Marine Geology Survey of Cape York Peninsula Inner Shelf

AGSO marine surveys cover a 1,000 km section of the Cape York Peninsula inner shelf between Weipa and Cape Flattery. The data, collected in 1992/1993, supports the Cape York Land Use Strategy Project to assess the region's natural resources.

Use Cases

• Analyze marine geological features along the 1,000 km surveyed inner shelf for coastal management planning
• Correlate survey findings with Earth sciences tags to map regional seabed composition
• Use Marine and AU-QLD tagged data for environmental baselines in Northern Queensland coastal studies
• Integrate Report and GA Publication metadata for historical geological research compilation

Strengths

• Covers a spatially extensive 1,000 km section of coastline
• Produced by the authoritative Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO)
• Part of a formal government assessment initiative (CYPLUS)

Limitations

• Data is from a single survey period (1992/1993) and may be temporally stale
• Primary data format is narrative report (HTML/PDF), limiting direct quantitative analysis
• Sample data and structured columns are unavailable, requiring manual extraction

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Marine surveys conducted by AGSO

Time Range

1992/1993

Freshness

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Geography

Cape York Peninsula inner shelf between Weipa and Cape Flattery, Northern Queensland, Australia