AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Stratigraphic reconstructions of bulk volatile chemistry from fluid inclusions in drillhole Stansbury West 1, Stansbury Basin

Geoscience Australia’s Exploring for the Future (EFTF) 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.

The Stansbury Basin is a relatively underexplored basin in southern South Australia. Stansbury West 1 was drilled on the east coast of Yorke Peninsula to test the basal Permian sands and Paleozoic carbonate known to contain traces of hydrocarbon gas and residual oil. The well encountered no significant hydrocarbons and was abandoned as dry. A known occurrence of hydrogen-rich natural gas was discovered nearly a century ago in a well to the north of Stansbury West 1. Also potential hydrogen gas enrichment in the near-surface in the surrounds of the Stansbury West 1 drillhole has been proposed using satellite imagery and land surface features.

The study of natural hydrogen gas occurrences is a focus for the second phase of the EFTF program (2020–2024) and the fluid inclusion stratigraphy (FIS) technique of Fluid Inclusion Technology (Schlumberger) provides a convenient method to measure the well's complete downhole section for both hydrocarbon non-hydrocarbon gases that have been geologically trapped in fluid inclusions and then mechanically released in the laboratory.

Geoscience Australia have undertaken (via the service provider, FIT Schlumberger) stratigraphic reconstructions of bulk volatile chemistry from fluid inclusions from the drillhole Stansbury West 1, Stansbury Basin. FIS analysis was performed on 270 cuttings and core samples from 15.24 to 1743.53 metres, including 4.9 metres of Archean gneiss and granitic basement at the base of the drillhole.

This ecat record releases the final report containing the results of fluid inclusion stratigraphy and thin section analyses, raw data files (*.LAS) and rock descriptions by FIT Schlumberger (Company reference number FI220025a).

Tags: EFTF – Exploring for the Future, Exploration Geochemistry, Published_External, Stansbury West 1, fluid inclusion stratigraphy, thin section
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Vlaming Sub-Basin CO2 Storage Potential Study WMS

The Vlaming Sub-Basin CO2 Storage Potential Study web service includes the datasets associated with the study in the Vlaming Sub-basin, located within the southern Perth Basin about 30 km west of Perth. The data in this web service supports the results of the Geoscience Australia Record 2015/009 and appendices. The study provides an evaluation of the CO2 geological storage potential of the Vlaming Sub-basin and was part of the Australian Government's National Low Emission Coal Initiative.

Tags: Australia, CO2 Storage Potential, Carbon Capture and Storage, Carbon Dioxide, EARTH SCIENCES, National CO2 Infrastructure Plan, Offshore, Perth Basin, Published_External, Vlaming Sub-Basin, WMS, Web Service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Woomera 1:100 000 unpublished topographic map

At this scale 1cm on the map represents 1km on the ground. Each map covers a minimum area of 0.5 degrees longitude by 0.5 degrees latitude or about 54 kilometres by 54 kilometres. The contour interval is 20 metres.

Tags: 100K unpublished, AU-SA, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
AUSGeoid98 v.1.0 data files:  (sl53-07)

AUSGeoid98 data files contain a 2 minute grid of AUSGeoid98 data covering the Australian region, which you can use to interpolate geoid-ellipsoid separations for the positions required.You can use your own interpolation software, or you can use Geoscience Australia's Windows Interpolation software (Winter). The data files are text files in a standard format that cover the same area as standard topographic map areas. Files covering both 1:250,000 (approximately 100 x 150 km) and 1:1,000,000 (approximately 400 x 600 km) map areas are available. There is a 4 minute overlap on all sides of each area. Data format: AUSGeoid98 data files have a header record at the start of each file, to distinguish them from the superseded AUSGeoid93 data files. AUSGeoid98 data files show the geoid-ellipsoid separation to 3 decimal places, while the superseded AUSGeoid93 data files showed only 2 decimal places. AUSGeoid98 deflections of the vertical were computed from the geoid-ellipsoid separation surface, while the AUSGeoid93 deflections of the vertical were computed from OSU91A.

