Geomorphology map of the Tasman Fracture Australian Marine Park
The Tasman Fracture Commonwealth Reserve complements the Port Davey Marine Reserve (encompassing Port Davey, Bathurst Channel and Bathurst Harbour), which was proclaimed by the Tasmanian Government in 2005. It spans the continental shelf, continental slope and deeper water ecosystems south of Tasmania, and is scored by steep canyons. It also encloses other geological features, including steep escarpments and troughs, saddles, basins, and part of a plateau that is over 400 km long and rises up to 3 km above the sea floor.
The reserve includes a number of undersea peaks rising to less than 1500 m below the sea surface that provide habitat to deepwater hard corals. These corals provide a structure and habitat for a rich diversity of marine invertebrate animals that live attached corals.
This record describes a geomorphology map for the Tasman Fracture CMR that was prepared using bathymetry and backscatter data sourced from CSIRO and Geoscience Australia.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-04-27
Principal investigator
- Status
- Completed
Principal investigator
- Topic category
-
- Geoscientific information
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2017-06-01 2017-06-30
Vertical element
- Minimum value
- 60
- Maximum value
- 5600
- Identifier
- EPSG::5715
- Name
- MSL depth
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- NASA/GCMD Keywords, Version 8.5
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- EARTH SCIENCE | LAND SURFACE | GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES
- EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | MARINE VOLCANISM
- EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY | SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE ECOSYSTEMS | BENTHIC
- EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY | OCEAN PLATEAUS/RIDGES
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Benthic habitat
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- Cite data as: Lucieer, V (2018), Geomorphology map of the Tasman Fracture Australian Marine Park. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS). Data accessed from https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/254d2e6e-b708-4c7b-be3e-997280151170 on [access date].
- Other constraints
- The data described in this record are the intellectual property of the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS).
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- OnLine resource
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SHAPE-ZIP
DATA ACCESS - Download the data (geomorphology map) in Shapefile format
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SHAPE-ZIP
DATA ACCESS - Download the data (habitat map) in Shapefile format
- OnLine resource
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seamap:GEOMORPHOLOGY_Tasman_Fracture
MAP - Tasman Fracture geomorphology
- OnLine resource
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seamap:SeamapAus_TAS_TasFracture_substrata
MAP - Tasman Fracture habitat
Resource lineage
- Statement
- The Tasman Fracture bathymetric data sets have been sourced from CSIRO and Geoscience Australia. The data has been gridded to 50 m resolution. The geomorphology layer is mapped to the Geoscience Australia Marine Geomorphology Classification Version 1: Plain, Depression, Ridge, Seamount The habitat layer is mapped as per the Seamap Australia benthic habitat classification table - Level 1: Hard; Mixed or Soft Substrata
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- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
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EPSG/WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Platform
Identifier
- Code
- research vessel
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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254d2e6e-b708-4c7b-be3e-997280151170
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/254d2e6e-b708-4c7b-be3e-997280151170
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2020-09-23T12:26:17
- Date info (Revision)
- 2020-09-23T12:26:17
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018