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Ground-Water Geology and Pump Irrigation in Frenchman Creek Basin Above Palisade, NebraskaBy W. D. E. CARDWELL and EDWARD D. JENKINS
With a section on THE CHEMICAL QUALITY OF THE WATER
By E. R. JOCHENS and R. A. KRIEGER
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER-SUPPLY PAPER 1577
Prepared as part of the program of the Department of the Interior for development of the Missouri River basin
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1963
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Thomas B. Nolan, Director
The U.S. Geological Survey catalog card for this publication appears after page 472.
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington 25, D.C.
CONTENTS
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Abstract. _ ______________-____--_--__--_-------------_---------- 1Introduction_ __________________-___________----_-_----_--------- 2
Purpose and scope of the investigation___-____-____---___-------- 2Location and extent of the area_____________________-____--_---- 3Previous investigations.-_______________-_-__---__-------------- 3Methods of study_________________________-_-_--_-_-----_--- 5Well-numbering system____________________________-_--------__ 6Acknowledgments. ________________________-_-___------_--_--_- 7
Geography ___ _____________-___________-_-_-_-__---__-_---------- 8Topography and drainage._____________________________________ 8
Upland areas underlain by the Ogallala formation _____________ 8Upland areas underlain by loess of the Sanborn formation ______ 9Upland dune-sand areas.___________-____-____-----------___ 9Valley areas_-____________-______-__-__-__----__-------_-- 11
Climate. _____________________________________________ 13Mineral resources and industries ________________---__-----_-__ 15Agriculture ____________-______________-__------_____--------__ 17Population___ _ ______________________________________________ 21Transportation __ ______________--_________----_____-_--_--_---- 22
Geology..__________________________________________ 23"Summary of stratigraphy.______________________________________ 23Geologic history.______________________________________________ 23
Proterozoic era_________________.________-_____-___-_-_--__ 23Paleozoic era____________________________________________ 25Mesozoic era______-___-_-_______-___-_-_________--____-_ 26Cenozoic era______________________________________________ 27
Geologic formations and their water-bearing properties.________________ 30Upper Cretaceous series._______________________________________ 30
Pierre shale_______________________________________________ 30Oligocene series_______________________________________________ 34
White River group_______________________________________ 34Chadron formation ______________________________________ 34Brule formation___________________________________ ...____ 36
Pliocene series.._______________________________________________ 40Ogallala formation...______________________________________ 40
Pleistocene and Recent series.__________________________________ 49Sanborn formation_______________________________________ 49Dune sand______________________________________________ 51Alluvium _________________________________________________ 53
Hydrologic properties of water-bearing materials._________________ 53Aquifer tests ____________________________________________ 55
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Page Ground water,____________________________________________________ 64
Occurrence._--_______________________-______------------_-_-- 64Water table_____________________________________-_-------_,-_ 66
Shape and slope of the water table__-___-____-_--___--------- 68Fluctuations of the water table..____________________________ 70
Recharge._______________________________.___---_-_--_---_-_-. 73Precipitation_ _ __________________________-_-__-_--_----__ 73Seepage from reservoirs, canals, and irrigation.-.._____________ 76Topographic depressions__________________________________ 77Streams._-_________-____________-__-___--------_-------_- 77
Discharge.___________________________________________________ 78Transpiration and evaporation______________________________ 79Streams, springs, and seeps.________________________________ 83Wells. ___---____-_________-_-____-----___-------_------__ 85
Domestic and'stock wells________-_-____--__-___---_-___ 86Municipal wells_______________________________________ 87Industrial wells_________________-_____-_--__----_--__ 88Irrigation wells--_-____________-------_-------_----_--_ 88
Subsurface outflow_______________________________________ 93Summary of annual discharge and recharge.______________________ 96Quantity in storage.___________________________________________ 96Well construction_____________________-_-____-----_-_-_-----_ 97Exploration for ground water.__________________---_---_---_-___ 99
Chemical quality of the water, by E. R. Jochens and R. A. Krieger______ 100Surface water__________________________________________________ 101Ground water_________________________________________________ 104
Domestic use.____________________________________________ 104Irrigation use.____________________________________________ 109
Prospective depletion of streamflow by pump irrigation ________________ 110Computations..__ _____________________________________________ 114Conclusions--_ ________________ _ ______________________________ 122
Selected references.________________________________________________ 123Basic data______________________________________________________ 129Index._________________________________________________._-_______ 469
ILLUSTRATIONS
[Plates are in plate volume]
PLATE 1. Map showing areal geology of Frenchman Creek basin.2. Fence diagram showing subsurface geology of Frenchman Creek basin,
Colorado.3. Fence diagram showing subsurface geology of Frenchman Creek basin,
Nebraska.4. Map of Frenchman Creek basin showing the distribution of annual
precipitation.5. Map showing location of wells, depth to water below land surface, and
configuration of the water table (summer 1952) in Frenchman Creek basin.
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PLATE 6. Map showing location of test holes and the configuration of the bed rock surface in Frenchman Creek basin.
7. Map of Frenchman Creek basin showing location of aquifer tests, lines of equal transmissibility, and lines along which subsurface outflow was computed.
8. Saturated thickness of post-Oligocene deposits in the Frenchman Creek basin.
9. Location of water-sampling points.10. Irrigable areas in which withdrawal of ground water may deplete the
flow of Frenchman, Spring, and Stinking Water Creeks and the points at which streamflow was measured on October 23, 1952.
Page FIGURE 1. Map showing location of area of investigation._____________ 4
2. Sketch showing well-numbering system__________________ 73. Aerial photograph showing flood plain and meandering channel
of Frenchman Creek about 13 miles downstream from the point of effluence and approximately 1.5 miles west of Champion, Nebr-__________-_________--__--__-------- 10
4. Diagram showing influent and effluent streams--__---_-___- 115. Aerial photograph showing dendritic drainage pattern and
dissection of loess uplands______________--___-_-_----__ 126. Annual precipitation at Holyoke, Colo____________________ 147. Annual precipitation and cumulative departure from normal
precipitation at Leroy, Colo___________________________ 158. Annual precipitation and cumulative departure from normal
precipitation at Yuma, Colo________________--__-__-_-- 169. Annual precipitation and cumulative departure from normal
precipitation at Imperial, Nebr_______________________ 1710. Annual precipitation at Palisade, Nebr_____________--_---_ 1811. Annual precipitation and cumulative departure from normal
precipitation at Wauneta, Nebr________L__-____-------- 1912. Normal monthly precipitation at Leroy, Yuma, and Holyoke,
Colo., and at Imperial, Wauneta, and Palisade, Nebr_____ 2013. Log of test hole 4-34-2aaa____________________ 3214. Part of log of test hole 10-44-31ccc_______________-_ 3315. Particle-size distribution of sample of Chadron formation at
depth of 332 to 337 feet in test hole 8-39-lccc, Chase County, Nebr____________________________ 37
16. Particle-size distribution of sample of Chadron formation at depth of 505 to 580 feet in test hole 10-43-6bbb, Sedgwick County, Colo___________________.________.__-_-_-__ 38
17. Particle-size distribution of sample of sand and gravel from the Ogallala formation at depth of 142 to 152 feet in test hole 8-42-32dcc, Phillips County, Colo____________ 43
18. Particle-size distribution of sample of sand and gravel from the Ogallala formation at depth of 192 to 202 feet in test hole 8-42-32dcc, Phillips County, Colo___________._ 44
19. Particle-size distribution of sample of sand and gravel from the Ogallala formation at depth of 142 to 152 feet in test hole 9-37-36ddd, Perkins County, Nebr_______________ 45
20. Particle-size distribution of sample of sand and gravel from the Ogallala formation at depth of 352 to 362 feet in test hole ll-38-36aaa, Perkins County, Nebr__________ 46
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Page FIGURE 21. Part of log of test hole 3-42-3lbdd_.-_______________.__ 47
22. Part of log of test hole 8-35-3Iccc______________________ 4823. Contact of colluvial loess of the Sanborn formation with
"mortar beds" of the Ogallala formation ________________ 5024. Diagrammatic section of the piezometric surface near a well
that is being pumped _________________________________ 5625. Logarithmic graph of the well-function type curve____ ______ 5826. Aquifer-test data superposed on the type curve; data from
test of well 7-43-33acd______-__________--_-_-.____-- 5927. Semilogarithmic graph of aquifer-test data for application of
modified Theis formula; data from test of well 7-43-33acd_ 5928. Relation of specific capacity of wells tapping the Ogallala
formation to the transmissibility of that formation in the vicinity of the wells___________________________________ 62
29. Relation of the water table to the land surface and to bodiesof surface water._____________________________________ 66
30. Diagram illustrating artesian and water-table conditions __ __ 6731. Diagram of wells explaining effect of changes in atmospheric
pressure. _ _____-___-__--______-__---_-__---_-__---_-- 7232. Hydrographs for wells in Colorado and monthly precipitation
at Holyoke, Colo_____________________________________ 7433. Hydrographs for wells in Nebraska and monthly precipita
tion at Imperial, Nebr_ _______________________________ 7534. Effect of recharge from a stream on the drawdown of a pumped
well__________________--___________-______-_-_-_--__- 7835. Base curve of transpiration ______________________________ 8036. Evaporation rate from land areas at various temperatures and
rates of rainfall_____________________________________ 8137. Hydrographs for Frenchman Creek at points near Hamlet,
Enders, Imperial, and Champion, Nebr., and for Stinking Water Creek near Wauneta, Nebr.; graph of daily precipi tation at Imperial, Nebr., from October 1, 1947, to Septem ber 30, 1948______________-________________-__--__._- 84
38. Number of irrigation wells constructed during the period1910-53 and estimated construction for the period 1953-57_ 89
39. Estimated rate of development of irrigation with groundwater,______________________________________________ 111
40. Streamflow and its computed depletion in Frenchman Creekupstream from Palisade, Nebr________-___-_-____--__-__ 113
41. Streamflow and its computed depletion in Spring Creek at itsconfluence with Stinking Water Creek near Palisade, Nebr_ 114
42. Streamflow and its computed depletion in Stinking WaterCreek upstream from Palisade, Nebr_____-________-_-___ 115
43. Theis-Conover chart for determining the percentage of pumped water being diverted from a stream of infinite length_______________________________________________ 118
44. Diagram showing system corresponding to the flow from afinite-line source into a well_____-___--_________________ 121
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TABLES
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TABLE 1. Summary of climatic data recorded at four Weather Bureaustations in the Frenchman Creek basin ___________---_ 13
2. Livestock on farms in Phillips County, Colo., and ChaseCounty, Nebr_______-_--__-_____________--_____- 18
3. Crops harvested in Phillips County, Colo., and Chase County,Nebr___ __________.________________-__ - - 20
4. Area and estimate of population of the Frenchman Creekbasin in 1950, by counties-___-______-___--------------- 21
5. Population of Phillips County, Colo., and Chase County,Nebr__ __________________________________ _ _ _ _ _ 22
6. Generalized section of the stratigraphic units younger than the Niobrara in the Frenchman Creek basin and their water-bearing properties_____--_-__---_---------------- 24
7. Summary of the results of aquifer tests____________________ 608. Classification of aquifers according to transmissibility and
estimates of probable yields of properly constructed and developed wells.________________________-_--_--------- 63
9. Climatologic data,________________________-_---_--_----- 8210. Summary of climatologic and ground-water data____________ 8211. Distribution of wells according to intended use______________ 8512. Estimate of water pumped daily from domestic and stock
wells in Phillips County, Colo., and Chase County, Nebr__ 8613. Summary of municipal water supplies____________--_-__-- 8714. Type of power used to operate irrigation pumps_--______-.__ 9015. Reported number of acres irrigated with water from wells
and average number of acres irrigated per well in 1953-___ 9016. Quantity of water pumped from irrigation wells in the basin __ 9217. Electric-power and service costs, consumption of power, and
efficiencies of pumps for 12 irrigation wells in 1953__--_- 9418. Average power costs per foot of lift for engines and motors
in pumping an acre-foot of water________________------_- 9519. Subsurface outflow from the Frenchman Creek basin. _ ______ 9520. Subsurface flow across the Colorado-Nebraska State line____ 9621. Quantity of ground water discharged annually and equivalent
rate of annual recharge from precipitation.-______-___-_-_ 9722. Chemical analyses of surface water in Nebraska--___________ 10223. Chemical analyses of ground water__-___-_-_-_--__-------- 10524. Suitability of water from public supplies for domestic use. _ _ _ 10825. Depletion of streamflow in Frenchman Creek from the point
of effluence to the gaging station near Imperial, Nebr., and to the gaging station at Palisade, Nebr_________________ 119
26. Depletion of streamflow in Spring Creek from the point of effluence to the mouth of Spring Creek and depletion of flow in Stinking Water Creek from the point of effluence to the gaging station near Palisade, Nebr_____.____-_-_-_ 120
27. Sample logs of test holes_______-_____________________--__ 13028. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells __ 20829. Records of wells________________________________. 42430. Measurements of water levels in observation wells.__________ 458
GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY AND PUMP IRRIGATION IN FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN ABOVE PALISADE, NEBRASKA
By W. D. E. CARDWELL and EDWARD D. JENKINS
ABSTRACT
This report describes the geography, geology, and ground-water resources of that part of the Frenchman Creek basin upstream from Palisade, Nebr., an area of about 4,900 square miles. The basin includes all of Phillips County, Colo., and Chase County, Nebr., and parts of Logan, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma Counties, Colo., and Dundy, Hayes, Hitchcock, and Perkins Counties, Nebr. The land surface ranges from nearly flat to rolling; choppy hills and interdune saddles are common in the areas of dune sand, and steep bluffs and gullies cut the edges of the relatively flat loess plateaus. Most of the basin is drained by tributaries of Frenchman Creek, but parts of the sandhills are undrained. Farming and livestock raising are the principal industries. Irrigation with ground water has expanded rapidly since 1934.
The rocks exposed in the basin are largely unconsolidated and range in age from Pliocene to Recent. They comprise the Ogallala formation (Pliocene), the San- born formation (Pleistocene and Recent?), dune sand (Pleistocene and Recent), and alluvium (Recent). The rocks underlying the Ogallala are the Pierre shale (Late Cretaceous) and the White River group (Oligocene). The Pierre shale is relatively impermeable and yields little or no water to wells. The White River group also is relatively impermeable and yields little or no water to wells; however, small to moderate quantities of water possibly may be obtained from wells that penetrate fractured or "porous" zones in the upper part of the White River group or permeable channel deposits within the group. The Ogallala formation is the main aquifer in the basin and yields moderate to large quantities of water to wells. The Sanborn formation and the dune sand generally lie above the water table, but in areas of high water table the dune sand yields small quantities of water to wells for domestic and stock supplies. The alluvium, which includes the low terrace deposits bordering the major streams, yields small to large quanti ties of water to wells.
The ground-water reservoir is recharged only from precipitation on the basin. Of the average annual precipitation of 19.5 inches, about 0.9 inch infiltrates to the water table, thereby contributing about 220,000 acre-feet of water annually to the ground-water reservoir. About 81 million acre-feet of water that could drain under gravity, and thus theoretically is available to wells, is held in ground- water storage in the basin. Water is discharged from the ground-water reser voir by wells, evaporation and transpiration, springs, seepage into streams, and movement into adjacent areas to the east and southeast. Most of the domestic, stock, and irrigation water supplies and all the public supplies are pumped from wells.
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During 1953, 96 wells were used to irrigate 10,000 acres of land with 19,000 acre-feet of water. About 34,000 acre-feet of water is evaporated and transpired annually in the valleys of the main streams and in areas of shallow water table in the sandhills.
From the projection of base-flow measurements made during 1952, it was esti mated that the average annual flow of Frenchman Creek into the reservoir above Enders Dam is about 57,000 acre-feet. By similar determinations, the average annual flow of Frenchman Creek at the gaging station at Palisade, Nebr., about 22 miles downstream from Enders Dam, is about 76,000 acre-feet, and the flow of Stinking Water Creek at the gaging station near Palisade is about 22,000 acre- feet. The combined flow of Frenchman and Stinking Water Creeks at their confluence near Palisade thus is about 98,000 acre-feet per year. About 90,000 acre-feet of ground water is estimated to move eastward each year across the Colorado-Nebraska State line within the basin.
Additional irrigation wells that will tap the Ogallala formation and the alluvium in the major valleys undoubtedly will be drilled. On the basis of current esti mates of future irrigation withdrawals, it is concluded that by the year 2008 the additional pumping of water from wells will shift the point of effluence of French man Creek downstream about 5 miles and that of Spring Creek 1 or 2 miles. This depletion will reduce the annual flow of Frenchman Creek into Enders Reservoir by about 17,000 acre-feet and will reduce the combined annual flow of Frenchman, Spring, and Stinking Water Creeks at Palisade by about 20,000 acre-feet. Recharge to the ground-water reservoir during 1952 and 1953 approxi mately balanced the discharge of ground water from the reservoir. Although lowering the water table will reduce to some extent the evapotranspiration losses and will salvage some runoff in the streams above their new and lower points of effluence, the net effect probably will be negligible perhaps about 1 percent of the average annual streamflow of Frenchman Creek at Palisade.
The ground and surface waters are moderately mineralized, and in most of the basin they are of the calcium bicarbonate type. The percent sodium and the concentration of boron are low; therefore, the water rates as excellent for irrigation. The water is suitable for domestic use, but it is hard.
The field data upon which the report is based are given in tables and figures they include records of 776 wells; chemical analyses of 71 samples of ground water and 34 samples of surface water; sample logs of 102 test holes; drillers' logs of 974 wells, test holes, and seismograph shot holes; electric logs of 4 test holes; and mechanical analyses of 6 samples of water-bearing material.
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PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION
This investigation of the geology and ground-water resources of the drainage basin of Frenchman Creek upstream from Palisade, Nebr. (hereafter called simply "the Frenchman Creek basin" or "the basin"), in eastern Colorado and western Nebraska, was made by the Geological Survey as a part of the program of the U.S. De partment of the Interior for development of the Missouri River basin.
Ground water and soil are the two principal natural resources of the Frenchman Creek basin. Ground water is used to supply the population, to water livestock, and to irrigate 10,000 acres of land.
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It is replenished only by precipitation within the basin. Although continued pumping at the present (1954) rate would not result in a significant regional lowering of the water table, the use of ground water for irrigation in the basin is increasing, and pumping at a quadrupled or greater rate which is not improbable in the future would cause both a lowering of the water table and a reduction in the base flow of perennial streams.
