The Regional Aquifer System Underlying the Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain in Parts of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York : Summary.


Authors:   Henry Trapp, Jr. and Harold Meisler

Authoring agency:   Geological Survey (U.S.) (USGS)

Publication:   Washington, Govt. Print. Office, 1992.

Physical description of original:   1 portfolio (vii, 33 p., 11 folded leaves of plates) : ill., maps (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Series:   Professional paper (Geological Survey (U.S.)) ; no. 1404-A



The regional aquifer system underlying the northern Atlantic Coastal Plain in parts of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York : summary


  Attached plates:

Plate 1 -- Hydrogeologic-hydrochemical sections

Plate 2 -- Map showing thickness of the Coastal Plain sediments and locations of hydrogeologic-hydrochemical sections and Generalized stratigraphic correlations map

Plate 3 -- Maps showing altitude of the long-term averaged water table and extent and transmissivity of the surficial aquifer and altitude of the upper surface and distribution of transmissivity in the upper Chesapeake aquifer

Plate 4 -- Maps showing altitude of the upper surface and distribution of transmissivity in the Lower Chesapeake aquifer and Castle Hayne-Piney Point aquifer

Plate 5 -- Maps showing altitude of the upper surface and distribution of transmissivity in the Beaufort-Aquia aquifer and Peedee-Severn aquifer

Plate 6 -- Maps showing altitude of the upper surface and distribution of transmissivity in the Black Creek-Matawan aquifer and Upper Potomac and Magothy aquifers

Plate 7 -- Maps showing altitude of the upper surface and distribution of transmissivity in the Middle Potomac aquifer and Lower Potomac aquifer

Plate 8 -- Map showing Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain regional and subregional model boundaries and locations of hydrologic budget areas

Plate 9 -- Maps showing Castle Hayne-Piney Point aquifer

Plate 10 -- Maps showing the upper Potomac and Magothy aquifers

Plate 11 -- Maps showing hydrochemical facies and dissolved-solids concentrations of water in the Upper Chesapeake aquifer and Lower Potomac aquifer