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Seascapes of the Australia Margin and Adjacent Sea Floor: Methodology and Results
This report describes the iterative methods used to create the seascapes, including a detailed appendix documenting the different datasets used in the different planning zones.... -
Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction North of 25°S 2019
Map showing all of Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction north of approx 25°S. Updated in December 2019 to reflect the 2018 Australia/Timor-Leste Maritime Boundaries Treaty (GeoCat... -
Predicted seabed gravel, mud and sand content in the Vlaming sub-basin in...
This dataset provides the spatially continuous data of seabed gravel (sediment fraction >2000 µm), mud (sediment fraction < 63 µm) and sand content (sediment fraction... -
Magnetic Susceptibility, Calcium Carbonate and the Geochemical Composition...
Several gravity cores from the west (3), south (3) and east (5) Australian continental margin have been sampled and analysed for magnetic susceptibility, percent calcium... -
Potential field and bathymetry grids of Australia's margins
The Australian Geological Survey Organistaion, in co-operation with Desmond Fitzgerald and Associates and the Australian Hydrographic Service, has produced a set of digital... -
Seascapes for the Australian Margin and Adjacent Seabed
Seascapes describing a layer of ecologically meaningful biophysical variable that spatially represent potential seabed habitats have been derived for the Australian margin and... -
Seabed Gravel Content Across the Australian Continental EEZ, 2011
The dataset provides the spatially continuous data of the seabed gravel content (sediment fraction >2000 µm) expressed as a weight percentage ranging from 0 to 100%,... -
Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction - wall map - A0 size
Map showing all of Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction including external Territories and the AAT. One of the 27 constituent maps of the "Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map... -
Applications of Geophysical Information to the Design of a Representative...
Management of the marine environment in Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone is addressed by an Oceans Policy that was put forward by the government in 1998. The policy is being... -
Classification of Australian clastic coastal depositional environments based...
A statistical assessment of wave, tide, and river power was carried out using a database of 721 Australian clastic coastal depositional environments to test whether their... -
Australian Estuaries and Coastal Waterways: A Guide to the Biogeochemistry...
This is a joint product developed by GA and Skyring Environment Entetrprises. It is an animated CDROM developed specifically in Authoware software for state of the art visual... -
Seabed Sand Content Across the Australian Continental EEZ, 2011
This dataset provides the spatially continuous data of the seabed sand content (sediment fraction 63-2000 mm) expressed as a weight percentage ranging from 0 to 100%, presented... -
On the Use of Abiotic Surrogates to Describe Marine Benthic Biodiversity
A growing need to manage marine biodiversity at local, regional and global scales cannot be met by applying the limited existing biological data sets. Abiotic surrogacy is... -
Geomorphology of the Australian Margin and Adjacent Seafloor
For the first time, the distribution of seafloor geomorphic features has been systematically mapped over much of the Australian margin and adjacent seafloor. Each of 21 feature... -
Predicting Seabed Mud Content across the Australian Margin: Comparison of...
In this study, we conducted a simulation experiment to identify robust spatial interpolation methods using samples of seabed mud content in the Geoscience Australian Marine... -
Marine Samples Collection
The collection consists of seabed samples collected by Geoscience Australia and other organizations since the 1950s. Samples consist of various shallow cores types, rocks... -
Australia's Near-pristine Estuaries: Current Knowledge and Management
The purpose of this investigation was to collate previously disparate information on near-pristine estuaries and make it widely available for use by managers, researchers,... -
Geomorphic Features of the Continental Margin of Australia
Report to the National Oceans Office on the production of a consistent, high-quality bathymetric data grid and definition and description of geomorphic units for part of... -
High Seas Marine Protected Areas: Benthic environmental conservation...
In order to design a representative network of high seas marine protected areas (MPAs), an acceptable scheme is required to classify the benthic bioregions of the oceans. Given... -
An Initial Assessment of Estuarine Geomorphic Habitats as Indicators of...
An important aim of the comparative geomorphology of estuaries project was to increase understanding of the environmental characteristics of near-pristine estuaries and provide...