Cenozoic geology overlying the Carpentaria and Laura Basins

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

Cenozoic surface geology overlying the Carpentaria and Laura basins showing boundaries of the Bulimba Cycle, Wyaaba Cycle and the Claraville Cycle sediment packages. Data is available as polygons in Shapefile format. This data set was used in: Figure 3.4 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. Figure 1.4 of Smerdon BD, Ransley TR, Radke BM and Kellett JR (2012) Water resource assessment for 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. Figure 5.10 of Smerdon BD, Welsh WD and Ransley TR (eds) (2012) Water resource assessment for the Carpentaria region. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Australia. This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 75843.

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Title Cenozoic geology overlying the Carpentaria and Laura Basins
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f7a3bd52-12f7-4818-9191-e4776a376ae9
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 22/04/2018
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        137.302,
        -21.992
      ],
      [
        145.45,
        -21.992
      ],
      [
        145.45,
        -10.584
      ],
      [
        137.302,
        -10.584
      ],
      [
        137.302,
        -21.992
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Cenozoic geology overlying the Carpentaria and Laura Basins". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/cenozoic-geology-overlying-the-carpentaria-and-laura-basins