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Basin and Range Carbonate Aquifer, and known by many names, is an important and unique aquifer in that it covers several western states and basins. Groundwater flows through fractured carbonate rock beneath basins and leads to many regional springs and water features, like Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge and the springs at Death Valley.
The Madison Limestone is a thick sequence of mostly carbonate rocks of Mississippian age in the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains areas of the western United States.The rocks serve as an important aquifer as well as an oil reservoir in places.
Snowpack in the high mountains west of Snake Valley contributes to the (relatively) large amount of groundwater available in the area. Snake Valley is noted for a water project involving the Las Vegas Valley, [3] that would target the underlying Basin and Range Carbonate Aquifer, an aquifer that supplies local agriculture and is a relatively large source of water for this region.
California aquifers, excerpted from map in Ground Water Atlas of the United States (USGS, 2000): Lavender is "other" for "rocks that generally yield less than 10 gal/min to wells"; dark green-blue (3) are the California coastal basin aquifers, bright-turquoise blue (7) is the Central Valley aquifer system, flat cobalt-blue (1) down south is Basin and Range aquifers
Basin and Range topography as seen from the air. The Great Basin includes valleys, basins, lakes and mountain ranges of the Basin and Range Province. [20] The basin and range topography is the result of extension and thinning of the lithosphere, which is composed of crust and upper mantle.
An example of a significant and sustainable carbonate aquifer is the Edwards Aquifer [31] in central Texas. This carbonate aquifer has historically been providing high quality water for nearly 2 million people, and even today, is full because of tremendous recharge from a number of area streams, rivers and lakes. The primary risk to this ...
The carbonate rocks that form the Floridan aquifer system are of late Paleocene to early Oligocene age and are overlain by low-permeability clays of Miocene age (upper confining unit) and surficial sands of Pliocene and Holocene age (surficial aquifer system). In west-central Florida, north Florida, and along the updip margin of the system, the ...
A Limestone aquifer is an aquifer that is made of carbonate minerals namely marine limestone or bioclastic limestone. Fine-grained limestone has low porosity and permeability while bioclastic limestone is the antithesis. As groundwater may dissolve carbonates aquifer forming an extensive dissolution network which is a karst aquifer. [2]