The hydrogeologic framework for the southeastern Coastal Plain aquifer system of the United States

Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4243
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Tertiary and Cretaceous age sand aquifers of the southeastern United States Coastal Plain constitute a distinct multistate hydrogeologic regime informally defined as the southeastern sand aquifer. Seven regional hydrogeologic units are defined; four regional aquifer units and three regional confining beds. Sand aquifers of this system consist of quartzose, feldspathic, and coarse to fine sand and sandstone and minor limestone; confining beds are composed of clay, shale, chalk, and marl. Three hydrogeologic units of Cretaceous to Holocene age overlie the sand system: the surficial aquifer, upper confining unit, and Floridan aquifer system. These three units are not part of the southeastern sand aquifer, but are an integral element of the total hydrogeologic system, and some act as a source of recharge to, or discharge from the underlying clastic sediments. Low-permeability strata of Paleozoic to early Mesozoic age form the base off the total system. (USGS)
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title The hydrogeologic framework for the southeastern Coastal Plain aquifer system of the United States
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 84-4243
DOI 10.3133/wri844243
Edition -
Year Published 1984
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey,
Description iv, 26 p. :ill., maps ;28 cm.
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