Open-File Report 2010-1063
Downhole lithologic information and aquifer pumping test data are reported from 464 wells from a broad area of the northern part of the Coast Ranges in California. These data were originally published in paper form as numerous tables within three USGS Water-Supply Papers describing geology and groundwater conditions in Napa and Sonoma Valleys, the Santa Rosa and Petaluma Valley areas, and in the Russian River Valley and areas in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties, Calif. The well data are compiled in this report in digital form suitable for use in a digital mapping environment. These data, although mostly from relatively shallow water wells, provide important subsurface information that displays the disposition and facies transition of lithologic units throughout this broad area. Well lithologic data themselves and simple three-dimensional interpolation of those data show distinct spatial patterns that are linked to subsurface stratigraphy and structure and can be used to aid in the assessment of the groundwater resources. |
First posted April 21, 2010
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Sweetkind, D.S., and Taylor, E.M., 2010, Digital tabulation of geologic and hydrologic data from water wells in the northern San Francisco Bay region, northern California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1063, 125 p.
Abstract
Introduction
Data-Compilation Methodology
Visualization of Lithologic and Stratigraphic Data
Summary
Acknowledgments
References Cited