The study was made to determine the occurrence, availability, movement, quantity, and quality of the ground water that underlies the basin; the extent and physical characteristics of the water-bearing materials underlying the basin; the existing and potential develop ment of ground water for irrigation; and, at the special request of the Bureau of Reclamation, the extent to which the future pumping of ground water might deplete streamflow in Frenchman Creek upstream from Enders Dam and in Frenchman and Stinking Water Creeks at Palisade, Nebr.
The investigation upon which this report is based was begun in August 1951 under the general supervision of G. H. Taylor, regional engineer of the U.S. Geological Survey in charge of ground-water investigations in the Missouri River basin, and under the immediate supervision of T. G. McLaughlin, district geologist, Denver, Colo. M. L. Klug, engineer, and S. J. Spiegel, W. J. Powell, and R. L. Schreurs, geologists, assisted in the study for varying periods. F. E. Busch and V. M. Burtis, engineering aids, ran the instrumental levels, and K. L. Fitch, Marvin Horton, R. K. Nunley, and M. E. Weidler assisted in the inventory of wells during the summer of 1952.
The quality-of-water studies were made under the immediate supervision of P. C. Benedict, regional engineer in charge of quality- of-water investigations in the Missouri River basin.
LOCATION AND EXTENT OF THE AREA
The report area (fig. 1) includes the drainage basins of Patent, Sandy, and Red Willow Creeks, which have no surface outlets; the part of the Frenchman Creek basin that lies in Colorado; and the part of the basin in Nebraska upstream from Palisade. It includes all of Phillips County and parts of Logan, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma Counties in Colorado and all of Chase County and parts of Dundy, Hayes, Hitchcock, and Perkins Counties in Nebraska. The basin extends about 100 miles from west to east and has an average width of about 49 miles.
PREVIOUS INVESTIGATIONS
The geology and ground-water resources of parts of the basin, and of adjacent areas having comparable ground-water or geologic prob-
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lems, have been previously studied by others. Reports on these studies were consulted freely during the present investigation.
Meek and Hayden (1861), Hague and Emmons (1877), King (1878), White (1878), and Lee and others (1915) made brief mention of the geology of the basin and vicinity in papers that concerned large parts of the central-western United States. Many other investi gators have reported on smaller areas or have dealt with special phases of the geology and ground water in or adjacent to the basin. Among these specialized papers are those of Cardwell (1953), George (1913), Burbank, Lovering, Goddard, and Eckel (1935), Lugn (1935, 1939), and Condra, Reed, and Gordon (1947). These and other references are listed at the end of this report.
METHODS OF STUDY
A network of 38 observation wells, established early in the investiga tion, included 16 welts in Colorado and 22 in Nebraska; earlier records were available for 6 wells in Colorado and 7 wells in Nebraska. One well in Chase County, Nebr., was equipped with a recording gage.
Records of 776 wells were obtained during the investigation. AH irrigation wells in the basin, to the writers' knowledge, were inventoried, and enough other wells were included to define adequately the position and slope of the water table. The depths of the wells and the depths to water level were measured in 740 wells by means of a steel tape. Wherever possible, reported depths of and water levels in the other wells were obtained from well owners, tenants, or drillers, some of whom also supplied information concerning the nature and thickness of the water-bearing materials, yield and drawdown of the wells, and the use made of the water. The discharges from 76 irrigation wells were measured with a Hoff current meter. The location of wells was determined by automobile odometer and by measurements from section corners or other landmarks.
A reconnaissance of the area! geology, with emphasis on the area where the flow of Frenchman Creek is most likely to be depleted as a result of increased pump irrigation, was made during the summer of 1953. Aerial photographs and State highway maps were used in mapping the geology.
Two test holes were drilled by the Bureau of Reclamation during the fall of 1951, and, under Bureau contracts, 70 additional test holes were drilled during the summer and fall of 1952. The holes, most of which were drilled to bedrock, involved 24,205 feet of drilling. Electric logs were made of 70 of them. Eleven test holes were cased and developed for use as observation wells during aquifer tests or as wells to be included in the regular network of observation wells. Instrumental levels were run to all the test holes and to 744 wells; temporary bench
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marks were established at or near many section corners. Logs of 30 other wells and test holes were obtained from the Bureau of Reclama tion, the University of Nebraska, and other sources. Drillers' logs of 974 wells, test holes, and seismograph shotholes were collected from well drillers, municipalities, oil companies, railroads, the Rural Electrification Administration, and the Chamber of Commerce at Sterling, Colo. Most of these logs included surface and bedrock altitudes.
To determine the rate of ground-water return flow, or base flow, 27 measurements of the flow of Frenchman Creek and its tributaries were made during October 1952 by engineers of the Geological Survey and the Nebraska State Bureau of Irrigation. A Parshall flume was used to measure the flow of Spring and Stinking Water Creeks during 1952.
The hydrologic properties of aquifers were determined from 24 aquifer tests completed during 1952 and 1953. Six laboratory analyses of samples of water-bearing materials were made in the hydrologic laboratory of the Geological Survey at Lincoln, Nebr., primarily to determine the physical and hydrologic properties of the water-bearing materials.
Chemical analyses of 34 samples of surface water were available for study: 13 samples had been collected from Frenchman Creek near Enders, Nebr., during 1947, 1948, and 1949; 13 samples had been collected from Frenchman Creek at Culbertson, Nebr., about 18 miles downstream from Palisade, Nebr., .during the same period; and 8 samples were collected from Enders Reservoir during 1951, 1952, and 1953. Samples of water from 69 representative wells throughout the area were collected during the course of the well inventory, and the analyses of samples taken from 2 wells during 1947 were available. All water samples were analyzed in the chemical laboratory of the Geological Survey at Lincoln, Nebr.
WELL-NUMBERING SYSTEM
Well numbers in this report are based on the system of land sub division of -the Bureau of Land Management. (See fig. 2.) The first numeral of a well number denotes the township, the second the range, and the third the section in which the well is located. Lowercase letters after the section number indicate the quarter section, the quarter-quarter section, and the quarter-quarter-quarter section, respectively. These subdivisions are lettered counterclockwise a, b, c, and d, beginning at the northeast corner. If two or more wells are listed within the same quarter-quarter-quarter section (a 10-acre tract), they are distinguished by numerals after the lowercase letters.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The writers are indebted to the many well owners who contributed information and permitted the measurements and testing of their wells and to the town officials and other residents of the area who supplied valuable information. Mr. Byrle Miller and associates of the Highline Electric Association of Holyoke, Colo., Mr. Donald Hackert and associates of the Southwest Electric Membership Corp. of Palisade, Nebr., and officers of the Midwest Electric Membership Corp. of Grant, Nebr., supplied information that greatly facilitated the investigation. Mr. H. V. Schultz, work-unit conservationist of the U.S. Soil Conserva-
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tion Service at Imperial, Nebr., supplied many data. Drilling con tractors supplied well logs and other information; the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co. supplied logs of its wells and test holes; and Mr. A. M. Biggerstaff and associates of the Chamber of Commerce at Sterling, Colo., and many oil companies supplied logs of seismograph shotholes. The writers are indebted also to many other persons for assistance both in the field and in the preparation of this report.
GEOGRAPHY
TOPOGRAPHY AND DRAINAGE
Frenchman Creek flows generally southeastward, and its basin lies entirely within the High Plains section of the Great Plains physio graphic province as defined by Fenneman (1931, p. 5-7).
The entire basin may be regarded as a plain that slopes gently from west to east. The maximum altitude of the land surface is 4,680 feet at a point north of Akron, Colo.; the minimum altitude is 2,746 feet in the valley of Frenchman Creek north of Palisade, Nebr. The average slope of Frenchman Creek from its point of effluence to Pali sade, Nebr., is about 15 feet per mile. In this report the basin is divided into the following four topographic provinces: (1) upland areas underlain by the Ogallala-formation, (2) upland areas under lain by loess of the Sanborn formation, (3) upland dune-sand areas, and (4) valley areas.
UPLAND AREAS UNDERLAIN BY THE OQALLALA FORMATION
In Colorado, the upland areas underlain by the Ogallala formation include all except the southeast corner of Phillips County, most of Logan County south of Fleming, the northeast corner of Washington County, and the northwest corner of Yuma County. In Nebraska, these areas include the northwestern part of Chase County and strips bordering Frenchman, Spring, and Stinking Water Creeks within the county; a small area in northern Dundy County; strips bordering Stinking Water Creek in Hayes County; and the southwestern part of Perkins County. (See pi. 1.) These areas are typified by flat to undulating plains grading into rolling hills. The plains are dotted with undrained depressions ranging in area from a fraction of an acre to as much as 30 acres. Most of the depressions, however, occupy less than 7 acres and all extend 15 to 40 feet below the surrounding land surface (Rogers and Wolf anger, 1917, p. 6). The origin of the undrained depressions has been explained variously by Darton and others (1915, p. 36-37), Hay (1895, p. 555-556), Johnson (1901, p. 702-712), and Judson (1950).
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Small hills and rounded knolls in these upland areas represent ero- sional remnants of more resistant "mortar beds." These beds also are expressed topographically as bluffs near Champion, Nebr., and in many other places. Such bluffs show up as light areas in aerial photographs (fig. 3).
In the upper ephemeral courses of the drainageways, the streams have no definite channels but merely are broad grass-covered depres sions; farther downstream the major streams flow in well-defined channels after heavy rains. Along these influent stretches (fig. 4), the streams tend to have relatively straight narrow sand-choked channels. Below the point of effluence, the streams tend to meander and build up definite flood plains. (See fig. 3.)
The upland areas are relatively undissected by erosion except in Logan and Sedgwick Counties, Colo., where northward-flowing tribu taries of the South Platte River have formed a complex dendritic drainage pattern.
UPLAND AREAS UNDERLAIN BY LOESS OF THE SANBORN FORMATION
Loess of the Sanborn formation underlies upland areas in the western parts of Logan and Washington Counties, Colo., and most of the stream-divide areas downstream from Enders Dam in Nebraska. (See pi. 1.) The divide areas are nearly level tablelands, remnants of a former high loess plain, relieved in some places by undrained depressions similar to those on the upland areas underlain by the Ogallala formation. The peripheries of these tablelands have been deeply dissected by erosion. Rugged ravines and bare, nearly ver tical cliffs make the contrast between the level divides and the den dritic gullying of the divide slopes strikingly apparent (fig. 5). In the Colorado part of this area, the loe'ss is thinner and the rugged divide-slope topography is absent. The area, however, displays some of the typical erosional features of loess, including the vegetation- covered ravine- bottoms and the stairstep pattern of slumping caused by the higher density, cohesion, and friction angle of the loess.
UPLAND DUNE-SAND AREAS.
The dune-sand areas are of two types, each characterized by a distinct type of dune. The first type, a reasonably distinct map- pable unit, consists of northwest-trending dunes generally overlying the Ogallala formation. (See pi. 2.) Topographically the dunes range from a series of low hills having relatively flat crests, separated by saddles, to irregular sandhills having a maximum local relief of about 170 feet. These areas characteristically have interior drain age. In some of the flat-lying interdune areas, the water table intersects the land surface and forms water-table lakes during peri-
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GEOGRAPHY 11
Influent stream Stream loses water
Effluent stream Stream gains water
PROFILE OF STREAM CHANNEL
INFLUENT STREAM EFFLUENT STREAM
SECTIONS ACROSS STREAM CHANNEL
FIGUEE 4. Diagram showing influent and effluent streams.
ods of high ground-water levels. Dunes of this type occur south of Holyoke in Phillips and Yuma Counties, in northern Logan County, and in eastern Sedgwick County, Colo.; and in Chase County, northern Dundy County, and southern Perkins County, Nebr. (See pi. 1.)
Dunes of the second type occupy small areas in the westernmost part of Washington and Logan Counties, Colo., and a northwest- trending belt east of Stinking Water Creek in Chase, Hayes, and Perkins Counties, Nebr. The dune sand in the latter area overlies the Sanborn formation. The dunes of this type mainly are of the kind described by Smith (1940, pi. 2) as "artificial"; that is, they are formed by loess and in places are overlain by sand dunes more typical of the first type. The particles composing the dunes of the second type grade imperceptibly from the silt of the underlying loess to the sand of the overlying dunes of the first type, thus obscuring the contacts. Although they can be distinguished with some difficulty, dunes of both types have been mapped as a unit.
VALLEY AREAS
The valleys of the lower reaches of Frenchman, Sand, Spring, and Stinking Water Creeks in Nebraska are the principal valley areas. The valley floor of Frenchman Creek ranges in width from about 0.1 mile in the upper effluent reaches (described under occur rence of ground water) to about 1.5 miles near Palisade, Nebr.; the
12 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
GEOGRAPHY 13
channel ranges in width from about 5 to 30 feet. The valley is rather deeply incised and lies about 50 to 250 feet below the adja cent uplands. Frenchman Creek overflows occasionally, even though its channel is entrenched as much as 10 to 15 feet below the flood plain. The alluvial valleys of Frenchman Creek and its main trib utaries are bordered with terraces grading from well-defined through indistinct to discontinuous. In this report the lower terraces gener ally were mapped as alluvium and the higher terraces as the Ogallala formation.
Sand Creek heads in Sedgwick County, Colo., and flows southeast ward to join Frenchman Creek. Its valley ranges in width from 0.2 to 0.3 mile. Spring Creek heads in Perkins County, Nebr., and flows southeastward; the average slope from its point of effluence to its confluence with Stinking Water Creek is 15 feet per mile. Stinking Water Creek heads in Perkins County, Nebr., and flows south-southeastward; its average slope from its point of effluence to its confluence with Frenchman Creek near Palisade, Nebr., is 13 feet per mile. Spring and Stinking Water Creeks have cut narrow canyons through the loess uplands.
CLIMATE
The basin is semiarid, typified by little to moderate precipitation, high evaporation, low humidity, and much sunshine and wind. The summer days are hot, but the nights usually are cool. Hot dry winds cause occasional damage to crops. Winters usually are cold and windy, but snowfall generally is light. Extremely low temperatures accompany cold waves or blizzards, which, during their early stages, are characterized by high winds.
A summary of the climatic data obtained at four stations in the basin is given in table 1. The normal annual precipitation ranges
TABLE 1. Summary of climatic data recorded at four Weather Bureau stations in theFrenchman Creek basin
Length of record vfiariNormal annual precipitation .... . ________ inches-
Year of minimum annual precipitation do.
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Ijeroy
65 17.69 13.31 7.34 1894
27.43 1941
May 7 June 1 Oct. 8
Sept. 15 154
Holyoke
59 17.56 14.24 6.59 1894
29.07 1915
May8 June 6
Sept. 29 Aug. 29
144 49.3 26.6 74.3
Nebraska
Imperial
63 20.73 15.93 8.26 1894
37.14 1915
May 11 May 29 Oct. 12 Sept. 7
154 50.3 26.5 75.6
Wauneta
56 19.65 14.54 11.30
1943 32.24
1905
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from about 17 inches in the western part of the basin to about 21 inches in the eastern part. Variations from the normal annual pre cipitation at the Weather Bureau stations at Holyoke, Leroy, and Yuma, Colo., and Imperial, Palisade, and Wauneta, Nebr., are shown graphically in figures 6 to 11.
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Plate 4 is an isohyetal map showing the normal annual precipitation throughout the basin.
The amount and seasonal distribution of rainfall are of vital impor tance because the normal annual precipitation is near the minimum required for profitable agriculture. The normal monthly precipita tion at the Weather Bureau stations at Leroy, Yuma, and Holyoke, Colo., and Imperial, Wauneta, and Palisade, Nebr., is shown in figure 12.
During years of normal or greater precipitation, the distribution pattern shows the most precipitation during the spring and summer growing season, a circumstance advantageous to agriculture. Droughts, however, often reduce crop yields and occasionally cause complete or nearly complete crop failures. The distribution of precipitation during a year may be more significant than the amount
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FIGURE 7. Annual precipitation and cumulative departure from normal precipitation at Leroy, Colo.
during the year. Summer rains often come as thundershowers only a few square miles in extent. The thundershowers, characterized by a high rate of precipitation, are short and sometimes are accompanied by hail, which may destroy or severely damage crops.
MINERAL RESOURCES AND INDUSTRIES
The mineral resource ranking third in economic importance in the basin, after soil and ground water, is sand and gravel. Deposits of sand and gravel near the land surface are abundant in the Ogallala formation on the uplands and in the alluvial deposits in the stream
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valleys. Sand and gravel is excavated from the Ogallala formation by power shovels and tractor scoops and from the alluvium by centrif ugal pumps. The largest operating gravel pit is near Palisade, Nebr., where the water-saturated material is removed by a centrifugal pump. The sand and gravel is used principally for road surfacing.
Much seismic exploration in the basin has resulted in the drilling of several wildcat oil tests in recent years, but little gas or oil has been produced.
Two grain mills in the basin produce flour and commercial feeds for livestock; the mill at Champion, Nebr., is operated by waterpower and that at Wauneta, Nebr., by electric power.
FIGURE 8. Annual precipitation and cumulative departure from normal precipitation at Yuma, Colo.
GEOGRAPHY 17
FIQTJEE 9. Annual precipitation and cumulative departure from normal precipitation at Imperial, Nebr.
AGRICULTURE\
Agricultural activity in the Frenchman Creek basin was confined mainly to cattle grazing until about 1885, after which the influx of settlers and sod breaking caused a progressive decline in the number of cattle raised. Because of a severe drought during 1894, much land was abandoned by homesteaders and taken over by the few ranchers who remained. The large, individual holdings that resulted were operated under a system of combined grain farming and stockraising. With the advent of better times, after the turn of the century, tho open range gradually was fenced and farming gained in popularity. By 1920 the use of land had reversed completely, farming pushing the cattle industry into the background. Although cattle raising was
18 GROUND-WATEE GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
retarded by high grain prices during World War I, the general economic trend has been upward since then, emphasis being placed on raising registered cattle. The number of livestock on farms in Phillips County, Colo., and Chase County, Nebr., from 1949 to 1952 is given in table 2.
TABLE 2. Livestock on farms in Phillips County, Colo., and Chase County, Nebr.
