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Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5246


Three-Dimensional Model of the Geologic Framework for the Columbia Plateau Regional Aquifer System, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington


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Figure 5. Example of physically unreasonable numerical artifacts resulting from the assumption that the distance between a bedrock trend surface and the land surface Digital Elevation Model are filled with sedimentary overburden: (A) Actual bedrock surface, (B) simulated trend bedrock surface, (C) resulting numerical artifacts (small pockets of sediment on bedrock highs), and (D) preferred simulation.

First posted February 25, 2011

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