| Abstract: | Guidelines and recommendations for naming aquifers are presented to assist authors of geohydrological reports in the United States Geological Survey, Water Resources Division. The hierarchy of terms that is used for water- yielding rocks from largest to smallest is aquifer system, aquifer, and zone. If aquifers are named, the names should be derived from lithologic terms, rock-stratigraphic units, or geographic names. The following items are not recommended as sources of aquifer names: time-stratigraphic names, relative position, alphanumeric designations, depositional environment, depth of occurrence, acronyms, and hydrologic conditions. Confining units should not be named unless doing so clearly promotes understanding of a particular aquifer system. Sources of names for confining units are similar to those for aquifer names, i.e. lithologic terms, rock-stratigraphic units or geographic names. Examples of comparison charts and tables that are used to define the geohydrologic framework are included. Aquifers are defined in 11 hypothetical examples that characterize geohydrologic settings throughout the country. (Author ‘s abstract) |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 14591 |
| Citation Author: | Laney, R. L.; Davidson, C. B. |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | vi, 46 p. :ill., maps ;28 cm. |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, |
| Citation Series: | Open-File Report |
| Citation Series Code: | OFR |
| Citation Series Number: | 86-534 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Aquifer-nomenclature guidelines; 1986; OFR; 86-534; Laney, R. L.; Davidson, C. B. |
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| Citation Year: | 1986 |
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| Text: | Aquifer-nomenclature guidelines; 1986; OFR; 86-534; Laney, R. L.; Davidson, C. B. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1986/0534/report-thumb.jpg |
| URL (DOCUMENT): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1986/0534/report.pdf |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, |
