Marine Tertiary Stratigraphy and Microfossils of Adelaide to Aldinga

South Australian marine Tertiary rocks between Adelaide and Aldinga are documented for their stratigraphy and micropalaeontology. The dataset is a legacy product from the Australian Ocean Data Network with no abstract available. It was last updated on the platform in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze stratigraphic column descriptions and lithological logs for geological mapping.
• Identify and correlate microfossil taxa from micropalaeontological descriptions for biostratigraphy.
• Study the spatial distribution of rock units and fossil sites between Adelaide and Aldinga.
• Investigate depositional environments and geological history from described sedimentary sequences.

Strengths

• Documentation focuses on a specific geographic transect between Adelaide and Aldinga.
• Contains specialized data on both stratigraphy and micropalaeontology.

Limitations

• Sample size, row count, and data volume are unknown.
• Data is described as a legacy product with no abstract, indicating potential staleness or incomplete metadata.
• Primary file formats are PDF and HTML, which are not machine-readable structured data.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

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Time Range

Tertiary period (geological time scale)

Freshness

Platform record was updated in April 2026, but the underlying data is a legacy product.

Geography

Marine rocks between Adelaide and Aldinga, South Australia