Abstract. Silicified zones and lentils in the Ogallala formation of Pliocene age provide the most abundant rocks of hard and durable character in the central Great Plains, and are known to occur over a region extending from South Dakota to west-central Texas. The two major rock types are so-called quartzite (sandstone and conglomerate with ...Distribution of silicified rock --Silicified rock is known to occur in the Ogallala formation over a region extending from South Dakota to west-central Texas. The largest quantities of quartzite, or silicified sand and gravel, are believed to occur in the north-central and northwestern parts of Kansas. The distribution of the Kansas localities ...Estimation of hydraulic properties in the Ogallala aquifer near Happy, Texas from slug test results at the North East 2nd Street Superfund site, U.S. Geological Survey data release ... Water quality of the Ogallala Formation, central High Plains aquifer within the North Plains Groundwater Conservation District, Texas Panhandle, 2012-13 publication.A. GENERAL GEOLOGY, STRATIGRAPHY, AND HYDROLOGY The Ogallala Formation in Texas is the southernmost extension of the major water-bearing unit underlying the physiographic province of North America. It was named by Darton (1898) for the town of Ogallala, Nebraska, near the type locality. Following the Laramide revolution in which the southern Rocky Mountains were uplifted…The Ogallala Formation is one of the largest groundwater aquifers in the world. The Ogallala Aquifer extends across eight states from Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota. The Ogallala Aquifer in the High Plains of Texas is the major and sometimes the only source of groundwater in the High ...Pliocene Ogallala Formation of Trego County, Kansas may be referable to Regina. PERTINENT LITERATURE. General accounts of the four species are in Wright and Wright (1957), Emst and Barbour (1989) and Emst and Emst (2003). Important life history studies include those of Hall (1969), Branson and Baker (1974), FranzThe stratigraphy and paleontology of the Neogene Ogallala formation have been studied in northern Kansas and correlations made with type sections of the Ogallala formation, and Valentine, Ash Hollow, and Kimball members in Nebraska. Ogallala sediments were deposited by streams flowing eastward from the Rocky Mountain region in broad, relatively ...Ogallala Formation. CIMARRON- Generally semiconsolidated clay, silt, sand, gravel, and caliche 0 to 400 feet thick. BEAVER- Interbedded sand, siltstone, clay, gravel lenses, and thin limestone. Caliche common near surface but occurrence is not limited to the surface. Caliche accounts for most of the white color in the Ogallala. The Ogallala Formation is a Miocene to early Pliocene geologic formation in the central High Plains of the western United States and the location of the Ogallala Aquifer. [1] In Nebraska and South Dakota it is also classified as the Ogallala Group. [2]Today, irrigation is the primary means of raising productivity of marginal land, drawing water either from surface sources like the Colorado, Rio Grande, or Columbia River systems or from groundwater aquifers like the famous Ogallala Formation that underlies the Great Plains from the Dakotas to Texas.Formation elsewhere in the San Juan Basin and in 19 districts in New Mexico and moderate (M) with a moderate to low ... (B-C) in the Ogallala Formation in southeastern New Mexico. The mineral-resource potential for uranium is low (L) with a low level of certainty (B) in 20 districts throughout New Mexico and in the Morrison Formation in ...Ogallala: Formation: Valentine: Member: Cornell Dam: Age: 16.0 - 13.6 Ma Miocene: Interval: Barstovian: Lithology: sandstone: Number of Collections: 9: Number of Occurrences: 308: ... Chantell C. J. (1963) Urodele remains from the Valentine Formation of Nebraska, Copeia 1963 3, 505-510: Chantell C. J. (1964) Some Mio-Pliocene hylids from the ...The Ogallala Formation is the primary aquifer in the High Plains Aquifer system. This formation consists of sedimentary rocks that are mostly sandstone and gravel. Why might this formation make a good aquifer? Select all that apply. Group of answer choices Rocks in the formation have both high porosity and permeability.Ash Hollow member of Ogallala formation. Includes volcanic ash