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Any person purchasing this map may reproduce it for their own use or that of their staff, but not for any other purpose except with the written permission of the Chief Executive, Department of Primary Industries and Resources SA, GPO Box 1671, Adelaide, South Australia, 5001 CROWN COPYRIGHT RESERVED Department of Primary Industries and Resources SA. 2006 Disclaimer Primary Industries and Resources SA uses the best available data. However, GIS data and product accuracy may vary. GIS data and products may be developed from sources of differing accuracy, accurate only at certain scales and times, based on modelling or interpretation, incomplete while being created or revised, etc. Primary Industries and Resources SA reserves the right to correct, update, modify or replace GIS products without notification. Primary Industries and Resources SA cannot assure the accuracy, completeness, reliability or suitability of this information for any particular purpose. Using GIS data for purposes other than those for which they were created may yield inaccurate or misleading results. The recipient may neither assert any proprietary rights to this information nor represent it to anyone as other than South Australian Government produced information. Primary Industries and Resources SA shall not be liable for any activity involving this information with respect to lost profits, lost savings or any other consequential damages. 18 June 2007 1 ST EDITION SCALE 1 : 10 000 000 200 0 200 Kilometres SCALE 1 : 2 000 000 50 0 50 100 150 Kilometres STRATIGRAPHIC CHART ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! PERTH DARWIN HOBART SYDNEY CANBERRA BRISBANE ADELAIDE MELBOURNE NT WA QLD SA NSW VIC Tas LOCALITY Palaeodrainage Layers Tertiary strandline Tertiary coastal barrier sediments !!!!!! Palaeodrainage divide or barrier Neogene or undifferentiated Tertiary sediments Mesozoic sediments overlain by Tertiary sediments in places Palaeochannel inverted by differential erosion; silicified in part thermal and SRTM DEM images and distribution of channel Palaeochannel interpreted from night-time sediments; boundaries not delineated where not outlined. Palaeogene sediments largely overlain by Neogene sediments ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Bibliographic reference: Hou, B., Zang, W., Fabris, A., Keeling, J., Stoian, L. and Fairclough, M. (compilers), CRC LEME, Geological Survey Branch, Primary Industries Resources South Australia. Palaeodrainage and Tertiary Coastal Barrier of South Australia. Digital Geological Map of South Australia, 1:2 000 000 Series (1st Edition). Compiled by Hou, B., Zang, W., Fabris, A., Keeling, J., Stoian, L. and Fairclough, M. (CRC LEME, Geological Survey Branch, PIRSA) with contributions by Mauger, A. and Sheard, M. (CRC LEME, PIRSA), Katona, L., Petrie, S., Cowley, W., Reid, A., Davies, M., Conor, C., Robertson, S. and McGeough, M. (Geological Survey Branch, PIRSA), Frakes, L.A. (the University of Adelaide), Stamoulis, V. (Previously Geological Survey Branch, PIRSA). Culture State Border ! ( Localities Railway Major Road Secondary Road Minor Road Waterbodies Coast Mineral Layers Ç Operating mines # * ( Uranium Deposits # * ( Heavy Mineral Deposits # * Uranium Occurrences # * Heavy Mineral Occurrences Hiltaba Suite and equivalent Delamerian granitoids Gawler Range Volcanics Province boundary Mesozoic Basins Tertiary Basins Giles Complex Neoproterozoic - Palaeozoic Basement Provinces Quaternary dune ranges EUCLA BASIN BILLA KALINA BASIN LAKE EYRE BASIN SERPENTINE LAKES - LINDSAY REGION ST VINCENT BASIN STEVENSON- MIRACKINA REGION PIRIE BASIN MURRAY BASIN WILLOCHRA BASIN MYPONGA BASIN MEADOWS BASIN AGE Ma Series & Stages Plank fora. zones Spore- pollen zones Bunda Plateau SW Gawler Craton NW Gawler Craton Tirari Sub-basin Callabonna Sub-basin Western Eastern Western Eastern 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 5 15 25 35 45 55 65 PLEIST. PLIO- CENE NEOGENE MIOCENE L. E. Ionian Calabrian N23 N22 Placenzian Zanclean Early Middle Late Messinian Tortonian Serravillian Langhian Burdigalian Aquitanian N21 N20/ N19 N18 N16 N11 N12 N13 N17 N15 N14 N10 N9 N8 N6 N7 N5 N4 OLIGOCENE EOCENE PALAEOGENE PALEOCENE Early Middle Late Early Late Early Late Chattian Rupelian Priabonian Bartonian Lutetian Ypresian Thanetian Selandian Danian PRE-TERTIARY deep weathering erosion ? Hampton Sandstone Silicification Erosion Deep weathering Neoprotozoic-Palaeozoic Officer Basin silicification ? erosion ? Mangatitja Formation Nullarbor Limestone Abrakurrie Limestone Garford Formation Garford Formation Garford Formation Mangatitja Formation Ilkina Formation Narlaby Formation Kingoonya Member ?Munjena Formation ?Munjena Formation Ooldea Sand? Yarle Sandstone Ferruginisation & silicification Calcrete aeolian process? aeolian process? weathering-silcrete erosion ferruginisation & silicification Mirackina Conglomerate Etadunna Formation Tirari Formation Namba Formation Port Vincent Limestone Bridgewater Formation Hindmarsh Clay Hallett Cove Sandstone Point Ellen Formation Burnham Limestone Gibbon Beds Lignite Layers silcrete, ferricrete Lignitic, clastic Lignitic, clastic Bridgewater Fm Coomandook Fm and Blanchetown Clay Parilla Sand Loxton Sand Bookpurnong Formation Lignite layers unnamed Lignite layers unnamed Melton Limestone Lignite layers unnamed Lignite layers unnamed Melton Limestone Melton Limestone unnamed sand North Maslin Sand North Maslin Sand Tortachilla Limestone Clinton Formation Chinaman Gully Formation Port Julia Greensand Throoka Silt Quartoo Sand M. South Maslin Sand Rogue Formation Eyre Formation Port Willunga Formation Mirackina Conglomerate Ruwarung Member Aldinga Member Blanche Point Formation Muloowurtie Formation Warina Sand Olney Formation Ettrick Formation Buccleuch Formation Lignite layers unnamed Eyre Formation Kanaka Beds Langwarren Formation Lignite layers, clastic RENMARK GROUP EROMANGA BASIN Winton Formation Oodnadatta Formation Bulldog Shale Cadna-owie Formation Algebuckina Sandstone Eastern depo-l centres Cooper Basin Berri Basin Cambro - Ordovician basins Cambro - Ordovician basins Gawler Craton Eromanga Basin Precambrian Curnamona Craton Stuart Shelf Precambrian Gawler Craton Precambrian Musgrave Block ?unnamed peripheral to basin Maralinga Member Anthony Member Pidinga Formation Paling Formation Wilson Bluff Limestone Ooldea Sand Barton Sand Khasta Formation Weathering and silcrete Cordillo surface and silcrete Silcrete Ferricrete Silcrete Ferricrete Ferricrete Silcrete Silcrete 100 150 125 200 175 Early Early Late Late JURASSIC CRETACEOUS Triporopollenites bellus Tubulifloridites pleistocenicus Myrtaceidites lipsis Upper Lower Proteacidites tuberculatus P22 P21b P21a P20 P19 P18 P17 P16 P15 P14 P13 P12 P11 P10 P9 P8 P7 P6 A B P5 P4 P3 A B A B C P2 P1 Pa&P0 Cingulatisporites bifurcatus Upper Middle Lower Nothofagidites asperus Lygistepollenites balmei ? ? Lower Upper Proteacidites asperopolus Malvacipollis diversus ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Katjiit ara Fm Mampuwordu Sand Wipajiri Fm Yardinna Claystone Alberga Limestone Muloorina Member ? ? ? ? ? Willalinchina Sandstone Millers Creek Dolomite Member Danae Conglo- merate Member Billa Kalina Clay Member Mirikata Formation Watchie Sandstone Mirackina Conglomerate? ? ? ? ? Winnambool Formation MURRAY GROUP Mannum Limestone Finniss Clay and equivalents Cadell Marl Member Geera Clay Coorikiana Sandstone AGE Ma Palaeodrainage divide or barrier Palaeodrainage !!!!!!!!!!!!! Shuttle Radar Topography mission data provided by USGS Elevation (metres) - 1432 - -26