[Data from the Colorado, Nebraska, and Federal Departments of Agriculture. Number of livestock onJanuary 1 of each year]
Livestock
Other cattle.... .............Hogs _____________Sheep ____________Chickens... ................Poultry.. ..... __ . .........
Phillips County, Colo.
1948
2,490 13, 130 2,317 4,082
46,800 440
1949
2,120 13, 3101,782 1,408
38,148 374
1950
2,310 12,290 2,116 1,061
39,804 289
1951
2,370 13, 310 2,228
432
39,768 296
1952
2,410 18,240 1,885 1,785
38,664 229
Chase County, Nebr.
1949
2,700 24,580 10,100 1,120
67,280
1,400
1950
2,530 22,300 10, 810
870 66,580
1,320
1951
2,630 23,440 11,890 1,660
58,950
1,020
1952
2,390 25, 770 13,200 1,640
57,770
820
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remained as tenants. Aided by the increase in the price of farm com modities during World War II, many tenants again were able to pur chase land. The average size of farms has increased during the past 15 years, owing to improvements in machinery that enable one person to farm a larger acreage.
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IFIO-UKE 12. Normal monthly precipitation at Leroy, Yuma, and Holyoke, Colo., and at Imperial, Wauneta,
and Palisade, Nebr.
Wheat and corn are now the principal crops grown in the basin. The annual acreage of crops harvested in Phillips County, Colo., and Chase County, Nebr., from 1948 to 1952 is shown in table 3. The great acreage of wheat is explained in part by high wheat prices prevailing since World War II and in part by improvements in har-
TABLE 3. Crops harvested in Phillips County, Colo., and Chase County, Nebr.
[Date from the Colorado, Nebraska, and Federal Departments of Agriculture]
ACREAGE
Crop 1948
Irri gated Total
1949
Irri gated Total
1950
Irri gated Total
1951
Irri gated Total
1952
Irri gated Total
Phillips County
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vesting machinery. Each town in the basin is monumented by large wheat elevators. The yields of all crops are being increased by use of fertilizers and improved varieties of seed and, on some farms, by irrigation with ground water.
Topography and soils also influence the type of crops raised. The heavy soils are adapted best to small grains and forage crops and the sandy soils to corn and other row crops. The sandhills are used mainly for grazing, although some grain and hay are raised in the relatively flat interdune areas where the water table is shallow. The alluvial valleys along Frenchman and Stinking Water Creeks are excellent for the raising of hay and row crops because they are subirrigated naturally by shallow ground water.
Irrigation with water from wells is becoming an increasingly im portant factor in the agricultural economy of the basin because of the small amount and the undependable distribution of precipitation. One application of water at the proper time during the growing season sometimes means the difference between a crop failure and a profitable yield.
POPULATION
The population trend of the Frenchman Creek basin was influenced greatly by precipitation from 1885 to 1940; it increased during periods of above-normal precipitation and decreased during drought. The
TABLE 4. Area and estimate of population of the Frenchman Creek basin in 1950,by counties
[Population data from Census Bureau]
State and county
Colorado :
Phillips. _________Sedgwick ___ __Washington
Nebraska: ChaseDundy__Hayes _Hitchcock _Perkins _
Total__________
Area, in square miles
Total
1,827 680 544
2,525 2,383
894 921 711722 885
12, 092
Part of county
included in investi
gation
370 680 280 420 900
894 360 245
90 670
4, 909
Percent included
in investi gation
20 100 52 17 38
100 39 35 13 76
populationi
Total
17, 187 4, 924 5,095 7,520
10, 827
5, 176 4,354 2,404 5,867 4,809
68, 163
Part included in investigation (based oh per centage of area
included in investigation)
3,437 4,9242, 649 1, 278 4, 114
5, 176 1, 698
841 762
3, 655
28, 534
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decrease in rural population since 1940 can be attributed principally to improvements in farm machinery that enable one person to farm larger tracts of land. The present trend toward development of irrigation with water from wells should tend to increase the number of smaller farms and of farm families.
The exact population of the area described in this report is not readitydeterminable because the boundary of the area does not coincide with political boundaries. The population was estimated, however, by adding the known populations of Phillips County, Colo., and Chase County, Nebr., both of which are wholly within the report area, to a proportionate part of the population of all the counties that are only partly in the area. (See table 4.) The proportionate parts were computed by multiplying the total populations of each of these counties by the ratio of the number of square miles in the part of the county included in the report area to the total number of square miles in the county. Because the computations are based on the assumption that the population is evenly distributed throughout each of the counties, they may be considerably in error. The popula tion trend in the basin is illustrated by the population data in table 5.
TABLE 5. Population of Phillips County, Colo., and Chase County, Nebr.
[Data from Census Bureau]
County
Phillips _____Chase .
1890
2, 6424,807
1900
1,5832, 559
1910
3, 1793,613
1920
5,4994,939
1930
5, 7975,484
1940
4,9485, 310
1950
4,9245, 176
TRANSPORTATION
The basin is served by two branch lines of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. The Sterling-Holdrege line extends from the main line at Holdrege, Nebr., westward through the basin to Sterling, Colo. The other line extends from the main line at McCook, Nebr., westward to Imperial, Nebr. They are important as carriers of agri cultural products.
The basin has an adequate system of highways and county roads. It is served by one east-west oiled Federal highway, running approxi mately through the center, and by several State highways, some graveled and some oiled. (See pi. 5.) Many of the county roads are surfaced with gravel and caliche from the Ogallala formation. They generally follow section lines except in the sandhills and areas of dissected loess, where they commonly follow ridges or valleys.
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GEOLOGY
SUMMARY OF STRATIGRAPHY
The rocks that crop out in the basin are sedimentary and range in age from Pliocene to Recent. The outcrop areas are shown on plate 1, geologic map of the basin. The discontinuous high-level terrace deposits are not differentiated from the Ogallala formation on the map. The Ogallala formation includes the oldest rocks that crop out. Some of the upland areas are mantled by loess deposits of the Sanborn formation of Pleistocene and Recent(?) age, others by dune sand of Pleistocene and Recent age. Most of the major valleys contain Recent alluvium, which, as mapped, includes the low terrace deposits.
A generalized section of the stratigraphic units in the basin and a description of their water-bearing properties are given in table 6.
Plate 6 is a map of the basin showing the location of test holes and the configuration of the bedrock surface underlying the area, deter mined largely from test holes but partly from other data. Although this map shows the general configuration and slope of the bedrock surface, available data were not sufficiently detailed to delineate the buried valleys that probably exist in the eroded bedrock surface.
GEOLOGIC HISTORY
Rocks of Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and early Cenozoic ages are exposed along the east front of the Rocky Mountains. All rocks that crop out in the basin are of later Cenozoic age, though rocks of Mesozoic and early Cenozoic age are exposed in adjacent areas. The Pierre shale of Mesozoic age crops out in the valley of the North Fork of the Republican River at Wray, Colo., and the White River group of Cenozoic age crops out in a few places not far northwest of the basin. Statements concerning the possible occurrence of the older rocks in the basin are based in part upon their nearby areas of outcrop and in part upon the logs of test holes and of several deep boreholes drilled in the search for oil in and near the basin. The manner in which the materials were deposited, particularly those composing the younger formations, has an important bearing upon the ground-water supply of the area. The brief summary of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic history that follows is adapted in part from a report (McLaughlin, 1946, p. 21-24) on a nearby area having a similar pre-Cenozoic history.
PROTEROZOIC ERA
Precambrian rocks compose the core of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and, at considerable depth, underlie the sediments in the Frenchman Creek basin. Although these rocks are buried so deeply in the basin that a detailed study of their history
24 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
TABLE 6. Generalized section of the stratigraphic units younger than the Niobrara in the Frenchman Creek basin and their water-bearing properties
System
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Cretace ous
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Kecent
Recent and Pleistocene
Recent (?) and Pleistocene
Pliocene
Oligocene
Upper Cre taceous
Stratigraphic unit
Alluvium
Terrace de posits
Dune sand
San born for mation
Ogallala for mation
White River group
Brule forma tion
Chadron forma tion
Pierre shale
Thick ness (ft)
0-100±
0-75 (?)
0-170(7)
0-225±
0-425±
0-255±
0-235±
2,650- to
3,650+
Physical character
Sand, gravel, silt, and clay.
Sand, gravel, silt, and clay.
Very fine to very coarse sand.
Tan to light-brown silt; contains much sand in places.
Sand, gravel, clay, and silt, predomi nantly calcareous. Consolidated or un- consolidated. Con tains beds of ca liche and a discon tinuous capping bed of algal lime stone.
Siltstone and clayey silt.
Clay, claystone, silty clay, and sand stone. May con tain lenses of per meable quartz sand and gravel near the contact with the Pierre shale.
Blue to black clay shale. Contains thin beds of ben- tonite, gypsum, and sandstone.
Water-bearing properties
Yields small to large supplies of water along the valleys of the major streams.
The lower terrace deposits, mapped with the allu vium, may yield small to large quantities of water to wells. The upper terrace deposits, mapped with the Ogallala formation, gen erally lie above the water table.
Generally lies above the wa ter table. In areas of high water table, wells and in termittent lakes yield small supplies of water for livestock.
Generally lies above the wa ter table.
Yields moderate to large supplies of water to wells.
The upper part may yield small quantities of water to wells irom fractured zones or zones of reworked siltstone pebbles. The formation on the whole, however, is a relatively poor aquifer.
The lower part may yield small to moderate quanti ties of water to wells from lenses of permeable sand and gravel. The forma tion on the whole, how ever, is a relatively poor aquifer.
Yields negligible quantities of water to wells.
presently is impossible, many geologists have attempted to decipher their complex history in the Front Range. Levering (1929, p. 63-74) stated that the schist and gneiss, of which much of the Front Range consists, once were sandy, shaly sediments eroded from an older granitic mass and deposited in a shallow sea. Later the sediments were intruded, parallel to the bedding, by masses of diorite. The sediments then were uplifted and folded strongly before being in-
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truded by a succession of granitic batholiths and stocks and injected by many bodies of diorite, monzonite, and granite, completing the conversion of the sediments into schist and gneiss.
PALEOZOIC ERA
The Paleozoic history of the Rocky Mountain region began with erosion of the Precambrian basement rocks that lie beneath the Paleo zoic sedimentary rocks. After a long period of erosion, the region was invaded by shallow seas. In Late Cambrian time, pebbles eroded from the exposed basement rocks of the landmass contiguous to the shallow sea were reworked by wave action and deposited in the form of a "granite wash," or arkose, over at least a part of the area. As the gradient from the landmass to the sea was reduced by erosion, the capacity of the streams to transport large detrital particles was reduced. Consequently, the sedimentary rocks overlying the arkose, where present, are in general progressively finer grained upward in the section, grading from fine gravel through very fine sand to cal careous and shaly sandstone. These sediments comprise the Lamotte sandstone (Reagan? sandstone) beneath eastern Colorado and the Sawatch quartzite of different facies in western and central Colorado, both of Late Cambrian age. The upper part of the Lamotte sand stone grades into a marine limestone or dolomitic limestone, which marks the contact with the overlying Arbuckle group of Cambrian and Ordovician age. These sediments, though largely or entirely absent in the basin, are present to the south in Yuma County, Colo.
The Arbuckle group is composed of beds of limestone and dolomite. At the end of the Ordovician period the sea receded generally, and erosion of the exposed Ordovician rocks continued throughout the Silurian and Devonian periods and early Mississippian time. During middle Mississippian time, shallow seas again invaded the landmass and thick sections of limestone were deposited. This limestone was in turn eroded during the emergence of late Mississippian time until only small erosional remnants were left. Rocks of Mississippian age have been identified in deep-well tests south of the basin in Yuma County, Colo., but they are largely or entirely absent from the geo logic column in the basin.
Thick beds of marine limestone and shale then were deposited in the shallow seas that again invaded the region and remained during much of the Pennsylvanian period. The seas withdrew in Permian time, and a thick sequence of red beds was deposited, probably in an arid climate, as is suggested by beds of evaporite rocks underlying parts of the basin.
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MESOZOIC ERA
Aridity continued in the region during the first part of the Mesozoic era, as indicated by red beds of Triassic age cropping out in Baca County, Colo. Whether remnants of equivalent beds now underlie the Frenchman Creek basin is not entirely clear from the logs of deep wells. Probably they did at one time and subsequently were removed by erosion.
Shale, sandstone, and calcareous clay and siltstone composing the Morrison formation were deposited by streams during the Jurassic period. The continental origin of those strata is attested by the abundance of fossil remains of dinosaurs and other land animals in beds of the Morrison formation in the Rocky Mountain region.
The Cretaceous period began with erosion, which lasted until near the end of Early Cretaceous time. The Cheyenne sandstone member of the Purgatoire formation then was deposited either in shallow seas or by streams (Twenhofel, 1924, p. 19). A sea then covered the region once more, and in it was deposited the upper part of the Purgatoire formation the Kiowa shale member.
The Dakota sandstone, also probably of Early Cretaceous age, which directly overlies the Purgatoire formation, was deposited under conditions similar to those of early Purgatoire time; that is, the sea retreated and continental deposits of sand and clay were laid down by streams.
In late Early and early Late Cretaceous time, the invasion of the continent that was begun in Early Cretaceous time by waters from the Gulf of Mexico was intensified by southward-spreading waters from the Arctic Ocean. The broad structural trough formerly occupied by these encroaching seas is called the Rocky Mountain geosyncline. At their greatest extent, the waters formed a vast seaway nearly 1,000 miles wide and 3,000 miles long, completely dividing the continent of North America into two landmasses. The slow submergence was followed quickly, however, by a long emergence (Schuchert and Dunbar, 1941, p. 349). Deposits laid down in these seas apparently were removed by erosion during the subsequent emergence, because deposits of this age nowhere are in evidence in deep-well logs in the basin.
During much of later Cretaceous time, widespread invasions of the sea resulted in the deposition of several thousand feet of marine shale, chalk, limestone, and sandstone that compose the Graneros, Greenhorn, Carlile, Niobrara, Pierre, and Fox Hills formations. Near the close of the Cretaceous period, the area occupied by the Rocky Mountain geosyncline began to rise. During that uplift (Laramide), the sea withdrew and the sandstone, shale, and coal of the Laramie formation and the lower part of the Dawson arkose were
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deposited, mainly by streams, but probably in part under near- shore conditions. The rise of the Rocky Mountains from the site of the ancestral Rocky Mountain geosyncline increased the gradients and debris-carrying power of the streams. This, in turn, caused deposition of the beds of sandstone that now are the principal water bearing materials in the Laramie formation and the Dawson arkose west of the Frenchman Creek basin. Contemporaneous with and related to the major uplift of the Rocky Mountains, numerous smaller structural features were developed as the Cretaceous and older rocks were warped and eroded. The Julesburg structural basin, upon whose east flank the Frenchman Creek drainage basin lies, is one of the smaUer structural features. Some minor folds and flexures within the Julesburg basin yield commercial quantities of oil and gas.
CENOZOIC ERA
The Rocky Mountains were uplifted repeatedly and eroded in the Cenozoic era, and the resulting sediments were deposited in areas bordering the mountains. These sediments include the deposits of the upper part of the Dawson arkose of Late Cretaceous and Paleocene age, the Castle Rock conglomerate and the White River group of Oligocene age, and the Arikaree sandstone of Miocene age.
Most of the sediments from the Fox Hills sandstone to the Arikaree sandstone are absent from the geologic column in the Frenchman Creek basin. At least two explanations for this absence may be advanced. Bjorklund and Brown (1957, p. 22, 23) stated that both the Fox Hills and Laramie formations crop out in the foothills near the Front Range, where they dip eastward, but that farther east the dip is reversed, and in northwestern Morgan County, Colo., it is about 6 feet per mile toward the west. This dip indicates that these formations once may have underlain part or all of the Frenchman Creek basin, but subsequently were upwarped in part of the region and removed by erosion. On the other hand, the formations may have been deposited in a sedimentary basin between the mountains and the site of the present Frenchman Creek basin and later down- warped. The Dawson arkose of Late Cretaceous and Paleocene age and the Castle Rock conglomerate of Oligocene age generally are composed of relatively coarse detrital material, indicating that they were deposited close to the mountains. They probably never ex tended eastward as far as the Frenchman Creek basin. The White River group of Oligocene age is present at depth in the northern part of the basin, where it unconformably overlies the Pierre shale. (See pis. 2, 6.) It is probable that the White River group extended farther south and that the southward extension was removed by erosion during Miocene and early Pliocene time. Also, it is probable
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that the Arikaree sandstone of Miocene age underlaid the area and was removed by erosion in early Pliocene time, because thick deposits of that sandstone now are present beneath the area north of the South Platte River. However, no Arikaree sandstone was identified in well cuttings during the present investigation.
The Rocky Mountains were uplifted again during Pliocene time. The gradients of streams flowing eastward from the mountains were increased, enabling them to carry much heavier loads; however, the streams flowing over porous materials in an arid region, were able to transport their loads only for relatively short distances, and debris was dropped along the way from the foot of the mountains eastward. As uplift and erosion continued, more and more debris was carried and dropped by the streams until their valleys became choked. Seeking lower levels, the streams meandered from their sand-choked valleys and eventually covered the undulating surface of the older eroded rocks with enormous quantities of rock debris. These clastic sediments constitute the Ogallala formation, which underlies the Frenchman Creek basin. (See pi. 2.) Subsequently, erosion removed the Ogallala formation from areas close to the mountains. Evidence of that erosion is given by the bold western escarpment of the High Plains, which exposes the older rocks upon which the Ogallala for mation was deposited, and by the lower lying lands that extend westward from the escarpment toward the Rocky Mountains. As a result of that erosion, the High Plains in the Frenchman Creek basin were left high and dry. Deprived of through-flowing moun tain streams, the basin is dependent entirely upon precipitation for its water supply.
The High Plains terminate on the east in Kansas and Nebraska in a more gently sloping escarpment which, in some places, is very low. The present-day High Plains are an erosional remnant of, and consist of less than a third of, the original debris plain. The following statement relating to the preservation of the High Plains is from Lohman (1953a, p. 71):
Why were the processes of erosion so selective as to remove all traces of these deposits near the mountains and near the Mississippi Valley, and yet leave a large central belt virtually untouched? This question has been answered in part by Willard Johnson, in his day one of the foremost students of the High Plains.
