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2004 Indian Ocean tsunami explanatory animations and illustrations
A selection of images and short animations explaining key aspects of the 2004 Indian Ocean/ Sumatra tsunami, revised and issued for release to the media and other interested... -
Late Cretaceous-Palaeogene nannofossil biostratigraphy of Challenger No. 1...
Late Cretaceous-Palaeogene calcareous nannofossil assemblages from the mainly carbonate section in Challenger No. 1 well, above the 780m level, have some similarities with the... -
Effects of Abiotic Stressors on Infaunal Burrowing and Associated Sediment...
Infauna play key roles in nutrient cycling and bioturbation by facilitating exchange across the sediment-water interface, but the effects of environmental stressors on the... -
Exmouth Gulf Marine Seismic Survey Western Australia, 1961 By West...
A reconnaissance marine reflection seismic survey was conducted hi Exmouth Gulf and the open coastal waters along the west coast of Western Australia from Frazer Island to... -
Lower Cretaceous foraminifera from Phillips - Sunray Buckabie No. 1 well, Queensland
Phillips-Sunray Buckabie No.1 Well, situated 29 miles north of Quilpie, SW Queensland and was drilled to the depth of 9,070 feet. This report covers the examination of cuttings... -
Sediment characteristics influencing benthic biodiversity across a tropical...
Geoscience Australia undertook seabed mapping surveys in the eastern Bonaparte Gulf in 2009/2010 to deliver integrated information relevant to marine biodiversity conservation... -
Reef growth, southern Great Barrier Reef - preliminary results
The reefs of the Capricorn-Bunker Group in the southern Great Barrier Reef were the focus of a Bureau of Mineral Resources survey in September-October 1976. Subaerial and... -
Palaeogeographic reconstructions: Revealing the lithological variability of...
The Early Cretaceous Gage Sandstone and South Perth Shale are a prospective reservoir-seal pair in the Vlaming Sub-basin. Plays include post-breakup pinch-outs of the Gage... -
Build Back Better: Where Knowledge is Not Enough
That knowledge forms an important element of disaster risk reduction is undisputed. Understanding risk and knowing how to better prepare for and mitigate disasters is critical... -
Marine geophysical survey of the Northwest Continental Shelf, 1968
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Paleocene-Eocene biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of East Antarctica:...
The Mac. Robertson Shelf and western Prydz Bay, on the continental shelf of East Antarctica, were the sites of seismic/coring programs in February- March 1995 and 1997, and of... -
The Creation of High Resolution Bathymetry Grids for Cocos (Keeling) Island
Cocos (Keeling) Island is located approximately 3,685km almost due west of Darwin. It is a mid-ocean atoll with a coral reef, and a very shallow (1 - 20 m) shelf surrounds the... -
Australian petroleum accumulations report. Canning Basin, Western Australia
As at January 1993, nineteen hydrocarbon accumulations, six of which are commercial, have been discovered in the Canning Basin. The commercial accumulations occur in Permian to... -
BMR Cruise 067 : Otway Basin and West Tasmanian Sampling
In early 1987, scientists aboard R.V. Rig Seismic carried out a 29 day research cruise over the Otway Basin and the Sorell Basin of the west Tasmanian margin, to provide new... -
Proterozoic microfossils from the Roper Group, Northern Territory, Australia
The Roper Group (minimum age approximately 1300 x 10^6yr) is a shallow water sequence of sandstone, siltstone, and shale, with minor, sub-economic oolitic ironstone. The... -
Manganese nodules from the Tasman Sea off Sydney
Two manganese nodules were recently recovered by HMAS Kimbla from a water depth of 4300 m, in a northeast-trending trough about 250 nautical miles southeast of Sydney (155°... -
The geology of the Clermont 4-mile Sheet area, Queensland
Parts of three major structural units are exposed in the Clermont 4-mile Sheet area: the Anakie Inlier of pre-Devonian Anakie Metamorphics; the Drummond Basin of Lower... -
Standard Operation Procedures for a Multibeam Survey: Acquisition & Processing
The Australian Maritime Jurisdiction of approximately 7,000,000 km2 has, at most, 25% of its seabed surveyed at high resolution. Since September 2001, under Commonwealth Policy... -
Capel and Faust Basins - New Information from the Offshore Frontier Between...
New geophysical and geological datasets have been acquired in water depths of 1300-2500m from the Capel and Faust basins located some 800 km east of Brisbane (Figure 1). Between... -
Triassic petroleum systems on the central North West Shelf – Learnings from...
The greater Phoenix area in the Bedout Sub-basin has experienced recent exploration success on Australia’s North West Shelf (NWS). Oil and gas discoveries in the Triassic...