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The nature of carbon (C) cycling in the vadose zone where groundwater is in contact with abundant gas-filled voids is poorly understood. The objective of this study was to trace C cycling in a karst landscape using stable-C isotopes, with emphasis on a shallow groundwater flow path through the soil, to an underlying cave, and to the spring outlet of a cave stream in the Ozark Plateaus of northwestern Arkansas. Blowing Spring Cave (BSC) occurs in the Springfield Plateau of the Ozark Plateaus. The cave passage is relatively horizontal, the entrance to BSC is a spring outlet, and no other human-sized entrances into the cave are known to occur. Soils generally are less than 2 to 3 meters thick above the cave and dominated...
Groundwater is an often overlooked freshwater resource compared to surface water, but groundwater is used widely across the United States, especially during periods of drought. If groundwater models can successfully simulate past conditions, they may be used to evaluate potential future pumping scenarios or climate conditions, thus providing a valuable planning tool for water-resource managers. Quantifying the groundwater-use component for a groundwater model is a vital but often challenging endeavor. This dataset includes groundwater withdrawal rates modeled for the Ozark Plateaus aquifer system (Ozark system) from 1900 to 2010 by groundwater model cell (2.6 square kilometers) for five water-use divisions—agriculture...
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This dataset compiled 24 years of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) seepage-run data from 15 studies covering southern Missouri and northern Arkansas in the Ozark Plateaus Physiographic Province (Ozarks). Previously these data were only available separately from the original USGS studies. The dataset can be used in surface-water and groundwater investigations assessing water quantity, quality, and availability in the Ozarks. The dataset includes "Ozark Plateaus seepage flow-line dataset, southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, 1982-2006" and "Ozark Plateaus seepage point dataset, southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, 1982-2006". Seepage-run data were collected by measuring discharge at points along a stream,...
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This dataset represents synoptic data and conditions of water levels of the Ozark aquifer as documented in Regional potentiometric surface of the Ozark aquifer in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, November 2014–January 2015: Scientific Investigations Map 3348 ( https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sim3348). The Ozark aquifer, within the Ozark Plateaus aquifer system, is the primary groundwater source in the Ozark Plateaus physiographic province. The construction of a regional potentiometric-surface map of the Ozark aquifer is needed to aid assessment of current and future groundwater use and availability. The regional potentiometric-surface mapping is part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Groundwater...
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A hydrogeologic framework of the Ozark Plateaus aquifer system was constructed as the base for a groundwater flow model developed as part of the U.S. Geological Survey Water Availability and Use Science Program to aid in the understanding of groundwater availability in select aquifer systems of the United States. The Ozark Plateaus aquifer system study area (hereinafter referred to as the “Ozark system”) is nearly 70,000 square miles and includes parts of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. A hydrogeologic framework was constructed to represent the altitudes and thicknesses of nine hydrogeologic units within the Ozark Plateaus aquifer system - . the Western Interior Plains confining system, Springfield Plateau...
Springs and sinkholes in the Ozark Plateaus Physiographic Province (Ozarks) in Arkansas were digitized from 1:24,000-scale topographic maps to produce a digital dataset of karst features. Karst landscapes generally are created from bedrock dissolution that results in distinctive landforms, including sinkholes, springs, caves, and sinking streams, and a high degree of interaction between surface water and groundwater. The dataset can be used to better understand groundwater flow in the karst landscape of the Arkansas Ozarks and potential effects of karst-feature density on water quality, geomorphology, water resources, and karst hazards. In the Ozarks, karst features are present in several limestone and dolomite...


    map background search result map search result map Ozark Plateaus seepage run dataset, southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, 1982-2006 Altitudes and Thicknesses of Hydrogeologic Units of the Ozark Plateaus Aquifer System in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma Carbonate geochemistry dataset of the soil and an underlying cave in the Ozark Plateaus, central United States Carbonate geochemistry dataset of the soil and an underlying cave in the Ozark Plateaus, central United States Ozark Plateaus seepage run dataset, southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, 1982-2006 Altitudes and Thicknesses of Hydrogeologic Units of the Ozark Plateaus Aquifer System in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma