Coastal Geoscience Survey of Cape York Peninsula for Land Use Strategy

The NR14 Coastal Environment Geoscience Survey project compiled geoscientific information for land use strategy development on Cape York Peninsula. The report from Geoscience Australia details methodology, data analyses, and completed coastal geoscience GIS coverages. The project synthesizes coastal zone evolution, including oceanographic processes, sedimentary deposits, and Holocene changes.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal erosion and instability based on identified areas of significant instability.
• Planning sustainable land use based on the geoscientific synthesis of the coastal zone.
• Analyzing Holocene coastal evolution based on the documented sedimentary deposits and environmental character.
• Assessing the impact of oceanographic and meteorological processes on coastal areas.

Strengths

• Project synthesizes multiple information sources and techniques for a holistic coastal assessment.
• Output includes completed coastal geoscience GIS coverages, suggesting spatial data availability.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Primary file formats are PDF and HTML, which may require extraction for computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Project utilized a wide variety of information and techniques to compile basic coastal geoscientific information.

Time Range

Analysis includes Holocene evolution.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 00:55:49.986778; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Cape York Peninsula coastal zone.