Southern Australian Fractured Rock Hydrogeological Inventory

Australian Ocean Data Network provides a hydrogeological inventory for the Southern Australian Fractured Rock Province, bounded by spatial groundwater features. Descriptive topics cover location, demographics, physical geography, surface water, geology, hydrogeology, groundwater management, environment, land use, and scientific stimulus. The dataset details the geological evolution of the Gawler Craton, Curnamona Province, and Adelaide Superbasin over billions of years.

Use Cases

• Mapping groundwater management zones based on administrative and hydrogeological boundaries.
• Analyzing land use impact on groundwater based on land use and industry type attributes.
• Studying geological history and tectonic events based on detailed geology and crustal element descriptions.
• Assessing environmental factors related to groundwater based on environment and surface water themes.
• Correlating demographic data with groundwater use patterns based on demographics and groundwater management themes.

Strengths

• Descriptive topics are grouped into 11 distinct thematic categories, including Geology and Hydrogeology.
• The geological description covers a time range from approximately 3,150 Ma to the Holocene.
• The spatial coverage is defined for the Southern Australian Fractured Rock Province, including the Gawler Craton and Curnamona Province.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The primary file format is PDF, which may limit direct computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Time Range

Geological time range from Archean to Holocene.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-16 09:36:44.274953; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southern Australian Fractured Rock Province, including Gawler Craton, Curnamona Province, and Adelaide Superbasin.