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Thickness of Jurassic-Cretaceous sequence in the Carpentaria and Laura basins

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Thickness of the basal Jurassic-Cretaceous sandstone aquifers in the Carpentaria and Laura basins. Data is available as isopachs and raster. Isopachs are in Shapefile format. Rasters are in both ESRI grid and ASCII grid formats. This GIS data set was produced for the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment and used in: Figure 2.12 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 5.8 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 76536. SOURCE DATA (continued from lineage field due to space constraints) Harrison, J., W. J. Greer, et al. (1961). Completion report, Delhi-Santos Mornington Island Nos 1 and 2 wells. Company Report 696. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland. Laing, A. C. M. (1958). Final report on AAO Number 8 (Karumba). Mines Administration PL, Brisbane. Company report 226. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland. McConachie, B. A., J. N. Dunster, et al. (1989). Jackin Creek 1, Well completion report, A-P 373P, Carpentaria Basin, Queensland. Company Report 20580. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland. McConachie BA, Dunster JN, Wellman P, Denaro TJ, Pain CF, Habermehl MA and Draper JJ 1997 - Chapter 9; Carpentaria lowlands and gulf of Carpentaria regions. In: Bain JHC and Draper JJ (eds.) North Queensland Geology. AGSO Bulletin 240. Queensland department of Mines and Energy Australia, 365-397. Meyers, N. A. (1969). Carpentaria Basin. GSQ Report 34. Queensland, Geological Survey of Queensland. Mines Administration Pty Ltd. (1962). Cabot-Blueberry Marina No. 1, Authority to Prospect 61P, Queensland. Well Completion report. Report Q/61P/112. Company report 976. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland. Perryman, J. C. (1964). Midwood Exploratory Proprietary Ltd., Completion report, Burketown No.1, A-P 91P, Queensland. Company Report 1480. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland. Smart J, Grimes KG, Doutch HF and Pinchin J (1980) The Carpentaria and Karumba Basins, north Queensland. Bulletin 202. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Australia. Williams, L. J. (1976). GSQ Ebagoola 1 - Preliminary lithologic and composite log. Record 1988/14. Brisbane, Queensland Department of Mines and Geological Survey of Queensland. Williams, L. J. and L. M. Gunther (1989). GSQ Dobbyn 1 - Preliminary lithologic and composite log. Record 1989/22. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland.

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Title Thickness of Jurassic-Cretaceous sequence in the Carpentaria and Laura basins
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/684d669e-5790-45cc-849a-32f21fc234de
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Reference Period 22/04/2018
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        138.71,
        -20.84
      ],
      [
        145.2,
        -20.84
      ],
      [
        145.2,
        -10.39
      ],
      [
        138.71,
        -10.39
      ],
      [
        138.71,
        -20.84
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Thickness of Jurassic-Cretaceous sequence in 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/thickness-of-jurassic-cretaceous-sequence-in-the-carpentaria-and-laura-basins