In its westward rise of thousands of feet, the Great Plains region spans climatic gradations from humid to arid, and the type of vegetation changes accordingly. The present High Plains occupy the subhumid or semiarid belt, where the pre cipitation was sufficient to develop a protective close-knit sod. According to Johnson (1901, p. 629): "The tufted growths of bunch grass and light 'brush' of the arid zone fail almost completely in protection because they do not constitute
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a continuous cover; and sod, on the other hand, is completely effective, not because it resists the erosive work of well-developed drainage, for that it cannot do, but because it prevents the initiation of drainage. It is effective against the first faint beginnings. The great plateau surfaces of the High Plains have to show no systems of drainage, because, presumably, from the commencement of the present erosion stage they have been sod covered, as at present [1900]. In other words, the High Plains have endured as alluvial plateaus since Tertiary time, or at least since the opening of the Pleistocene." Thus they may be regarded as comprising a fossil land surface. It has also been pointed out by Fenneman (1931, p. 36) that erosion between the mountains and the High Plains was accelerated by the steeper gradients, near the mountains, of streams such as the South Platte and Arkansas Rivers.
Frenchman Creek and its major tributaries originated on the High Plains during Pleistocene time. They cut shallow valleys into the Ogallala formation along their effluent reaches and built up flood plains. The northern part of the United States was invaded at least four times by continental glaciers, one of which extended as far south as St. Louis, Mo. During the same period, alpine glaciers were formed at relatively low altitudes in the Rocky Mountains. Vast quantities of debris were eroded from the mountains by the glaciers and were deposited by nielt water in outwash plains near the mouths of the mountain valleys. Streams then transported the lighter components of the outwash materials greater distances from the mountains and deposited them as alluvial fill in the flood plains. The Sanborn formation, principally loess of Pleistocene and Recent (?) age, probably was deposited on the eroded surface of the Ogallala formation by northwesterly winds carrying glacier-derived silt and clay from the flood plains of the South Platte River and other through-flowing streams. The thickness and distribution of the Sanborn formation is shown by diagrammatic cross sections on plate 2.
Dune sand of Pleistocene an4 Recent age overlies the Ogallala and Sanborn formations in the basin. The dunes trend northwest ward and probably originated in a manner similar to that of the San born formation. Strong winds transported first the lighter silt and clay to form the Sanborn formation, and then, more slowly, the heavier sand was blown into migrating dunes.
The valleys of Frenchman Creek and its major tributaries were deepened and then partly backfilled with flood-plain alluvium during the Recent epoch. Later, during the epoch, smaller valleys were entrenched within the older valleys.
The present flood plains do not occupy the valleys entirely, and in places some of the older flood-plain alluvium remains as low, discontinuous terrace deposits. Some of the higher terrace deposits may be of Pleistocene age. The thickness and distribution of the alluvium, including the lower terrace deposits, is shown on plate 2.
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GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS AND THEIR WATER-BEARING PROPERTIES
The areal distribution of the geologic formations in the report area is shown on plate 1. The altitude, disposition, and attitude are shown by plate 2, which is a fence diagram showing also the general relations of the land surface, the water table, and the bedrock surface. The formations were identified almost entirely on the basis of lithology and stratigraphic position. The only fossils collected were the alga Chlorellopsis bradleyi Elias from the Ogallala formation and a few undiagnostic gastropods from the Sanborn formation.
UPPER CRETACEOUS SERIES
PIERRE SHALE Character
The Pierre shale was first described and named the Fort Pierre group by Meek and Hayden (1861, p. 419^424). The formation does not crop out in the Frenchman Creek basin but is exposed southwest of the basin and in the valley of the North Fork of the Republican River near Wray, Colo. A lithologic description of the exposure from a report by Hill and Tompkin (1953, p. 11) is quoted as follows:
The Pierre shale exposed in the Wray area is thin-bedded, pale-olive * * * to dark yellowish-orange * * * clay shale. It contains thin iron-stained beds and a few thin, lenticular beds of bentonite. Where it is exposed in ravines in the southeastern corner of the area, the Pierre shale contains many thin lenses and seams of gypsum (selenite and a fibrous variety), from }i inch to V/z inches thick, which weather out on the surface as aggregates of crystals. In the SW% sec. 8, T. 1 N., R. 42 W., the shale contains a few impure, white * * * to yellowish- gray * * * bentonite seams, from }i inch to 6 inches thick. These seams are remnants of volcanic ash falls. The purest bentonite, consisting of fine shards of white * * * volcanic ash partly altered to clay, crops out in a bed about 6 inches thick. The other seams, which are from % inch to % inch thick, consist of coarse, only slightly altered glass shards mixed with grains of fine sand and silt.
Fresh well cuttings of the unweathered Pierre shale generally are dark colored, ranging from bright to dark blue and from medium gray to black. The unweathered shale in many places is conformably overlain by and grades into an unctuous yellow to ocher limonitic clay streaked with green and reddish-brown stains. This clay sometimes is called "soapstone" by drillers and local residents. Test drilling indicates that the clay ranges in thickness from 0 to 36 feet. The clay probably is Pierre shale that was altered by weathering when the shale was exposed. It has been used to identify the top of the Pierre shale in the logs of test holes included in this report because apparently it is as effective an aquiclude as the parent shale. The Pierre shale overlies the Smoky Hill chalk member of the Nio-
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brara formation and underlies unconformably the Ogallala formation in most of the area and the White Eiver group, loess of the Sanborn formation, dune sand, and alluvium in parts of the area. (See pi. 2.)
Electric logs showing the contacts of the Pierre shale with other formations and spontaneous-potential and resistivity curves charac teristic of the Pierre shale are given in figures 13 and 14.
Distribution and. thickness
The Pierre shale is distributed widely throughout the Great Plains; it underlies most of eastern Colorado, northwestern Kansas, most of Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota, and part of New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, and Minnesota. The formation under lies the entire Frenchman Creek basin and constitutes the bedrock in the basin except where it is overlain by the White Eiver group. It ranges in thickness east and west of the basin from a few feet near the eastern boundary of exposures in western Kansas to as much as 7,882 feet in an oil-test well in sec. 5, T. 1 S., E. 69 W., near Louisville, Colo. (Blair, 1951, sheet 1). As the rocks are faulted in the vicinity of that test well, it is possible that the section of the Pierre shale penetrated by the well is greater than the true thickness of the for mation because of repetition of beds. Logs of oil-test wells within the basin indicate that the Pierre shale ranges in thickness from about 3,650 feet in the NE% SE% sec. 31, T. 8 N., E. 50 W., Logan County, Colo., to about 2,650 feet in the NW% SW% SE^, sec. 6, T. 3 N., E. 48 W., Yuma County, Colo. The formation thins eastward.
Water supply
The Pierre shale is of little or no importance as an aquifer in the basin. The minute size of the pores and the compactness of the rock inhibit movement of water.
To avoid fruitless drilling into this formation, landowners who contemplate drilling wells should be able to recognize the Pierre shale by examining well cuttings. McLaughlin (1946, p. 76-77) treats the subject as follows:
The Pierre shale is more than 2,000 feet thick in this area [Big Sandy Creek area above Limon, Colo.], and if no water is found in the upper sandy and weathered zones it is useless to drill deeper. The city of Limon, for example, drilled 1,500 feet into the Pierre shale in an attempt to obtain a flowing well yielding fresh water from the Dakota sandstone. Had they known that the Pierre shale was about 2,000 feet thick and contained practically no water, that about 1,150 feet of beds of low permeability lie between the Pierre and Dakota formations, and that the water from the Dakota probably would have been salty and would not flow at the surface, the needless waste of public funds could have been avoided. Although this is the deepest well that has been drilled in the Pierre shale in this area in an attempt to find water, it is by no means the only attempt of its kind. Dozens of wells that have failed to obtain water from beds overlying the Pierre
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shale have been deepened into the shale in the hope of finding another bed of sand and gravel or of finding a small "pocket" or opening in the shale that would con tain water. There are no beds of sand and gravel in the Pierce shale and any so- called "pockets," if found, would yield only a small quantity of highly mineralized water because there is no way for fresh water to penetrate the shale and replenish and freshen the water in such "pockets." If water is not found in the uppermost part of the Pierre shale the well should be abandoned.
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The Pierre shale is important in the basin because it serves as a relatively impervious floor under much of the area and retards or prevents downward percolation of water from overlying aquifers and because the configuration of the eroded surface of the Pierre shale influences the shape and slope of the water table. Contours showing the configuration of the eroded surface of the shale are shown on plate 6.
Water from the Pierre shale almost invariably is of poor quality and has a high concentration of dissolved solids. The extreme hardness of the water generally prevents its use except for stocksupplies.
OLIGOCENE SERIES
WHITE RIVER GROUP
Rocks constituting the White River group were first described and named the White River deposits by Meek and Hayden (1851, p. 119, 133). The group consists of two formations, the Chadron at the base and the Brule at the top. The group was divided into two formations mainly because of faunal differences; the Chadron formation originally was named the Titanothere beds after the mammal whose fossil remains are abundant in the formation, but the two formations also have many lithologic differences. The group underlies large areas in Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota and is the surface rock in the badlands in South Dakota and parts of eastern Montana, western Nebraska, and northeastern Colorado. It unconformably overlies the Pierre shale and constitutes the bedrock hi the northern part of the Frenchman Creek basin. (See pis. 2, 5, 6).
Formation names are shown in the sample logs (table 27) if the contact of the two formations of the group is clearly delineated. The Chadron and Brule formations are undifferentiated and are called the White River group in other sample logs and drillers' logs (table 28) and in the fence diagram (pi. 2).
CHADRON FORMATION Character
The Chadron formation was first described and named by Darton (1899, p. 736, 759, pi. 82) for Chadron, Nebr. The following section, which is exposed on the south side of the North Platte River in sec. 36, T. 23 N., R. 57 W., and about midway between Mitchell and Morrill, Nebr., is from Wenzel, Cady, and Waite (1946, p. 62):
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The Chadron formation generally consists of olive-green to brick-red silty to sandy clay and claystone which becomes siltier and lighter in color as it grades into the conformably overlying Brule formation. Some contacts between the Chadron and the Brule formations are identified by a hard olive-green claystone or a hard brick-red sand stone. The lower part of the Chadron formation may be distinguished locally by a brilliantly colored clay zone, which is 5 to 20 feet thick. The clay is variegated, and the colors range from pink through various pastel shades of mauve and green to intense red, heliotrope, and purple. The zone generally grades downward into a yellowish- orange limonite-stained clay that overlies the Pierre shale directly. This clay is more brilliant in hue and less unctuous than the clay of the upper weathered surface of the Pierre shale. Another dis tinctive unit of the Chadron formation was penetrated in test hole ll-42-32ccd in Sedgwick, County, Colo. This bed of bright-blue to bluish-gray fine-grained very hard sandstone is 4 feet thick and directly overlies the Pierre shale, also bright blue, at a depth of 595 feet.
The Chadron formation contains channel deposits of sand and gravel that are most abundant in the upper and lower parts. The channel deposits generally are tightly cemented with siliceous cement; however, at a depth of 337 feet in test hole 8-39-1 ccc, Chase County, Nebr., channel deposits 40 feet thick are composed almost entirely of loose sand and gravel. The upper 12 feet of these deposits consists of lightly cemented well-rounded fine to very coarse yellowish-green sand; the next 16 feet is loose fine to coarse sand and medium gravel. Most of the grains are subspherical to well-rounded and well-sorted milky quartz. The next 4 feet consists of soft sandy green clay; the lower 8 feet is loose tan sand, well rounded and ranging from very fine to very coarse.
Two representative samples of the Chadron formation, one obtained at a depth of 332 to 337 feet in test hole 8-39-lccc, Chase County, Nebr., and the other at a depth of 505 to 580 feet in test hole 10-33- 6bbb, Sedgwick County, Colo., were analyzed in the hydrologic
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laboratory of the Geological Survey. A. I. Johnson (personal com munication, 1952) reported that the two samples had an acid-soluble content of 10.6 and 14.1 percent, respectively, and that these values are of the same order of magnitude as those of samples previously tested that were taken from outcrops of the Chadron formation. The results of centrifuge moisture-equivalent tests^ made on the two samples also are of the same order of magnitudes as those of the samples of the Chadron formation that were tested previously. Particle-size distribution curves of the two samples are shown in figures 15 and 16.
An electric log showing the contact of the Chadron formation with other formations and spontaneous-potential and resistivity curves characteristic of the formation is given in figure 14.Distribution and thickness
The Chadron formation underlies western Nebraska and South Dakota, eastern Wyoming, and northeastern Colorado. Although it does not crop out in the Frenchman Creek basin, it crops out in places north of the South Platte River between Sterling and Proctor, Colo. (Bjorklund and Brown, 1957, p. 26). Locally, the Chadron is absent in the northern part of the basin, having been eroded in Oligocene time, and there the Pierre shale is overlain by the Brule formation. The Chadron formation thickens northward and ranges in thickness in the basin from 0 to 237 feet, as shown by sample logs in table 27. Water supply
The Chadron formation probably is part of the impermeable bedrock in the basin because its yield of water 'to wells is negligible. The formation is believed by the writers to be water saturated, but the pore spaces in the rock generally are so minute and discontinuous that they inhibit movement of water in the formation. This lack of permeability does not apply, however, to unconsolidated channel deposits, such as those penetrated in test hole 8-39-lccc, Chase County, Nebr. Such deposits may yield considerable quantities of water to wells. Careful test drilling in areas which are underlain by the Chadron formation and in which the Ogallala formation does not yield the desired quantities of water may reveal other similar deposits in the Chadron. Unquestionably, such deposits would be of relatively small lateral extent, lie in winding courses, and be lenticular. Loca ting such deposits would be difficult and would require intensive local test drilling.
BRULE FORMATION Character
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The Brule formation probably was deposited by streams whose main sediment load consisted of silt and clay; the formation contains channel sand, generally cemented with silica and calcium carbonate, at widely scattered outcrops.
The Brule formation, as seen in test-hole cuttings, generally consists of buff to olive-green clayey silt and siltstone, but it contains beds of sand near its upper and lower boundaries. When dry, the buff rocks fade to a pinkish-flesh color and the olive green to a light grayish green. Generally, the material of the lower part of the Brule grades into the material of the upper part of the Chadron formation, so that the contact is indistinct. In some places the Brule formation is a remarkably homogeneous siltstone; this homogeneity, not only of lithologic character but also of electrical properties, is portrayed graphically in figure 14.
Although the Brule formation primarily is a siltstone of low per meability, intensive test drilling in the basin might, in places, reveal phenomena similar to those in Laramie County, Wyo. (Rapp and others, 1953, p. 41-42), where wells obtain water from zones of re worked pebbles of siltstone and from fractures.
An electric log showing the contact of the Brule with other forma tions and spontaneous-potential and resistivity curves characteristic of the Brule is given in figure 14.
Distribution and. tnickness
The Brule formation crops out in western Nebraska and South Dakota, northeastern Colorado, and eastern Wyoming. It does not crop out in the Frenchman Creek basin, but it is exposed north of the South Platte River, in T. 11 N., Rs. 53 and 54 W., Logan County, Colo., in a series of bluffs that rise about 200 feet above the plains (Bjorklund and Brown, 1957, p. 27). Locally, the formation is absent in the northern part of the basin because of erosion during early Tertiary time, and there the Chadron formation is overlain by the Ogallala formation. Two presumably isolated occurrences of the Brule are known from subsurface data; they are south of Enders Reservoir in Nebraska and southeast of Lamar, Nebr. (See pi. 6.) The Brule formation in those areas remains as buried erosional out liers that overlie the Pierre shale and underlie the Ogallala formation. Because this conclusion is based on a study of well cuttings, the Brule formation is not certain to be in place; possibly the cuttings are reworked Brule material in the lower part of the Ogallala formation. The Brule formation thickens toward the north, and in the basin it ranges in thickness from 0 to 255 feet (table 27).
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"Water supply
The Brule formation is similar hydrologically to the Chadron formation; that is, the formation may be considered to be a part of the relatively impermeable bedrock, and its yield of water to wells is negligible. Possibly, however, fractures and zones of reworked material, and channel deposits similar to those in the Chadron forma tion (p. 36), underlie the basin locally and will yield useful supplies of water to wells.
A summary of the chemical quality of water from the Brule for mation in Laramie County, Wyo. (Rapp and others, 1953, p. 42), follows:
Water from the Brule formation generally is hard, but can be used for most domestic and stock needs and for irrigation. The concentration of dissolved solids in the 23 water samples from the Brule ranged from 214 to 388 ppm [parts per million], and the hardness ranged from 93 to 261 parts. The amounts of sodium, chloride, and fluoride are within the safe limits for ordinary, uses.
The water from the Brule in the report area probably would be of similar chemical quality.
PLIOCENE SERIES
OGALJLALA FORMATION Character
The Ogallala formation was described and named by Darton (1899, p. 732-742). Formerly, the terms "Mortar beds," "Tertiary grit," and others had been used.
The following sections of typical "mortar beds" of the Ogallala formation exposed near Wray, Colo., are from Hill and Tompkin (1953, p. 21). Numbers in parentheses refer to colors on the Rock- Color Chart (Goddard and others, 1948).
Section of the Ogallala formation in the center of the Nl/i sec. 36, T. 1 N., R. J^5 W.
FeelLimestone, "algal bed"; very pale orange (10 YR 8/2) with concentric
light-brown (5YR 6/4) banding; algalike structure; pisolitic_______ 2-3. 0Silt, sandy, light-brown (5YR 6/4); case-hardened in places; contains
chunks of sandy limestone which weather out on the silt slope_-__- 12. 0Sandstone, calcareous; grain size variable with some gravelly lenses;
pale greenish yellow (10 Y 8/2) on fresh face; contains thin cal careous pipes, opalized in the center; alternating friable and massive layers form three prominent ledges with slopes between them_ _, _ __ 16. 0
Sandstone, calcareous and conglomeratic; very pale orange (IOYR 8/2) on fresh face, weathering light olive gray (5Y 6/1); ledge forming.___________________________________________________ 9. 0
Sandstone, calcareous; marly with shaly partings; interbedded white(N 9) and very pale orange (10YR 8/2); very friable.------------ 2. 5
Sandstone, calcareous; varies to sandy limestone; white (N 9) to verypale orange (10 YR 8/2); very hard; ledge forming.______________ 2. 0
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Sandstone, more limy and friable than above bed; contains some chert feet nodules; white (N 9) with some very pale orange (10 YR 8/2) lenses. 2. 0
Marl; interbedded with very pale orange (lOFfl 8/2) to white (N 9); friable____________________________________________________ 2. 0
Limestone, argillaceous; contains limestone nodules which weather out_ ________________ ______________________________________ 2. 0
Sandstone, calcareous, very loosely consolidated.__________________ 4. 0
Total of section.________________________________________ 53. 5-54. 5
Section of the Ogallala formation in the NE% sec. SO, T. 1 N., R. 44 W.
