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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>J. L. Poole</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1963</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Vast quantities of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;saline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;ground&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;await new commercial uses and economical demineralization processes for recognition as&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;valuable&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;resource&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Saline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;ground&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;is more widely distributed than any other natural&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;resource&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, occurring throughout the United States and in geologic formations ranging from the oldest to the youngest. The Coastal Plain has the greatest reserve of fresh&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;in the country, but at depths ranging from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;few feet to about 3,500 feet most of the fresh‐&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;aquifers also contain large quantities of brackish&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;. Paleozoic formations in the east‐central United States have long been producers of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;saline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;as commercial brines and in association with oil and gas. The volume of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;saline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;ground&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;perhaps exceeds the fresh&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;ground&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;‐&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;supply in the Great Plains Region. The greater part of the Western Mountain Region is generally deficient in fresh&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;ground&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;; however,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;saline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;is present in highly permeable deposits in numerous closed basins and along&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;saline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;streams. In each of these major&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;ground&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;‐&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;regions small to very large amounts of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;saline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;can be pumped from wells ranging from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;few tens of feet to several thousand feet in depth. Knowledge of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;saline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;distribution is general and inadequate, having been attained as&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;by‐product of investigations of fresh‐&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;supplies. This knowledge should be expanded as technological advances in demineralization processes enhance the importance of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;saline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;for potential supply in numerous&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;‐deficient areas.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1111/j.1745-6584.1963.tb01921.x</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Wiley Blackwell</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Saline ground water — A little used and unmapped resource</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>