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Levelled surface sediment geochemistry data for the North Australian Craton

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Created 14/01/2025

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Australia has a significant number of surface sediment geochemical surveys that have been undertaken by industry and government over the past 50 years. These surveys represent a vast investment and have up to now only been able to be used in isolation, independently from one another. The key to maximising the full potential of these data and the information they provide for mineral exploration, environmental management and agricultural purposes is using all the surveys together, seamlessly. These disparate geochemical surveys not only sampled various landscape elements and analysed a range of size fractions, but also used multiple analytical techniques, instrument types and laboratories. The geochemical data from these surveys require levelling to eliminate, as much as possible, non-geological variation. Using a variety of methodologies, including reanalysis of both international standards and small subsets of samples from previous surveys, we have created a seamless surface geochemical map for northern Australia, from nine surveys with 15,605 samples. We tested our approach using two surveys from the southern Thomson Orogen, which demonstrated the successful removal of inter-laboratory and other analytical variation. Creation of the new combined and levelled northern Australian dataset paves the way for the application of statistical and data analytics techniques, such as principal component analysis and machine learning, thereby maximising the value of these legacy data holdings. The methodology documented here can be applied to additional geochemical datasets as they become available.

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Title Levelled surface sediment geochemistry data for the North Australian Craton
Language eng
Licence notspecified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/ae289fad-3622-4b9e-98b9-53e9adf1eead
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Reference Period 10/06/2020
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[114.7173, -25.0062], [154.5554, -25.0062], [154.5554, -7.893], [114.7173, -7.893], [114.7173, -25.0062]]]}
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This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "Levelled surface sediment geochemistry data for the North Australian Craton". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/levelled-surface-sediment-geochemistry-data-for-the-north-australian-craton

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