beds Dellvale, Fort Wallce, Rawlins (used to correlate with type), and Reamsville. Average thickness about 75 to 200 feet; is 305+ feet at type (Ash Hollow, southeast of Lewellen, NE). In northern Kansas, underlies Kimball member of Ogallala, and overlies Valentine member of ...54 55 Quaternary Pleistocene fossils of mammoths and mastodons (proboscideans lived in Oklahoma from about 7 million years ago to 11,000 years ago), musk-ox, stag moose found throughout Oklahoma. Tertiary Fossils recovered from Ogallala Formation in Ellis and Roger Mills Counties include horse teeth and mastodon, camel, rhinoceros, fox and skunk bones.Elsewhere the Niobrara is overlain disconformably by the Ogallala Formation (Miocene and Pliocene) at a contact that truncates the formation from west to east, or by unconsolidated Quaternary deposits. The main part of the Niobrara outcrop lies in northcentral and western Kansas, and underlies the eastern edge of the High Plains physiographic ...Ogallala Formation, for which the aquifer is named, crops out at the surface, forming a naturally cemented rock layer called mortarbeds. In the subsurface, the Ogallala largely consists of sands and gravel that are interlayered with silt and clay beds that are mostly unconsolidated, or not naturally cemented together.Location ofwells in the Ogallala aquifer sampled for water quality, 1989-1992 . Geologic units directly underlying the Ogallala Formation .. Dissolved-solidscontent in water ofthe Ogallala aquifer . Chloride content in water ofthe Ogallala aquifer . Sulfate content in water ofthe Ogallala aquifer .. Fluoride content in water ofthe Ogallala ...the Ogallala Formation of Miocene age and overlying hydraulically connected Quaternary deposits, if present. Northwestern Nebraska, south central South Dakota, and southeastern Wyoming: the fractured upper part of the Brule Formation or the Arikaree Group. Eastern Nebraska and south central Kansas: Quaternary depositsFormation of both the Gulf of Mexico and the Rocky Mountains is part of continuing global deformation. The Atlantic Ocean is widening as Europe and North America separate, while the Pacific Ocean basin is closing as the North American plate and Asia converge. ... Extensive stream-laid sand and gravel deposits, which contain the Ogallala aquifer ...Ogallala formation. Calcareous grit or soft limestone, sandy clay, and sand, with basal conglomerate at many places. Of late Tertiary (Pliocene?) age. Thickness 150 to 300 feet. Unconformably underlies EQUUS beds and unconformably overlies Arikaree formation. Extends from Kansas and Colorado far into Nebraska.Foothills: The Appalachian Foothills in the eastern USA. Ocean Basins: The Mariana Trench, Earth's deepest part, in the western Pacific. Subduction Zones: The Andes Mountains in South America, formed by subduction. Glaciers: Greenland's ice sheet, a massive glacial formation.The Ogallala Aquifer is named for resting atop of the Ogallala Formation of the Miocene Age, which is considered the principal geological unit of the aquifer. The Ogallala Formation consists of a heterogeneous sequence of clay, silt, sand, and gravel. 4 Because this aquifer is located within the larger High Plains Aquifer, the possibility of ...The member names for the Ogallala Formation (including the Valentine, Ash Hollow, and Kimball) in Kansas of Zeller (1968) are abandoned. The Ogallala Formation in Kansas includes strata of Miocene and earliest Pliocene age, revising earlier correlation to the Pliocene only (Zeller, 1968).Much of the Ogallala Formation was eroded away and stream channels became established. Sketch courtesy of Wyoming Geological Survey. Today, the Laramie Range, a northern extension of the Colorado Front Range, extends from the Colorado—Wyoming state line north and west to near Casper, Wyoming. East of the mountains is a section of the Great ...Ogallala Formation. Sand, silt, clay, gravel, and caliche. Sand, fine to cs-grain quartz, silty in part, caliche nodules locally, cemented locally by calcite and by silica, locally …Ant-nest ichnofossils in honeycomb calcretes, Neogene Ogallala Formation, High Plains region of western Kansas, U.S.A. Smith, Jon J. / Platt, ... Formation processes of shell concentrations in the Lower Cretaceous estuarine sediments of the Okurodani Formation, Tetori