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Approximately 75 percent of the water withdrawn from the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withdrawn.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.
Resources
| Name |
Format |
Description |
Link |
|
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 |
Tags
- 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