Structural domains and their potential impact on recharge to intermontane-basin aquifers
Environmental & Engineering Geoscience
By: G.C. Ohlmacher
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Abstract
Variations in the structures exposed in structural domains associated with faults can affect the amount of ground-water recharge to fractured rock aquifers supplying intermontane-basin aquifers. In the southwestern Franklin Mountains, El Paso, Texas, an outcrop of the Ordovician Scenic Drive Formation exposes a group of structures including faults, joints, and folds associated with a left-lateral fault striking N74°E and dipping 81°NW. Slip along this fault has produced a structural domain with extensional structures (normal faults and joints) and a domain with contractional structures (folds and joints). These extensional and contractional domains occur on opposite sides of the fault.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Structural domains and their potential impact on recharge to intermontane-basin aquifers |
| Series title | Environmental & Engineering Geoscience |
| DOI | 10.2113/gseegeosci.V.1.61 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Year Published | 1999 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Environmental Engineering Geologists |
| Description | 11 p. |
| First page | 61 |
| Last page | 71 |