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Australian Historic Geoscience Field Notebooks Collection

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Collection of field notebooks recording mainly geological observations made by staff of Geoscience Australia (GA) and its predecessors, Bureau of Mineral Resources (BMR) and Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO), while conducting fieldwork between 1930 and 2010. The notebooks are currently being digitised. Value: Historic and scientific significance. Many sites visited are remote and have rarely been revisited. Some notebooks also record observations on fauna and flora. Scope: Geographical scope is largely Australia, pre- and post-Independence Papua New Guinea (PNG), and the Australian Antarctic Territory, but other countries and territories are represented.

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Title Australian Historic Geoscience Field Notebooks Collection
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/f732b87f-b3d6-42da-b7c9-a6281637d0b0
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1930 - 31/12/2010
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Australian Historic Geoscience Field Notebooks Collection". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/australian-historic-geoscience-field-notebooks-collection