AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Temporal variation in seismicity of the Southwest Seismic Zone, Western Australia: implications for earthquake risk assessment

In the area 30-33Â°S, 116-118Â°E of the Southwest Seismic Zone of Western Australia, ML -4.0 earthquakes for the period 1960-1983 do not fit a Poisson model. However, when foreshocks and aftershocks are excluded, the hypothesis of a Poisson distribution cannot be rejected for the resulting series of main shocks. A similar result holds for the subset of ML -5.0 events for the period 1949- 1983. Consequently, when earthquake risk is being assessed by methods that assume a Poisson distribution, foreshocks and aftershocks should be excluded . However, the consequent apparent reduction of risk caused by removing these potentially damaging earthquakes should be pointed out. Although records of seismicity are probably incomplete for the early part of this century, there appears to have been an increase in numbers of ML -4.0 events, starting around 1949. Although, the data are too uncertain to test the increase in the ML -4.0 main shocks statistically, there has been an approximate five-fold increase in the mean yearly number of ML -4.5 main shocks during the period 1949 to 1983, compared with the period 1923 to 1948. This is clearly larger than would be expected from a Poisson process. Consequently, the apparent increase in the number of ML -4.0 events is probably also real and not an artefact of a Poisson process. Also, there were no ML -5.0 events during the period 1923 to 1948, and the only two ML -6.0 earthquakes this century took place in 1968 and 1979. This increase in seismicity since the late 1940s should be taken into account in the interpretation of earthquake risk calculations.

Tags: Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Journal, Published_External, WA
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
AUSGeoid98 v.1.0 data files:  (sj52-05)

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
Wiso Basin tie53, NT, 2000 (P1015), magnetic line data, AWAGS levelled

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.
 These line dataset from the Wiso Basin, NT, 2000 survey were acquired in 2000 by the NT Government, and consisted of 113520 line-kilometres of data at 400m line spacing and 80m terrain clearance. To constrain long wavelengths in the data, an independent data set, the Australia-wide Airborne Geophysical Survey (AWAGS) airborne magnetic data, was used to control the base levels of the survey data. This survey data is essentially levelled to AWAGS.

Tags: AWAGS, Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, NT, Published_External, airborne digital data, geophysical survey, geophysics, line, magnetic, magnetics, magnetism and palaeomagnetism, survey 1015, vector
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
AUSGeoid98 v.1.0 data files: (sf49-11)

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
SA Detailed Gravity Survey 92B3 (P199273), 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 SA Detailed Gravity Survey 92B3 (P199273) contains a total of 139 point data values acquired at a spacing of 500 metres. The data is located in SA and were acquired in 1992, under project No. 199273 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 199273
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
GSQ Hodgkinson Georgetown Block C Qld ppm thorium 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 thorium grid has a cell size of 0.00096 degrees (approximately 104m) and shows thorium element concentration of the Hodgkinson-Georgetown Block C, QLD, 2000, Prospectivity Plus Init. in units of parts per million (or ppm). The data used to produce this grid was acquired in 2000 by the QLD Government, and consisted of 72706 line-kilometres of data at a line spacing between 200m and 400m, and 80m terrain clearance.

Tags: Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, NASVD, NCI, Published_External, QLD, Th, airborne digital data, gamma-ray, geophysical survey, geophysics, grid, rad, radiometrics, raster, spectrometry, survey 788, thorium
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Heat Flow Interpretations for the Australian Continent: Release 1

Current understanding of Australia's geothermal resources is based on limited data such as temperature measurements taken in petroleum and mineral boreholes across the country. Heat flow studies are rarer, with existing publicly available compilations containing less than 150 heat flow data-points for Australia. Both temperature and heat flow data are unevenly distributed and, where no data exist, the available information has been interpolated over large areas to generate national-scale maps.
Geoscience Australia has acquired the field and laboratory equipment required to measure heat flow. It began thermal logging of boreholes across Australia in late 2008 and has since collected 155 temperature logs. In late 2009, the thermal conductivity meter became operational, allowing the project to begin thermal conductivity measurements of samples collected from logged boreholes. To help clear some of the backlog of samples collected during 2008-09, the measurement of some of these samples has been contracted out. 
This record details the first set of new heat flow interpretations to be released by Geoscience Australia. The remaining temperature logs will be interpreted for heat flow and released, as thermal conductivity data for these holes become available.