Group, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan.The Ogallala is the principal formation of the High Plains Aquifer, also called the Ogallala Aquifer, which is composed of poorly to moderately indurated calcareous sandstone (Gustavson and ...There are at least seven major aquifer systems in Nebraska. By far, the High Plains/Ogallala aquifer is the largest in terms of volume of water in storage and withdrawals for irrigation. Several secondary aquifers exist in areas outside of the High Plains aquifer, providing water for irrigation, municipal supplies, and domestic use in parts of far western and far eastern Nebraska.In cooperation with the North Plains Groundwater Conservation District (NPGCD), the U.S. Geological Survey collected and analyzed water-quality samples at 30 groundwater monitor wells in the NPGCD in the Texas Panhandle. All of the wells were completed in the Ogallala Formation of the central High Plains aquifer. Samples from each well were collected during February-March 2012 and in March 2013.The state's Great Plains region is also underlain by thick layers of gravel, sand, silt and clay eroded from the Rockies. Colorado's unconsolidated to poorly consolidated aquifers include the San Luis Valley, Wet Mountain Valley and Ogallala Formation of the High Plains Aquifer (CGS, 2002, 2004).The Ogallala Formation consists mostly of coarse sedimentary rocks in its deeper sections, which transition upward into finer-grained material. The water-saturated thickness of the Ogallala Formation ranges from a few …The Ogallala formation in Texas was described by Seni (1980) as a series of coalescing, humid type alluvial fans for a depositional model. The Ogallala Aquifer is an exhaustible resource (Osborn ...The Ogallala Formation is the principal geologic unit in the High Plains aquifer in eastern Colorado and New Mexico. The Ogallala generally consists of an unconsolidated and poorly sorted sequence of gravel, sand, silt, and clay. Moderately to well-cemented zones within the Ogallala are resistant to weathering and form ledges in outcrop areas.The upper Tertiary Ogallala Formation in original or reworked form has been suggested as the source of the dune sand by Lugn (1935, 1960, 1962). Stanley and Wayne (1972) and Reed and Dreeszen (1965), among others, suggested a lower Pleistocene alluvial source. We conducted a mineralogic study of 7 dune and interWhere is the Ogallala Aquifer Ogallala Aquifer better known as High Plains Aquifer. The Ogallala Aquifer that's better known as High Plains Aquifer underlies an area of about 174,000 square miles that extends through parts of eight states of the Midwest United States.Soil Deposition of the Ogallala Aquifer formation began 10-12 million years ago Soil types include sand, gravel, silt, and clay.When you write academically, you will research sources for facts and data, which you will likely include in your writing. Using this information will require that you cite your sources. Your instructor may require Harvard referencing format...Geology of the Ogallala/High Plains Regional Aquifer System in Nebraska; Italic Page Numbers Indicate Major References] Ogallala Formation in New Mexico; Hydrogeologic Information on the Glorieta Sandstone and the Ogallala Formation in the Oklahoma Panhandle and Adioining Areas As Related to Underground Waste Disposal; Petrographics of Marls ...The High Plains aquifer consists of one or more hydraulically connected geologic units of late Tertiary or Quaternary age, underlain by bedrock units that range in age from Permian to Tertiary. The High Plains aquifer is divided into the northern, central, and southern High Plains regions. The northern High Plains aquifer underlies parts of ...The upper Tertiary Ogallala Formation contains the Ogallala (High Plains) aquifer, which is the major source of water for agricultural and domestic use on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico. Locally, perched aquifers overlie the Ogallala aquifer.2006. The Ashfall Fossil Beds of Antelope County in northeastern Nebraska are rare fossil sites of the type called lagerstätten that, due to extraordinary local conditions, capture an ecological "snapshot" in time of a range of well-preserved fossilized organisms. Ash from a Yellowstone hotspot eruption 10-12 million years ago created these ...Ogallala Group