Tags: AU, AUSGeoid98, Geodesy, Geodetic Data, Published_External, dataset, geodesy
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Geoscience Australia's role in the IGS Analysis Centre Coordination

Geoscience Australia currently retains the Analysis Centre Coordinator role for the International GNSS Service (IGS). The IGS Analysis Centre Coordinator (ACC) has overall responsibility for generating the main official IGS combined products. Currently, there are three IGS product lines for GNSS satellite orbits and clocks, namely the IGS Final, the IGS Rapid, and the IGS Ultra-rapid products, each with different accuracies and latencies. The IGS is a key operational agency for supporting multi-constellation GNSS operations enabling governments, academia and industry to provide highest quality positioning services. This coordination role is fundamental to the Positioning Australia program and specifically for the Ginan Analysis Centre Software to transition into an IGS endorsed globally recognised Analysis Centre. This talk introduces the GA's role in the IGS Analysis Centre Coordination and the relevance to the Positioning Australia and generally Australia operating a GNSS Analysis Centre with an operational Ginan analysis centre software as part of the GA Strategy 2028 Creating a Location-Enabled Australia.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, Published_External, Wednesday Seminar, positioning
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
1170.2 Wind Regions for Australia

This dataset provides geospatial representation of the Australian wind regions defined in AS/NZS 1170.2 (2021) Structural Design Actions Part 2: wind actions (hereafter “Standard”). The dataset is intended to assist in delineating areas for referencing the Standard – for example in assigning building vulnerability models across the country. 
The dataset represents Geoscience Australia's interpretation of the definitions set out in the Standard and is intended for internal use only.
This dataset is not suitable for design purposes: professional designers should refer to the Standard for assessing the wind region for their projects. 
In the event of any inconsistency between this dataset and Figure 3.1 in the Standard, the Standard will take precedence. This product has not been formally endorsed by Standards Australia or the relevant Working Groups and subcommittees. References to localities are indicative and use the best available information at the time of production.
For further information on this dataset, please contact hazards@ga.gov.au.

Tags: AS/NZS 1170.2, Australia Standards/New Zealand Standards, Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified, Published_External, Wind, climate, hazards, standards
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Cook 1:250 000 topographic map

This map is part of the series that covers the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:250 000 (1cm on a map represents 2.5 km on the ground) and comprises 513 maps. This is the largest scale at which published topographic maps cover the entire continent. Each standard map covers an area of 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude or about 150 kilometres from east to west and 110 kilometres from north to south. There are about 50 special maps in the series and these maps cover a non-standard area. Typically, where a map produced on standard sheet lines is largely ocean it is combined with its landward neighbour. These maps contain natural and constructed features including road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, contours (interval 50m), localities and some administrative boundaries. The topographic map and data index shows coverage of the sheets. Product Specifications Coverage: The series covers the whole of Australia with 513 maps. Currency: Ranges from 1995 to 2009. 95% of maps have a reliability date of 1994 or later. Coordinates: Geographical and either AMG or MGA (post-1993) Datum: AGD66, GDA94, AHD. Projection: Universal Traverse Mercator (UTM) Medium: Paper, flat and folded copies.

Tags: 250K scale, AU-SA, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology, topography
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Ashton 1:250 000, R502 historical topographic map

The R502 series of maps has been replaced by the National Topographic Map Series (NTMS). The R502 series consists of 542 map sheets and covers Australia at a scale of 1:250,000. It was compiled from aerial photography, but only about one quarter of the series was contoured. The standard sheet size is 1 degree of latitude by 1.5 degrees of longitude. Transverse Mercator map projection and Clark 1858 datum were used. Coverage of the country was completed in 1968.

Tags: 250K scale, AU_WA, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Cue Kirkalocka Ninghan Yalgoo elevation grid geodetic

Digital Elevation data record the terrain height variations from the processed point- or line-located data recorded during a geophysical survey. This Cue Kirkalocka Ninghan Yalgoo elevation grid geodetic is elevation data for the Cue-Kirkalocka-Ninghan-Yalgoo-Badja-Kylie Hills merge, 1995-2004. This survey was acquired under the project No. 1341 for the geological survey of WA. The grid has a cell size of 0.00083 degrees (approximately 87m).  This grid contains the ground elevation relative to the geoid for the Cue-Kirkalocka-Ninghan-Yalgoo-Badja-Kylie Hills merge, 1995-2004. It represents the vertical distance from a location on the Earth's surface to the geoid. The data are given in units of meters. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.

Tags: Australia, DEM, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, Elevation, GADDS2.0, NCI, Published_External, WA, digital data, geoid, geophysical survey, geophysics, grid, raster, survey 1341, terrain
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
GSWA Eucla Basin 6 onshore TMI grid geodetic

Total magnetic intensity (TMI) data measures variations in the intensity of the Earth's magnetic field caused by the contrasting content of rock-forming minerals in the Earth crust. Magnetic anomalies can be either positive (field stronger than normal) or negative (field weaker) depending on the susceptibility of the rock. The data are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.
This GSWA Eucla Basin 6 onshore TMI grid geodetic has a cell size of 0.00042 degrees (approximately 43m). The units are in nanoTesla (or nT). The data used to produce this grid was acquired in 2009 by the WA Government, and consisted of 122145 line-kilometres of data at a line spacing between 200m and 400m, and 50m terrain clearance.

