Officer Basin Hydrogeological Inventory for Central Australia

Australia's Officer Basin, spanning 525,000 square kilometres, contains a hydrogeological inventory compiled by Geoscience Australia. The dataset groups descriptive attributes into themes including Location, Geology, Hydrogeology, and Groundwater management. It details a sedimentary sequence up to 10,000 meters deep from the Neoproterozoic to Late Devonian periods.

Use Cases

• Map hydrogeological units and structural zones like the marginal overthrust zone or central thrusted zone for regional groundwater modeling.
• Analyze the relationship between depositional environments, such as fluvial to shallow marine systems, and groundwater resource characteristics.
• Correlate geological features like salt diapirs or volcanic deposits (e.g., Table Hill Volcanics) with groundwater management and use data.
• Study the spatial distribution of physical geography and surface water attributes in relation to land use and industry types.

Strengths

• Covers one of Australia's largest intra-cratonic sedimentary basins at approximately 525,000 square kilometres.
• Describes a thick sedimentary sequence with a depth range up to 10,000 meters.
• Attributes are organized into 11 structured thematic groups, including Hydrogeology and Groundwater management.

Limitations

• Data is provided only in PDF format, limiting machine-readability and direct analysis.
• The specific row count, column schema, and sample data are unavailable, obscuring the dataset's granular structure.
• Temporal coverage for the inventory data itself is not specified, only the geological time periods described.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

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Time Range

Neoproterozoic to Late Devonian periods (geological focus)

Freshness

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Geography

Officer Basin, Central Australia