FeetLimestone, "algal bed"; grayish orange (IQYR 7/4); hard, dense, pisolitic__ 2. 0 Limestone, sandy, white (N 9) to grayish orange (IQYR 7/4), irregularly
cemented; contains thin limestone laminae; weathers to nodules._______ 33. 5Sand, limy, very pale orange (lOFfl 8/2) to pale greenish yellow (10 Y 8/2);
unconsolidated, with some limestone lenses________---_-____-___-___- 2. 5Sandstone, calcareous, very pale orange (10 Y 8/2), soft; case-hardened;
gray weathering-______________________________^__________________ 3. 5Marl, sandy and porous, white (N 9), laminated and crumbly_____-_____- 1. 0Sandstone, calcareous, medium-grained, very pale orange (lOFjR 8/2), gray
weathering; case-hardened in places; bluff forming.___________________ 9. 0Sandstone, calcareous, very pale orange (10 YR 8/2), gray weathering, soft,
bluff-forming; upper 2 ft hard; ledge forming_______________________ 10. 0Limestone, sandy, white (N 9), slope-forming; slope covered with small
weathered chunks of limestone.____________________________________ 5. 0Limestone, sandy, gray-weathering, hard, dense, ledge forming. __________ 2. 5Silt, sandy, soft; cemented with calcium carbonate in varying degrees;
grayish orange (IQYR 7/4)____________.________________________ 12. 0
Total of section__________-__-_-_----___-___-__-____________ 81. 0
The "algal bed" at the top of the two sections is the capping lime stone containing abundant heads of the alga named Chlorellopsis bradleyi by Elias. The rock is a pink to reddish-brown concentrically banded oolitic, pisolitic slightly sandy limestone. Elias (1931, p. 136- 141) stated that it was deposited partly by inorganic precipitation and partly by precipitation of calcium carbonate by algae "on the nearly flat bottom of a very large and very shallow lake at the close of Ogallala time." The area in which the "algal limestone" occurs probably is much greater than the known distribution of the bed in 1931. Later students, with whom the writers concur, have suggested that the "algal limestone" was deposited in many small shallow lakes, which were caused by temporary obstruction of braided streams flowing nearly at grade. This hypothesis would explain the remark able uniformity of texture and thickness of the bed and also would account for its discontinuity.
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interfinger in short vertical and horizontal distances. The beds actually are more continuous and better sorted than they appear to be; in general, gravel and sand are concentrated in winding narrow bands that extend eastward or southeastward. The presence of these bands at any depth in the formation suggests that they represent former channels of the shifting streams that deposited the Ogallala formation. Silt, however, is the predominant constituent material throughout the formation.
Some of the sand and gravel of the Ogallala formation is cemented by calcium carbonate, which forms a rock ranging in competence from a friable sandstone that is only partly indurated to relatively hard, resistant ledge-forming "mortar beds." Most of the beds of sandstone in the formation are poorly sorted and contain considerable amounts of very fine sand and silt.
Stringers of clay and caliche are common in most of the formation. The lower half of the Ogallala formation in some places in the basin contains bentonitic clay, but its appearance differs from the brightly colored Woodhouse clays described by Elias (1931, p. 153-158). White bentonitic clay was recovered from depths between 112 and 117 feet in test hole 8-47-1 aaa, Phillips County, Colo., and a bed of nearly pure white bentonite, which swelled readily in water, was penetrated between 188 and 190 feet in test hole 9-47-lddd, Sedgwick County, Colo. The bentonitic clay probably is an alteration product of ash that was carried by winds during Ogallala time from volcanoes in the Rocky Mountains.
Four representative samples of sand and gravel below the water table in the Ogallala formation were analyzed in the Geological Survey's hydrologic laboratory. Particle-size distribution of the four samples is shown in figures 17 to 20.
Electric logs showing contacts of the Ogallala formation with other formations and spontaneous-potential and resistivity curves character istic of the Ogallala are given in figures 14, 21, and 22. Additional details of the lithologic character of the Ogallala formation are pre sented in table 27.Distribution and thickness
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Water supply
The Ogallala formation is the most important aquifer in the basin. Nearly all irrigation, stock, domestic, and public-supply wells tap this formation. The yields of the wells depend, directly or indirectly, upon several factors which include the depth to and configuration of the underlying bedrock, the thickness of the saturated materials, the permeability of the materials below the water table, and the diameter, depth, construction, and development of the wells. It is possible that an ideal well penetrating the Ogallala formation would yield more than 3,000 gpm (gallons per minute). Various factors have prevented the construction of wells of such large yields in the basin. Until 1954, wells yielding 1,000 to 1,500 gpm have been adequate to supply the needs of the largest irrigated farms. Because larger quantities of water were not required, the yields of many wells have been restricted by incomplete penetration of the aquifer. Deeper and more costly wells, however, perhaps would be more economical because complete penetration of the aquifer would reduce the draw down, the pumping lift, and the pumping costs.
The zone of saturation in the Ogallala formation is thickest beneath the sandhills in Phillips and Yuma Counties, Colo., which are areas of rough topography and generally thin sandy soil that is unsuitable for irrigation. Some wells have been drilled at unfavorable locations because preliminary test drilling was insufficient to define local variations in the thickness and permeability of saturated materials. The older formations were eroded extensively before the Ogallala formation was deposited, and their surfaces were drained by streams that lay in valleys similar to the present valleys but located differently. The saturated thickness and permeability of the Ogallala are greater in those places where the formation fills ancient valleys and where it includes channel deposits.
Water from the Ogallala formation in the basin is classified as moderately hard to hard but excellent to good for irrigation.
PLEISTOCENE AND RECENT SERIES
SANBORN FORMATIONCharacter
The Sanborn formation was named by Elias (1931, p. 163) for San- born, Nebr., which is the town nearest a typical exposure in the northwest corner of Cheyenne County, Kans. The name Sanborn formation is intended as a substitute for the old terms "Tertiary marl" or "Plains marl," used by Hay (1895). Lugn (1935, p. 197) objected to the use of the term "Sanborn formation" because the names Loveland and Peorian had been used in Nebraska for several years before 1934 for deposits which he considered equivalent to the San born formation. Later, Elias (1937, p. 7) discovered a dark-brown
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loess, which underlies the lighter colored loess of the Sanborn in Decatur County, Kans., and which he considered equivalent to the Loveland formation in Nebraska. Still later, the Loveland, Peoria, and Bignell silt members of the Sanborn formation in Kansas were correlated with the Loveland, Peorian, and Bignell loesses of Nebraska (Frye and Fent, 1947). Differentiation of members of the Sanborn formation is valuable because the loess soils and other parts of the formation have different agricultural characteristics; hydrologically, the homogeneity of the Sanborn formation in the basin makes dif ferentiation unimportant. Therefore, in this report, the formation is undifferentiated.
FIGURE 23. Contact of colluvial loess of the Sanborn formation with "mortar beds" of the Ogsllala formation in the SWHSWJ4NWH sec. 5, T. 5 N., R. 38 W., Chase County, Nebr. Note stairstep slumping of loess. Photograph by S. J. Spiegel.
The Sanborn formation is of Pleistocene and Recent (?) age and consists generally of yellowish-buff porous unstratified and uncon- solidated cliff-forming loess (fig. 23). The silt is sandy in places and probably contains channel deposits of sand and gravel in the lower part, although in well cuttings the channel deposits are difficult to distinguish from the underlying Ogallala formation.
An electric log showing the contact of the Sanborn formation with the Ogallala formation and spontaneous-potential and resistivity curves characteristic of the Sanborn is included in figure 22. Addi-
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Distribution and thickness
The Sanborn formation is distributed widely in Kansas, where it extends from the Colorado State line to central Kansas and is exposed in places in northeastern Kansas (Frye and Leonard, 1952, pi. 2). The formation in Nebraska was described by Lugn (1934) as form ing "an almost unbroken mantle of yellowish eolian silt and clay covering 42,000 square miles." In the Frenchman Creek basin, the greater part of the formation has been called in other reports the Peorian loess. The formation is discontinuous in northeastern. Colo rado but occurs as outliers on the Ogallala formation in a belt extend ing from southwest of Fleming to at least as far south as southern Kit Carson County. Two of the outliers are within the basin. The first extends from southwest of Fleming, Colo., southward to the boundary of the basin near Akron, Colo., where the Sanborn ranges in thickness from 0 at some places to about 80 feet in test hole 4-51-laaa, Washington County, Colo. The second outlier includes large parts of the stream-divide areas in Nebraska. The loess ranges in thickness from 0 at some places to about 193 feet in test hole 3-35-2aaa, Hitchcock County, Nebr. The Sanborn is exposed areally in about 15 percent of the basin. (See pi. 1.)
Water supply
The Sanborn formation is not an aquifer in the basin, for it is of low permeability and lies above the water table. The formation is important hydrologically because its low permeability retards recharge to underlying aquifers.
DUNE SAND Character
The dune sand of Pleistocene and Recent age probably was depos ited contemporaneously with the dune sand in the sandhills region of Nebraska. It is pale yellowish-brown to pink quartzitic to slightly feldspathic sand consisting of well-rounded and well-sorted frosted grains. According to Hill and Tompkin (1953, p. 32), the size of 80 percent of the grains is between 0.1 and 0.5 mm.
An electric log showing the contact of the dune sand with the Ogallala formation and spontaneous-potential and resistivity curves characteristic of the dune sand is given in figure 21. Additional details of the lithology of the dune sand are given in table 27.
Distribution and thickness
Dune sand of the type in the basin is widespread in eastern Colo rado and adjacent States; in fact, dune sand occupying an area of
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nearly 20,000 square miles in north-central and western Nebraska and parts of western Kansas and eastern Colorado was named the Sand Hills formation by Lugn (1934, p. 350). The sandhills region in Nebraska is described and discussed by Lugn (1934), Condra and Reed (1943), Condra, Reed, and Gordon (1947), and Lohman (1953b).
Dune sand is exposed areally in about 35 percent of the basin (pi. 1). Most of the dune-sand areas are typified by northwestward- trending sand ridges as high as 170 feet and as long as 10 miles. The average maximum thickness of the dune sand is estimated to be about 160 feet, and the average thickness does not exceed 15 feet. In general, the dune-sand area has a multicycle dune topography such as that described by Smith (1940, p. 164). Secondary blow outs are common in places of rejuvenation; dunes in those places are comparatively bare and probably are migrating. Elsewhere, the dunes are in youthful to mature stages of eluviation and sup port sufficient vegetation to permit the grazing of numerous cattle. According to Wallace Bruce, of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service (personal communication, 1952), soil in the dune-sand area ranges in thickness from 0 on the side slopes of the dunes to as much as 3 feet in the valleys between the dunes; some of the interdune valleys are under cultivation."Water supply
The interior drainage typical of the eluvial phase of the sand-dune cycle, combined with the high permeability of the dunes, enables precipitation to percolate rapidly downward to the water table. The rapid rate of percolation greatly reduces losses by evapotranspiration and runoff. The greatest hydrologic importance of the dune-sand area is that it acts as a catchment basin and provides for efficient recharge of the underlying ground-water reservoir. Actually, the dune sand in most of the basin is only a veneer of sediments lying above the water table. The relative permanence of the point of effluence of Frenchman Creek results principally from the trapping of precipitation by the dune sand and the subsequent slow release of the water from underlying aquifers.
The water table lies close to the land surface and, during periods of high water table, intersects the land surface in some interdune valleys. The result is ephemeral water-table lakes which provide watering places for cattle and wildfowl. In a few interdune valleys in Yuma County, Colo., subirrigation is possible during times of high water table. Plants that have long taproots can be grown in these valleys, and the growing of alfalfa by subirrigation is an increasing farm practice.
Most wells in the dune-sand area tap the Ogallala formation, but a few may tap both the dune sand and the Ogallala formation. Thus,
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tests of the chemical quality of water from the dune-sand area give inconclusive evidence of the quality of water from dune sand.
ALLUVIUMCharacter
The alluvium consists of silt, clay, and channel deposits of sand and gravel. Low-level terrace deposits, mapped as part of the alluvium, consist primarily of sand and gravel. The channel deposits of sand and gravel in the alluvium are the most permeable materials in the basin.
The contact of the alluvium with the Pierre shale and spontaneous- potential and resistivity curves characteristic of the alluvium are shown on an electric log (fig. 13). Additional details of the lithologic character of the alluvium are given in table 27.
Distribution and thickness
The-alluvium is confined to the valleys of the main streams of the Nebraska part of the basin and is exposed areally in less than 1 per cent of the area. (See pi. 1.) It ranges in thickness from 0 near the points of effluence of the streams to about 100 feet at well 4-34-1 aaa near Palisade, Nebr.
Water supply
The yields of wells that tap the alluvium are limited principally by the thickness of saturated material. Saturated channel deposits of sand and gravel in the alluvium of sufficient thickness will yield large quantities of water to wells. The alluvium in the Frenchman Creek valley is thickest in the easternmost part of the area. Where the section of saturated alluvium is thin, wells are a more reliable source of supply if constructed so as to tap both the saturated alluvium and the Ogallala formation. The well of largest yield in the basin, 4-34-laaa near Palisade, Nebr., taps alluvium in the Frenchman Creek valley. It penetrates 76 feet of water-bearing alluvium and yields 2,000 gpm. Well 5-33-30cba yields 1,340 gpm from 81 feet of saturated alluvium, and well 5-35-21aaa yields 800 gpm from 61 feet of saturated alluvium. Additional hydrologic information on the alluvium is given in the section of this report dealing with aquifer tests.
The chemical quality of water from the alluvium is similar to that of water from the Ogallala formation and from streams in the area. (See tables 22, 23.)
HYDROLOGIC PROPERTIES OF WATER-BEARING MATERIALS
The capacity of a unit cross section of a rock to transmit water under pressure is called "permeability." The permeability of a rock is defined in the Geological Survey as the rate at which water at 60°F
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is transmitted through a cross section 1 foot square under a unit hydraulic gradient that is, under a difference in head of 1 foot per foot of flow path. The field coefficient of permeability is the same unit except that it is measured at the existing temperature of the water. Either coefficient may be expressed in terms of a section 1 foot thick and 1 mile wide and in feet per mile of hydraulic gradient. The field coefficient of permeability used in this report is the number of gallons of water, at the prevailing water temperature, that perco lates each day through each mile of the water-bearing material (measured at right angles to the direction of flow) for each foot of thickness of the material and for each foot per mile of hydraulic gra dient (Wenzel, 1942, p. 7-11).
The capacity of an aquifer to transmit water is called "transmissi- bility." The coefficient of transmissibility, introduced by Theis (1935, p. 520), may be expressed as the number of gallons of water per day, at the prevailing water temperature, moving through each mile strip of the aquifer under a hydraulic gradient of 1 foot per mile. Hence, the coefficient of transmissibility is the field coefficient of permeability, as defined above, multiplied by the saturated thickness of the aquifer, in feet.
Part of the water in any rock is unavailable to wells because it is held against the force of gravity by molecular attraction that is, by the cohesion of the molecules of water and by their adhesion to the walls of the openings. The ratio of the volume of water that a rock will yield by gravity, after being saturated, to its own volume is known as the "specific yield" of the rock and usually is expressed as a percentage, though it may be expressed as a decimal fraction. The ratio of the volume of water held by the rock against the pull of gravity to its own volume is known as specific retention. The specific yield plus the specific retention equals the porosity of the rock. Thus, if 100 cubic feet of a saturated rock will yield 8 cubic feet and retain 13 cubic feet of water, when drained by gravity, the specific yield is 8 percent, or 0.08; the specific retention is 13 percent, or 0.13; and the porosity is 21 percent, or 0.21.
The volume of water an aquifer releases from or takes into storage per unit of surface area of the aquifer per unit change in the compo nent of head normal to that surface is called the coefficient of storage. If the aquifer is unconfined (nonartesian, or water table), the coeffi cient of storage is approximately equal to the specific yield. If the aquifer is confined, it does not yield water by gravity drainage; there fore, the coefficient of storage represents water squeezed out of storage, and derived by expansion of the water itself, as the head declines. This coefficient of storage is much smaller numerically than the coefficient of storage under water-table conditions.
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The "piezometric surface" of an aquifer is a surface representing the level at which water stands in tightly cased wells penetrating the aquifer. The term can be defined either to refer only to artesian condi tions or to include the water table. Ground water -in the basin largely is under water-table conditions, but the broad definition of "piezo- metric surface" is used in the following treatment of aquifer tests to allow for the possibility of local confinement of water under artesian pressure, a condition indicated by a coefficient of storage that is small.
AQUIFER TESTS
The coefficients of transmissibility and storage of the Ogallala formation and the alluvial deposits were determined in 24 aquifer tests at locations shown on plate 7. Equipment used to make the necessary measurements included a stopwatch, a Hoff electric current meter, electric-contact and steel tapes, a barometer, and a ther mometer. Changes in water level during tests of wells ll-39-21bcd and l(M:3-3dcb were determined by means of an air line and pressure gage.
When a well is pumped, the piezometric surface in the vicinity of the well declines and takes a form similar to that of an inverted cone, called the "cone of depression." The pumping level in the well is at the apex of the cone, and the slope of the cone is greatest near the well and decreases at greater distances from the well. The distance to a point on the periphery of the cone where the drawdown is imperceptible is called the "radius of influence," and the circular area described by this radius is the "area of influence" of the well. If the discharge of the well is increased, the drawdown and area of influence also are increased.
The "static" (nonpumping) water levels in the test and observation wells are measured before an aquifer test is begun. During the test, a well generally is pumped at a rate as uniform as possible for a period ranging from several hours to several days. The rate of discharge from the well and the depth to water are measured at periodic intervals. Generally, observation wells are drilled at selected dis tances from the pumped well, and the water levels in them also are measured periodically (fig. 24). After pumping has stopped, periodic measurements of the water levels in the pumped and observation wells are continued until the water levels recover to or approach their original static position.
