AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Brimbank Proposed Bicycle Routes

This table outlines the proposed bike routes in Brimbank. The routes are represented by lines and attribute information includes On Road / Off Road and length in meters.

While all due care has been taken to ensure the dataset is accurate and current, there may be errors or omissions in it. Brimbank City Council and its employees accept no responsibility for the completeness, accuracy or reliability of the data. Brimbank City Council and its employees also accept no responsibility for any loss, damage, claim, expense, cost or liability whatsoever (including in contract, tort including negligence, pursuant to statue and otherwise) arising in respect of or in connection with using or reliance upon the data in this dataset.

Tags: bicycle, bicycle network, network, proposed
Organization: Brimbank City Council
Murray-Darling Basin Water Resource Plan Areas – Surface Water

The Basin Plan's management arrangements will be implemented at a local scale through water resource plans prepared by the Basin states for accreditation by the Commonwealth Water Minister. The Basin has been divided into 19 surface-water water resource plan areas. The boundaries of these areas are shown in the Surface Water Water Resource Plan Areas dataset.
The surface-water water resource plan areas cover the entire Basin, including those areas not previously subject to water planning arrangements. The water resources in the Murray-Darling Basin to which the Basin Plan will apply are identified in the Water Act 2007 (Cwlth). These resources do not include the Great Artesian Basin water resources.

Tags: Murray-Darling Basin, geospatialinformation, mdba, water
Organization: Murray-Darling Basin Authority
New South Wales – Dryland Salinity Assessment 2000 – Assessmet of Dryland salinity extent 2000

    

The data shows areas of dryland salinity risk in 2000 in the Murray-Darling
Basin within NSW and coastal NSW catchments.Areas of risk are based on
groundwater levels and air photo interpretation. The merged data, at a nominal
scale of 1:250 000, show actual areas where dryland salinity or water-tables
less than 2 metres have been measured. For the extent map, every delineated
area is underpinned by either air photo data or by one or more groundwater
bores. Therefore, the area at risk is regarded as conservative due to
limitations in the spatial coverage of air photo and bore data.  number of
techniques to spatially extrapolate these data to infer potential areas at
risk were trialed but were considered scientifically or statistically
inadequate. Estimates of impacts are based on areas at risk having groundwater
levels of less than 2 m. An impact assessment based on groundwater less than 5
m and rising was considered inappropriate. Total areas affected with
groundwater less than 5 m and rising have been presented, but only for
improved consistency with other States.

See [further metadata](http://data.daff.gov.au/anrdl/metadata_files/pa_dsa__r1in
__00111a01.xml) for more detail.



Tags: atmosphere, climatoology, environmentandnaturalresourcemanagement, geomorphology, geosciences, meteorology, soil, soilchemistry, soilphysics, waterandirrigation
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Higher Qualifications of Farmers and Farm Managers, 1996

    

The geography of this dataset is Australian Statistical Local Area (SLA). This
data relates to members of the population who classified themselves as having
an occupation of aFarmera or aFarm Managera in the 1996 Population and Housing
Census and have a Bachelor degree, Undergraduate diploma, Associate diploma,
Higher degree or Post-graduate qualifications.The data is presented at a scale
of 25000000. Projection -P Albers Equal-Area Conic -D WGS84 -m 132 -o 0 -p -18
-p -36 -e 0 -n 0The following attributes are contained within the dataset;
Sla_code a unique code for Statistical Local Areas (SLA), Sla_name a the name
of the Statistical Local Area (SLA) and,Bach_degre a median age of farmers and
farm managers as at census night 1996. Ugrad_dip a hectares of agricultural
land use in the Statistical Local Area (SLA).Post_grad a number of
farmers/farm managers with postgraduate qualificationsHigher_deg a number of
farmers/farm managers with a higher degreeAssoc_dip a number of farmers/farm
managers with an associate diploma Totalqual a total number of farmers/farm
managers with higher qualificationsTotalpop a total farmer population 1996%Pop
a per cent of farmers who have higher qualificationsAg_land_ha a hectares of
agricultural land use in the Statistical Local Area (SLA).

See [further metadata](http://data.daff.gov.au/anrdl/metadata_files/pa_hqffmr9a_
__01011a00.xml) for more detail.



Tags: agriculture, demography, economics, farming, humanenvironment, indicators, statistics, surveys
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Public Toilets - City of Greater Geelong

Points indicate the location of Public Toilets. Note than some of these are locked after hours.

>*Although all due care has been taken to ensure that these data are correct, no warranty is expressed or implied by the City of Greater Geelong in their use.*


Tags: Amenities, Bathroom, Community, Property, Toilet, Toilets, Transport, amenities, bathroom, toilet, toilets
Organization: City of Greater Geelong
Geology of the Drummond Basin, Queensland

The Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous Drummond Basin sequence crops out over an area of approximately 25 000 km2 , mainly west but also east of the Anakie Inlier in east-central Queensland. The Drummond Basin is a structural remnant of a large intermontane depositional basin that developed in the Tasman Geosynclinal zone after the Tabberabberan Orogeny. It received up to 12 000 m of predominantly fluviatile sediments which were transported into the basin by a northerly flowing river system. There may have been some marine incursions. Basement to the basin consists of early Palaeozoic slightly metamorphosed sediments and granite. Sedimentation in the Drummond Basin ceased at the onset of the Kanimblan orogenic event, during which the sequence was folded and uplifted to form a structural high shedding detrital material into the Bowen and Galilee Basins.

Tags: AU-QLD, Bulletin, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, geology
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
pmd*CRC Architecture A1 Project. Final Project Report

Architecture A1 Project -What are the fundamental characteristics of mineralised (trans-lithospheric) fault systems? The principal aim of the project has been to understand why some faults systems are mineralised and why others are barren, and whether a mantle component is essential to form major ore deposits. The objective of the study has been to determine, and rank, a set of critical parameters that could be applied to identify favourable conduits for ore-forming fluids and whether these fault systems are likely to be metallogenically well-endowed with respect to precious and base metal mineralisation.

Tags: Earth Sciences, Published_External, Report, economic geology, marine, mineral exploration, pmd*CRC
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Palynostratigraphy of the Bookpurnong Beds and related Late Miocene-Early Pliocene facies in the central west Murray Basin, part 1: dinoflagellates

Dinoflagellates offer a reliable method for distinguishing the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Bookpurnong beds from lithologically similar marginal marine sediments, such as the Winnambool Formation deposited during Oligocene-Middle Miocene transgressions. Species largely or wholly restricted to the Bookpurnong beds and correlatives in the central west Murray Basin include Melitasphaeridium aequabile, M . choanophorum, Tectatodinium psilatum , and (frequent) Tuberculodinium vancampoae. Species diagnostic of the older Murray Group correlatives, such as the Geera Clay and Winnambool Formation, include Apteodinium australiense and Pentadinium laticinctum.

Tags: Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Journal, NSW, Published_External, SA, VIC
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Benthic sediment surveys of inner Darwin Harbour (GA0358) and shallow water areas in and around Bynoe Harbour (GA0359) in 2017: Core Incubation Experiments on seabed sediments

Benthic sediment sampling of Inner Darwin Harbour (GA0358) and shallow water areas in and around Bynoe Harbour (GA0359) was undertaken between May 29 and June 19, 2017. Partners involved in the surveys included Geoscience Australia (GA), the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources within the Northern Territory Government (NT DENR) (formerly the Department of Land and Resource Management (DLRM)). These surveys form part of a four year (2014-2018) science program aimed at improving knowledge about the marine environments in the regions around Darwin and Bynoe Harbour’s through the collection and collation of baseline data that will enable the creation of thematic habitat maps to underpin marine resource management decisions.  This project is being led by the Northern Territory Government and is supported by the INPEX-led Ichthys LNG Project, in collaboration with - and co-investment from GA and AIMS. This dataset comprises area-based rates of total carbon dioxide production and oxygen uptake in marine sediments.