Tags: Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, NCI, Published_External, TMI, WA, airborne digital data, geophysical survey, geophysics, grid, mag, magnetics, magnetism, palaeomagnetism, raster, survey 1213, total magnetic intensity
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
GSSA Barton TotalMagneticIntensity grid geodetic

Total magnetic intensity (TMI) data measures variations in the intensity of the Earth's magnetic field caused by the contrasting content of rock-forming minerals in the Earth crust. Magnetic anomalies can be either positive (field stronger than normal) or negative (field weaker) depending on the susceptibility of the rock. The data are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.
This GSSA Barton TotalMagneticIntensity grid geodetic has a cell size of 0.00042 degrees (approximately 43m). The units are in nanoTesla (or nT). The data used to produce this grid was acquired in 2017 by the SA Government, and consisted of 111668 line-kilometres of data at 200m line spacing and 60m terrain clearance.

Tags: Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, NCI, Published_External, SA, TMI, airborne digital data, geophysical survey, geophysics, grid, mag, magnetics, magnetism, palaeomagnetism, raster, survey 1284, total magnetic intensity
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Cape Arid 1:100 000 topographic map

At this scale 1cm on the map represents 1km on the ground. Each map covers a minimum area of 0.5 degrees longitude by 0.5 degrees latitude or about 54 kilometres by 54 kilometres. The contour interval is 20 metres. Many maps are supplemented by hill shading. These maps contain natural and constructed features including road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, contours, localities and some administrative boundaries. Product Specifications Coverage: Australia is covered by more than 3000 x 1:100 000 scale maps, of which 1600 have been published as printed maps. Unpublished maps are available as compilations. Currency: Ranges from 1961 to 2009. Average 1997. Coordinates: Geographical and either AMG or MGA coordinates. Datum: AGD66, GDA94; AHD Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator UTM. Medium: Printed maps: Paper, flat and folded copies. Compilations: Paper or film, flat copies only.

Tags: 100K scale, AU-WA, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology, topography
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Fractional Cover (FC25)

The Fractional Cover product is derived from Geoscience Australia's Australian Reflectance Grid 25 (ARG25) product and provides a 25m scale fractional cover representation of the proportions of green or photosynthetic vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation, and bare surface cover across the Australian continent.  It is generated using the algorithm developed by the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program and described in Scarth et al. (2010)
The FC25 product suite is currently available for every scene Landsat Thematic Mapper (Landsat 5) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper (Landsat 7) scene acquired between 1986 and 2012 . Future versions of the product suite will include data from the Operational Land Imager (OLI) sensor aboard Landsat 8.

Tags: AU, Earth Sciences, Published_External, Thematic Data
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Richardson Range 1:50 000 topographic map

Product Specifications Coverage: Partial coverage, predominantly in northern Australia, along major transport routes, and other selected areas. About 1000 maps have been published to date. Currency: Ranges from 1968 to 2006. Coordinates: Geographical and UTM. Datum: AGD66, new edition WGS84; AHD. Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator UTM. Medium: Paper, flat copies only.

Tags: 50K scale, AU-QLD, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology, topography
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Armstrong 1:50 000 topographic map

Product Specifications Coverage: Partial coverage, predominantly in northern Australia, along major transport routes, and other selected areas. About 1000 maps have been published to date. Currency: Ranges from 1968 to 2006. Coordinates: Geographical and UTM. Datum: AGD66, new edition WGS84; AHD. Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator UTM. Medium: Paper, flat copies only.

Tags: 50K scale, AU-NT, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology, topography
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Magnetotelluric Time Series Metadata Consultation and Recommendations

Geoscience Australia first sought feedback on a metadata standard for magnetotelluric (MT) time-series data in 2018 with the publication of a Preview article (Kirkby, 2019) outlining suggestions for metadata fields that should be collected when running an MT survey. This was the first step in standardising the MT formats used by the Australian MT community to ensure a cohesive community approach moving forward. Intrepid Geophysics was subsequently contracted by Geoscience Australia to investigate the current community sentiment around a metadata standard and report on the community’s requirements for a standardised data format. Intrepid Geophysics was chosen as an independent party that had no significant stake in the magnetotellurics discussion.
This report is the third made to Geoscience Australia in a series investigating the needs of the Australian magnetotelluric community, with a focus on the definition of the metadata that should be collected along with the raw data of an MT survey. The findings were collated from interviews conducted in the preliminary stage of the project as well as an online questionnaire that was sent to those who had agreed to be contacted.
Feedback was constructive, centring on standardisation of parameter naming schemes, adding parameters that were missing and could add value, and misclassification of parameters. Future work should focus on a more widespread community engagement program that involves system manufacturers as well as building the metadata structure around the chosen data format.

