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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