RB 66/00118 Limestone for railway ballast on the Nullarbor Plain (with appendix on palaeontology).

Published: 01 Jan 1970 Created: 05 Nov 2024 Revised: 05 Nov 2024

Author: Hiern, M.N.;Ludbrook, N.H.

Samples obtained from five quarry faces and one outcrop on the Transcontinental Railway are classified into 6 types of material, probably representing at least four generations ranging from Nullarbor Limestone to superficial material from the...

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Record No	rb6600118
Topic	Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource	Document
Category Type	Civil Engineering Earth Sciences Engineering Geology Mineral Exploration Mineral Resources (Excl. Energy Resources) Paleontology Primary Mining And Extraction Of Mineral Resources Quarry And Extractive Resource Geology Resource Geology Stratigraphy
Document Type	Departmental Publication - Geological Survey Geoscience Publication
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Geological Province	Eucla Basin
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Stratigraphy	Nullarbor Limestone
Commodity	industrial material limestone
Notes	Notes: Published in Mineral Resources Review, South Australia, no=128, p: 166-174 67/01663 Geographic Locality: Nullarbor;Watson;Cook;Reid;Loongana Doc No: RB 66/00118 Notes: Published in Mineral Resources Review, South Australia, no=128, p: 166-174 67/01663 Geographic Locality: Nullarbor;Watson;Cook;Reid;Loongana Doc No: RB 66/00118
Language	English
Metadata Standard	ISO 19115-3

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Persistent identifier	https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb6600118
Citation	Hiern, M.N.;Ludbrook, N.H. 1970. RB 66/00118 Limestone for railway ballast on the Nullarbor Plain (with appendix on palaeontology). Departmental Publication - Geological Survey Geoscience Publication. Government of South Australia. https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb6600118

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