Hydrogeologic Data for the Development of the Hydrogeologic Framework of the Coastal Lowlands Aquifer System Regional Groundwater Availability Study Area in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida
Dates
Publication Date
2020-12-14
Time Period
2020
Citation
Teeple, A.P., Foster, L.K., Lindaman, M.A., Duncan, L.L., and Casarez, I., 2020, Hydrogeologic Data for the Development of the Hydrogeologic Framework of the Coastal Lowlands Aquifer System Regional Groundwater Availability Study Area in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P92192WB.
Summary
Note: this data release has been deprecated. Please see new data release here: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9PEFY11. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) undertook a 5-year study beginning in 2016 to assess groundwater availability for the aquifers proximal to the Gulf of Mexico from the Texas-Mexico border to the western part of the panhandle of Florida; these aquifers are collectively referred to as the coastal lowlands aquifer system. This study is one of several regional groundwater availability studies being done as part of the USGS Water Availability and Use Science Program. Groundwater from the coastal lowlands aquifer system is used mainly for public, irrigation, and industrial supply. Land-surface subsidence related to groundwater [...]
Summary
Note: this data release has been deprecated. Please see new data release here: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9PEFY11.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) undertook a 5-year study beginning in 2016 to assess groundwater availability for the aquifers proximal to the Gulf of Mexico from the Texas-Mexico border to the western part of the panhandle of Florida; these aquifers are collectively referred to as the coastal lowlands aquifer system. This study is one of several regional groundwater availability studies being done as part of the USGS Water Availability and Use Science Program. Groundwater from the coastal lowlands aquifer system is used mainly for public, irrigation, and industrial supply. Land-surface subsidence related to groundwater pumping is an issue of ongoing concern within this study area. During the first two years of the study, the team developed an updated conceptual model of the hydrogeologic framework of the aquifer system, which lead to initial estimates of major water budget components such as recharge, surface-water/groundwater exchange, and coastal discharge. This data release documents the hydrogeologic data that were compiled and used to define the hydrogeologic framework.
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Purpose
This data release contains hydrogeologic data compiled to better define the hydrogeologic framework of the coastal lowlands aquifer system. The geospatial extent (both horizontally and vertically) of this aquifer system is the defined by the contact point of the Vicksburg-Jackson confining unit within the United States (U.S.). At land surface, the Vicksburg-Jackson confining unit extends from the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas through the western part of the Florida panhandle. The data compilation efforts focused on hydrogeologic units of Oligocene age or younger. This includes hydrogeologic unit tops and bases of the Chicot, Evangeline, Jasper, and Catahoula aquifers as well as the Burkeville, Vicksburg, and Jackson confining units and any correlative units. All hydrogeologic data used to define the hydrogeologic framework from the compiled sources were included in this dataset, although they may not be within the coastal lowlands aquifer system boundary.