Tags: Published_External, continental shelf, geochemistry, marine, marine baselines, marine survey, seabed
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
A two-part seabed geomorphology classification scheme; Part 1: Morphology features glossary (Version 2)

This brief report updates the ‘Two-part Seabed Geomorphology classification scheme’ of Dove et al. (2016) and presents a new glossary (Part 1) of Seabed Morphology features. This Morphology glossary is intended to provide marine scientists with an accurate and robust way to characterise the seabed. Each glossary entry includes a feature definition and a representative schematic diagram to support clear and consistent classification. Feature terms and definitions are primarily drawn from the IHO guide for undersea feature names, which are herein modified and augmented with additional terms to ensure the final feature catalogue and glossary encompasses the diversity of morphologies observed at the seabed, while also minimising duplication and/or ambiguity. This updated classification system and new glossary are the result of a collaboration between marine geoscientists from marine mapping programmes/networks in Norway (MAREANO), Ireland (INFOMAR), UK (MAREMAP), and Australia (Geoscience Australia) (MIM-GA). A subsequent report will present the (Part 2) Geomorphology feature glossary.

<b>Citation:</b> Dove, Dayton, Nanson, Rachel, Bjarnadóttir, Lilja R., Guinan, Janine, Gafeira, Joana, Post, Alix, Dolan, Margaret F.J., Stewart, Heather, Arosio, Riccardo, &amp; Scott, Gill. (2020). <i>A two-part Seabed Geomorphology classification scheme (v.2); Part 1: Morphology Features Glossary.</i> 
Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4071939

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, Published_External, mapping, marine geomorphology
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
A 1500 Year Record of Coastal Sediment Accumulation Preserved in Beach Deposits at Keppel Bay, Queensland, Australia

In this study of the beach-ridge plain at Keppel Bay, on the central coast of Queensland, we examine ridge morphology, sediment texture and geochemistry. We build a detailed chronology for the ridge succession using the optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating method. Although our interpretations are preliminary, our results suggest that significant changes have occurred in the rate of shoreline accumulation of sediment, catchment sediment source areas, and that there have been minor falls in relative sea level.

Tags: AU-QLD, Earth Sciences, External Publication, Published_External, Report, coasts, marine, sedimentology
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Seascapes for the Australian Margin and Adjacent Seabed

Seascapes describing a layer of ecologically meaningful biophysical variable that spatially represent potential seabed habitats have been derived for the Australian margin and adjacent seabed in a new analysis of existing biophysical data. A total of 13 seascapes were derived for the continental shelf and nine seascapes for regions beyond the continental shelf using the unsupervised ISOCLASS classification in the software package ERMapper. The ecological significance of the seascapes is assessed at the national, regional and local scale using existing biological data. Options and avenues for future development are also described.

Tags: AU-EEZ, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Record, continental margins, habitat, marine, marine zone, resource management
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Progress report on the Bowen Basin regional survey, season 1960 : Geology of the Mount Coolon 4-mile area

In 1960, the Bureau of Mineral Resources, in association with the Geological Survey of Queensland, commenced a programme of regional mapping of the Bowen basin, Queensland. The primary aim of this programme was to assist the search for oil in the basin. Two parties were in the field during 1960. This progress report covers the work of one of these parties; the Mt.Coolon party, which mapped most of the Mt.Coolon 4-mile area.

Tags: AU-QLD, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Record, geology
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Coral Spawn and Bathymetric Slicks in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data from the Timor Sea, Northwest Australia

Annular to crescent-shaped low back scatter SAR slicks over carbonate reefs and shoals in the Timor Sea with slick `feathering', and within the coral spawning period for the region, are interpreted to be caused by a coral spawn event. In contrast, ocean current data and detailed swath bathymetry of the sea floor to the southeast of the coral spawn slicks suggest that elongate repeating slicks in this area are related to current flow over submarine channels. Assessment of these slicks in association with ancillary data, such as bathymetry, current velocities, weather and timing of scene capture allow a more robust interpretation of their origins.  Through differentiating coral spawn and bathymetric slicks from oil and other biological slicks in shallow carbonate systems, such as the Timor Sea, petroleum and environmental assessments for these areas can be improved.

