Marine Sediments (MARS) Database
The MARine Sediment (MARS) database contains detailed information on seabed sediment characteristics for samples collected from Australia's marine jurisdiction, including the Australian Antarctic Territory. It is an important scientific resource that includes sediment properties from seabed and sub-seabed samples spanning coastal, continental shelf and deep sea locations. Analytical properties include grain size, carbonate content, mineralogy, geochemical properties and age determinations. MARS currently holds approximately 100,000 sample records and new data are being added as they become available.
Please contact us at ausseabed@ga.gov.au if you wish to contribute marine sediment data to the MARS database.
Data and resources
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Search of MARine Sediments (MARS) DatabaseHTML Open
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MARS WMS webservices (please select Featuretype: ‘ausseabed:SeabedSedimentsCollection’)WMS Open
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MARS WFS webservices (please select Featuretype: ‘ausseabed:SeabedSedimentsCollection’)WFS Open
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HTML Open
Additional information
| Date (publication) | 2009-01-01 |
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| Status | onGoing |
| Update frequency | weekly |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-05 |
| Created | 2026-11-05 |
| API | package_show |