Digital map of changes in water levels from predevelopment to 1980 for the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming
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Metadata:
- Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Cederstrand, Joel R.
Originator: Becker, Mark F.
Publication_Date: 1999
Title:
Digital map of changes in water levels from predevelopment to 1980 for the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming
Edition: 1.0
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Oklahoma City, OK
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: OFR99-265
Online_Linkage: http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/of/ofr99-265/
Description:
Abstract:
This digital data set consists of contours of predevelopment to 1980 water-level elevation changes for the High Plains aquifer in the central United States. The High Plains aquifer extends from south of 32 degrees to almost 44 degrees north latitude and from 96 degrees 30 minutes to 106 degrees west longitude. The outcrop area covers 174,000 square miles and is present in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.
This digital data set was created by digitizing the contours for predevelopment to 1980 water-level elevation change from a 1:1,000,000-scale base map created by the U.S. Geological Survey High Plains Regional Aquifer-System Analysis (RASA) project (Gutentag, E.D., Heimes, F.J., Krothe, N.C., Luckey, R.R., and Weeks, J.B., 1984, Geohydrology of the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1400-B, 63 p.) The data are not intended for use at scales larger than 1:1,000,000.
Purpose:
This data set was created to archive the original map produced by the High Plains RASA project and make available the data on those maps for use with geographic information systems.
Supplemental_Information:
This data set was re-projected to Stateplane, NAD83, fipszone 2600 for use in the Platte River
Cooperative Hydrology Study using the ARCINFO PROJECT command.
Introduction --
The information provided in the introduction is found in
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1400-B (Gutentag and
others, 1984). This data set consists of digital contours of
predevelopment to 1980 water-level elevation changes for the High
Plains aquifer in the United States. The High Plains aquifer,
which underlies about 174,000 square miles in parts of eight
states, is the principal water source in one of the nation's
major agricultural areas. In 1980, about 170,000 wells pumped
water from the aquifer to irrigate about 13 million acres.
Elevation refers to distance above sea level and
sea level refers to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929
(NGVD29)-- a geodetic datum derived from a general adjustment of
the first-order level nets of both the United States and Canada,
formerly called Sea Level Datum of 1929.
The High Plains aquifer is a regional water-table aquifer
consisting mostly of near-surface sand and gravel deposits.
The maximum saturated thickness of the aquifer in 1980 was about
1,000 feet and averaged 200 feet. Hydraulic conductivity and
specific yield were highly variable because of the heterogeneity
of the aquifer. Hydraulic conductivity and specific yield of
the aquifer depend on sediment types, which vary significantly
both horizontally and vertically. Hydraulic conductivity
ranged from less than 25 to greater than 300 feet per day
averaged 60 feet per day. Specific yields ranged from less than
10 to 30 percent and averaged about 15 percent.
The High Plains aquifer boundaries were determined by the
erosional extent of the High Plains aquifer and hydrologic
boundaries where the High Plains aquifer extends eastward from
the Great Plains physiographic province (Fenneman, 1931). In
most of the area the erosional extent of hydraulically connected
Tertiary and Quaternary rocks were used. Streams and physiographic
provinces in eastern Nebraska were used as hydrologic
boundaries of Quaternary deposits. This digital data set was
created by digitizing the predevelopment to 1980 water-level
elevation change contours from a 1:1,000,000-scale base map
created by the High Plains RASA project (Gutentag and others,
1984).
Reviews Applied to Data --
This electronic report was subjected to the same review standard
that applies to all U.S. Geological Survey reports. Reviewers
were asked to check the topological consistency, tolerances,
attribute frequencies and statistics, projection, and geographic
extent. Reviewers were given digital data sets for checking
against the source maps to verify the linework and
attributes. The reviewers checked the metadata files for
completeness and accuracy.
Related Spatial and Tabular Data Sets --
Other References Cited --
Fenneman, N.M., 1931, Physiography of western United States (1st
ed.): New York, McGraw-Hill, 534 p.
Gutentag, E.D., Heimes, F.J., Krothe, N.C., Luckey, R.R., and
Weeks, J.B., 1984, Geohydrology of the High Plains aquifer in
parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma,
South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional
Paper 1400-B, 63 p.
Notes --
Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive
purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S.
Government.
Although this data set has been used by the U.S. Geological
Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or
implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy
of the data and related materials.
The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty,
and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey
in the use of this data, software, or related materials.
Supplemental Information: This coverage has been re-projected to Stateplane, NAD83 using the ArcInfo command PROJECT for use in the Platte River Cooperative Hydrology Study.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 1980
Currentness_Reference: Ground condition
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -105.92091073
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -96.29377645
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 43.66316552
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 31.80397248
Keywords:
Theme:
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Theme_Keyword: aquifers
Theme_Keyword: ground water
Theme_Keyword: groundwater
Theme_Keyword: High Plains aquifer
Theme_Keyword: Ogallala Formation
Theme_Keyword: Ogallala aquifer
Theme_Keyword: aquifer boundary
Place:
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Place_Keyword: High Plains
Place_Keyword: Great Plains region
Place_Keyword: western U.S.
Access_Constraints: None.
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Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Mark F. Becker
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Hydrologist
Contact_Address:
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Address: 202 NW 66th St., Bldg. 7
City: Oklahoma City
State_or_Province: Oklahoma
Postal_Code: 73116
Country: United States of America
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (405) 843-7570
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (405) 843-7712
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: mfbecker@usgs.gov
Contact_Instructions: none
Data_Set_Credit: None
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This data set includes the contours for predevelopment to 1980 water-level elevation changes published by Gutentag and others (1984) in U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1400-B.
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Process_Date: 199707010000 -- 199708010000
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easternmost tics used in digitizing were one degree longitude
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ARC/INFO TRANSFORM command.
Process_Date: 199710231610
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ARC/INFO. The new projection has standard parallels of 29
degrees 30 minutes and 45 degrees 30 minutes north latitude, a
central meridian of 96 degrees west longitude, and a
projection origin of 23 degrees north latitude.
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Process_Date: 199801281450 -- 199803091418
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The coverage was projected from Albers Equal-Area projection
to decimal degrees with the 1983 North American Datum using
ARC/INFO.
Process_Date: 199903231320
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Gutentag and others, 1984
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water levels expressed in feet.
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changes in feet. For example, a polygon with a RANGE value of
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10 feet from predevelopment to 1980. Polygons
that contain a RANGE value of -1 represent aquifer outcrops
where the change in water-levels is not known. MAJOR1 contains
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Box 25286
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Denver Federal Center
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Colorado
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80225-0286
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(303) 202-4210
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High Plains Aquifer Characteristics Data Sets. OFR 99-265
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- Although this data set has been used by the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data and related materials.
- The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of this data, software, or related materials.
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- Although this data set has been used by the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data and related materials.
- The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of this data, software, or related materials.
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