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RB 72/00093 POOLOWANNA, South Australia, Explanatory Notes 1:250 000 geological survey sheet SG53-12, Geological Survey, South Australia. Australian.Government Printer, Canberra.
Published: 22 May 1975 Created: 06 Nov 2024 Revised: 07 Jul 2025
Author: Williams, A.F.;Youngs, B.C.

The Poolowanna 1:250 000 sheet area is about 1,000km north of Adelaide in the extreme north of South Australian portion of the Great Artesian Basin. The area mapped includes much of the Southern portion of the Simpson Desert. The oldest exposed...

The Poolowanna 1:250 000 sheet area is about 1,000km north of Adelaide in the extreme north of South Australian portion of the Great Artesian Basin. The area mapped includes much of the Southern portion of the Simpson Desert. The oldest exposed rocks are unnamed Pleistocene fluviatile sediments outcropping on the eastern side of the area. French Petroleum Company (Australia) Mokari no. 1 drilled a few kilometres to the west on DALHOUSIE, intersected Tertiary (159m), Creataceous (1,157m), Jurrasic (533m), Permian (450m) and Ordovician rocks (132m). The only other sediments on Poolowanna are the recent dune and playa lake deposits. Geophysical surveys were carried, out on the Poolowanna map area in. the early sixties but no drilling was undertaken. These surveys have indicated approximate north-south structural trends which, are similar to those in the Pedirka Basin to the west

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Record No rb7200093
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    Notes: Published in South Australia. geological survey. explanatory notes sadme, 20 pages; maps
Geographic Locality: Poolowanna;Simpson Desert
Doc No: RB 72/00093
    Notes: Published in South Australia. geological survey. explanatory notes sadme, 20 pages; maps
Geographic Locality: Poolowanna;Simpson Desert
Doc No: RB 72/00093
    Language English
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    Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb7200093
    Citation Williams, A.F.;Youngs, B.C. 1975. RB 72/00093 POOLOWANNA, South Australia, Explanatory Notes 1:250 000 geological survey sheet SG53-12, Geological Survey, South Australia. Australian.Government Printer, Canberra. Departmental Publication - Geological Survey Geoscience Publication. Government of South Australia.
    https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb7200093

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