or Formation (Miocene) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area. Silt, sand, sandstone, gravel and conglomerate. Predominantly interfingered fine- to coarse grained, poorly sorted, arkosic, fluvial deposits of light-gray, light-olive-gray, and grayish-green calcareous silt and sand, and locally poorly consolidated conglomerate ...Ogallala is a city in and the county seat of Keith County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 4,737 at the 2010 census.In the days of the Nebraska Territory, the city was a stop on the Pony Express and later along the transcontinental railroad.The Ogallala Formation that carries the Ogallala Aquifer was named after the city.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ogallala may refer to: Ogallala, Nebraska. Ogallala Aquifer. Ogallala Commons. Ogallala Formation. Oglala Lakota (Sioux) This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to ...Mexico. The name Ogallala Formation was introduced into New Mexico by Darton (1928, p. 58). Subse-quently, Theis (1932) described the formation in some detail in Curry and Roosevelt Counties, New Mexico. During the past decade, there has been a regional pro-gram to study the Ogallala and younger deposits in eastern New Mexico.Ogallala formation. Calcareous grit or soft limestone, sandy clay, and sand, with basal conglomerate at many places. Of late Tertiary (Pliocene?) age. Thickness 150 to 300 feet. Unconformably underlies EQUUS beds and unconformably overlies Arikaree formation. Extends from Kansas and Colorado far into Nebraska.The Ogallala Formation is Neogene in age; Paleogene rocks do not occur in Kansas. This paper outlines Neogene ("Tertiary") nomenclature changes to Zeller (1968) that are now formally adopted by the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS). Lithostratigraphy of the Ogallala FormationThe Ogallala Formation of Miocene/Pliocene age is present over a large area of the Great Plains in the central US. The formation is composed of mostly clastic material eroded and transported eastward from the Rocky Mountains by eastward flowing rivers and streams. It contains the life-giving water that supports the population and farming activities of this vast area. However, this precious ...upper Tertiary Ogallala Formation (containing Ogallala aquifer) Cretaceous formations (containing Edwards-Trinity [Plateau] aquifer); Triassic Dockum Group (containing Dockum aquifer) Permian formations (containing Rustler aquifer, Capitan Reef Complex aquifer, and Roswell Basin aquifer system) Figure 1.Of these, the Ogallala aquifer underlies most of western Kansas and consists mainly of the Ogallala Formation, a geologic unit that formed from sediment eroded off the uplifting Rocky Mountains. The southwest Kansas portion of the Ogallala has suffered the greatest losses since groundwater levels started dropping in the 1950s. In the drought ...Ogallala Formation (Pliocene to Miocene) at surface, covers 14 % of this area. Ogallala Formation. ... Quartermaster Formation (Permian; Guadalupe Series) at surface, covers 1 % of this area. Quartermaster Formation; North and central Texas including panhandle.The upper Tertiary Ogallala Formation contains the Ogallala (High Plains) aquifer, which is the major source of water for agricultural and domestic use on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico. Locally, perched aquifers overlie the Ogallala aquifer.Although the ground water in the Ogallala Formation in the Southern High Plains is common to both Texas and New Mexico, the State laws concerning ownership of the water are different. The New Mexico statutes provide that all under ground waters of the State belong to the public and are subject to appropriation for beneficialto soils developed on alluvium and the Ogallala Formation than to those developed on the Blackwater Draw Formation. Soils on windblown sand were given the greatest recharge weighting factor. The three combined soil-texture groups break out major trends in recharge patterns, following the approach of Mullican and others (1977), but do not breakThe Ogallala Aquifer underlies most of western Kansas and consists mainly of the Ogallala Formation, a geologic unit that formed from sediment eroded off the uplifting Rocky Mountains. The southwest Kansas portion of the Ogallala has