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Contents Introduction....................................................................................................................... 1 Basin Description.............................................................................................................. 1 Shallow Subsurface Stratigraphy...................................................................................... 5 Regional and Local Geologic Structure............................................................................ 8 Aquifer and Confining Units ............................................................................................ 9 Predevelopment Hydrologic Conditions......................................................................... 12 Current Hydrologic Conditions....................................................................................... 14 Cross Sections and Hydrographs Illustrating Hydrogeologic Characteristics and Hydrologic Changes.................................................................................................. 15 Lithologic Cross Section Along the Cimarron River.......................................... 15 Ground-Water Level Cross Sections and Hydrographs...................................... 25 Conclusions..................................................................................................................... 38 Acknowledgments........................................................................................................... 39 References....................................................................................................................... 39 i
List of Figures Figure 1. Base map of southwest Kansas showing political and basin boundaries, highways, rivers and streams, the High Plains aquifer extent, and the Bear Creek and Crooked Creek-Fowler fault zones. ................................................................................................2 Figure 2. Land use/land cover. .................................................................................3 Figure 3. Surface geology. .......................................................................................4 Figure 4. Bedrock geology in the Cimarron River basin. ........................................7 Figure 5. Current ground-water table contours. .......................................................11 Figure 6. Predevelopment ground-water table contours. .........................................13 Figure 7. Points of diversion (water rights)..............................................................16 Figure 8. Water-use density (from Wilson et al., 2002)...........................................17 Figure 9. Change in saturated thickness, predevelopment to 1999-2001 (modified from Woods and Sophocleous, 2002). .....................................18 Figure 10. Locations of cross sections, rivers and streams, river basin, county, and GMD boundaries, extent of the High Plains aquifer, and the Crooked Creek-Fowler and Bear Creek fault zones. ................................19 Figure 11. Material identification color codes. ..........................................................20 Figure 12. Lithologic cross section along the Cimarron River. .................................23 Figure 13. Figure 14. Figure 15. Figure 16. Hydraulic conductivity of the High Plains aquifer (data from Cederstrand and Becker, 1998).................................................................24 Cimarron River Section showing profiles of land surface, predevelopment ground-water table, 2004 ground-water table, and bedrock elevations. ..................................................................................26 Section A-A’ showing profiles of land surface, predevelopment ground-water table, 2004 ground-water table, and bedrock elevations....27 Section B-B’ showing profiles of land surface, predevelopment ground-water table, 2004 ground-water table, and bedrock elevations....28 ii
Page 1 and 2: Kansas Geological Survey HYDROGEOLO
Page 3: Hydrogeologic Characteristics and H
Page 7 and 8: List of Tables Table 1. Table 2. Ta
Page 9 and 10: 2 Figure 1. Base map of southwest K
Page 11 and 12: 4 Figure 3. Surface geology.
Page 13 and 14: Table 1. Regional and local aquifer
Page 15 and 16: Kearny and southern Hamilton counti
Page 17 and 18: The High Plains aquifer consists of
Page 19 and 20: Ground-water flow within the bedroc
Page 21 and 22: Cimarron River and the North Fork o
Page 23 and 24: 16 Figure 7. Points of diversion (w
Page 25 and 26: 18 Figure 9. Change in saturated th
Page 27 and 28: 20 Figure 11. Material identificati
Page 29 and 30: holes is that the surface elevation
Page 31 and 32: 24 Figure 13. Hydraulic conductivit
Page 33 and 34: 26 Figure 14. Cimarron River Sectio
Page 35 and 36: 28 Figure 16. Section B-B’ showin
Page 37 and 38: 30 Figure 18. Section D-D’ showin
Page 39 and 40: CIMARRON RIVER 120 100 MEAN ANNUAL
Page 41 and 42: Table 3. Elevation of water levels
Page 43 and 44: GRANT AND HASKELL COUNTIES 0 50 DEP
Page 45 and 46: alluvium and the deeper portion of
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