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PALAEODRAINAGE AND TERTIARY COASTAL BARRIERS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Digital Elevation ModelPalaeodrainage

Product of PIRSA Spatial Information Services.

Any person purchasing this map may reproduce it for their own useor that of their staff, but not for any other purpose except with the

written permission of the Chief Executive, Department of Primary Industries and Resources SA,GPO Box 1671, Adelaide, South Australia, 5001

CROWN COPYRIGHT RESERVEDDepartment of Primary Industries and Resources SA.

2006

DisclaimerPrimary Industries and Resources SA uses the best available data. However, GIS data

and product accuracy may vary. GIS data and products may be developed from sourcesof differing accuracy, accurate only at certain scales and times, based on modelling

or interpretation, incomplete while being created or revised, etc.Primary Industries and Resources SA reserves the right to correct, update, modifyor replace GIS products without notification. Primary Industries and Resources SA

cannot assure the accuracy, completeness, reliability or suitability of this informationfor any particular purpose. Using GIS data for purposes other than those for which

they were created may yield inaccurate or misleading results. The recipient may neitherassert any proprietary rights to this information nor represent it to anyone as otherthan South Australian Government produced information. Primary Industries and

Resources SA shall not be liable for any activity involving this information with respectto lost profits, lost savings or any other consequential damages.

18 June 2007 1ST EDITION

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Palaeodrainage Layers

Tertiary strandline

Tertiary coastal barrier sediments

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Neogene or undifferentiated Tertiary sediments

Mesozoic sediments overlain by Tertiary sediments in places

Palaeochannel inverted by differential erosion;silicified in part

thermal and SRTM DEM images and distribution of channelPalaeochannel interpreted from night-timesediments; boundaries not delineated where not outlined.

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Bibliographic reference: Hou, B., Zang, W., Fabris, A., Keeling, J., Stoian, L.and Fairclough, M. (compilers), CRC LEME, Geological Survey Branch,

Primary Industries Resources South Australia.Palaeodrainage and Tertiary Coastal Barrier of South Australia.

Digital Geological Map of South Australia, 1:2 000 000 Series (1st Edition).Compiled by Hou, B., Zang, W., Fabris, A., Keeling, J., Stoian, L. and

Fairclough, M. (CRC LEME, Geological Survey Branch, PIRSA) with contributions byMauger, A. and Sheard, M. (CRC LEME, PIRSA), Katona, L., Petrie, S., Cowley, W., Reid, A.,Davies, M., Conor, C., Robertson, S. and McGeough, M. (Geological Survey Branch, PIRSA),

Frakes, L.A. (the University of Adelaide), Stamoulis, V. (Previously Geological Survey Branch, PIRSA).

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