The Water for Infrastructure Corridors Initiative is a project funded through the Economic and Business Growth Fund and is a collaboration between the Department for Environment and Water, the Department for Infrastructure and Transport and the...

An area of approximately 1791 square km located to the north and north-west of the Leigh Creek Coalfield was taken out under licence by ETSA for one year, to enable the conduct of a joint ETSA/SADME coal exploration programme over alluvium-covered...

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2 seismic refraction surveys were carried out by the SA Department of Mines 27 miles north of Port Augusta for Santos, following the finding of traces of crude oil in Wilkatana 1, to investigate whether the possibility exists of a basement high over...

Lake Torrens, a normally - dry salina whose surface is 112 feet above sea level, has been the site of accummulation of some l,000 feet of continental lacustrine sediments since Eocene times. Sublake sediments encountered in boring comprise in...

Palynological examination of samples from Lake Torrens Bore 3A indicates a high degree of organic oxidation much that pollens and spores are only preserved below about 600 feet. Microfloral assemblages obtained below this depth indicate an Eocene age...

A seismic refraction reconnaissance carried out on Lake Torrens 3.5 miles from the eastern edge and 21.5 miles West South West of Parachilna indicated the basement to be at a depth of approximately 997 feet and dipping almost 30W.

Groundwater occurs to the east in Marinoan rocks forming the Northern Flinders Range and to the west in the Pirie-Torrens Basin. All existing supplies are too saline for use. Mapping has shown limestone beds which have not yet been exploited and water...

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Both time cross-section and dip cross-section plots have been attempted over a 14,400 foot long traverse through the Wilkatana 1 bore site, to outline the Tertiary - Cambrian unconformity. The time cross section shows some reflections below the base...

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The trend in recent years to the raising of extensive crops of garden peas and other vegetables in portions of the coastal region between Port Pirie and Port Augusta has stimulated interest in the role which underground water might play in the...

7 cable tool wells drilled in 1980 were unsuccessful. In 1981 5 rotary holes were drilled. 2 of 3 wells drilled in fractured Pound Quartzite and Wilkawillina Limestone were successful, but 2 drilled in Tertiary sediments were unsuccessful.

Combined experimental transient EM (TEM) and vertical electric sounding (VES) attempted to delimit shallow freshwater aquifers. Both methods furnished good quality data. However, only electrical soundings were able to detect deeper seated, higher...

The subject exploration licence was taken up for a 1-year term to enable ETSA and SADME to jointly conduct exploration for possible Triassic coal basins that might be concealed beneath alluvial cover in sparsely drilled areas to the north and...

Time series techniques can be used to produce empirical models of variations in piezometric water table heads of aquifers. Results varying from poor to very good were obtained. Failure of the technique for some of the wells was due mainly to either...

Edeowie 1 (TD 984 metres), which aimed to identify a series of seismic reflectors mapped by SADME beneath the eastern Lake Torrens piedmont plain, has intersected a stratigraphic sequence with features indicating that complex structural changes occur...

This report concerns the stratigraphic setting and palaeontology of nonmarine Mollusca to complement continuing investigations by R. A. Callen in Lake Frome and southern Strzelecki Desert, and to provide supporting data on palaeoecology and...

Foraminifera in drill core from the depth interval 57.37 - 57.60 m in SADME Redcliff 3 were dated at Early to Middle Miocene, representing the furthest north occurrence of Melton Limestone known to date.

2 holes totalling 144 m intersected Precambrian quartzite at 65 metres. No significant aquifers were found. Geophysical work indicates trough as source of saline ground water and target for coal exploration.