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Borehole hydrogeologic-unit top-surface altitudes, aquifer hydraulic properties, and groundwater-sample chloride-concentration data from 1906 through 2016 for the Virginia Eastern Shore

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1906-12-31
End Date
2016-12-14

Citation

McFarland, E.R., 2019, Borehole hydrogeologic-unit top-surface altitudes, aquifer hydraulic properties, and groundwater-sample chloride-concentration data from 1906 through 2016 for the Virginia Eastern Shore: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9MPE5SD.

Summary

A hydrogeologic framework was developed by USGS during 2016-19 to describe the groundwater system on the Virginia Eastern Shore. This USGS data release contains text files of (1) interpreted borehole hydrogeologic-unit top-surface altitudes, (2) summary values of previously documented estimates of aquifer hydraulic properties, and (3) groundwater-sample chloride concentrations and well summary statistics. In addition are shapefiles of altitude contours for 10 hydrogeologic-unit top surfaces, and for the groundwater 250 milligrams per liter chloride-concentration surface. This data release supports the following publication: McFarland, E.R., and Beach, T.A., 2019, Hydrogeologic framework of the Virginia Eastern Shore: U.S. Geological [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Mark R Bennett
Originator :
E Randolph McFarland
Metadata Contact :
Jessica A Hopple
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

Attached Files

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Appendix_1_hydrogeologic_unit_top_surface_altitudes.txt
“Hydrogeologic-unit top-surface altitudes”
16.38 KB text/plain
Appendix_2_hydraulic_properties.txt
“Estimates of aquifer hydraulic properties”
7.09 KB text/plain
Appendix_3A_chloride_concentrations_samples.txt
“Chloride concentrations”
151.93 KB text/plain
Appendix_3B_chloride_concentrations_wells.txt
“Summary statistics of chloride concentrations”
18.07 KB text/plain
Shapefiles.zip
“Zipped file with 11 shapefiles”
1.58 MB application/zip

Purpose

The hydrogeologic framework of the Virginia Eastern Shore provides improved accuracy on aquifer configurations, hydraulic properties, and proximity to saltwater. The data are being archived to preserve access to them for future resource-management efforts in water-supply planning and development and improved groundwater modeling.

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