General Setting
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Geo logic

Para meters

1 Depth:

2 Permeability/Hydraulic Conductivity:

3 Formation Thickness:
4 Net Sand Thickness:
5 Percent Shale:
6 Continuity:
7 Top Seal Thickness:
8 Continuity of top seal:
9 Hydrocarbon Production:
10 Fluid Residence Time:
11 Flow Direction Elevation:

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CO2 Solu bility Brine

 12a Temperature:
12b Pressure:
12c Salinity:
13 Rock/Water Reaction:
14 Porosity:
15 Water Chemistry:
16 Rock Mineralogy:

Lower Potomac Group, Eastern Coastal Plain of Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey

Comments on Geologic Parameters

3 Formation Thickness:

There is no published map showing the thickness distribution of the lower Potomac aquifer in the eastern coastal plain of New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland (D. Pope, U.S. Geological Survey, personal communication, 2000). Hansen (1984) provided thickness-distribution information for the Waste Gate Formation in eastern Maryland. We used the GIS to calculate the difference in elevation at top of the lower Potomac aquifer (Trapp and Meisler, 1992) and top of basement (Brown and others, 1972) to calculate lower Potomac aquifer thickness distribution (c3potomacg).

3 Map:

3 Reference:

Brown, P. M., Miller, J. A., and Swain, F. M., 1972, Structural and stratigraphic framework, and spatial distribution of permeability of the Atlantic coastal plain, North Carolina to New York: U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 796, 79 p, 59 plates.

Hansen, H. J., 1984, Hydrogeologic characteristics of the Waste Gate Formation, a new subsurface unit of the Potomac Group underlying the eastern Delmarva Peninsula: Maryland Geological Survey Information Circular 39, 22 p.

Trapp, H., Jr., and Meisler, H., 1992, The regional aquifer underlying the northern Atlantic coastal plain in parts of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York—summary: U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1404A, 33 p., 11 plates.