Tags: AU, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, National dataset, Published_External, Record, geothermal
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Kub-O-Wer Hill 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
Truant Island 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_NT, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Collaborative Australia/France Multibeam Seafloor Mapping Survey - Norfolk Ridge to Three Kings Ridge Region : FAUST-2, Preliminary Results

This is a post-cruise report for the collaborative Australia/France searfloor mapping survey east of Norfolk Island. Regional settings, survey design and preliminary results are discussed.

Tags: Earth Sciences, GA Publication, NF, Published_External, Record, bathymetry, geology, geophysics, marine, marine survey
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Exploring for the Future – SHRIMP U–Pb geochronology of drill hole LBD2, Limbunya region, Northern Territory

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. This leads to a strong economy, resilient society and sustainable environment for the benefit of all Australians. This includes supporting Australia’s transition to a low emissions economy, strong 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 the program, Geoscience Australia (GA) provides a range of established techniques to capture precompetitive geoscience data across underexplored regions to stimulate industry investment in frontier regions of Australia. The Paleo to Mesoproterozoic Birrindudu Basin is an underexplored frontier basin located in northwestern Northern Territory and northeastern Western Australia. The Birrindudu Basin is a region of focus for the second phase of the EFTF program (2020–2024) as it contains strata of similar age to the prospective McArthur Basin, South Nicholson region and Mount Isa Province, but remains comparatively poorly understood. Furthermore, much of the age of the stratigraphy of the Birrindudu Basin, particularly the younger stratigraphic units, and regional correlations to the greater McArthur Basin remains provisional and speculative. Interpretation of industry seismic data indicates that Proterozoic strata in the western Beetaloo Sub-basin and eastern Birrindudu Basin are continuous in sub-surface.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

In order to provide an improved understanding of the stratigraphy, basin architecture and resource potential of the Birrindudu Basin and surrounding region, GA, in collaboration with the Northern Territory Geological Survey, is acquiring geophysical, geochronological, isotopic, geochemical and geomechanical data as part of phase two of EFTF. The data and results will be released, as they are available, through GA’s eCat Product Catalogue.

This report presents SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology results on a single igneous sample taken from exploration drillhole LBD2, located in the Birrindudu Basin, intersecting both Paleoproterozoic Limbunya Group and underlying low-grade basement metamorphic rocks.

Tags: Birrindudu Basin, EFTF – Exploring for the Future, Geochronology, Limbunya Group, Northern Territory, Officer-Musgrave-Birrindudu, Proterozoic, Published_External, SHRIMP (Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe), Stratigraphy (incl. biostratigraphy, Tanami, Ware Group, sequence stratigraphy and basin analysis)
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Eden-Burnside Fault Zone - SADM Detailed Gravity (P196261), 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 Eden-Burnside Fault Zone - SADM Detailed Gravity (P196261) contains a total of 166 point data values acquired at a spacing of 50 metres. The data is located in SA and were acquired in 1962, under project No. 196261 for Department of Mines and Energy South Australia (SADME).

Tags: Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, NCI, Published_External, SA, geophysical survey, geophysics, gravity, ground digital data, point, point located data, survey 196261
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
The Impact of Sediment-water Interactions on Water Quality in Wellstead Estuary, Gordon Inlet, and Beaufort Inlet, South-western Australia

In early autumn 2006 (14th March to 4th April), Geoscience Australia conducted a field survey to investigate the major processes controlling water quality in Wellstead Estuary, Gordon Inlet and Beaufort Inlet.  This project aimed to address critical knowledge gaps in understanding the impact of sediment-water interactions on water quality in each estuary, in particular, to identify the major controls on nutrient abundance and availability.
The impacts of sediment-water interactions on overall water quality took into account:
1.  shallowness of the estuaries and long water residence time;
2.  productivity of microbenthic algae; and
3.  the type of aquatic plant growth.
Recommendations for the future management of these estuaries included:
1.  Reducing nitrogen loads from the catchments of Wellstead Estuary and Gordon Inlet, and reducing the phosphorus loads from the catchment of Beaufort inlet;
2.  Monitoring the abundance of macroalgae in Wellstead Estuary, the abundance of macrophytes in Gordon Inlet and the water column Chl-a concentrations in Beaufort Inlet.

