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Digital subsurface data from USGS Regional Aquifer System Analysis of the San Juan basin and adjacent areas, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico

The San Juan basin is a significant physical and structural element in the southeastern part of the Colorado Plateau physiographic province. The San Juan basin is in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah and has an area of about 21,600 square miles. The basin is about 140 miles wide and about 200 miles long. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, the San Juan basin was the focus of the U.S. Geological Survey's Regional Aquifer-System Analysis (RASA) study. Investigation of the San Juan structural basin began in October 1984 with an objective, among others, to define and evaluate the aquifer system. As part of this analysis, a multi-publication series of reports were produced as Hydrologic Atlas 720 (HA-720) that described on 1:1,000,000-scale maps the subsurface configuration and hydrogeology of the San Jose, Nacimiento, and Animas Formations (Levings and others, 1990; HA-720-A), the Ojo Alamo Sandstone (Thorn and others, 1990; HA-720-B), the Kirtland Shale and Fruitland Formation (Kernodle and others, 1990; HA-720-C), the Pictured Cliffs Sandstone (Dam and others, 1990; HA-720-D), the Cliff House Sandstone (Thorn and others, 1990; HA-720-E), the Menefee Formation (Levings and others, 1990; HA-720-F), the Point Lookout Sandstone (Craigg and others, 1990; HA-720-G), the Gallup Sandstone (Kernodle and others, 1990; HA-720-H), the Dakota Sandstone (Craigg and others, 1990; HA-720-I), and the Morrison Formation (Dam and others, 1990; HA-720-J). This digital dataset contains spatial datasets corresponding to the contoured subsurface maps produced by the U.S. Geological Survey's Regional Aquifer-System Analysis (RASA) San Juan basin study. The data define the elevation, thickness, and extent of principal stratigraphic units of the basin. The digital data describe the following stratigraphic units: the San Jose Formation, the Ojo Alamo Sandstone, the Kirtland Shale and Fruitland Formation, the Pictured Cliffs Sandstone, the Cliff House Sandstone, the Menefee Formation, the Point Lookout Sandstone, the Gallup Sandstone, the Dakota Sandstone, and the Morrison Formation. Digital data for each unit are contained in individual features classes within a geodatabase (also saved as individual shapefiles). Feature classes have a single attribute, either elevation or thickness, that represents the contoured value. Contoured values are given in feet, to maintain consistency with the original publication, and in meters.

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Author(s) Donald Sweetkind orcid, Melissa D Masbruch orcid
Publication Date 2019-10-16
Beginning Date of Data 2017
Ending Date of Data 2017
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9X55WLU
Citation Sweetkind, D., and Masbruch, M.D., 2019, Digital subsurface data from USGS Regional Aquifer System Analysis of the San Juan basin and adjacent areas, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9X55WLU.
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Metadata Date 2020-08-20
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