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Map showing the potentiometric surface of the Aquia Aquifer, May 19-23, 1980

Open-File Report 81-416
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Abstract

The map is based on water level measurements made May 19-23, 1980. The well network used included 83 wells which have been screened in the Aquia aquifer (Aquia Formation of Paleocene Age). Highest levels of the potentiometric surface, 20 to 35 feet above sea level, were measured near the outcrop or subcrop of the aquifer in the topographically high areas of Anne Arundel and Prince Georges Counties. The potentiometric surface slopes to the southeast. Four separate and extensive cones of depression have developed in the potentiometric surface in the vicinities of Lexington Park, Leonardtown, Prince Frederick, and Chesapeake Beach. The cones of Leonardtown and Lexington Park seem to be merging.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Map showing the potentiometric surface of the Aquia Aquifer, May 19-23, 1980
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 81-416
DOI 10.3133/ofr81416
Year Published 1980
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Description 1 Plate: 8.57 x 10.90 inches
Country United States
State Maryland
Other Geospatial Aquia aquifer
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