Laura Basin Hydrogeological Inventory with Stratigraphic and Management Attributes

The Laura Basin in Australia contains descriptive hydrogeological and geological information for areas bounded by spatial groundwater features. The dataset groups attributes into themes including location, geology, hydrogeology, groundwater management, and land use. It was published by Geoscience Australia Data and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling groundwater flow and storage based on described stratigraphic units and basin geometry.
• Assessing groundwater management and use scenarios based on the administrative and environmental themes.
• Studying sedimentary depositional environments based on the described marine, lagoonal, and fluvial facies.
• Integrating surface water and land use data for environmental impact studies in the basin region.

Strengths

• Thematic grouping covers 11 distinct topics from physical geography to scientific stimulus.
• Describes three main stratigraphic units with specific age ranges (168 to 102 million years ago).
• Provides maximum stratigraphic thickness detail (about 1,000 m in the north-central onshore basin).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is provided in PDF format, which may complicate automated analysis.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Time Range

Covers geological periods from Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous (168-102 million years ago).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 14:38:08.248966; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Laura Basin, Australia, extending onshore and offshore beneath the Great Barrier Reef.