Digital data sets that describe aquifer characteristics of the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer in east-central Oklahoma

Description

This data set consists of digitized water-level elevation contours for the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer in east-central Oklahoma. The Vamoosa-Ada aquifer is an important source of water that underlies about 2,320-square miles of parts of Osage, Pawnee, Payne, Creek, Lincoln, Okfuskee, and Seminole Counties. Approximately 75 percent of the water withdrawn from the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer is for municipal use. Rural domestic use and water for stock animals account for most of the remaining water withdrawn. The Vamoosa-Ada aquifer is defined in a ground-water report as consisting principally of the rocks of the Late Pennsylvanian-age Vamoosa Formation and overlying Ada Group. The Vamoosa-Ada aquifer consists of a complex sequence of fine- to very fine-grained sandstone, siltstone, shale, and conglomerate interbedded with very thin limestones. The water-yielding capabilities of the aquifer are generally controlled by lateral and vertical distribution of the sandstone beds and their physical characteristics. The Vamoosa-Ada aquifer is unconfined where it outcrops in about an 1,700-square-mile area. The water-level elevation contours were digitized from a mylar map, at a scale of 1:250,000, used to publish a plate in a ground-water report about the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer. The water-level elevation contours in this data set extend west of the aquifer outcrop to areas where Vanoss Group rocks overlie the Ada Group. The data set also includes a water-level elevation contour for a terrace deposit east of the aquifer outcrop near the North Canadian River. Water-level elevations range from 800 to 1,000 feet above sea level for the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer.

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55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9VMQJZU
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9VMQJZU
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.6b59e2c0-1ce4-486b-8cd8-a06679f64b53.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9VMQJZU
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9VMQJZU
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9VMQJZU

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  • environment
  • groundwater
  • groundwater-level-elevation-contours
  • aquifers
  • ada-group
  • vamoosa-ada-aquifer
  • ground-water-vulnerability
  • groundwater-level-elevation
  • ada-aquifer
  • vamoosa-formation
  • ground-water-level-elevation
  • geoscientificinformation
  • groundwater-vulnerability
  • usgs-6b59e2c0-1ce4-486b-8cd8-a06679f64b53
  • ground-water-level-elevation-contours
  • inlandwaters
  • water-level-contours
  • vamoosa-aquifer
  • water-level-elevation-contours
  • ground-water
  • water-level-elevation
  • water-levels
  • groundwater-levels
  • ground-water-levels

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