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RB 69/00111 Blue-grey-siliceous limestone, Linwood quarry, secns 197, 248, 249 Hd Noarlunga, Co. Adelaide - Quarry Industries Ltd (logs not published).
Published: 01 Jan 1969 Created: 05 Nov 2024 Revised: 05 Nov 2024
Author: Pain, A.M.

The sediments in the vicinity of Linwood Quarry are calcareous, and belong to the Sturtian and Marinoan Series of the Adelaide System. A buff-coloured lime-stone bed 20 to 40 feet thick was used as a marker horizon. Blue-grey, siliceous limestone...

The sediments in the vicinity of Linwood Quarry are calcareous, and belong to the Sturtian and Marinoan Series of the Adelaide System. A buff-coloured lime-stone bed 20 to 40 feet thick was used as a marker horizon. Blue-grey, siliceous limestone occurring Immediately below it in the sequence is at present being quarried for crushed aggregate. Drilling of 18 Rotary Percussion drill holes showed that quarry development should take place in a south- southwesterly direction along the strike into sections 248 and 249, where good quality stone and an acceptable depth of overburden have been proven

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Record No rb6900111
Topic Geoscientific Information
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Document Type Departmental Publication - Geological Survey Geoscience Publication
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    Mine Name Linwood Quarry
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    Notes 
    Notes: Published in Mineral Resources Review, South Australia, no=131, p: 100-102 66/00394
Geographic Locality: Hd Noarlunga, secn 197, secn 248, secn 249
Doc No: RB 69/00111
    Notes: Published in Mineral Resources Review, South Australia, no=131, p: 100-102 66/00394
Geographic Locality: Hd Noarlunga, secn 197, secn 248, secn 249
Doc No: RB 69/00111
    Language English
    Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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    Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb6900111
    Citation Pain, A.M. 1969. RB 69/00111 Blue-grey-siliceous limestone, Linwood quarry, secns 197, 248, 249 Hd Noarlunga, Co. Adelaide - Quarry Industries Ltd (logs not published). Departmental Publication - Geological Survey Geoscience Publication. Government of South Australia.
    https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb6900111

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