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Mesozoic Geology of the Carpentaria and Laura Basins

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Boundary of the Normanton Formation, Allaru Mudstone and Wallumbilla Formation in Cape York and offshore Carpentaria. Differentiation of Rolling Downs group within Cape York and extent of Normanton Formation within offshore Carpentaria Basin. Joins with boundaries of Rolling Downs Group included on Habermehl and Lau (1997).
Data is available in Shapefile format This data set was used in: Figure 2.13 in 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 5.9 in 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. REFERENCES Habermehl, M. A. and J. E. Lau (1997). Hydrogeology of the Great Artesian Basin Australia (Map at scale 1:2,500,000). Canberra, Australian Geological Survey Organisation. This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 75840.

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Title Mesozoic Geology of the Carpentaria and Laura Basins
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/e9eaac80-7181-498d-8bcb-e7789ded9d57
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Reference Period 22/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Mesozoic Geology of 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/mesozoic-geology-of-the-carpentaria-and-laura-basins