URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/cr040277

TAMBO SHEET SG55-02, 1:250 000 GEOLOGICAL MAP SERIES FIRST EDITION 1969, 1:250 000 GEOLOGICAL SERIES EXPLANATORY NOTES 1970

In 1970, an earthquake-induced rock and snow avalanche on Mt. Huascaran, Peru, buried the towns of Yungay and Ranrahirca. The magnitude 7.8 earthquake killed 66,794 and caused $250 million in property damage. Several towns were almost totally destroyed. With factors of landslides and floods, was one of the largest disasters in the Southern Hemisphere.

Contained within the Atlas of Canada's Reference Map Series, 1961 to 2010, is a map of Canada is at a scale of 1:15 840 000 or 250 miles to the inch. It was produced by Surveys and Mapping Branch of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada [now Natural Resources Canada.] The map has land areas in black and white and marine areas in blue. The map names major places, has some drainage and shows the main railways.

URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/cr040257

TOOMPINE SHEET SG55-13, 1:250 000 GEOLOGICAL MAP SERIES FIRST EDITION 1970, 1:250 000 GEOLOGICAL SERIES EXPLANATORY NOTES

Throughout the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union had relatively similar total populations. The U.S.' population grew from around 205 million to almost 250 million people between 1970 and 1990, while the USSR's population grew from around 240 to 290 million in this time. In these years, the Soviet Union had the third largest population in the world, and the U.S. had the fourth largest (behind China and India respectively). Despite their similar sizes, these populations differed in terms of distribution as the U.S.' population was approximately three quarters urban in this period, whereas the Soviet Union's urban population was just 56 percent in 1970 and 66 percent in 1989. Additionally, the Soviet Union's population was much younger than that of the U.S. due to a higher birth rate and lower life expectancy.

URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/cr040245

BLACKALL SHEET SG55-01, 1:250 000 GEOLOGICAL MAP SERIES FIRST EDITION 1970, 1:250 000 GEOLOGICAL SERIES EXPLANATORY NOTES

This statistic shows the number of companies in the pharmaceutical drug industry in France from 1970 to 2018. In 2018, there were less than 250 such companies in France.

Humpback whales were almost taken to extinction by intensive whaling activities during the past century. In Area V, an original population of approximately 10 000 humpbacks at the beginning of the century had been reduced to less than 5%, or estimated 250-500 whales of the original population(Chittleborough 1965). Humpbacks were given total protection from commercial whaling by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1966 and presently have an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) status of Vulnerable (Donoghue 1994). Although protected, subsistence hunting of humpbacks continued in Tonga until 1979 when whaling was prohibited by Royal Decree; and in Antarctica by illegal Russian whaling of approximately 47 000 humpbacks, which continued until the 1980s (Donoghue 1994,Yablokov 1994).

While some humpback whale populations have been widely studied, others including the population that migrates along the New Zealand coast are little known since the cessation of commercial whaling. Following the closure of Tory Channel whaling station in 1964, humpbacks have rarely been sighted in New Zealand waters (Helweg et al. 1999), suggesting that this migratory population has not shown any significant recovery, although Cawthorn (1997) reported an apparent increase in New Zealand waters. Due to the differences in population structure between areas, knowledge derived from one ocean or population cannot easily be applied to others.

This dataset represents a compilation of all sightings of humpback whales around New Zealand within the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

Interactive chart of historical data for real (inflation-adjusted) gold prices per ounce back to 1915. The series is deflated using the headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) with the most recent month as the base. The current month is updated on an hourly basis with today's latest value.

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Military Expenditure in Afghanistan decreased to 278.30 USD Million in 2021 from 279.60 USD Million in 2020. Afghanistan Military Expenditure - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on June of 2025.

URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/cr040294

QUILPIE SHEET SG55-09, 1:250 000 GEOLOGICAL MAP SERIES FIRST EDITION 1970, 1:250 000 GEOLOGICAL SERIES EXPLANATORY NOTES

Contained within the Atlas of Canada's Reference Map Series, 1961 to 2010, is a map of Canada is at a scale of 1:15 840 000 or 250 miles to the inch. It was produced by Surveys and Mapping Branch of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada [now Natural Resources Canada.] The map has land areas in black and white and marine areas in blue. The map names major places, has some drainage and shows the main railways.

Possible economic buried Tertiary sedimentary uranium, plus any Palaeoproterozoic basement - hosted base metal deposits, were targeted in the region to the west of Cockburn by conducting an airborne radiometric survey (700 line miles at 0.5-1 mile... Possible economic buried Tertiary sedimentary uranium, plus any Palaeoproterozoic basement - hosted base metal deposits, were targeted in the region to the west of Cockburn by conducting an airborne radiometric survey (700 line miles at 0.5-1 mile line spacing and 250 feet sensor flight altitude), doing limited soil geochemical sampling, and by drilling and geophysically logging four open rotary reconnaissance holes having a total penetration of 546 feet. Results from all these activities were discouraging. Total count airborne radiometric anomalies ranging up to twice background only were recorded in just a few areas, and those in the inferred more deeply Cainozoic alluvium-covered area near Old Lake Dismal Homestead were the ones chosen to be drilled, to check whether they might be significant in terms of older sedimentation. But the drillholes passed straight from Quaternary sediments into weathered metamorphic rock, and no downhole radioactivity was encountered. It was concluded that the licence area would be too difficult to explore effectively, in view of its apparently unfavourable geology, and in consequence of its perceived diminished prospectivity the decision was made to surrender tenure.