The Theis method of determining the transmissibility of a water bearing material (Theis, 1935, p. 520) involves an analysis of the rate of decline in water level as pumping proceeds; the water level is meas ured in the pumped well or in one or more observation wells. The formulas used to determine the coefficient of transmissibility by dis-
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charging-well methods, are based on the following assumptions (Meinzer and Wenzel, 1942, p. 471):(1) the water-bearing formation is homogeneous and isotropic, (2) the formation has an indefinite areal extent, (3) the pumped well penetrates the entire thick ness of water-bearing formation, (4) the coefficient of transmissibility is constant at all places and at all times, (5) the pumped well has an infinitesimal diameter, (6) the initial nonpumping piezometric surface is horizontal, (7) the impervious bed underlying the water-bearing bed is horizontal, and (8) water is taken from storage instantaneously by the decline in head.
The degree to which these assumptions are fulfilled varies for each aquifer test and governs the accuracy of coefficients determined by the test.
From data gathered during the aquifer tests, coefficients of trans missibility and storage were computed by the Theis nonequilibrium formula (Theis, 1935, p. 520). The Theis equation, in nondimensional form, for the discharge of a well in an areally infinite homogeneous aquifer may be written:
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In units commonly used by the Geological Survey, equations (1) and (la) may be rewritten as follows:
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The only variables in equation (2) are s and W(u) ; the only variables in equation (2a) are r, t, and u. The similar form of these two equa tions is demonstrated readily if they are rewritten as follows:
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As the terms in brackets are constant, W(u) will vary with the term u in the same manner as s will vary with r2/t. Values for the terms r, s, and t are obtained from aquifer tests. It is convenient to solve graphically for the unknowns in equations (2) and (2a), by means of a type curve (fig. 25).
If a logarithmic plot is prepared, with values of W(u) plotted against corresponding values of u, the resultant curve will be similar to a logarithmic plot of s against r2/t, as shown by figure 26. The solution of the Theis formula is made by superposing the data plot on the type curve, keeping the coordinate axes parallel, and shifting the two plots until the best fit is found (fig. 26). After the best fit is found, a match point anywhere on the curve or anywhere on the graph sheet is selected to obtain values of W(u), u, s, and r2/t for use in computing the coefficient of transmissibility and the coefficient of storage from equations (2) and (2a), respectively.
The modified nonequilibrium Theis formula described by Jacob (1947) also was used to determine coefficients of transmissibility and
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storage. Values of s are plotted on the linear scale of semilog graph paper, and values of t are plotted on the logarithmic scale. The slope of the straight line that can be drawn through the plotted points may be determined from the change in drawdown (As) over one log cycle of t (for which the change in Iog10 t is unity); hence, Jacob's simplified equations, expressed in units used by the Geological Survey, have the form
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A summary of the results of the aquifer tests made in the basin is given in table 7. The coefficients of transmissibility ranged from 25,000 to 330,000 gpd per ft (gallons per day per foot). Such a wide range is to be expected, as the Ogallala formation and the alluvium vary widely in saturated thickness and in the size, shape, and degree of interconnection of interstices.
The coefficients of storage indicated by the aquifer tests ranged from 0.01 to 0.10; the smaller coefficients are too large for artesian conditions but are very small for water-table conditions. Under
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a few hours to a few days, all the coefficients of storage determined in the basin probably are much larger than those computed and could be determined accurately only by tests of several weeks' duration. Data are cited for laboratory tests of aquifer materials in the following paragraphs. Those tests were made to determine the specific yield of the sediments. The aquifer tests described yield values for the coefficient of storage, a characteristic which under water-table condi tions is closely related and approximately equal to the specific yield. For simplicity of presentation, the laboratory term is employed in the statement that follows.
Several selected samples of water-bearing materials from the basin were analyzed in the Geological Survey's hydrologic laboratory. The specific yields of the samples ranged from 25.5 to 30.4 percent. In view of the preceding statement, it is estimated conservatively that the average specific yield throughout the basin is not less than 20 percent; this value was used for all computations requiring values for specific yield.
When water is pumped from a well,-the water level in the well declines. The "specific capacity'' of a well is its rate of yield per unit of drawdown and generally is determined by dividing the yield, in gallons per minute, by the drawdown, in feet. High specific capacities indicate an aquifer of high i^ansmissibility; low specific capacities, an aquifer of low transmissibility. The yield of a well per foot of drawdown is a function also of factors other than trans missibility, such as the diameter of the well, its depth of penetration into the aquifer, the effectiveness of the casing perforations or well screens, and the effectiveness of well development.
Under water-table conditions, the specific capacity of even a fully developed well is constant only when the drawdown is no more than a small fraction of the saturated thickness of the aquifer. A com parison of specific capacities, however, is useful for estimating the relative efficiency (of wells and the relative permeability of formations. Drawdowns in irrigation wells in the basin that yield about 1,000 gpm range from about 8 to 40 feet; their specific capacities, therefore, range from about 125 to 25. The drawdown is inversely proportional to the permeability of the water-bearing material; hence, the draw down generally is small in wells that tap well-sorted gravel and coarse sand and is much greater, for the same pumping rate, in wells that tap less permeable materials, such as fine sand, silt, or clay.
All the wells tested were irrigation wells of similar diameter and construction. Nearly all penetrated more than two-thirds of the aquifer, and some penetrated the entire aquifer.
A study was made of the relation between specific capacity and coefficient of transmissibility, based on data from the 24 aquifer
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FIOTJKE 28. Relation of specific capacity of wells tapping the Ogallala formation to the transmissibility of that formation in the vicinity of the wells.
tests. Figure 28 shows that the relation between the two is fairly consistent. Inasmuch as specific capacity was determined for many wells during the inventory, the coefficient of transmissibility of the aquifer in the vicinity of each well could be estimated from the curve in figure 28. Coefficients of transmissibility were estimated in that manner for 65 locations. Those considered most reliable were plotted, and lines were drawn through points of inferred equal trans missibility (pi. 7). The lines suggest that the areas of higher trans missibility are coextensive with the areas of greater saturated thick ness in the Ogallala formation (pi. 8) and in the alluvium along the stream valleys.
The rapid decrease in transmissibility along a line from Holyoke, Colo., to Venango, Nebr., is inferred to be the result of a greater depth to the water table and the presence of local bedrock "highs" (pi. 6), which decrease the saturated thickness of the aquifer. Perme ability of the sediments below the water table also decreases in that area, according to interpretation of logs of wells. In general, transmissibilities are smaller along the outer fringes of the area studied and over bedrock "highs" or ridges.
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Some coefficients of transmissibility in table 8 do not fit the contour lines on plate 7 because the wells tested penetrate less than hah" the aquifer, or because the wells penetrate thick sections of relatively impermeable clay, caliche, or fine or cemented sand, so that the com puted coefficients of transmissibility were low. For example, the results of an aquifer test of well 7-40-28bbb, which penetrates only about 50 percent of the Ogallala formation, indicated a coefficient of transmissibility of 130,000 gpd per ft (table 7), though the well is in an area having an average coefficient of 190,000 (pi. 7). The results of an aquifer test of well 6-41-lbbb, which penetrates only about 20 percent of the Ogallala formation, indicated a coefficient of transmissibility of only 55,000 gpd per ft, although the well is in an area having an average coefficient of about 180,000. The results of an aquifer test of well 7-41-21abb, in an area having an average coefficient of about 220,000 gpd per ft, indicated a coefficient of trans missibility of only 95,000 because the well penetrated thick sections of relatively impermeable caliche and clay.
The maps showing transmissibility and saturated thickness (pis. 7, 8) were used as an aid in computing the subsurface flow across the Colorado-Nebraska State line. These maps are useful also in determining general areas favorable for developing irrigation wells; however, the inherent weaknesses of the maps caused by the rela tively small number of control points and by the fact that areas of anomalously low transmissibility are not revealed must be borne in mind. A classification of aquifers according to transmissibility and estimates of probable yields of properly constructed and developed wells are shown in table 8.
TABLE 8. Classification of aquifers according to transmissibility and estimates of probable yields of properly constructed and developed wells
Transmissibility (gpd per ft)
<25, 000 25, 000-50, 000
50, 000-100, 000100, 000-200, 000
>200, 000
Rating for Irrigation
Questionable. _ PoorFair_ ________Good.______.Excellent-_--_
Yield (gpm)
<-100 100-400400-800
800-2, 000>2, 000
It is emphasized that adequate local test drilling is necessary to pinpoint sections of maximum permeability and saturated thickness and that complete penetration of an aquifer by a well is necessary for maximum yield and minimum drawdown. If the water table declines regionally, the saturated thickness will decrease, and, conse quently, the coefficient of transmissibility and possibly the yield of wells will be reduced.
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GROUND WATER
OCCURRENCE
The following statement concerning the occurrence of ground water has been adapted in part from a more detailed discussion of the subject by Meinzer (1923a, p. 2-102).
The rocks that form the outer crust of the earth generally contain numerous open spaces or interstices; these interstices hold the water that is below the surface of the land, a part of which is recovered from wells and springs. The amount of water that can be stored in any rock depends upon the volume of the rock that is occupied by open spaces, that is, the porosity of the rock.
The rate of water movement within the zone of saturation is gov erned by the hydraulic gradient and by the type of material through which the water flows. In general, the larger the minimum diameter of the interstitial passages and the greater the ratio of void spaces to solids in a given rock material, the faster water can move through it. The diameter of the interstitial passages is governed by the size, dis tribution, and arrangement of the individual rock particles. A coarse rounded gravel containing few fine particles or a rock containing large fractures or solution channels is capable of transmitting large flows rapidly; conversely, a dense fine-grained material, such as clay or shale, transmits water very slowly. Thus, poorly sorted alluvial gravel transmits water readily, whereas well-sorted silt and clay, such as that of the White River group, transmits water very slowly.
Below a certain level, which in some parts of the basin is as much as 350 feet below the land surface, the permeable rocks are saturated with water. Wells dug or drilled into the zone of saturation become filled with ground water to the level of the water table. Plate 2 is a map of the Frenchman Creek basin showing the location of wells inventoried and test holes drilled during this study, the depth to the water table below the land surface, and contour lines depicting the configuration of the water table. The areas of equal ranges of depths to water are generalized because of the unavailability of topographic maps.
A map (pi. 8) showing the saturated thickness of post-Oligocene deposits was prepared for most of the basin from the bedrock-contour and water-table-contour maps (pis. 5, 6) by subtracting the altitude of the bedrock from the altitude of the water table at township corners and interpolating the data between township corners.
Rocks above the zone of saturation are said to be in the zone of aeration. As water from the surface percolates slowly downward to the zone of saturation, part of it is held in the zone of aeration by the molecular attraction between the water and the walls of the open
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spaces through which it passes. In fine-grained material a moist belt, known as the capillary fringe, extends upward from the water table into the zone of aeration just above the water table. Although water in the zone of aeration is not available to wells, much of the water in the zone may be withdrawn by roots of plants and, if the water table is at shallow depth and the capillary fringe extends to the land surface, by evaporation from the soil. All the rocks penetrated by wells in the basin are sedimentary; they include several types which differ greatly in character and in their ability to store and transmit water. The principal types are gravel, sand, silt, sandstone, siltstone, claystone, and shale.
Gravel is superior to most other materials in its ability to yield water. Coarse clean well-sorted gravel, such as that in a few places in the alluvium of the lower Frenchman Creek valley and in discontinuous beds in the Ogallala formation, has high porosity, permeability, and specific yield ; consequently, it has the ability to absorb water readily, to store it in large quantities, and to yield it to wells freely. Most parts of the aquifers underlying the basin, however, contain silt, clay, or sand mixed with the gravel, thereby reducing the porosity, permeability, and specific yield.
Sand ranks next to gravel in its capacity to yield water. Although its total porosity may be greater than gravel, it has smaller interstices and will yield a smaller proportion of the contained water to wells. Fine sand particles are easily carried into wells by the moving water and thus may cause damage to pumps or clog wells. Proper well construction, screening, and development are, therefore, especially important where fine sand is the principal constituent of the aquifer.
The silt of the Sanborn formation, the siltstone and claystone of the White River group, and the Pierre shale are the poorest water bearing materials in the basin. Although the porosity may be high and the materials may contain considerable water, the interstices between the individual particles are so small that water travels very slowly and little is available to wells.
Sandstone generally is a moderately good water-bearing material, but its water-yielding capacity depends upon the size of the grains, the degree of sorting, the amount of cementation of the sand grains, and the presence of fractures. A coarse well-sorted weakly cemented sandstone generally yields water freely. An equally well sorted but very fine grained sandstone yields water very slowly. A loosely cemented sandstone having a comparatively large proportion of very fine constituents, such as most sandstone in the Ogallala formation, is undesirable as an aquifer because of the tendency of the small grains to enter the wells and damage pumps.
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The bodies of sand and gravel of the Ogallala formation constitute the major aquifer in the basin, despite the fact that they have some undesirable characteristics. The Recent alluvium in local areas yields large quantities of water to wells. The alluvium, however, underlies only a small part of the basin, whereas the Ogallala formation underlies most of the area.
THE WATER TABLE
Meinzer (1923b, p. 22) defined the water table as the upper surface of the zone of saturation except where that surface is formed by an impermeable body. Within the zone of saturation, the direction in which the water moves is determined by the hydraulic gradient, which generally is toward streams, lakes, or other areas where ground water is discharged. The direction of movement locally may be reversed, as in the vicinity of a stream that is losing water to the underlying ground-water reservoir over which it is flowing, or in the vicinity of an artificial lake in which the water level has been raised above the local water table (fig. 29).
Intermittent streamIntermittent ground-water
recharge Perennial streamGround-water
discharge
Artificial lake Ground-water
recharge
Natural lake Ground-water
Swamp discharge Ground-water discharge
FIGURE 29. Relation of the water table to the land surface and to bodies of surface water.
The rate at which ground water moves is slow as compared with the velocity of water in streams. The frictional resistance involved in movement of ground water through interstices of rocks is far greater than that involved in surface-water flow. Hydrostatic head and permeability are the important factors determining the velocity of ground water. The rate of ground-water movement was computed to range from about 50 feet per year in the less permeable materials underlying the northern and western parts of the basin to 1,000 feet or more per year in the most permeable materials along the alluvial valleys in the southeastern part of the area. Ground water moves through the relatively permeable materials across the Colorado- Nebraska State line at the rate of about 300 feet per year.
If the piezometric surface is above the land surface, water will flow from wells that penetrate the aquifer, but so long as the water level
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in wells stands above the top of the aquifer in which the water was confined, the system is considered to be artesian. Water-table con ditions dominate in the Frenchman Creek area, but artesian condi tions prevail locally, owing to the random arrangement of lenticular beds such as sand, gravel, caliche, and clay (pi. 2) having a wide range in permeability. A diagram illustrating lenticular beds and both artesian and water-table conditions is shown in figure 30. The water level in well 4, which taps aquifer A, coincides with the water
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FIGURE 30. Digram illustrating artesian and water-table conditions.
table, a surface over which the pressure everywhere is atmospheric; consequently, well 4 is a nonartesian, or water-table, well. The water level in each of wells 1, 2, and 3 stands abov& the base of the confining bed overlying the aquifer penetrated, and thus aquifers B and C are artesian. Area a~a is one of artesian flow, and well 1 is a flowing well. The lower static level in aquifer B indicates that water is moving from aquifer A or C into aquifer B through a distant break in con fining beds or by the vertical leakage through confining beds shown by means of vertical arrows. The high head in wells 1 and 2 indicates that the recharge or intake area of aquifer C is at a relatively high elevation, probably above the land surface shown in the cross section. Aquifers such as B and C, which contain confined ground water, are pressure conduits and exhibit interesting elastic phenomena.
The water table and the piezometric surfaces of local artesian aquifers in the Frenchman Creek basin stand at approximately the same elevation throughout the area because of breaks in the confining beds and vertical leakage through the confining beds, which tend to
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equalize differences in head. Plate 5 is, therefore, considered to be a map of the water table, even though it is based in part on water levels in wells that penetrate water that is confined to some degree.
SHAPE AND 8LOPE OF THE WATER TABLE
The depth to water in 38 selected wells was measured periodically, during this investigation, and the altitudes of the measuring points were determined in order to construct a water-table contour map (pi. 5) and to record fluctuations of the water table. Of these wells, 30 were used for observation only, 4 were irrigation wells, and 4 were stock wells. Periodic measurement of the water level in some of the selected wells was begun during 1950 and 1952, but, in Nebraska, measurement was begun during or before 1946. Measurements of the depth to water in observation wells are given in table 30.
Water-table contour lines illustrate the inferred configuration of the water table, just as topographic con tour., lines illustrate the shape of the land surface. The water table generally is neither level nor uniform but is an irregularly sloping surface. The general direction of ground-water movement is at right angles to the contour lines, in the direction of greatest slope, or hydraulic gradient, of the water table or piezometric surface; the rate of movement is proportional to the hydraulic gradient and, if the cross section is uniform, to the per meability of the water-bearing material.
The water-table contour map (pi. 5) indicates that ground water in the Colorado part of the basin moves generally northeastward and that the slope of the water table and the direction of movement of ground water differ considerably from place to place. The slope is at a maximum of nearly 50 feet per mile in the western part, where the contour lines are closely spaced; it is at a minimum of about 6 feet per mile in the east-central part. The average slope in Colorado is 16.5 feet per mile.
The water-table contour map indicates that ground water in the Nebraska part of the basin moves generally southeastward. The maximum slope is about 20 feet per mile in the southeastern part, and the minimum is about 7 feet per mile in the northern part. The average slope of the water table is 15 feet per mile along Frenchman and Spring Creeks and 13 feet per mile along Stinking Water Creek.
The shape and slope of the water table are controlled by several factors, including (1) the shape and slope of the underlying bedrock floor, (2) local differences in the permeability of the water-bearing materials, (3) discharge of ground water into streams, and (4) recharge to the ground-water reservoir from surface reservoirs and ephemeral streams and by infiltration of water through the permeable soils in the sandhill areas.
