The Water Encyclopedia: Hydrologic Data and Internet Resources - Chapter 6

CHAPTER 6 Groundwater Melvin Rivera CONTENTS Section 6A Section 6B Section 6C Section 6D Section 6E Section 6F Section 6G Section 6H Section 6I Section 6J Section 6K Groundwater — United States. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–2 Water Wells — United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–17 Water Wells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–22 Injection Wells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–39 Pumping of Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–49 Subsidence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–59 Aquifer Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–64 Soil Moisture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–76 Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–79 Artificial Recharge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–85 Geophysical Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–88 6-1 q 2006 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 6-2 THE WATER ENCYCLOPEDIA: HYDROLOGIC DATA AND INTERNET RESOURCES SECTION 6A GROUNDWATER — UNITED STATES q 2006 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC EXPLANATION Unconsolidated sand and gravel aquifers 1 Basin and Range aquifers 2 Rio Grande aquifer system 3 California Coastal Basin aquifers 4 Pacific Northwest basin-fill aquifers 5 Puget-Willamette Lowland aquifer system Northern Rocky Mountains Intermountain Basins aquifer system Sandstone aquifers 7 Central Valley aquifer system 20 Colorado Plateaus aquifer 8 High Planes aquifer 21 Denver Basin aquifer system 9 Pacos River Basin alluvial aquifer 22 Lower Cretaceous aquifers 10 Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer 23 Rush Springs aquifer 11 Seymour aquifer 24 Central Oklahoma aquifer 12 Surfical aquifer system 25 Ada-Varnoosa aquifer 13 Unconsolidated-deposit aquifer (Alaska) 26 Early Mesozoic basin aquifers Basaltic and other volcanic-rock aquifers 14 South Coast aquifer (Puerto Rico) 27 New York sandstone aquifers 35 Southern Nevada volcanic-rock aquifers 28 Pennsylvantan aquifers 36 Northern California volcanic-rock aquifers Semiconsolidated sand aquifer 29 Mississippian aquifer of Michigan 37 Pliocene and younger basaltic-rock aquifers Carbonate-rock aquifers 43 Basin and Range carbonate-rock aquifers 44 Roswell Basin aquifer system 45 Ozark Plateaus aquifer system 46 Bialine aquifer 47 Arbuckle Simpsion aquifer 48 Silarian-Devonian aquifers 49 Ordovician aquifers 50 Upper carbonate aquifers Scale Miles Kilometres Sandstone and carbonate-rock aquifers 58 59 60 61 15 Coastal lowlands aquifer system 16 Texas coastal uplands aquifer system 30 Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system 38 Miocene basaltic-rock aquifers 31 Jacobsville aquifer 39 Volcanic and sedimentary-rock aquifers 51 Eoxiden aquifer system 52 Biscayne aquifer Glacial deposit aquifers overlie bedrock aquifers in many areas 17 Mississippi embayment aquifer system 32 Lower Tertiary aquifers 40 Snake River Plain aquifer system 18 Southeastern Coastal plain aquifer system 33 Upper Cretaceous aquifers 41 Columbia Plateaus aquifer system 19 Northern Atlantic Coastal plain aquifer 34 Upper Tertiary aquifers (Wyoming) 42 Volcanic-rock aquifer-Overlain by system sedimentary deposits where patterned (Hawaii) 53 New York and New England carbonate rock aquifers Not a principal aquifer 54 Piedmont and Blue Ridge carbonate rock aquifers 55 Castle Hayne aquifer 56 North Coast Limestone aquifer system (Puerto Rico) 57 Kingshill aquifer (St. Croix) Figure 6A.1 Principal aquifers of the United States. (From http://capp.water.usgs.gov.) q 2006 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 6-4 Figure 6A.2 THE WATER ENCYCLOPEDIA: HYDROLOGIC DATA AND INTERNET RESOURCES River valley aquifers in the United States. (From Water Information Center, 1973, Water Atlas of the United States. H.E. Thomas, The Conservation of Ground Water, McGraw-Hill, 1951. With permission.) q 2006 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Table 6A.1 Occurrence of Aquifers in the United States (1) Geologic Age and Rock Type Cenozoic Quaternary (2) (3) Western Mountain Arid Ranges Basin (4) Columbi Lava ... - tailieumienphi.vn