North Crace brick shale deposit

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

This record reports on an extensive investigation carried out during 1959 which showed that very large resources of brick-making material occur in weathered sedimentary rocks of the Riverside Formation, which forms a belt about a mile wide and more than 5 miles long extending north-westerly past Crace trigonometrical station, at the northern extremity of Canberra City District.

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Title North Crace brick shale deposit
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a5baf537-26bf-4d36-822b-e16942b778de
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Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 22/04/2018
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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}
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "North Crace brick shale deposit". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/north-crace-brick-shale-deposit