Tags: Earth Sciences, External Publication, Published_External, Scientific Journal Paper, marine
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Summary Of Data And Results Otway Basin, South Australia Mount Salt No. 1 Well Of Oil Development No Liability

Mount Salt No. 1 Well was located approximately twelve miles south-west of Mount Gambier in the South Australian part of the Otway Basin. The well was drilled by Reading and Bates (Australia) Pty Ltd for Oil Development No Liability, to a total depth of 10,044 feet. DrillIng commenced on 9th May, 1962 and was completed on 21st September, 1962. A full programme of logging, testing, and coring was undertaken.

After passing through about 3260 feet of Oligocene and Eocene-Palaeocene sediments, the well entered a thick sequence of Upper Cretaceous sands, siltstones and clays that persisted to total depth. The upper part of this section has been correlated with the (?) Paaratte Formation, and the well bottomed in either basal Upper Cretaceous or uppermost Lower Cretaceous marine or brackish strata that probably correlate with either the top of the Waarre Formation or the Flaxmans Beds of Flaxmans No. 1 Well. The base of the Upper Cretaceous is not clearly defined, and no definite conclusions as to the correlation of the section below the Knight Group (? 590 to? 3260 feet) have been advanced.

Mount Salt No. 1 Well was drilled to test the petroleum potential of Cretaceous sediments in a closed structure detected by photogeology and proved by a structure drilling programme. Traces of crude oil were detected by core analysis and a show of gas was recorded from the interval 9830 to 9848 feet. Five drillstem tests were attempted but only one, over the interval 9813 to 9892 feet, was successful, obtaining 4070 feet of highly saline water.

The stratigraphic drilling operation at Mount Salt No. 1 was subsidized under the Petroleum Search Subsidy Act 1959-1961, from 980 feet to total depth.

Tags: AU-SA, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Other Publication, Published_External, petroleum exploration
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Mesozoic outcrops on the lower continental slope off Exmouth, Western Australia

Seismic reflection profiles over the southwestern margin of the Exmouth Plateau, which have been tentatively tied to the Northwest Shelf stratigraphic sequence, indicate that rocks of probable Permian to Early Tertiary age form bedrock on the lower continental slope and probably crop out in places. Water depths range from 1400 to 4000 m. It is surmised that the rocks present include pre-Late Jurassic fluvial, deltaic and shallow marine sandstone, siltstone and shale; Late Jurassic to Neocomian deltaic sandstone, siltstone and shale; mid Cretaceous shallow marine shale; Late Cretaceous shelf limestone and Cainozoic foraminiferal ooze. The Exmouth Plateau is cut by normal faults which are predominantly downthrown oceanwards and trend north-northeasterly across most of the area, except near the southwestern margin where they trend northwesterly. Faulting occurred primarily in the Middle to Late Jurassic and led to formation of the north-western and northern margins by seafloor spreading. A major anticline, which parallels the southwestern margin, has one limb truncated by the lower continental slope, probably resulting in older rocks cropping out in places. Deep Sea Drilling Project results on the Cuvier Abyssal Plain indicate that the southwestern margin formed in the Late Cretaceous, either as a transcurrent fault associated with seafloor spreading or by collapse along normal faults. Sampling of outcrops along the southwestern margin would enable the sequence to be dated more reliably and this would permit the theories of geological evolution and favourable petroleum potential of the Exmouth Plateau to be tested.

