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The Regolith Map of Australia 1:5M scale dataset (2013 edition) is a seamless but partial national coverage of regolith-landform units, compiled for use at, or between 1:5 million, and 1:1 million scale. The data maps high-level regolith-landform units. The units appear as polygon geometries, and with attribute information identifying high-level regolith and landform nomenclatures and their hierarchy.The 2013 dataset is a completely new portrayal of Australia's regolith from that presented much earlier in 1986, in which a whole of continent view of Australia's regolith was based on a simpler desktop-based 1:5 million continental regolith terrain assessment, not directly linked with landforms and published by the Bureau of Mineral Resources Geology and Geophysics. The 2013 edition incorporates new published mapping in South Australia (2012), integrated with earlier field-based regolith-landform mapping data from the Northern Territory (2006) and later Queensland (2008). The attribute structure of the new dataset is also revised to be more compatible with the GeoSciML data standard, published by the IUGS Commission for Geoscience Information.
The map data is compiled largely from simplifying and edge-matching of 1:250 000 scale regolith compilation maps. Some source regolith and geologic maps ranging in scale from 1:50 000 to 1:1 million were used together with LANDSAT7, radiometric, magnetics, and gravity imagery, in addition to a 9 second digital elevation model.
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Statement: The Regolith Map of Australia 1:5M scale dataset (2013 edition) is a seamless but partial national coverage of regolith-landform units, compiled for use at around 1:5 million scale. The data maps high-level regolith-landform units. The units appear as polygon geometries, and with attribute information identifying high-level regolith and landform nomenclatures and their hierarchy.
The 2013 dataset is a completely new portrayal of Australia's regolith from that presented much earlier in 1986, in which a whole of continent view of Australia's regolith was based on a simpler desktop-based 1:5 Million continental regolith terrain assessment, not directly linked with landforms and published by the Bureau of Mineral Resources Geology and Geophysics. The 2013 edition incorporates new published mapping in South Australia (2012), integrated with earlier field-based regolith-landform mapping data from the Northern Territory (2006) and later Queensland (2008). The attribute structure of the new dataset is also revised to be more compatible with the GeoSciML data standard, published by the IUGS Commission for Geoscience Information.
The map data is compiled largely from simplifying and edge-matching of 1:250 000 scale regolith compilation maps. Some source regolith and geologic maps ranging in scale from 1:50 000 to 1:1 million were used together with LANDSAT7, radiometric, magnetics, and gravity imagery, in addition to a 9second digital elevation model. In some areas where the only available geological maps were old and poorly located, some repositioning of mapping using recent satellite imagery or geophysics was employed.
Issued: 2013
text: westlimit=129.0; southlimit=-38.06047; eastlimit=153.55217; northlimit=-10.590413; projection=Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994
Subjects
AU-NT |
AU-QLD |
AU-SA |
DC2020 |
Earth Sciences |
GIS |
HVC_144616 |
Published_External |
Regolith Map |
geomorphology |
geoscientificInformation |
landforms |
mineral exploration |
regolith |
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- Local : pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/76662
- global : e09363a7-a957-7153-e044-00144fdd4fa6
