Murray Basin Water and Investigation Boreholes in Southeastern Australia

Boreholes in the Murray Basin, southeastern Australia, for surface geological mapping and land and water management. Published by the Groundwater Branch of Geoscience Australia as part of a joint Commonwealth-State hydrogeological project.

Use Cases

• Map borehole locations for basin-wide hydrogeological studies of the Murray Basin
• Support surface geological mapping for minerals and petroleum assessment using borehole data
• Aid land and water management decisions with groundwater investigation data from the basin

Strengths

• Data contributed to a joint Commonwealth-State Murray Basin Hydrogeological Project involving multiple state geological surveys
• Published under the authority of the Australian Minister of Primary Industries and Energy
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including SHP and GEOJSON for analysis

Limitations

• Data accuracy and completeness are not guaranteed by the publisher, ABARES
• Specific data volume (row count) and attribute details (columns) are unknown from the provided metadata

Provenance

Source

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES), Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry

Collection Method

Compiled by the Groundwater Branch, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics (now Geoscience Australia)

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Murray Basin, southeastern Australia