Tags: Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Journal, Published_External, WA, marine
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Effect of sewage nutrients on algal production, biomass and species composition in tropical tidal creeks

Microalgal blooms are one of the most visible responses to anthropogenic nutrient loadings in coastal ecosystems. However, differentiating sources of nutrients causing blooms remains a challenge. The response of phytoplankton and benthic microalgae (BMA) to nutrient loads was compared across tidal creeks with and without secondary treated sewage in a tropical estuary. Concentrations of the sewage marker, coprostanol, were higher near sewage discharge points and decreased downstream. This was commensurate with a decline in nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations suggesting that sewage was the main source of nitrogen and phosphorus. Primary productivity in the water column was limited by nitrogen availability in absence of sewage, with nitrogen saturation in the presence of sewage. Phytoplankton primary productivity rates and chlorophyll a concentrations increased in response to sewage, and there was a greater response than for BMA. There was no evidence of a change in algal pigment proportions within the phytoplankton or BMA communities. This study highlights the scale and type of response of algal communities to sewage nutrients in situ.

Tags: AU-NT, Earth Sciences, External Publication, Published_External, Scientific Journal Paper, coasts, environmental, geochemistry, marine
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Seabed morphology and geomorphology of Flinders Reefs within the Coral Sea Marine Park, north-eastern Australia, Version 1 WMS

This OGC Web Map Service (WMS) contains geospatial seabed morphology and geomorphology information for Flinders Reefs within the Coral Sea Marine Park and are intended for use by marine park managers, regulators, the general public and other stakeholders. This web service uses the data product published in McNeil et al. (2023); eCat Record 147998.

Tags: Geomorphology, Geomorphology and Earth Science Processes, Mapping, Morphology, Parks Australia, Published_External, Seabed, Spatial, WMS, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Coastal to deep-marine geomorphic classification: A standardised framework and review of terms to support globally consistent mapping

Marine and coastal geomorphology is inherently interdisciplinary, involving the interpretation of landforms shaped by overlapping hydrodynamic, sedimentary, tectonic, and biogenic processes across diverse physiographic regions. As the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science aims to provide robust scientific information to address ocean challenges, geomorphic data is becoming an increasingly critical baseline resource to support evidence-based decision-making. Standardised, inter-jurisdictional geomorphic frameworks enable consistent terminology across scales. Though marine sub-discipline lexicons are generally well established, seabed geomorphology mapping encompasses terminological nuances that can hinder analysts working across disciplinary boundaries.

To address these challenges, the International Seabed Geomorphology Mapping Working Group (ISGM) developed a marine and coastal classification framework using an Ocean Best Practice process that incorporates science-community input. This two-part approach separates morphological mapping (Part 1) from geomorphic interpretation (Part 2), constraining the uncertainty inherent to stratigraphic interpretation to a second step. In Part 1, 40 bathymetric shapes are mapped and classified using standardised Morphology Feature terms. In Part 2, a hierarchical framework and glossary of over 400 terms across 11 overlapping classes assigns geomorphic interpretation. The framework supports classification from Setting/Process through basic geomorphic units (BGU), types (BGU-T) and sub-types (BGU-sT), allowing users to tailor classification to available data quality and application needs.

Implementation of the ISGM scheme is supported by open-access, machine-readable digital vocabularies, which standardise established terms without redefining them, and GIS tools. Applied examples demonstrate utility across global datasets. By integrating existing terminology into a standardised, hierarchical framework, the ISGM approach provides the first cross-class geomorphic framework capable of supporting consistent terminology from global to local scales.

<b>Citation</b> R. Nanson, R. Arosio, J. Gafeira, M. McNeil, D. Dove, L.R. Bjarnadóttir, M.F.J. Dolan, A. Post, S. Nichol, Z. Huang, J. Guinan, O.M. Bialik, J. Webb, J. Wells, A.G. Carroll, Coastal to deep-marine geomorphic classification: A standardised framework and review of terms to support globally consistent mapping, <i>Earth-Science Reviews</i>, Volume 276, 2026, 105439, ISSN 0012-8252, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105439.

Tags: Australia-wide geoscience data, GIS, Geomorphology and earth surface processes, Marine geoscience, Ocean Best Practice, Ocean Decade, Ocean Economy, Offshore Mapping, Published_External, Resourcing Australia’s Prosperity, bedforms, biogenic, cartography, coastal, fluid flow, fluvial, geology, glacial, human impacts, karst, marine, mass movement, physiography, scale, seabed, seabed mapping, seabed morphology
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data