Tags: DATA FORMAT, EARTH SCIENCES, Electrical and Electromagnetic Methods in Geophysics, GEOPHYSICS, Published_External
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
A practical account of instabilities in identification problems in groundwater systems

The construction of models which involve the identification of parameters, such as groundwater models, often leads to numerical instabilities.  Errors induced by these instabilities may actually increase with improved data collection and model resolution.  It is, therefore, important to understand properly the origin and nature of such instabilities, and to allow for their effect. There are important differences between the problems of identifying parameters or inputs of a hydrogeological system from output observations, and the problem of simulating future outputs for given inputs and parameters. These have implications in the construction of algorithms for their solutions.

Tags: Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Journal, Published_External
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Seabed environments and shallow geology of the Leveque Shelf, Browse Basin, Western Australia - Processed multichannel sub bottom profiler data

Geoscience Australia undertook a marine survey of the Leveque Shelf (survey number SOL5754/GA0340), a sub-basin of the Browse Basin, in May 2013. This survey provides seabed and shallow geological information to support an assessment of the CO2 storage potential of the Browse sedimentary basin. The basin, located on the Northwest Shelf, Western Australia, was previously identified by the Carbon Storage Taskforce (2009) as potentially suitable for CO2 storage. The survey was undertaken under the Australian Government's National CO2 Infrastructure Plan (NCIP) to help identify sites suitable for the long term storage of CO2 within reasonable distances of major sources of CO2 emissions. The principal aim of the Leveque Shelf marine survey was to look for evidence of any past or current gas or fluid seepage at the seabed, and to determine whether these features are related to structures (e.g. faults) in the Leveque Shelf area that may extend to the seabed. The survey also mapped seabed habitats and biota to provide information on communities and biophysical features that may be associated with seepage. This research, combined with deeper geological studies undertaken concurrently, addresses key questions on the potential for containment of CO2 in the basin's proposed CO2 storage unit, i.e. the basal sedimentary section (Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous), and the regional integrity of the Jamieson Formation (the seal unit overlying the main reservoir). This dataset comprises sparker sub bottom profiles processed as shallow, high resolution, multichannel seismic reflection data (SEG-Y format), navigation files (P190) and stacking velocities.

Tags: Earth Sciences, Marine Data, Published_External, Sub bottom profiles, WA, geological storage of CO2, marine, marine survey, seismic reflection, seismic sections
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Gravity Survey (P197953), gravity point data

Gravity data measures small changes in gravity due to changes in the density of rocks beneath the Earth's surface. The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.
 This Gravity Survey (P197953) contains a total of 37 point data values acquired at a spacing of 10500 metres. The data is located in SA and were acquired in 1979, under project No. 197953 for None.

Tags: Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, NCI, Published_External, SA, geophysical survey, geophysics, gravity, ground digital data, point, point located data, survey 197953
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
MRTAS NE Tasmania uranium grid geodetic

The radiometric, or gamma-ray spectrometric method, measures the natural variations in the gamma-rays detected near the Earth's surface as the result of the natural radioactive decay of potassium (K), uranium (U) and thorium (Th). The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.
This radiometric uranium grid has a cell size of 0.001 degrees (approximately 97m) and shows uranium element concentration of the Mangana-Alberton, NE Tas, 1989 in units of parts per million (or ppm). The data used to produce this grid was acquired in 1989 by the TAS Government, and consisted of 2755 line-kilometres of data at 500m line spacing and 243m terrain clearance.

Tags: Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, NASVD, NCI, Published_External, TAS, U, airborne digital data, gamma-ray, geophysical survey, geophysics, grid, rad, radiometrics, raster, spectrometry, survey 559, uranium
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Jardine River 1:250 000 GIS Dataset

This data is part of the series of maps that covers the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:250 000 (1cm on a map represents 2.5km on the ground) and comprises 513 maps. This is the largest scale at which published topographic maps cover the entire continent. 
Data is downloadable in various distribution formats.

Tags: 250K scale, AU-QLD, Earth Sciences, GIS Dataset, Published_External, dataset, topography
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data