The Bureau of Economic Geology The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences
Basin Fill Sandstone and Carbonate Aquifers, Basin and Range (Arizona, Nevada, and California)

Comments on Geologic Parameters

5 Percent Shale:

Percent shale of the Tertiary basin fill in the Arizona part of the Mojave Basin is inferred from maps in Anderson and others (1992).

5 Map:

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5 Reference:

Anderson, T. W., Freethey, G. W., and Tucci, Patrick, 1992, Geohydrology and water resources of alluvial basins in south-central Arizona and parts of adjacent states: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1406-B, 67 p.

 
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