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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... -
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,... -
A Review of Spatial Interpolation Methods for Environmental Scientists
This review aims to provide some guidelines and suggestions in relation to the application of the methods to environmental data by comparing the features of the commonly applied... -
Seabed Mud Content Across the Australian Continental EEZ, 2011
This dataset provides the spatially continuous data of seabed mud content (sediment fraction < 63 µm) expressed as a weight percentage ranging from 0 to 100%, presented in... -
Interactions between Physical, Chemical, Biological, and Sedimentological...
Australia is an island continenet extending from tropical to midlatitude waters with an Exclusive Economic Zone of some 8.6 million square kilometres. Its regional seas are... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Miocene volcanic seamounts on northern Lord Howe Rise: lithology, age,...
Multibeam sonar swath-mapping has revealed small submarine volcanic cones on the northeastern Lord Howe Rise (LHR), a submerged ribbon continent. Two such cones, aligned NNW and... -
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... -
A Review of Surrogates for Marine Benthic Biodiversity
A growing need to manage marine biodiversity sustainably at local, regional and global scales cannot be met by applying the limited existing biological data. Abiotic surrogates... -
GEOMAT - Modelling of Continental Shelf Sediment Mobility in Support of...
GEOMA T is a geological-oceanographic computer modelling project which aims to enhance our understanding of the processes controlling sediment mobilisation on the Australian... -
Benthic Marine Bioregionalisation of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone: A...
The benthic (sea floor) component of the National Marine Bioregionalisation covers the 80% of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone that lies beyond the continental shelf break.... -
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... -
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... -
Major achievements of the comparative geomorphology of estuaries project
Australia's near-pristine estuaries are some of our most valuable natural assets, with many natural and cultural heritage values. They are important as undisturbed habitat for... -
Seabed Environments, Habitats and Biological Assemblages
Pitcher, C.R., P.J., Doherty, and T.J. Anderson. (2008). Seabed environments, habitats and biological assemblages. pages 51-58. In: Hutchings, P.A., M.J. Kingsford, and O.... -
Benthic environments of the Lord Howe Rise submarine plateau: Introduction...
The Australian exclusive economic zone (EEZ) contains1.6 million km2 of submarine plateaus, equal to about 13.8% of the world's known inventory of these features. This... -
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%,... -
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...