suffered the greatest losses since levels started dropping in the 1950s. Initially, water levels fell less than ...The Ogallala Aquifer is one of the world’s largest fresh groundwater resources. It underlies 175,000 square miles in eight states. Starting as hundreds of feet of silt, clay, and gravel eroded from the Rocky Mountains and laid down by streams millions of years ago, rainfall during this time produced an underground lake the size of Lake Huron.The Ogallala Formation consists mostly of coarse sedimentary rocks in its lower sections, which grade upward into finer-grained lithologies. The water-permeated ...In most of the aquifer area, the Ogallala Formation of Miocene age and overlying hydraulically connected Quaternary deposits, if present, are the principal geologic units in the aquifer. In northwestern Nebraska, south central South Dakota, and southeastern Wyoming, the fractured part of the Brule Formation or the Arikaree Group, is the ...contributed to the Ogallala Formation, which . blanketed the region east from the mountain front (Kelley 1972; Frye et al. 1982). Sediments . traceable to the Manzano Mountains were .Ogallala Group or Formation (Miocene) at surface, covers 63 % of this area. Silt, sand, sandstone, gravel and conglomerate. Predominantly interfingered fine- to coarse grained, poorly sorted, arkosic, fluvial deposits of light-gray, light-olive-gray, and grayish-green calcareous silt and sand, and locally poorly consolidated conglomerate, sandstone, and siltstone.sediments and paleosols of the Ogallala Formation. During the trip, we will visit sites and landscapes that have a long and rich history of geologic investigation. In addi-tion to previously published results, we also present new data on the sedimentology, geochronology, paleontology, and paleoichnology of Cenozoic High Plains deposits.The present study defines the western limits of the Ogallala Formation (upper Tertiary) and documents the late Cenozoic geology of the region including fragmentary deposits of …Courage, experimentation, voices needed to drive change The Ogallala Aquifer’s future requires not just adapting to declining water levels, but the involvement of a wide range of participants comfortable with innovation who will help manage the situation and drive future changes. That was the message heard by more than 200 participants …The Ogallala formation is composed of a wide range of sediment types, from gravels to sands, silts, and clays, sourced from the Rocky Mountain region to the ...The Ogallala is composed primarily of sand, gravel, clay, and silt deposited during the Tertiary Period. Ground water, under water-table conditions, moves slowly through the Ogallala Formation in a southeastward direction toward the caprock edge or eastern escarpment of the High Plains.Origin of the Ogallala Aquifer. The Ogallala formation in Texas is the southernmost extension of the major water-bearing unit underlying the physiographic province of North America. It was named in 1898 by N.H. Darton for the town of Ogallala, Nebraska, near where the formation as discovered. The age of the Ogallala Formation is considered to be Miocene in this chapter, but is listed as Pliocene or Pliocene and Miocene in many published reports. At the close of deposition of the Ogallala Formation several million years ago, the Great Plains was a vast, gently sloping plain that extended from the edge of the Rocky Mountains eastward ...The Ogallala Formation is a Miocene to early Pliocene geologic formation in the central High Plains of the western United States and the location of the Ogallala Aquifer. In Nebraska and South Dakota it is also classified as the Ogallala Group.The Ogallala Aquifer, which underlies avast area reaching from Nebraska to Texas, is an important source of water for homes, industries and irrigation ... within the boundaries of the Ogallala Formation are also very different. Water availability ranges from over 1000 feet of remaining saturated thickness in theWhen a water-bearing rock readily transmits water to wells and springs, it is called an aquifer. Wells can be drilled into the aquifers and water can be pumped out. Precipitation eventually adds water ( recharge) into the porous rock of the aquifer. The rate of recharge is not the same for all aquifers, though, and that must be considered