RB 60/00039 New AMP building, Adelaide. Foundation stratigraphy.
Published: 03 Mar 1965 Created: 05 Nov 2024 Revised: 05 Nov 2024

A foundation test bore 200 feet deep, drilled at the site of a new Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP) building to be constructed on the south-western corner of North Terrace and King William Street, has intersected a Cainozoic sedimentary...

A foundation test bore 200 feet deep, drilled at the site of a new Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP) building to be constructed on the south-western corner of North Terrace and King William Street, has intersected a Cainozoic sedimentary sequence of Upper Eocene to Recent geological age, providing a link between the subsurface sections recently exposed by other civil engineering works underway at Victoria Square and at the Morphett Street and Victoria Bridges.

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Record No rb6000039
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Departmental Publication - Engineering Geology Publication
Contributor South Australia. Department of Mines;Geological Survey of South Australia. Palaeontology Section
Sponsor
Tenement
Tenement Holder
Operator
Geological Province St Vincent Basin
Mine Name
Stratigraphy
Commodity
    Notes
    Notes: 64/01432
    Geographic Locality: Adelaide metropolitan;King William Street;North Terrace
    Doc No: RB 60/00039
    Drillhole: AMP Building foundation bore 4a

    Notes: 64/01432 Geographic Locality: Adelaide metropolitan;King William Street;North Terrace Doc No: RB 60/00039 Drillhole: AMP Building foundation bore 4a

    Language English
    Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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    Use constraints License
    License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
    Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb6000039
    Citation Lindsay, J.M. 1965. RB 60/00039 New AMP building, Adelaide. Foundation stratigraphy. Departmental Publication - Engineering Geology Publication. Government of South Australia.
    https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb6000039

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    Geographic Reference GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
    Geo bounding box {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[138.5,-35],[139,-35],[139,-34.5],[138.5,-34.5],[138.5,-35]]]}
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