GROUND WATER ATLAS of the UNITED STATES
Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands
HA 730-N

Alaska Unconsolidated-deposit aquifers


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Cook Inlet Aquifer System

Figure 14 Photograph showing unsorted, unstratified glacial till deposited by the Lemon Creek glacier near Juneau, Alaska (37K)
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Figure 15 Hydrogeologic sections of three areas in the Cook Inlet aquifer system (58K)
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Figure 16 Diagrammatic section showing ground water movement in the unconsolidated-deposit aquifers of the Cook Inlet aquifer system (52K)
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Figure 17 Map showing potentiometric contours and movement of water in the unconfined aquifer near Anchorage, Alaska (27K)
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Figure 18 Map showing potentiometric contours and movement of water in the confined aquifer near Anchorage, Alaska before the aquifer was intensively developed (26K)
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Figure 19 Map showing potentiometric contours and movement of water in the confined aquifer near Anchorage, Alaska after the aquifer was intensively developed (26K)
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Figure 20 Map showing net water-level decline in confined aquifer near Anchorage, Alaska between 1955 and 1969 (27K)
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