| Title | Preliminary analysis of the GIC Alberta groundwater data - a prospective data source for regional scale aquifer assessment |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Wozniak, P R J; Grasby, S E ; Chen, Z |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5573, 2011, 97 pages; 1 CD-ROM, https://doi.org/10.4095/289059  Open Access |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | CD-ROM; digital; on-line |
| File format | readme
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| File format | txt; rtf; htm; xml; pdf |
| Province | Alberta |
| NTS | 72E; 72L; 72M; 73D; 73E; 73L; 73M; 74D; 74E; 74L; 74M; 82G; 82H; 82I; 82J; 82O; 82P; 83; 84 |
| Area | Calgary; Lethbridge; Red Deer; Edmonton |
| Lat/Long WENS | -120.0000 -110.0000 60.0000 49.0000 |
| Subjects | hydrogeology; geochemistry; groundwater resources; groundwater regimes; groundwater flow; aquifers; buried valleys; hydraulic analyses; hydrologic properties; transmissivity; water wells; sedimentary
rocks; sandstones; shales; hydrostratigraphic units; groundwater geochemistry; Paleocene; Paskapoo Formation; Paskapoo aquifer system; Alberta Basin; Porcupine Hills Formation; Willow Creek Formation; Scollard Formation; Horseshoe Canyon Formation;
Edmonton Group; Milk River Formation; Lea Park Formation; Foremost Formation; Oldman Formation; Belly River Group; Labiche Formation; Dunvegan Formation; Kaskapau Formation; Mesozoic; Cretaceous; Cenozoic; Tertiary |
| Illustrations | location maps; plots; tables; histograms; ternary diagrams |
| Program | Groundwater Mapping Program |
| Released | 2011 08 03 |
| Abstract | Groundwater data managed by The Groundwater Information Centre (GIC) of Alberta Environment are the most comprehensive source of hydrogeologic data in the province of Alberta. Preliminary analysis of
the data's spatial distribution indicates the GIC data provide relatively good sampling of Alberta's geology over 44% of the province. Hydraulic conductivity and water-types are aggregated by surficial and bedrock geology units mapped at different
scales across the province. The data are presented in summary tables as an overview of the combined geologic and hydrogeologic data. The hydrogeologic source data used to compile the tables are provided in an accompanying database and include: top of
bedrock picks, wells classified as surficial and bedrock completions, static water-levels, and geochemistry data. Results indicate the data has potential for differentiating hydrogeologic characteristics of aquifers in surficial materials and
bedrock, and for identifying differences in the hydrogeologic properties of Alberta's mapped geology. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 289059 |
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