CO2 Brine Database

General Information
Geologic Parameters
1 Depth to Top:
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 Solubility Brine	12a Temperature:
	12b Pressure:
	12c Salinity:
13 Rock/Water Reaction:
14 Rock Porosity:
15 Water Chemistry:
16 Rock Mineralogy:

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

Comments on Geologic Parameters

12a Formation Temperature:

Trapp and others (1984) and Hansen (1984) provided temperature versus depth information from deep wells in the coastal plain of Maryland. Both studies determine a normal geothermal gradient of about 1.5 °F/100 ft. This compares well with the geothermal gradient data of Kinney (1976) in which a geothermal gradient of about 1.38 °F/100 ft (25.5o C/km) is shown for the eastern New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland coastal-plain area.

12a Reference:

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., Knobel, L. L., Meisler, H., and Leahy, P. P., 1984, Test well DO-CE 88 at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey, Water-Supply Paper 2229, 48 p.