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RB 43/00054 Report on foundation test for silo at Wallaroo for SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd.
Published: 01 Jan 1956 Created: 04 Nov 2024 Revised: 04 Nov 2024
Author: Crawford, A.R.

Percussion boring of a proposed silo site on old slag dumps at Wallaroo shows approximately 15 feet of slag on deeply weathered granite basement but with thin old shore material on the latter on the seaward side. The site is geologically...

Percussion boring of a proposed silo site on old slag dumps at Wallaroo shows approximately 15 feet of slag on deeply weathered granite basement but with thin old shore material on the latter on the seaward side. The site is geologically satisfactory, but the slag is liable to differential compaction.

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Record No rb4300054
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Departmental Publication - Engineering Geology Publication
Contributor
Sponsor
Tenement
Tenement Holder
Operator
Geological Province
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    Stratigraphy
    Commodity granite
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    Geographic Locality: Wallaroo;Yorke Peninsula
Doc No: RB 43/00054
    Geographic Locality: Wallaroo;Yorke Peninsula
Doc No: RB 43/00054
    Language English
    Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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    License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
    Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb4300054
    Citation Crawford, A.R. 1956. RB 43/00054 Report on foundation test for silo at Wallaroo for SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd. Departmental Publication - Engineering Geology Publication. Government of South Australia.
    https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb4300054

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    Geographic Reference GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
    Geo bounding box {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[137.5,-34],[138,-34],[138,-33.5],[137.5,-33.5],[137.5,-34]]]}
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