Tags: AU-WA, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Record, coasts, environmental, marine, water resources
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Darwin Harbour Habitat Mapping Program: Predicted surface of Sediment Oxygen Demand in sediments

This resource contains a predicted sediment oxygen demand grid for the greater Darwin Harbour region as part of a baseline seabed mapping program of Darwin Harbour and Bynoe Harbour. This project was funded through offset funds provided by an INPEX-led Ichthys LNG Project to the Northern Territory Government’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NTG-DENR) with co-investment from Geoscience Australia (GA) and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). The intent of this program is to improve knowledge of the marine environments in the Darwin and Bynoe Harbour regions by collating and collecting baseline data that enable the creation of thematic habitat maps and information to underpin marine resource management decisions. The predicted sediment oxygen demand grid was derived from a compilation of multiple surveys undertaken by GA, AIMS and NTG-DENR between 2011 and 2017, including GA0333 (Siwabessy et al., 2015), GA0341 (Siwabessy et al., 2015), GA0351/SOL6187 (Siwabessy et al., 2016), GA4452/SOL6432 (Siwabessy et al., 2017), GA0356 (Radke et al., 2017), and GA0358 and GA0359 (Radke et al., 2018), adding to those from previous surveys GA4425 and GA0333 collected by GA, AIMS, NTG-DENR and Darwin Port Authority.

Tags: Exclusive Economic Zone, Geochemistry, Marine Environmental Baselines, Marine Survey, Published_External
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
A geophysical investigation of the southern margin of the Musgrave Block, South Australia

New geophysical data provide the first clear image of the marginal structure of the southern Musgrave Block and the northern Officer Basin of western South Australia. The data show that the Officer Basin and the Musgrave Block are underlain by a series of pervasive, north-dipping planar  structures that predate development of the Officer Basin. Reactivation of these structures formed a wide thrust fault complex and developed a major homocline at the northern margin of the basin.

Tags: Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Journal, Published_External, SA
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Taylor 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-NT, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Julia Creek ppm uranium grid geodeticg

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 0.00083 degrees (approximately 90m) and shows uranium element concentration of the Julia Creek, QLD, 1999 in units of parts per million (or ppm). The data used to produce this grid was acquired in 1999 by the QLD Government, and consisted of 49397 line-kilometres of data at 400m line spacing and 80m terrain clearance.

Tags: Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, NASVD, NCI, Published_External, QLD, U, airborne digital data, gamma-ray, geophysical survey, geophysics, grid, rad, radiometrics, raster, spectrometry, survey 1000, uranium
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Hann River 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 Hann River elevation grid geodetic is elevation data for the Hann River, Qld, 1991. This survey was acquired under the project No. 570 for the geological survey of QLD. The grid has a cell size of 0.00083 degrees (approximately 91m).  This grid contains the ground elevation relative to the geoid for the Hann River, Qld, 1991. 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, QLD, digital data, geoid, geophysical survey, geophysics, grid, raster, survey 570, terrain
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
A report on 61 thin sections from the Home of Bullion area east of Barrow Creek, Northern Territory

I was asked to examine 61 thin sections from the Horne of Bullion mine area east of Barrow Creek, Northern Territory. The thin sections were of rocks from an area believed to be prospective for Au Â± Cu mineralisation of early Proterozoic age and possibly analogous to mineralisation styles similar to that found in other Proterozoic belts such as Cloncurry, Tennant Creek and the Granites/Tanami.
This report is divided into 3 sections. Section 1 comprises a synthesis of the thin sections examined, Section 2 contains a discussion of the regional factors, whilst Section 3 discusses some implications for mineralisation. Appendix 1 contains brief petrographic descriptions of the thin sections supplied.
In preparing this report, I have consulted with Dr Gladys Warren (because of her experience with granitic and metamorphic rocks of the Amnta Region, and her experience in the Barrow Creek area) and Dr Dean Hoatson (because of his experience with Precambrian layered intrusions including the Munni Munni Complex of the Pilbara Block and various Palaeoproterozoic mafic intrusions of the Halls Creek Inlier).
However, all interpretations presented in this report are my own.

Tags: AU-NT, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Professional Opinion, Published_External
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data