USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5091: Characterization and Occurrence of Confined and Unconfined Aquifers in Quaternary Sediments in the Glaciated Conterminous United States

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EXPLANATION

Map unit (GESS_MU)

Alluvial sediment

Outwash sediment

Ice contact sediment

Eolian sediment

Lacustrine sediment

Marine sediment

Till

End moraine

Organic sediment

Residual soil

Soliflucted sediment

Colluvial sediment

Fill

Bedrock

Water

Hydrogeologic terrane boundaries—Alphanumeric code indicates the generalized complexity of the hydrogeologic framework in each terrane

Sediment thickness contrast

Major river

Maximum extent of glacial ice

Extent of Late Wisconsinan ice

Figure 5. Glacial Environment and Surficial Sediments (GESS) geodatabase map units (GESS_MU attribute) map units in the glaciated conterminous United States; surficial geology from Haj and others (2018).

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