AGSO Journal Volume 14, Number 4: Australian Geological Research

AGSO Journal vol.14 no. 4 is a collection of peer-reviewed journal articles published by Geoscience Australia. The volume contains eight primary research papers covering diverse topics in Australian geology, including Proterozoic granite geochronology, palynostratigraphy of the Murray Basin, and Cretaceous ammonite paleontology. The articles provide detailed field studies and analyses relevant to the geological history and resource potential of Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Use Cases

• Dating tectonothermal events based on Proterozoic granite ages described in the Georgetown Inlier.
• Stratigraphic correlation using palynostratigraphy from the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Bookpurnong Beds.
• Assessing groundwater quality from preliminary overviews of Northern Territory aquifers.
• Studying benthic marine community gradations in the Early Carboniferous Rhipidomella fortimuscula Zone.
• Evaluating enhanced oil recovery potential from applications described for Australia.

Strengths

• Contains eight distinct, peer-reviewed scientific articles from a national geological survey.
• Covers a wide geographic scope including Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory, and Papua New Guinea.
• Articles are published externally in a journal format, suggesting peer-reviewed quality.

Limitations

• Critical metadata such as row count, file size, license, and author list are consistently missing across all platform entries.
• The dataset's structure is unclear; columns are listed as 'unknown', suggesting it may be a simple collection of PDF/HTML documents rather than structured data.
• The 'last updated' metadata shows inconsistent future dates (e.g., 2026-04-30), indicating potential platform entry errors.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia

Collection Method

Published journal articles compiled into a volume.

Time Range

Covers studies from the Proterozoic to the Pleistocene.

Freshness

Last updated metadata shows dates in 2026, but these appear to be platform artifacts; the actual publication date of the journal volume is null.

Geography

Australia (multiple states/territories) and south-central Papua New Guinea.