Secrets beneath the Great Artesian Basin uncovered
(WorldNews Environment)

18 October 2018 A five-year project spanning approximately 135,000 square kilometres across New South Wales and Queensland has delved beneath the Great Artesian Basin to learn more about the geological development of eastern Australia. The findings of the Southern Thomson Project are on show today at the inaugural Australian Geoscience Council Convention in Adelaide. Dr Ian Roach said Geoscience Australia collaborated with the Geological Survey of New South Wales and the Geological Survey of Queensland to learn more about one of Australia`s most underexplored regions. Mud rotary drill chip samples. `You know the Australian saying `at the back of Burke`? Our actual starting point was...