Regional potentiometric-surface contours by Bedinger and Harrill (2004), for the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system study, Nevada and California

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The contours in this digital data set represent the regional potentiometric surface developed by
Bedinger and Harrill (2004) to assess potential interbasin flow in the Death Valley regional
ground-water flow system (DVRFS). To obtain an adequate network of control points for that
100,000 square-kilometer region of southern Nevada and California, Bedinger and Harrill (2004)
used regional potential altitudes derived from surface-water features, ground-water levels,
topographic settings, deep wells, and spring data. A set of general guidelines was developed
to relate regional ground-water potential to these more readily observed surface and near-surface
ground-water levels and to hydrologic characteristics of ground-water basins in the DVRFS
(see "Larger Work Citation", Appendix 1). Bedinger and Harrill (2004) hand-contoured the
regional potential data to produce the DVRFS potentiometric-surface map.

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