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Preliminary studies of the Cape Leeuwin manganese nodule deposit off Western...
In 1970 a large deposit of ferromanganese nodules was discovered on the floor of the Indian Ocean southwest of Cape Leeuwin by the research vessel USNS Eltanin. This discovery,... -
Geoscience Australia Marine Survey SS06/2006 Post-Survey Report: Natural...
The petroleum potential of the central North West Shelf, encompassing the Offshore Canning and Roebuck basins, is currently considered to be poor compared to other North West... -
Videos and images from GA2476 (Western Australian Margin)
The Western Margin survey (GA survey #2476) was conducted on the R.V. Sonne between 25 October 2008 and 19 January 2009 in collaboration with staff from the Western Australia... -
The Creation of High Resolution Bathymetry Grids for Cocos (Keeling) Island
Cocos (Keeling) Island is located approximately 3,685km almost due west of Darwin. It is a mid-ocean atoll with a coral reef, and a very shallow (1 - 20 m) shelf surrounds the... -
BMR Research Newsletter 5
Titles in this newsletter: Platinum group minerals from a layer in the Munni Munni Complex of the Pilbara Block Review of Baas Becking Geobiological Laboratory BMR enhances... -
The crustal structure of the Gulf of Papua and northwest Coral Sea
Interpretation of seismic refraction data from the southwestern coast of the Papuan Peninsula and the northwest Coral Sea gives consistent results using several inversion... -
Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction around Australia
Map showing Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction around the Australian Continent, not including Cocos Island, subantarctic territories or the AAT. One of the 27 constituent maps of... -
Coral faunas from the Silurian of New South Wales and the Devonian of...
Part I. deals with Devonian coral faunas from the West Kimberleys, the East Kimberleys, and the Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia. Of the 30 species described and illustrated... -
Stable isotope and chemical studies of volcanic exhalations and thermal...
Thermal waters in Matupi Harbour and Sulphur Creek, Rabaul caldera have D/H and O18/O16 ratios that are indicative of a mixed source. They are the result of mixing of local... -
Incorporation of Organic Contaminants in Geochemical Samples and an...
Organic geochemists are increasingly involved in multi-disciplinary collaborative studies but not often in the initial sample collection phase, so understanding the origin and... -
Geology of the Drummond Basin, Queensland
The Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous Drummond Basin sequence crops out over an area of approximately 25 000 km2 , mainly west but also east of the Anakie Inlier in east-... -
Diatoms Control Nutrient Cycles in a Temperate, Wave-dominated Estuary...
Diatoms are important primary producers within pelagic, benthic end epiphytic communities and their siliceous frustule leads to rapid sinking to the sediment. As a consequence,... -
AMSIS Distance To GPServer
The AMSIS Distance To tool calculates the distance to a selected marine feature. The output is the distance to the nearest feature from the given location. -
AUSCAN Seafloor Mapping and Geological Sampling Survey on the Australian...
AUSCAN (Australian Canyons), a major research expedition that investigated Australia's southern margin from southern Tasmania in the east to off Cape Leeuwin in the west,... -
Quaternary Evolution, Modern Geological Processes and Potential Effects of...
To meet the formal requirements for the collection, interpretation and analysis ofenvironmental baseline data in Australia's offshore areas in which further petroleumexploration... -
Mesozoic Bivalvia from Clerke and Mermaid Canyons, northwest Australian...
Four sets of rock samples from two sites off the northwest Australian shelf in 3625-4480 m of water contain macrofaunas, mainly bivalves, of warm shallow-water origin. Mermaid... -
Global sea-level change as a method of correlating the Late Permian coal...
Eustatic changes in sea level can be used to correlate sequences in widely separated areas. Thick terrestrial sequences with marine intercalations are especially suitable,... -
Australia's Southeast Marine Region
3D images and text describing Australia's Southeast Marine Region -
First Acreage Release in Frontier Mentelle Basin
In 2010 the Australian Government offered for the first time a large exploration block for acreage release in the frontier Mentelle Basin. This large sedimentary basin (36, 000... -
Recalibrating Australian Triassic palynostratigraphy to the international...
The Triassic is an important interval for Australian petroleum exploration, with Middle to Upper Triassic Mungaroo Formation reservoirs in the Northern Carnarvon Basin, and...