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Thickness of Cenozoic sequence in the Karumba and Kalpowar basins, Great Artesian Basin

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Thickness of Cenozoic sequence in the Karumba and Kalpowar basins overlying the GAB. Data is available as isopachs and raster. Isopachs are in Shapefile format. Rasters are in both ESRI grid and ASCII grid formats. This GIS data set was produced for the Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment and used in: Figure 3.4 of 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 5.10 of 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. This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 76535. SOURCE DATA (Continued from Lineage field) Perryman, J. C. (1964). Midwood Exploratory Proprietary Ltd., Completion report, Burketown No.1, A-P 91P, Queensland. Company Report 1480. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland. Raymond, O.L. (2012) Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2012 edition. Geoscience Australia. Canberra. (available from http://www.ga.gov.au Catalogue number 74619) Smart J, Grimes KG, Doutch HF and Pinchin J (1980) The Carpentaria and Karumba Basins, north Queensland. Bulletin 202. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Australia. Williams, L. J. (1976). GSQ Ebagoola 1 - Preliminary lithologic and composite log. Record 1988/14. Brisbane, Queensland Department of Mines and Geological Survey of Queensland. Williams, L. J. and L. M. Gunther (1989). GSQ Dobbyn 1 - Preliminary lithologic and composite log. Record 1989/22. Brisbane, Geological Survey of Queensland.

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Title Thickness of Cenozoic sequence in the Karumba and Kalpowar basins, Great Artesian Basin
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f2888f34-ed25-4551-9506-833232d99873
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Reference Period 22/04/2018
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
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        131.7214,
        -21.5576
      ],
      [
        144.9253,
        -21.5576
      ],
      [
        144.9253,
        -7.591
      ],
      [
        131.7214,
        -7.591
      ],
      [
        131.7214,
        -21.5576
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Thickness of Cenozoic sequence in the Karumba and Kalpowar basins, Great Artesian Basin". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/thickness-of-cenozoic-sequence-in-the-karumba-and-kalpowar-basins-great-artesian-basin