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The gradient of the bedrock surface and the permeability of the materials lying above that surface and below the water table are the principal factors controlling the configuration of the water table. Thus, they govern the spacing of contour lines on maps that depict the water table. If the bedrock surface were perfectly smooth and of uniform gradient and if the water-bearing beds were of uniform thickness and permeability, the contour lines on the water table would be equally spaced. As none of these conditions is true of the basin, the unequal spacing of the water-table contours (pi. 5) reflects irregularities of surface and inequalities in gradient of the bedrock and inequalities of thickness and permeability of the water-bearing beds,.as well as nonuniform location of recharge and discharge areas and rates of recharge and discharge. In places where irregularities in the bedrock surface are not responsible, closely spaced contours on the water table commonly indicate areas that are underlain by water-bearing beds of low permeability; conversely, widely spaced contours may indicate areas that are underlain by beds of greater permeability.
The slope of the water table throughout the basin is approximately in the same direction and of the same degree as that of the bedrock floor, which is a surface eroded on rocks of the Pierre shale or the White River group. The average slope of the water table in the basin is 15.5 feet per mile and that of the bedrock floor is 16.5 feet per mile.
An interesting feature of the water-table contour map and its relation to the bedrock contour map, other than the rough congruency of the two maps (pis. 5, 6), is the closed water-table "high" that coincides with the closed bedrock "high" south of Haxtun, Colo. This feature is conclusive evidence that recharge in that area is derived from very local precipitation. Because ground water moves in all directions away from the highest point, the only possible source of the water is the infiltration of precipitation on the area overlying the bedrock "high." Although the fact that the ground-water reservoir under much of the High Plains is recharged only by local precipitation is fairly obvious now, much opposition to that theory has come from various sources in the past.
A ground-water mound or divide extends from near Fleming, Colo., southeastward to Holyoke, Colo. (See pi. 5.) The divide is roughly congruent with a bedrock divide (pi. 6), which indicates that the configuration of the bedrock is a principal factor controlling the shape and slope of the water table in the Colorado part of the basin. The ground-water divide continues northeastward to Venango, Nebr., and thence southeastward, where it forms the divide between French man and Spring Creeks. Another ground-water divide lies between Spring and Stinking Water Creeks.
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Little or no correlation is apparent between ground-water divides and bedrock "highs" (pi. 6) east and southeast of Venango, Nebr.; the lack of correlation indicates that the shape and slope of the water table in this part of the area are controlled principally by the flow of ground water toward and its discharge into the effluent streams.
Frenchman Creek becomes effluent in a reach fed by seeps and springs in sec. 29, T. 7 N., R. 41 W., 2.5 to 3 miles east of the Nebraska-Colorado State line. (See pis. 5, 10.) Of interest in this respect is a statement by Hay (1895, p. 545): "The Frenchman has its first water from springs just at the one hundred and second meridian. East of that it has a perennial flow." Hay's statement indicates that the point of effluence of Frenchman Creek has remained virtually the same since 1895. East of the point of effluence, the flood plain of Frenchman Creek lies below the level of the water table in areas adjacent to the valley. A depression in the water table in this vicinity is shown by the upstream flexure of the water-table contour lines, which indicates that the ground water moves from adjacent areas toward and into the valley. Spring and Stinking Water Creeks also are perennial "gaining" streams because they are below the level of the adjacent water table. The point of effluence of Spring Creek is near the line common to sees. 19 and 30, T. 8 N., R. 38 W., and that of Stinking Water Creek is in the NWK sec. 32, T. 9 N., R. 36 W. Sand Creek is effluent only in its lower reaches near its confluence with Frenchman Creek.
The water-table contour lines just east of Enders Reservoir do not have an upstream flexure, because the ground-water reservoir is recharged by seepage from the surface reservoir. Recharge by downward percolation of storm runoff through the permeable channels of ephemeral streams also causes temporary straightening of the water-table contour lines near the streams.
The water table in the sandhill areas lies at a relatively shallow depth (pis. 1, 5), principally because the permeable surface materials allow rapid recharge from precipitation; the water table is compara tively flat, partly because of the relatively high permeability of the water-bearing materials. A low water-table gradient in an area where recharge can be assumed to be substantial generally indicates materials of high permeability and, consequently, materials capable of yielding large quantities of water to wells. A steep water-table gradient com monly indicates materials of low permeability and, consequently, materials capable of yielding only small quantities of water to wells.
FLUCTUATIONS OF THE WATER TABL.E
The water table is not a stationary surface, but fluctuates much like the water surface in a lake or reservoir. Virtual equilibrium, however, is approached over a long period of time because the amount
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of water added annually to ground-water storage approximately equals the amount discharged annually. The water table rises when recharge exceeds discharge and declines when discharge exceeds re charge. Significant changes in ground-water levels (table 30) over a period of time indicate the extent of depletion or replenishment of the ground-water reservoir. Such fluctuations are natural, but declines tend to be exaggerated when discharge from wells is superimposed upon the system, if the reservoir is small and the discharge is great.
The factors controlling the rise of the water table in the basin are the amount of precipitation on the area that percolates downward to the water table and the amount of influent seepage that reaches the ground-water reservoir from surface reservoirs and streams. All influent seepage from streams in the area, however, depends also on local precipitation because the streams are not through-flowing. Likewise, subsurface inflow from the South Platte or Republican River basins is impossible because bedrock and ground-water divides separate these basins from the Frenchman Creek basin. (See pis. 5, 6.)
Several factors complicate the relation between the amount of precipitation and the position of the water table, as indicated by the level at which the water stands in wells. The soil moisture becomes depleted by evaporation and transpiration during prolonged drought and must be replenished to field capacity from subsequent precipitation before any water can percolate downward to the water table. When the ground is frozen, downward percolation of precipitation is inhibited to the extent that very little, if any, of it reaches the water table; during the summer, some of the rain is lost directly into the air by evaporation as it falls and by evaporation from the land surface and from foliage.
The factors controlling decline of the water table in the area are the amount of water drawn from the ground-water reservoir by transpi ration and evaporation, the amount discharged into streams and through springs and seeps, the amount pumped by wells, and the amount of subsurface outflow to adjacent areas.
Major fluctuations of ground-water levels thus are related primarily to recharge and discharge. The fluctuations caused by precipitation are treated in the section on recharge; fluctuations caused by transpi ration and evaporation, effluent seepage, and pumping from wells are treated in the section on discharge. Fluctuations of the water table caused by these principal factors have trends that are measured in periods of months or years. The water table fluctuates within fairly definite limits, however, almost daily and even shorter intervals of time on occasion. These minor fluctuations are caused largely by changes in atmospheric pressure or, locally, by evapotranspiration.
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Wenzel and Waite (1941, p. 43-45) discussed fluctuations of ground- water levels caused by changes in atmospheric pressure as follows:Where relatively impermeable layers, such as caliche [or clay] beds, occur between the land surface and the water table, the transmission of changes in atmospheric pressure through the ground to the water table may be greatly impeded. How ever, changes in air pressure usually may be transmitted directly down to the water level inside the well casing, and thus a differential pressure sometimes is created between the water inside and outside of the well casing that forces water either out of or into the well. When the atmospheric pressure decreases the water level in the well rises, and, conversely, when the atmospheric pressure increases the water level in the well declines. The water table outside of the well may, however, remain practically stationary while these fluctuations are occurring in the well.
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FIGURE 31. Diagram of wells explaining effect of changes in atmospheric pressure. Changes in at mospheric pressure cause fluctuation of water level in well A. Changes in atmospheric pressure cause "blowing" and "sucking" behavior in well B.
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* * * there is a close correlation between the fluctuations in barometric pressure and the fluctuations in water level. * * *
Where there is an impermeable layer at some distance above the water table and where the well casing is perforated only below the water table [well A, fig. 31], the atmospheric pressure acts on the water level in the well, and the water level may fluctuate with changes in barometric pressure much as it would if all the material below the impermeable layer were filled with artesian water. How ever, if perforations occur between the water table and the impermeable layer [well B, fig. 31], air may be forced through the well into the interstices of the unsaturated material below the impermeable layer [and above the water table] when the atmospheric pressure increases, and out through the well when the at mospheric pressure decreases. This may cause an appreciable movement of air into or out of the well at its top, which in some wells is of sufficient velocity to cause a whistling or roaring sound. The water level in such wells fluctuates only slightly, if at all, in response to changes in atmospheric pressure. Locally these wells are known as "blowing" and "sucking" wells, and because major changes in atmospheric pressure usually are followed by changes of weather, the wells occasionally are used to predict the weather.
Water-level fluctuations in some wells in Colorado are shown in fig ure 32, and those in some wells in Nebraska are shown in figure 33. The hydrographs indicate that the water table fluctuates less where it lies at depth than where it lies comparatively close to the land surface.
The annual recharge and discharge are equivalent to only a small percentage of the amount of water in storage in the aquifers of the Frenchman Creek basin; therefore, a period of several years of above- or below-normal precipitation is required to effect a substantial increase or decrease in total storage.
RECHARGE
Recharge in the Frenchman Creek basin is derived principally from local precipitation and from seepage from canals and ditches, irrigated fields, reservoirs, undrained topographic depressions, and streams. If recharge exceeds discharge during a given period, ground-water storage increases, causing a corresponding rise of the water table.
PRECIPITATION
All ground-water recharge in the basin is derived directly or in directly from precipitation, which ranges (pi. 4) from about 18 inches annually at Fleming, Colo., to about 21 inches annually at Palisade, Nebr., and averages about 19% inches for the entire basin. Part of the precipitation runs off through surface channels, part is evaporated, part is transpired by plants, and part percolates into the soil. When the amount of water absorbed by the soil becomes greater than the amount that can be held by capillary forces against the pull of gravity, the remainder, about 220,000 -acre-feet annually, moves downward to the zone of saturation and then flows slowly toward points of discharge. The belt of soil moisture usually is largely de pleted by the end of the growing season, owing to the removal of
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FIGURE 32. Hydrographs for wells in Colorado and monthly precipitation at Halyoke, Colo.
PRECIPITATION, IN INCHES
DEPTH TO WATER, IN FEET BELOW LAND SURFACE
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much of the water by evaporation and transpiration. This moisture deficiency must be satisfied before recharge is possible.
The amount of precipitation that reaches the ground-water reservoir depends on several factors, which include (1) the amount and dis tribution of precipitation, (2) the composition and physical character of the soil and underlying materials, (3) the amount and type of vegetation, and (4) the shape and slope of the land surface.
The distribution of rainfall is important perhaps more important than the amount of precipitation during the year. Much of the pre cipitation in the basin accompanies summer thundershowers that are restricted to an area of a few square miles. The thundershowers are characterized by a high rate of precipitation and do not last long; therefore, much of the precipitation runs off.
Permeable materials, such as dune sand or sandy soil, absorb water more readily than less permeable materials, such as soils derived from loess, silt, clay, or shale. About one-third of the basin is mantled with dune sand, which promotes infiltration and inhibits direct runoff. (See pi. 1.)
SEEPAGE PROM RESERVOIRS, CANALS,^ AND IRRIGATION
Five reservoirs, all in the Nebraska part of the basin, have been constructed on Frenchman Creek. The largest is Enders Reservoir, which has a storage capacity of 75,000 acre-feet. The reservoirs and the canals that carry water from the smaller reservoirs to irrigated lands leak appreciably at times. The water-table contour lines in the vicinity of Enders Dam indicate considerable leakage to the ground-water reservoir from Enders Reservoir. Water from Enders Reservoir flows downstream in Frenchman Creek. The first water rights to the flow of Frenchman Creek upstream from Palisade, Nebr., belong to an irrigation district east of the area treated in this report; therefore, only a relatively small amount of surface water is available for irrigation from Arterburn Lake and from Kilpatrick and Enders Reservoirs within the basin. Some irrigators along the stream valleys use water from wells to supplement canal water.
The amount of recharge from canals and from irrigation with sur face water is small in comparison with recharge from other sources. The greatest contribution to recharge of the ground-water reservoir from canal seepage and return flow from irrigation is concentrated in the vicinity .of Palisade, Nebr. When water is directed from the stream into canals, leakage causes the water table to rise locally. Pumping of irrigation wells that tap the alluvium also causes a local decline in the water table. These fluctuations of the water table are illustrated in the hydrograph of well 5-33-31 deb (fig. 33), where the well-defined extremes of fluctuation coincide with pumping or with surface-water irrigation.
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Not all water used for irrigation is consumed by plants. The water that is not transpired or evaporated passes downward through the belt of soil moisture and reaches the zone of saturation. The amount of return flow probably is insignificant, however, except in areas of shallow water table that are underlain by very permeable materials.
TOPOQRAPHIC DEPRESSIONS
The numerous undrained depressions in the surface of the High Plains undoubtedly are factors in the disposition of rainfall and in recharge to the groun<}7water reservoir. The quantitative effect of recharge from these depressions, which differ considerably in size, shape, and depth, is difficult to determine accurately. Some of the depressions have relatively impervious floors and remain filled with water for considerable periods of time after heavy rains, slowly losing most of their water to the atmosphere by evaporation. Others, whose floors are relatively free of fine silt and clay, lose water rapidly by downward percolation.
STREAMS
Intermittent streams, which include all streams in the Colorado part of the basin and many in the Nebraska part, lie above the water table and lose water to the ground-water reservoir during periods of flow; they are influent, commonly called "losing," streams (fig. 4). The sandy beds of the intermittent streams are dry most of the time, but during periods of heavy rainfall they carry large quantities of water for short periods, some of which percolates downward to the water table. The amount of water that percolates downward to the water table depends on the rate and duration of the runoff, the amount and type of sediment carried, and the permeability and gradient of the streambed. Many intermittent streams drain into the areas of dune sand, where the water is absorbed and contributes to recharge. (See pi. 1, sec. 26, T. 4 N., R. 46 W.)
Frenchman, Stinking Water, and Spring Creeks are intermittent influent streams upstream from their points of effluence (pis. 2, 10). Downstream from their points of effluence the streams sometimes contribute water to the ground-water reservoir during periods of high flow. Much of the water, however, is stored only temporarily in the beds of sand and gravel that flank the stream and drains back into the stream soon after the flood flow has passed and before the temporarily raised water table declines below the streambed. Tem porary storage of this type is termed "bank storage" and is a common phenomenon along streams and reservoirs where water levels fluc tuate widely; of course, water also moves into and out of bank storage along effluent streams.
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Downstream from the points of effluence of streams the normal move ment of ground water in the basin is from the Ogallala formation into the alluvium and, thence, into the streams. When a well near a stream is pumped heavily, however, the direction of flow may be re versed locally and water may move from the stream toward the well. In this way, the stream becomes a source of recharge to the ground- water reservoir. This subject has been discussed by Ferris (1948), R. H. Brown (1953), and others. The effect of a recharging stream on the drawdown of a pumped well is shown in figure 34. The plot of the drawdown for about the first 50 minutes of pumping is a straight line, indicating that the water was being withdrawn from storage; after 50 minutes, recharge to the aquifer from the stream becomes apparent as the drawdown curve flattens, indicating a decrease in the rate of drawdown. The effect of pumping water from wells in the vicinity of streams in the basin is treated in the section on pro spective depletion of streamflow by pump irrigation.
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DISCHARGE
Ground-water discharge is the withdrawal or loss of water from the ground-water reservoir. Water is discharged from the basin by transpiration, evaporation, streams, springs, seeps, wells, and sub surface outflow. Under natural conditions in any area, recharge and discharge tend to equalize over a period of years, and the amount of ground water in storage remains virtually the same. If discharge exceeds recharge during a given period, storage decreases, and the decrease is indicated by a decline of the water table.
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TRANSPIRATION AND EVAPORATION
Much of the water that is taken into the roots of plants, directly from the zone of saturation or from the capillary fringe above it, is transpired from leaf surfaces. The depths from which plants lift water differ greatly with the plant species, the type of soil, and the availability of water. Meinzer (1923b, p. 48) states that certain kinds of plants lift water from depths as great as 50 feet. The water table generally fluctuates in response to transpiration of plants only in areas where the water table is relatively near the land surface. In the basin, plants in the stream valleys and in the sandhills, where the water table is near the surface, transpire ground water extensively during the growing season, and the water table declines. The decline of the water level in wells 3-42-4ccc (fig. 32) and 7-41-32abb (fig. 33) during the growing season was caused principally by transpira tion and evaporation. The depth to the water table in most parts of the basin is so great that no water is transpired or evaporated from the zone of saturation or the capillary fringe.
Figure 35 is a much generalized index, adapted from Meyer (1928) in accordance with data in table 9, to monthly mean transpiration as related to monthly mean air temperature and season. Air temper ature is a major factor in determining transpiration rates, but several other factors also contribute; some of these are species of plants, air movement, depth to water, and hours of sunshine. Plant activity virtually ceases below a temperature of about 40 °F. The transpira tion rate is relatively fast in spring and slow in fall, when the plants become dormant. Plants in their normal habitat are good indicators of available soil moisture. In the basin, and generally in arid and semi- arid regions, a dense growth of trees generally indicates areas of effluent perennial streams or areas where the water table consistently is at shallow depth.
The American Society of Civil Engineers (1949, p. 135) in discuss ing quantitative transpiration data stated in part:
Cattails, tules, and other aquatic plants use several feet of water a year. Of the upland plants, alfalfa and clover normally use from 12 in to 18 in a year. Corn, millet, and potatoes use less than half as much. Small grains normally use from 10 in to 15 in. * * * In dry climates, native vegetation feeding on ground water [such as that growing on the flood plain of Frenchman Creek] uses several feet a year. The water used by trees and brush growing on the river bottoms and in the broad flat high water stream beds constitutes a serious draft on ground water that definitely reduces the flow of streams.
Although the amounts of water transpired by plants vary from place to place and in accordance with several variable factors, the writers believe that the figures cited above generally are applicable in the basin.
80 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
MONTHLY TRANSPIRATION, IN INCHES ,,0 - rvj 01 *
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Adopted from Meyer (1928, p. 459)
FIGURE 35. Base curve of transpiration.
Ground water is evaporated directly from the soil mostly in low, flat areas adjacent to streams and in areas near reservoirs, lakes, and canals. A chart (fig. 36) based on conditions in the upper Midwest (Meyer, 1928) has been used in estimating water losses by evaporation from land areas in other parts of the United States. This graph takes into account the monthly mean temperature, the monthly precipita tion, and the season of the year; for a given area, consideration of the season automatically requires consideration of the hours of sunshine and the mean monthly humidity. Coefficients should be applied when the graph is used for other regions. The coefficient normally used ranges from 0.6 for very sandy areas, which permit substantially full infiltration of precipitation, to about 1.2 for areas of flat topog raphy, retentive soil, and low humidity (Meyer, 1928, p. 455-^58). A coefficient of 1.0 was used in calculations of evaporation losses from the land surface in the basin. The prevalence, of sandy soils, which
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should reduce the coefficient to less than 1.0, is considered by the writers to be offset by the low average humidity, which should in crease the coefficient to more than 1.0.
