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Hydrogeological investigation of deep groundwater resources in the Ti-Tree Basin, Northern Territory

Details:

Title

Hydrogeological investigation of deep groundwater resources in the Ti-Tree Basin, Northern Territory,

Other title

Deep groundwater resources of the Ti-Tree Basin,

Creator

Wischusen, J. D. H., Bastrakov, E. N., Magee, J. W., Lewis, S. J., Gow, L. J., Kilgour, P. L., Bell, J. G., Kelly, T.,

Collection

E-Publications, E-Books, PublicationNT, Record 2012/08, GeoCat 73672,

Date

2012,

Location

Ti-Tree Basin,

Description

This report is the summation of the main activities, findings, achievements and recommendations of the work program conducted in the Ti-Tree region of the Northern Territory for the Raising National Water Standards project: 'Water for Australia's arid zone - identifying and assessing Australia's palaeovalley groundwater resources'. The aim of the Palaeovalley Groundwater Project was to deliver an innovative and integrated national-scale approach for better understanding the capacity, quality, quantity and dynamics of groundwater systems in palaeovalley aquifers, thereby enabling improved management of these important groundwater resources.,

Notes

This project was funded by the Australian Government through the National Water Commission's Raising National Water Standards Program., Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).,

Table of contents

Executive summary -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Palaeovalley Groundwater Project -- 1.2. Project operations in the Ti-Tree Basin -- 1.3. Overview of the Ti-Tree Basin -- 2. Geological and geophysical setting -- 2.1. Geology -- 2.2. Regolith -- 2.3. Geophysics -- 2.4. Palynology -- 3. Hydrogeological setting -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Groundwater flow in the shallow aquifer -- 3.3 Recharge -- 3.4. Groundwater chemistry of the shallow aquifer -- 3.5. Potential for groundwater resources in deep aquifers -- 3.6. Summary -- 4. Investigation of deep groundwater systems in the T-Tree Basin -- 4.1. Gravity -- 4.2. Drilling -- 4.3. Stratigraphic analysis -- 4.4. Palynostratigraphic analysis -- 4.5. Hydrogeologic analysis -- 5. Revised hydrostratigraphic model of the T-Tree Basin -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Regional cross-sections -- 5.3. Hydrogeology -- 5.4. Stratigraphic correlations and comparisons with other arid zone palaeovalleys -- 5.5 Conclusions -- 6. Conclusions and recommendations -- 9. References -- Appendix 1. Deep investigative drillhole logs. Drilling report log for RN18356 (T-Tree Station). Drilling report log for RN18594.,

Language

English,

Subject

Geology, Groundwater, Stratigraphic, Paleohydrology,

Publisher name

Geoscience Australia,

Place of publication

Canberra (A.C.T.),

Series

Record 2012/08, GeoCat 73672,

Format

xvi, 95 pages : colour illustrations, colour charts, colour maps ; 30 cm.,

File type

application/pdf,

ISBN

9781921954801 (Print), 9781921954788 (PDF),

ISSN

1448-2177,

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),

Copyright owner

Geoscience Australia,

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/288325,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/405195