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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:

Madison Group, Williston Basin

Comments on Geologic Parameters

6 Continuity:

The Madison carbonate-evaporite system was deposited in carbonate-platform environments that graded laterally and vertically to deep-water facies. The Madison Group is formed by the Lodgepole Limestone (cyclic carbonate sequence), Mission Canyon Limestone (coarse limestone to finer limestone and evaporates at the top), and the Charles Formation (evaporite sequence, anhydrite, and halite). Vertical leakage is restricted by shale, halite beds, and stratigraphic traps or low-permeability zones.

6 Map:

6 Reference:

Downey, J. S., 1986, Geohydrology of bedrock aquifers in the northern Great Plains in parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1402-E, 87 p.

Downey, J. S., 1984, Geohydrology of the Madison and associated aquifers in parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1273-G, 47 p.