Valley fill in the Roswell-Artesia area, New Mexico
Open-File Report
73-163
By: Forest P. Lyford
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Abstract
Drill samples from 225 water and oil wells in an area 70 miles long and 20 miles wide in the Roswell-Artesia area, southeastern New Mexico were examined. A thickness map and a saturated thickness map of the valley-fill sediments were constructed.
Maximum depth of valley fill is about 300 feet in large closed depressions near Roswell, Hagerman, and Artesia. The depressions were formed by the solution of carbonates and evaporites that underlie the fill. Maximum saturated thickness is about 250 feet in depressions near Hagerman and Artesia and about 300 feet in a depression near Roswell.
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Lyford, F.P., 1973, Valley fill in the Roswell-Artesia area, New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 73-163, 26 p. ill., maps (3 fold. in pocket) ; 30 cm., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr73163.
ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Valley fill in the Roswell-Artesia area, New Mexico |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 73-163 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr73163 |
| Year Published | 1973 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Description | 26 p. ill., maps (3 fold. in pocket) ; 30 cm. |