How Borehole Geophysics Works

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

This animation shows how borehole geophysical surveys are conducted. It is part of a series of Field Activity Technique Engagement Animations. The target audience are the communities that are impacted by GA's data acquisition activities. There is no sound or voice over. The 2D animation includes a simplified view of what borehole geophysics equipment looks like, what the equipment measures and how scientists use the data.

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Title How Borehole Geophysics Works
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/0eed80a3-a899-476c-982a-e907e67996cb
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 08/04/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Geoscience Australia

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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "How Borehole Geophysics Works". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/how-borehole-geophysics-works