Digital data sets that describe aquifer characteristics of the alluvial and terrace deposits along the Cimarron River from Freedom to Guthrie in northwestern Oklahoma
Description
This data set consists of digital polygons of a constant
recharge rate for the alluvial and terrace deposits along the
Cimarron River from Freedom to Guthrie in northwestern
Oklahoma. Ground water in 1,305 square miles of Quaternary-age
alluvial and terrace deposits along the the Cimarron River from
Freedom to Guthrie is an important source of water for
irrigation, industrial, municipal, stock, and domestic
supplies. Alluvial and terrace deposits are composed of
interfingering lenses of clay, sandy clay, and cross-bedded
poorly sorted sand and gravel. The aquifer is composed of
hydraulically connected alluvial and terrace deposits that
unconformably overlie the Permian-age Formations.
A recharge value of 2.3 inches per year is used in this report
for the alluvial and terrace deposits along the the Cimarron
River from Freedom to Guthrie Oklahoma. The recharge rate was
estimated using a base-flow method and verified in a
steady-state flow model.
The polygon boundaries and the value for constant recharge for
alluvial and terrace deposits used in this data set were
published in a steady-state ground-water flow modeling report.
The aquifer boundaries along geological contacts were extracted
from published digital geology data sets. Additional boundaries
defining the geographic limits of the aquifer and areas of less
than 5 feet saturated thickness were digitized from a mylar map,
at a scale of 1:250,000. The maps were published at a scale of
1:900,000.
Ground-water flow models are numerical representations that
simplify and aggregate natural systems. Models are not unique;
different combinations of aquifer characteristics may produce
similar results. Therefore, values of recharge used in the
model and presented in this data set are not precise, but are
within a reasonable range when compared to independently
collected data.
Resources
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Description |
Link |
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9PIS1HT |
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.7c9b184d-70e7-4c95-9cbe-e61a80152a08.xml |
Tags
- environment
- groundwater
- cimarron-aquifer
- alluvial-aquifer
- cimarron-river-alluvial-aquifer
- aquifers
- cimarron-alluvial-aquifer
- recharge
- recharge-rate
- ground-water-vulnerability
- geoscientificinformation
- usgs-7c9b184d-70e7-4c95-9cbe-e61a80152a08
- groundwater-vulnerability
- cimarron-alluvial-and-terrace-aquifer
- cimarron-river-aquifer
- inlandwaters
- cimarron-river-terrace-aquifer
- terrace-aquifer
- ground-water-recharge
- cimarron-river-alluvial-and-terrace-aquifer
- ground-water