Gravity and Magnetic Data for the Capel and Faust Basins, Offshore Australia

A record from the Australian Ocean Data Network documents sources and processing for gravity and magnetic data covering the Capel and Faust basins on the Lord Howe Rise. The data was last updated on 2026-06-04. It describes the processes applied to level the geophysical data.

Use Cases

• Map subsurface geological structures based on gravity anomalies.
• Interpret magnetic signatures for basin architecture analysis.
• Integrate leveled potential-field data with other geophysical surveys.
• Study the tectonic evolution of the Lord Howe Rise region.

Strengths

• Data covers the remote offshore Capel and Faust basins, a frontier region.
• Includes documentation on the leveling processes applied to the raw data.
• Sourced from the authoritative Australian Ocean Data Network.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The primary file formats are PDF and ZIP, which may require extraction and manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Aggregated from multiple sources and processed.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 09:01:20.539541

Geography

Capel and Faust basins, Lord Howe Rise, offshore eastern Australia