when ...More recent case hardening of the outcrop face also appears to be prevalent and is a commonly observed feature of surface exposures throughout the Ogallala Formation (e.g., Joeckel et al., 2014).The Ogallala aquifer, which underlies the Southern High Plains, consists of the saturated sediments of the Neogene Ogallala Formation. The aquifer is the main source of water for the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico and is being severely depleted by extensive pumpage for irrigation. Contamination from evaporating saline lakes, agricultural ...Four recharge tests were conducted by injecting water from playa lakes through wells into the Ogallala Formation. Injection was by gravity flow and by pumping under pressure. At one site, 34-acre feet of water was injected by gravity and produced a significant increase in yield of the well. At a second site, gravity injection of only 0.58 acre-foot caused a significant decrease in permeability ...Nov 14, 2014 · Stratigraphy, continued Tertiary Ogallala Formation. The Ogallala formation of Wallace County is usually buff' colored to pinkish and consists chiefly of unsorted sand and gravel, usually mixed in various proportions with fine dust (loess-like fine sand or silt), which makes the rocks of the formation rough to the touch. It consists mainly of the Ogallala Formation, a geologic unit that formed from sediment eroded off the uplifting Rocky Mountains. ... The southwest Kansas portion of the Ogallala has suffered the greatest losses since levels started dropping in the 1950s. Between 2010 and 2014 when droughts plagued the region, declines averaged about three feet ...Ogallala volcanic ash deposits. The "Algal Limestone" The bed within the Ogallala formation that is clearly the most controversial and one of the most distinctive was described by Elias in 1931 and in the Kansas literature is generally referred to as the "Algal limestone" (Pl. 2A). In part his description was as follows (Elias, 1931, p. 136):Base of Ogallala Formation: Top of Trinity Group : Top of Dockum Group : Base of Dockum Group : Comments: Points are locations where observations (such as surface and borehole geophysical data and drillers logs) were used to help develop hydrogeologic unit surfaces of the tops and bases of the gridded model.The Great Plains contains the High Plains (or Ogallala) Aquifer, the largest aquifer system in the United States that stretches from South Dakota to Texas, and has a myriad of rivers, lakes, and prairie wetlands. Vast amounts of groundwater are contained within the sands and gravels with silt lenses of the Miocene age Ogallala Formation, the ...The Ogallala Formation of late Miocene to early Pliocene age consists of heterogeneous sequen-ces of coarse-grained sand and gravel in the lower part, grading upward into clay, silt, and fine sand. In Texas, the Panhandle is the most extensive region irrigated with groundwater. In 2008, almost 96 percent of the water pumped from the Ogallala ...The Ogallala Formation is the primary aquifer unit in the system. The aquifer underlies almost 175,000 mi2 and spans eight states, with most of its area in Nebraska, Texas, and Kansas. This region is among the largest and most productive croplands in the U.S. and is the source of almost 20% of our corn, wheat, and cotton production, as well as ...The Ogallala Formation was named by Darton (1899) from a locality in southwestern Nebraska that he later (1920) referred to as Ogallala Station. Elias (1931, 1932, 1935, 1942) made detailed studies of the Ogallala in western Kansas and described fossil endocarps, nutlets, and anthoecia from the formation while Lugn (1938, 1939) studied the ...Ogallala Formation (Pliocene) at surface, covers 69 % of this area. CIMARRON- Generally semiconsolidated clay, silt, sand, gravel, and caliche 0 to 400 feet thick. BEAVER- Interbedded sand, siltstone, clay, gravel lenses, and thin limestone. Caliche common near surface but occurrence is not limited to the surface.Niobrara Chalk was weathered and opalized in the Val, The Ogallala formation has been described as braided stream deposits, Sampled Aquifer: Ogallala Formation Analyzed Lab: Texas Department of Health Collection Entity: Texas Water Deve, 1) as the Rexroad member of the Ogallala. 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