Kansas Geological Survey, Open-file Report 88-39
Great Plains and Cedar Hills Aquifers--Contents
Table of Contents
- Abstract
- 1.0 Introduction
- 1.1 Purpose of This Report
- 1.2 Geographic Extent of the Study Area
- 1.3 Acknowledgements
- 2.0 Summary of Previous Research on the Great Plains and Cedar Hills Aquifers in the Study Area
- 2.1 Geologic Investigations Focusing on Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments
- 2.2 Review of Previous Hydrogeologic Investigations of the Great Plains and Cedar Hills Aquifers in the Study Area
- 3.0 Methods of Study
- 3.1 Geologic Framework of the Study Area
- 3.2 Hydrologic and Water Quality Investigations
- 4.0 Geologic Setting
- 4.1 Stratigraphy
- 4.1.1 Lithologic Description, Thickness and Extent of the Formations
- 4.1.2 Log Analysis and Petrophysical Properties of the Cretaceous-Permian Sequence in the #1 Braun, Ellis County, (Hays North Monitoring Site)
- 4.2 Geologic Structure
- 5.0 Regional Ground-water Flow Systems
- 5.1 Definition of Regionally Significant Aquifer Systems
- 5.2 Ground-Water Flow in the Great Plains Aquifer System
- 5.3 Ground-Water Flow in the Cedar Hills Aquifer
- 6.0 Regional Ground-water Geochemistry
- 6.1 Types of Chemical Data Collected and Examined
- 6.2 Chemical Characteristics of Ground Waters
- 6.2.1 Chemical Types of Ground Waters
- 6.2.2 Distribution of Water Types
- 6.2.3 Relationship between Total-Dissolved-Solids and Chloride Concentrations
- 6.3 Origin of Dissolved Constituents
- 6.3.1 Determinations Based on Constituent Relationships
- 6.3.2 Identification of Salinity Sources Using Mixing Curves
- 6.3.3 Isotope Studies
- 7.0 Hydrogeologic Setting at the Monitoring Sites
- 7.1 Construction of the Multiple-Completion Monitoring Wells
- 7.2 The Gorham Monitoring Site
- 7.2.1 Local Geologic Setting
- 7.2.2 Arrangement of the Piezometers
- 7.2.3 Hydrologic Conditions
- 7.2.4 Ground-Water Geochemistry
- 7.3 The Hill City Monitoring Site
- 7.3.1 Local Geologic Setting
- 7.3.2 Arrangement of the Piezometers
- 7.3.3 Hydrologic Conditions
- 7.3.4 Ground-Water Geochemistry
- 7.4 The Hays North Monitoring Site
- 7.4.1 Local Geologic Setting
- 7.4.2 Arrangement of the Piezometers
- 7.4.3 Hydrologic Conditions
- 7.4.4 Ground-Water Geochemistry
- 8.0 Water Use from the Great Plains Aquifer and Shallow Disposal of Oil-field Brines
- 8.1 Water Use from the Great Plains Aquifer
- 8.2 Shallow Disposal of Oil-Field Brines
- 9.0 The Potential for Upward Migration of Saline Waters into Shallower Freshwater Zones of the Great Plains Aquifer and Near-surface
- 9.1 Criteria for Evaluation
- 9.2 Geographic Areas of Potential Upward Movement of Saline Waters into Shallow Freshwater Aquifers
- 10.0 Preliminary Conclusions
- 11.0 Future Research Needs
- References
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
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Original document dated December, 1988
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