Australian Lithospheric Architecture Magnetotelluric Project (AusLAMP) - Queensland Time Series data release (April 2021 - November 2022)

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

Geoscience Australia’s Exploring for the Future program provides precompetitive information to inform decision-making by government, community and industry on the sustainable development of Australia's mineral, energy and groundwater resources. By gathering, analysing and interpreting new and existing precompetitive geoscience data and knowledge, we are building a national picture of Australia’s geology and resource potential. This leads to a strong economy, resilient society and sustainable environment for the benefit of all Australians. This includes supporting Australia’s transition to net zero emissions, strong, sustainable resources and agriculture sectors, and economic opportunities and social benefits for Australia’s regional and remote communities. The Exploring for the Future program, which commenced in 2016, is an eight year, $225m investment by the Australian Government.

As part of Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program with contributions from the Geological Survey of Queensland, long-period magnetotelluric (MT) data for the Australian Lithospheric Architecture Magnetotelluric Project (AusLAMP) were collected using Geoscience Australia's LEMI-424 instruments on a half-degree grid across northern and western Queensland from April 2021 to November 2022. This survey aims to map the electrical resistivity structures in the region. The processed data and 3D resistivity model have been released (https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/148633). 

This data release includes acquired time series data and metadata for each site. The script used to package the time series data is provided. The time series data are available in their original format (.txt), as recorded by the data logger, as well as in MTH5 hierarchical format. The open-source MTH5 Python package (https://github.com/kujaku11/mth5) was used to convert the recorded data to MTH5 format.

We acknowledge the traditional landowners, private landholders and national park authorities within the survey region, without whose cooperation these data could not have been collected.

Data is available on request from clientservices@ga.gov.au - Quote eCat# 148978

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Title Australian Lithospheric Architecture Magnetotelluric Project (AusLAMP) - Queensland Time Series data release (April 2021 - November 2022)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/23ce98f5-6db1-4f82-bf44-dd028cfdfcce
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 12/10/2023 - 30/11/2023
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        138.0,
        -30.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -30.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        138.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        138.0,
        -30.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Australian Lithospheric Architecture Magnetotelluric Project (AusLAMP) - Queensland Time Series data release (April 2021 - November 2022)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/australian-lithospheric-architecture-magnetotelluric-project-auslamp-queensland-time-serie-2022