The data set comprises time series measurements from offshore pressure gauges mounted on the sea floor. The data holdings are approximately 250 observation months from 100 sites. The data have mainly been collected in the continental shelf seas around the British Isles. Data records contain date/time, total pressure and, occasionally, temperature. The sampling interval is typically 15 minutes or hourly, over deployment periods ranging from 1 to 6 months. Data were collected mainly by the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (POL), now the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) at Liverpool, and are managed by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC).

URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/cr040275

CHARLEVILLE SHEET SG55-10, 1:250 000 GEOLOGICAL MAP SERIES FIRST EDITION 1970, 1:250 000 GEOLOGICAL SERIES EXPLANATORY NOTES

URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/cr040215

SAINT LAWRENCE SHEET SF55-12, 1:250 000 GEOLOGICAL MAP SERIES FIRST EDITION 1970, 1:250 000 GEOLOGICAL SERIES EXPLANATORY NOTES

Exploration for possible economic Mississippi Valley - type stratabound base metal deposits formed in Lower Cambrian limestones now exposed in the synclinal valley lying between the Chace and Druid Ranges was conducted via regional stream sediment... Exploration for possible economic Mississippi Valley - type stratabound base metal deposits formed in Lower Cambrian limestones now exposed in the synclinal valley lying between the Chace and Druid Ranges was conducted via regional stream sediment sampling (1766 samples) and semi-detailed, 1:12,000 scale geological mapping. An isolated minor zinc anomaly (170 to 1500 ppm Zn on a background of 100 ppm) and elevated tungsten values of 100-250 ppm W were followed up by stream sediment (295 samples) and rock chip (1000 samples) check sampling, but no repeat values of note were found. Iron and manganese-rich Cambrian dolomitic shales outcropping over a 7-mile strike length on the north-western side of the Druid Range were found to contain trace silver concentrations at 8 locations. During December 1969-January 1970 11 percussion drillholes totalling 1400 feet of penetration were put down to look for possible economic manganese or silver mineralisation in the bedrock beneath the secondary enriched zone. However, no metal values of interest were recorded from sampling of the thinly laminated, near vertically-dipping unweathered shales.

Greenfields uranium exploration of Mesozoic and Cainozoic sediments was carried out over an interpreted synclinal feature on Murnpeowie Station, in an area located between the Mount Babbage Block and the Willouran Ranges. The target was possible... Greenfields uranium exploration of Mesozoic and Cainozoic sediments was carried out over an interpreted synclinal feature on Murnpeowie Station, in an area located between the Mount Babbage Block and the Willouran Ranges. The target was possible stratiform or conglomerate type sedimentary uranium deposits of a kind similar to that discovered near Lake Frome, on the far side of the Flinders Ranges. Proterozoic acid igneous basement rocks of the ranges were regarded as a plausible source of the uranium. A preliminary field inspection of the Murnpeowie region had earlier discovered sparse and minor fracture-filling secondary uranium mineralisation (tyuyamunite) within outcropping Tertiary fluviatile sediments in the Lake Arthur area, although the extent of the occurrences on the sides of bluffs and buttes did not seem to be large enough to indicate economic prospects. Initial work comprised two aerial radiometric surveys, the first covering 1216 line miles on flight lines 2 miles apart at 300 feet mean altitude, using a four channel spectrometer, while the second survey gave more detailed coverage to a 2470 square mile area, recording only total count by scintillometer along 4380 line miles of profiles spaced 0.5 mile apart, flying at 250 feet mean altitude above the ground surface. The latter survey found 41 radiometric anomalies considered worthy of follow-up. Examination of the anomalous areas on the ground discounted many of these anomalies, leaving 14 that fell within nine discrete areas having particular geological characteristics. Importantly, the surface radiometric anomalies were shown by auger drilling and sample radiometric logging to occur on a duricrust profile, developed at several levels in the outcropping or shallowly subcropping sediments through the past action of a strong silicification process. Mapping of the extent of Cretaceous sedimentary units indicated that they are essentially non-prospective: the marine Marree and Blanchewater formations are too fine-grained and don't contain any radiometric anomalies, while the basal, coarser non-marine clastic beds of the Village Well and Trinity Well formations pinch out basinwards, being restricted to lying close to the edges of basement blocks. The Tertiary Murnpeowie Formation was seen to host the majority of radioactive source beds (again by analogy with Lake Frome results), but in this region it constitutes a much thinner interval of the cover rocks. However, the field examination did find that there is a widespread conglomeratic facies within this formation, ranging between 2-25 feet thick, which has a consistent distribution across the licence area. Mapped current bedding dips in the Camp Hill locality suggested a depositional slope heading from the ESE to WNW. A programme of stratigraphic drilling was carried out next (27 air/mud rotary holes for a total of 5890 feet), drilling to an average 300 feet depth in holes spaced a mile apart, principally along a SE-NW orientated line between the George River valley and Murnpeowie Homestead, to cut across the main tectonic structures and to follow sedimentary trends downslope. Two secondary, parallel lines of drillholes were also put in to give a SSW-NNE pattern extending along the Murnpeowie Syncline and the Koortanyaninna Anticline, but the latter holes did not discover evidence of these features persisting into the pre-Quaternary subsurface. Only very low radioactivity was recorded from throughout the entire cover sequence of Cainozoic, Tertiary and Cretaceous sediments; a slight increase in background radioactivity was usually seen at the top of the Cretaceous sandstones and/or at the base of the lowest Tertiary shale/sandstone unit, but no mineralisation was observed during inspection of the drill cuttings. This target section appears overall to be too oxidised, too thin and also largely lacking in organic matter, to be suitable for hosting roll-front style uranium deposits.