Layer 02 Great Artesian Basin base of Cenozoic surface

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Layer 02 Base of Cenozoic surface

Surface produced for the Great Artesian Water Resource Assessment (GABWRA) by Geoscience Australia (http://www.ga.gov.au). This surface was created for 3D visualisation of the Base of Cenozoic sequence. It was used in Figure 3.1 of Ransley TR and Smerdon BD (eds) (2012) Hydrostratigraphy, hydrogeology and system conceptualisation of the Great Artesian Basin. A technical report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia.

The surface is available in the following formats
1. GOCAD surface (.ts)
2. ESRI grid
3. ASCII grid (.grd)

Use limitations:
1. GOCAD surface requires program capable of reading GOCAD *.ts (triangulated surface) files
2. ASCII grid data requires re-interpolation by end-user resulting in minor differences to accompanying GOCAD *.ts surface

This layer is part of a set comprised of:
Layer 01 3-second Digital Elevation Model surface (catalogue #75990)
Layer 02 Base of Cenozoic surface (catalogue #75991)
Layer 03 Base of Mackunda Formation and equivalents surface (catalogue #76021)
Layer 04 Base of Rolling Downs Group surface (catalogue #76022)
Layer 05 Base of Hooray Sandstone and equivalents surface (catalogue #76023)
Layer 06 Base of Injune Creek Group surface (catalogue #76024)
Layer 07 Base of Hutton Sandstone surface (catalogue #76025)
Layer 05-07 Base of Algebuckina Sandstone surface (catalogue #76952)
Layer 08A Base of Evergreen and Marburg formations (catalogue #76026)
Layer 08B Base of Poolowanna Formation (catalogue #76953)
Layer 09 Base of Precipice Sandstone and equivalents surface (catalogue #76027)
Layer 10 Base of Jurassic-Cretaceous sequence surface (catalogue #76028)

This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 75991.

REFERENCES (Continued from Lineage field):
10. Senior D (1968) Durham Downs, Qld. 1:250 000 Geological Series, Bureau of Mineral Resources explanatory notes, SG/54-15. Australian Government Publishing Service Canberra.
11. Langford RP, Wilford GE, Truswell EM and Isern AR (1995) Palaeogeographic Atlas of Australia. Volume 10 - Cainozoic. Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Canberra. Available online:
12. Moussavi-Harami, R and Alexander, E., 1998 - Tertiary stratigraphy and tectonics, Eromanga Basin region. MESA Journal 8 (February 1998), 32-36p.
13. Hou, B., Fabris, A.J., Keling, J.L. & Fairclough, M.C., 2007 - Cainozoic palaeochannel-hosted uranium and current exploration methods, South Australia. MESA Journal 46 (September), 34-39.
14. Ransley and Smerdon (Eds) 2012. Hydrostratigraphy, hydrogeology and system conceptualisation of the Great Artesian Basin. CSIRO. Canberra.
15. Nelson GJ, Carey H, Radke BM and Ransley TR (2012). The three-dimensional visualisation of the Great Artesian Basin. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia.
16. Senior, B.R., 1978. The Whitula Formation, a new Tertiary stratigraphic unit. Appendix p 49-50 In Senior BR, Mond A and Harrison PL (1978) Geology of the Eromanga Basin. Bulletin 167. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Canberra.
17. Grimes KG (1980) The Tertiary geology of north Queensland. In: Henderson RA and Stephenson PJ (Eds) The Geology and Geophysics of Northeastern Australia. Geological Society of Australia, Queensland Division, Brisbane, 329-347.
18. Paten RJ (1964) The Tertiary geology of the Boulia region, western Queensland. Report 77. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Australia.

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Maintenance and Update Frequency: notPlanned

Statement: SOURCE DATA: For the Karumba and Kalpowar basins, seismic interpretation used information sourced McConachie et al (1997). Stratigraphic well picks from company well-completion reports for exploration drilling in the region - available from the QDEX database (Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines, 2012), Blake et al (1984) and BMR stratigraphic drilling reports (Gibson et.al., 1974). Stratigraphic drill-hole data on the Eromanga Basin came from PEPS-SA (South Australian Department for Manufacturing, Innovation, Trade, Resources & Energy, 2011) and the QPED database (Geological Survey of Queensland, 2010). Data sourced from contours and maps in Moussavi-Harami & Alexander (1998), Kellett et al (2004, 2008), Senior (1968) and Langford et al (1995). Digital thickness data was sourced from the Office of Water, Dubbo, NSW (Sue Hamilton, Pers. Comm., 2012). Contours for thicknesses in the Kingoonya Paleochannel were sourced from Hou et al (2007) BOUNDARIES: The surface was clipped to the Assessment boundary (Ransley & Smerdon (Eds.) 2012). PROCESSING: For details on data processing, refer to "The three-dimensional visualisation of the Great Artesian Basin: A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment" Nelson G. et. al 2012 REFERENCES: 1. Geological Survey of Queensland (2010). "Queensland Petroleum Exploration Data (QPED) database". Retrieved 25 September 2011, from . 2. South Australian Department for Manufacturing, Innovation, Trade, Resources & Energy (2011) "Petroleum Exploration and Production System - South Australia (PEPS-SA)". Version 2011-06-15. Retrieved from http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/petroleum/access_to_data/peps-sa_database 3. Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines (2012) "Queensland Digital Exploration Reports (QDEX)". 4. McConachie BA, Dunster JN, Wellman P, Denaro TJ, Pain CF, Habermehl MA and Draper JJ 1997 - Chapter 9; Carpentaria lowlands and gulf of Carpentaria regions. In: Bain JHC and Draper JJ (eds.) North Queensland Geology. AGSO Bulletin 240. Queensland department of Mines and Energy Australia, 365-397. Plate 9.5 5. Gibson, D. L., B. S. Powell, et al. (1974). Shallow stratigraphic drilling, northern Cape York Peninsula, 1973. Record 1974/76. Australia, Bureau of Mineral Resources. 6. Blake, T., Burgess, I.R., Stewart, O.C. and Low. E., 1984 - Duyken 1 Well Completion report Permit NT/P 30, Carpentaria Basin, Northern Territory, Australia. Canada Northwest Australia Oil N.L. Geoscience Australia Company report CR84/577. 7. Callen RA, Alley NF and Greenwood DR (1995) Lake Eyre Basin. In: Drexel JF and Preiss WV (eds). The Geology of South Australia Volume 2, the Phanerozoic. South Australia Geological Survey, Bulletin 54, Adelaide, p188-194. 8. Kellett J, Mullen I, Mansfield D, Spring J and Frost M (2008) Drilling, coring and geophysical logging for calibration of airborne electromagnetic survey in the Lower Macquarie Valley, New South Wales, Australia. Bureau of Rural Sciences, Australia. 9. Kellett J, Pearce B, Coram J, Herczeg A, Wilkinson K and Cresswell R (2004) Groundwater. In: Chamberlain T and Wilkinson K (eds.), Salinity investigations using airborne geophysics in the Lower Balonne area Southern Queensland. National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Bureau of Rural Sciences, Australia, 81-138. ** REMAINDER OF REFERENCES LISTED IN ABSTRACT DUE TO SPACE CONSTRAINTS **