RV Investigator Voyage IN2020_V01 Gravity Data

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This record describes gravity data collected from the Marine National Facility (MNF) RV Investigator Voyage IN2020_V01, titled: “Development of William’s Ridge, Kerguelen Plateau: tectonics, hotspot magmatism, microcontinents, and Australia’s Extended Continental Shelf” between January 08 and March 06, 2020 departing from Henderson (WA) and returning back to Fremantle (WA). The gravity meter instrument is a MicroG Lacoste Air-Sea II. Data are stored in .ENV and .DAT data files at CSIRO. There are 892 MB of raw data in this dataset. Wharf ties were undertaken at Fremantle using a Scintrex Autograv CG-5. Wharf tie data can be found in "in2020_v01_Wharf_Tie_20200306.txt", which is stored with the raw data. No processing has been conducted on this data. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the GSM data acquisition and processing report.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title RV Investigator Voyage IN2020_V01 Gravity Data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/ccfd2b3e-1985-400e-b89b-b82018e8c9a1
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 29/04/2020
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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      ],
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        -57.0
      ],
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        -30.0
      ],
      [
        70.0,
        -30.0
      ],
      [
        70.0,
        -57.0
      ]
    ]
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}
Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "RV Investigator Voyage IN2020_V01 Gravity Data". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/rv-investigator-voyage-in2020_v01-gravity-data