Tertiary Marine Stratigraphy of Gippsland, Victoria

A geological bulletin presents detailed studies of the Tertiary marine sequence in Gippsland, Victoria. The information is derived from scout drilling by Victorian and Commonwealth Governments and wildcat drilling by private companies. Its findings are relevant to regional stratigraphy, palaeogeography, and the search for oil in Australia.

Use Cases

• Stratigraphic correlation of Tertiary marine rocks across the Australasian region based on detailed local studies.
• Informing oil exploration strategies in Australia using subsurface geological data from drilling.
• Reconstructing palaeogeography by analyzing the described Tertiary marine sequence.

Strengths

• Based on direct geological data from government and private company drilling operations.
• Cross-platform presence on data.gov.au suggests official recognition and importance.

Limitations

• Dataset structure is unclear; columns and row counts are not specified, suggesting it may be a textual bulletin rather than structured data.
• Metadata for license, author, and data size is consistently missing across all platform entries.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Scout drilling jointly by Victorian and Commonwealth Governments and wildcat drilling by private companies.

Time Range

Tertiary period

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 01:53:41.401999

Geography

Gippsland, Victoria, Australia