document Published: 31 May 1984
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  • 1986 seismic survey, Calperum, final report.

    AIM: Two small seismic grids comprising 2 groups each of 6 close-spaced lines, totalling 81.76 line kms, were shot within the Renmark Trough to detail 2 previously identified leads interpreted along line OC85-22. METHODS: Survey dates: 23-30 January...
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  • 1985 seismic survey, Overland Corner OC85, final report.

    AIM:Three regional lines totalling 45.24 line kms were shot in this survey to - infill the existing 1983 and 1981 vintage IMC seismic grid and investigate a possible low side fault closure previously identified along the Renmark Fault Zone; -...
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  • RI 041 Hydrocarbon Potential of Western Murray Basin and Infrabasins

    The Murray Basin is a shallow, saucer-shaped Tertiary basin covering an area of 120 700 square miles extending from the western foot of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales and Victoria to the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia. Geophysical work...
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  • Annual and Technical Reports for GELs 241 and 242.

    Contiguous licences GEL 241 and 242 were granted to MNGI Ltd for an initial period of 5 years on 26th February 2007. MNGI Pty Ltd are a wholly owned subsidiary of Petratherm Ltd. The main focus of the location of these 2 tenements was the Palaeozoic,...
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  • Annual and Technical Reports for GELs 175 and 176.

    2 contiguous GEL licences, 175 and 176 in the Renmark area were granted to Eden Energy on 23rd May 2005 for an initial period for 5 years. The joint project was known as the Renmark Geothermal Project. A combination of modelled geothermal gradients...
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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...
      Document Published: 01 Aug 2003

  • RB 2020/00023 Delamerian project area magnetic source depth models

    The results of a study undertaken to produce depth estimates to the top of magnetic anomaly sources are presented within this report. The area of interest is located within the present-day preserved footprint of the ~500 Ma Delamerian Orogenic Belt,...
      Document Published: 01 Aug 2020
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  • ExpNotes CHOWILLA: Explanatory Notes CHOWILLA

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  • RB 2020/00024 The South Australian Atlas of Geoscience and Mineral Exploration Data – Delamerian basement to the Murray Basin

    The Delamerian basement to the Murray Basin has been selected as the focus region for a major Geological Survey of South Australia project being conducted as part of the MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative...
      Document Published: 01 Sep 2020
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  • ExpNotes RENMARK: Explanatory Notes RENMARK

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