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Com ments

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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:

12

CO2 Solu bility Brine

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

Basin Fill Sandstone and Carbonate Aquifers, Basin and Range
(Arizona, Nevada, and California)

Comments on Geologic Parameters

6 Continuity:

Sand-body continuity of the Tertiary basin-fill aquifers is inferred from data in Planert (1996), and Robson (1996). Sand-body continuity in these aquifers is typically very high within each fault-bounded basin, but poor between basins because of the complex structure.

6 Map:

6 Reference:

Planert, M., 1996, Ground water atlas of the United States, Segment 1: California and Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Atlas.

Robson, S. G., 1996, Ground water atlas of the United States, Segment 2: Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Atlas.