An estimate of the amount of ground water consumed by evapora tion and transpiration in areas of shallow water table within the basin is shown in tables 9 and 10. Although the estimate (item 4) of 26.2 inches per year for the consumptive use of water by evaporation and transpiration is only approximate, it is reasonably close to 23.8 inches- per year, which was computed for the North Platte valley by Lowry and Johnson (1942, p. 1259).
TABLE 9. Climatologic data
1
Month
JanuaryFebruary _March.April _May -
July____-___-August _ _September.. __ OctoberNovember..-- December-.. __
2 3
Imperial, Nebr.
Normal tem perature (° F)
27 30 38 49 59 69 76 74 66 51 38 28
Normal rain fall (inches)
0. 46 . 62
1. 16 2. 29 3. 14 3. 60 2. 74 2. 52 1. 64 1. 28
. 60
. 68
4
Stream valleys and sandhill areas of shallow water
table
Evaporation from soil, estima
ted (inches)
0.6 . 6 . 7
1. 1 1. 6 2. 0 1. 8 1. 7 1. 1
. 8
. 6
. 6
5
Transpiration by plants, estimated (inches)
0. 0 . 0 . 0 . 8
1.7 2. 4 2.9 2. 6 1. 9
. 7
. 0
. 0
6
Evaporation and transpiration (inches) (4+5)
0. 6 . 6 . 7
1. 9 3. 3 4. 4 4. 7 4. 3 3. 0 1. 5
. 6
. 6
TABLE 10. Summary of climatologic and ground-water data
1. Normal annual rainfall at Imperial, Nebr___.-__---_-_-__--___inches__ 20.732. Evaporation from soil_._--._-___________-_.___-_-__.__-__._do___- 13.23. Transpiration by plants...._________..._________.___._do_-_- 13.04. Evaporation + transpiration...__________________________..do_. 26.25. Recharge to ground-w ater reservoir, estimated. _______._____-_-_.. _ do. _ _ _ 1.06. Precipitation available for transpiration and evaporation (1 5)_-__do____ 19.77. Ground water consumed by evaporation and transpiration (4 6)__do_._- 6.58. Area:
Sandhills:Colorado.________________________________________________.acres__ 27,500Nebraska _________________________________________________dO-_._ 19,200
Stream valleys, Nebraska.......________________.-____--do___- 16,8009. Total area.,_____________________________________._________--do___- 63,500
10. Ground water consumed by evaporation and transpiration, estimatedacre-feet.. 34,400
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STREAMS, SPRINGS. AND SEEPS
The basin includes many springs, seeps, and marshes in the valleys of effluent streams. Gravity springs and seeps issue from the Ogallala formation and alluvium, and the effluent streams act largely as drains where the water table intersects the land surface. Water from a gravity spring seeps from permeable materials or flows from larger openings in rocks under the force of gravity, much as a stream flows downgrade. Low areas in the sandhills become ephemeral depression springs or water-table lakes during times of high ground-water levels. Small perennial lakes and marshy ponds, which also are fairly common in the sandhill areas, merely are extensions of the water table where it intersects the land surface. The lakes and ponds provide water for some livestock and shelter to wildfowl, but the consumption of water by evapotranspiration is great.
The flow of Frenchman, Spring, and Stinking Water Creeks is maintained downstream from their points of effluence by ground- water discharge through springs and seeps along and in the stream channels. The steady rate of ground-water discharge is shown by hydrographs in figure 37. The minor fluctuations in the flow of Frenchman Creek are caused by opening and closing the gates of small reservoirs that furnish power for a grain mill and a hydro electric plant on the stream. Major fluctuations are caused by runoff from precipitation. Annual records of flow in these streams are published in Geological Survey water-supply papers.
On October 23, 1952, 18 streamflow measurements were made of Frenchman Creek, 4 of Spring Creek, and 6 of Stinking Water Creek, to determine the ground-water discharge into these streams. A few check measurements were made on October 24, 1953, at or near some of the points where measurements were made on October 23 (pi. 10; figs. 40-42). The streamflow measurements represent ground-water discharge alone, because they were made after hard frosts, so that transpiration and evaporation were at a minimum, and because there had been no precipitation on the area for several weeks. The average rate of increase of streamflow upstream from Enders Reservoir was 2.5 cfs (cubic feet per second) per mile, and that downstream from Enders Reservoir was 0.7 cfs per mile. The increase in flow is greatest in a reach of the stream that is bordered on the south by sandhills. The average rate of increase in the flow of Spring and Stinking Water Creeks was 0.6 cfs per mile. The rates of ground-water discharge were computed to be as follows: 79 cfs, or about 57,000 acre-feet per year, into Frenchman Creek upstream from Enders Reservoir; 105 cfs, or 76,000 acre-feet per year, into Frenchman Creek upstream from Palisade, Nebr., and 30 cfs, or 22,000 acre-feet per year, into Stinking Water Creek upstream
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from Palisade. The total ground-water discharge into the streams upstream from Palisade is about 100,000 acre-feet per year, on the basis of measurements made. Obviously, spot measurements made on a single day are not necessarily representative of ground-water discharge throughout the year, but the writers believe that results obtained are in the right order of magnitude.
WEIXS
Most of the wells in the Frenchman Creek basin are drilled, range in diameter from 4 to 18 inches, and are cased with steel pipe. A few driven wells ranging from 1 to 2 inches in diameter have been installed for stock and domestic use at places where the water table is near the land surface.
A total of 776 wells were inventoried in order to estimate the total use of ground water in the basin and to define the position and slope of the water table. Of this number, 98 were drilled for irrigation; 2 were used for railroad supplies; 19 were used for public supplies; 268 were abandoned; 359 of relatively small discharge were used for domestic, stock, and other supplies; and 30 were used only for water- level observation. Detailed records of the wells are given in table 29 on pages 424-457 and a summary of the wells by type of use is given in table 11.
Most of the water pumped from wells in the basin is used for irri gation, although only a small percentage of the wells are used for this purpose. The water pumped for municipal, domestic, stock, and industrial uses, however, is important to the economy of the area. Some water is discharged by artesian pressure from three flowing
TABLE 11. Distribution of wells according to intended use
Use
Public supply ...... Water-level obser
vation only .......Domestic, stock,
railroad, and
Total inventoried-
Total in which water level was
Total at which altitudes were established by spirit leveling..
State and county
Colorado
Logan
1 3
2
48 26
80
78
77
Phil-lips
12 4
4
4957
126
119
122
Sedg- wick
2 0
2
21 18
43
40
40
Wash ington
0 0
0
18 13
31
31
31
Yuma
4 0
3
56 34
97
95
95
Nebraska
Chase
49 5
11
87 66
218
209
204
Dundy
1 0
0
25 5
31
31
31
Hayes
11 0
7
17 9
44
42
42
Hitch cock
3 2
0
5 3
13
11
13
Perk- ins
15 5
1
35 37
93
84
89
Total
98 19
30
361 268
776
740
744
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wells. Irrigation and municipal wells are drilled, developed, and equipped for large production; some are capable of yielding as much as 2,500 gpm. The amount of water pumped from these wells of large capacity in the area has increased considerably since 1946 and will continue to increase as more farmers change from dryland farm ing to a combination of dryland farming and irrigation with water pumped from wells.
The yields of domestic and stock wells are relatively small, ranging from about 1 to 10 gpm. Several industrial wells were drilled along the railroad right-of-way by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co. to supply water for steam engines. These wells yield 10 to 75 gpm, however, they have been pumped very little in recent years because the railroads have been converting from steam to diesel engines.
DOMESTIC AND STOCK WELLS
Most of the residents of rural areas and small towns obtain their supplies of domestic and stock water from small-diameter drilled wells equipped with cylinder pumps operated by electric motor, gasoline engine, hand, or windmill. Some domestic wells are equipped with jet pumps or small submersible turbines that pump water into pressure systems. Most of the domestic and stock wells penetrate alluvium, dune sand, or the Ogallala formation. An estimate of the amount of water pumped daily from domestic and stock wells in Phillips County, Colo., and Chase County, Nebr., is given in table 12.
TABLE 12. Estimate of water pumped daily from domestic and stock wells in Phillips County, Colo., and Chase County, Nebr.
Domestic use (not including towns having immicipal supplies) _ ______
Cattle. ----------_--_-_-_--_________-___Hogs... _______ _____ __________________Horses and mules _ ______Poultry- --------_-_--___-_____-_____--__Sheep _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Total___________________ __ ______
Individual requirements '
(gpd)
3515
210
1/25iu
Population or number 2
3 5, 10048, 80015, 1001,000
96, 4003,400
Total pump- age 2 (gpd)
180, 000730, 00030,00010, 0004,0005,000
960, 000
1 Data from Anderson (1951, p. 38).2 Figures rounded. 31950; all others, 1952.
Most domestic and stock wells penetrate the water-bearing for mation only deep enough to obtain the needed supply. For this reason and because logs of such wells generally are not available, no attempt was made to inventory all the domestic and stock wells in the basin. About 300 domestic and stock wells were inventoried, how-
GROUND WATEIB 87
ever, in areas of few or no irrigation wells where information was needed to determine the position of the water table or the boundaries of the ground-water reservoir.
MUNICIPAL WELLS
Nine municipalities in the basin have public water supplies, all of which are obtained from wells. The average daily consumption of the 9 communities aggregates about 950,000 gallons. Yields of individual wells are reported except that for well 10-37-9cad, Madrid, Nebr., which was measured. The wells that supply Palisade and Wauneta, Nebr., tap alluvial sand and gravel in the Frenchman Creek valley; the Ogallala formation is tapped by all other municipal wells. All the municipal water-supply systems pump water directly into the water mains, although some also pump part of the supply directly into storage facilities. A summary of the municipal water supplies is given in table 13.
Many of the smaller towns in the basin do not have public water- supply systems. These towns are supplied from privately owned wells, each home or enterprise generally having its own well. The wells usually were drilled by cable-tool or standard hydraulic-rotary methods and cased with perforated steel casing. Some of these wells are equipped with hand, gasoline, or electrically powered cylinder pumps and some those connected to pressure systems are equipped with electrically driven cylinder, jet, or submersible turbine pumps.
TABLE 13. Summary of municipal water supplies
[Type of pump: Cy, cylinder; T, turbine; Ts, submersible turbine. All pumps electrically powered]
State andmunicipality
Colorado:
Fleming
Haxtun
Holyoke
Nebraska: Grant
Imperial-
Madrid - -
Palisade
Venango .Wauneta.
Storage facilities
Type
Elevated tank .....
.... .do..... ... .... .
. .do..... ... .....
Standpipe .........
Elevated tank
Standpipe .........
2 underground reservoirs
Elevated tank.....3 underground
reservoirs.
Capacity(gal)
50,000
85,000
80,000
40,000
57,000
J 283,000
55,000
} 440,000
Estimated
consumption (gpd)
30,000
125,000
200,000
150,000
200,000
40,000
75, 00030,000
100,000
Well
( 8-49- 9ada\ i 8-49- 9adc1 8-49-lObbb/ 8-47-21cccI 8-47-29aad / 7-44- 7ddd I 7-44-17bcc
/ 10-39-13bbd I 10-39-14aac
6-38- 4bca6-38- 5add6-38- 5dab
2 10-37- 9bdd10-37- 9cad
I 4-34- labb \ 4-34- lacb
9-41- 7dbb/ 5-36-1 lacb \ 2 5-36-1 Idbb
Depthof well
(ft)
200165200233225 223 265
185 225100290312
267100 100233
65 85
Staticwaterlevel(feet
belowland
surface)
12586
150
129 139
155 155808090
10010222 23
16014 22
YieldfePm)
221250
565500 500 625
375675200500690
75200300 500180350 650
Typeof
pump
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TTTsTsTsCyTT TTT T
1 Used only during summer. 1 Used only for emergencies.
88 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
The principal towns in the Colorado part of the area that do not have public water-supply systems are Amherst and Paoli. Wells in these towns tap the Ogallala formation. The principal towns in the Nebraska part that do not have public water-supply systems are Enders and Lamar, where privately owned wells tap the Ogallala formation, and Champion and Hamlet, where the private wells tap alluvial sand and gravel in the Frenchman Creek valley.
The water pumped from privately owned wells in the towns not having publicly owned water-supply systems is included in table 12 in the estimate of water used domestically.
INDUSTRIAL WELLS
Only very small amounts of water are used by industry in the basin, and these supplies were not estimated. Industries requiring water generally are supplied by municipalities. Trains now are powered largely by diesel engines, and most of the railroad wells have been abandoned or ceded to local municipalities. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co., however, owns and operates two wells, which are used principally for filling locomotive boilers, at Wauneta, Nebr. These wells tap the alluvium and pump an average of 80,000 gallons per month.
IRRIGATION WELLS
The first shallow irrigation well (7-39-33cca) in the area was a dug well, 48 inches in diameter and 22 feet deep, constructed in 1913 in the Sand Creek valley north of Champion, Nebr. The first deep irrigation well (8-47-16ccc) also was a dug well, 48 inches in diameter in the upper 170 feet and smaller in diameter from 170 to 200 feet, constructed in 1918 near Haxtun, Colo.
No additional wells were constructed from 1919 to 1934. From 1934 to 1954, irrigation-well construction increased steadily. The cumulative increase in irrigation wells constructed in the area from 1910 through 1953, based on reported dates of construction, is shown graphically in figure 38. The irrigation wells are more numerous between Holyoke, Colo., and Imperial, Nebr.; along the Frenchman Creek valley between Hamlet and Palisade, Nebr.; along Stinking Water Creek valley; and west of Grant, Nebr.
Most of the irrigation wells in the basin are equipped with deep- well turbine pumps, but a few older wells, in places in the Frenchman Creek valley where the depth to water is not more than about 25 feet, are equipped with horizontal centrifugal pumps. Two flowing wells are used for irrigation. The power units for the pumped wells are electric motors or internal-combustion engines. The percentage of wells having power of each type is given in table 14.
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TABLE 14. Type of power used to operate irrigation pumps
Type of power
Diesel engineElectric motor 1 _Gasoline enginePropane engineTractor-fuel engine ______
Total. __________________________________________
Number of wells
3124151113
94
Percent
3325161214
100
i Range principally from 25 to 40 hp; a 75-hp motor is used on well 10-39-17abd.
As reported by the irrigators, the acreage of land in the basin that was irrigated with water from wells during 1953 is given in table 15. Two wells that previously had been used for irrigation were not in use during 1953.
The amount of water pumped annually from each electrically powered well, from 1949 to 1953, inclusive, was estimated by dividing the annual amount of electric power used by the average amount of power required to pump an acre-foot of water. The average amount of power required to pump an acre-foot of water in the area supplied by the Highline Electric Association is about 143 kilowatthours. The total ground water pumped for irrigation in the basin was estimated by (1) assuming that the average amount of water (acre-feet per acre) pumped by an electrically powered plant is equal to that pumped by a nonelectrically powered plant and (2) by determining the average
TABLE 15. Reported number of acres irrigated with water from wells and average number of acres irrigated per well in 1953
State and county
Colorado :
Phillips. _------__ ___________________ _ _Sedgwick, _______ _ ___
Yuma ________
Total___.______________ ________________
Nebraska: Chase- _ _ _ _____ _ ____Dundy __________ ____ ___ _ ___
Hitchcock _ _______Perkins _ ____ _ _____
Total_________ _____ ___________________
Acres irrigated
151,202
3500
420
1,987
4,955140801390
1,385
7,671
9,658
Number of wells
112
204
19
481
103
15
77
96
Average number of acres per
well
15100175
0105
10314080
13092
100
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number of acre-feet per acre pumped by electric power and extrap olating that amount to include all land under irrigation with water pumped from wells.
The total quantity of water pumped for irrigation in the basin for each year from 1949 to 1953, inclusive, was calculated from power data supplied for 24 pumping plants by the Highline Electric Association, the Southwest Electric Membership Corp., and the Midwest Electric Membership Corp., and from rates of pump discharge measured during the investigation. Measured discharges from turbine pumps ranged from 300 to 2,400 gpm.
The power input of some pumping plants was measured by timing the rotating disk in the watthour meter with a stopwatch and applying the equation
v Z.GRxKh j\.w= - i l
in whichKw=power input, in kilowatts per hour;Kh= constant for each watthour meter (generally stamped on the
name plate of the instrument) giving the number of watt- hours represented by one revolution of the rotating disc in the meter;
and£=time in seconds, required for the rotating disc to make R
revolutions.The kilowatthour consumption for each pumping plant was obtained
from the electric companies, and the total hours of pumping was cal culated for each plant by using the equation
KwhrH-~~T7-
Kw in which
ff=hours pumped, and
-Kw/w=kilowatthours consumed during the year. The quantity of water pumped from irrigation wells for which power
consumption and pump-discharge data were available was computed by using the equation
A= HQ 5,430
in whichyl=water pumped from well during year, in acre-feet; H= hours pumped;
andQ=pump discharge, in gallons per minute, as measured or re
ported.
92 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
The annual average amount of water pumped per acre was determined by dividing the quantity pumped each year by the number of acres irrigated that year. The results of the computations, extrapolated to include all the land reported to be under pump irrigation, are given in table 16.
TABLE 16. Quantity l of water pumped from irrigation wells in the basin
Year
1949____________1950____________1951-___-_-____-1952____________1953__._________
Numberof wells
568
1017
Waterpumped(acre-ft)
5051,097
6822,4173, 516
Landirrigated
(acres)
498578943
1,0781,813
Averagequantity of
water applied(acre-ft per
acre)
1. 011 QO
. 722. 241. 94
Total landirrigated
(acres)
4,6055,2916,9598, 5569,658
Totalquantity of
waterpumped(acre-ft)
4,60010, 0005,000
19, 00019, 000
1 Estimated.
Most of the data given in table 16 are only approximate. The reported acreages may be more or less than those actually irrigated; some crops consume more water than others; and sandy soils require larger applications of water than heavier soils.
The cost of pumping water from irrigation wells depends upon both operating and fixed costs. Operating costs consist of fuel or electric power, lubricating oil, and repairs and maintenance; the costs are affected by overall plant efficiency, total pumping lift, cost of fuel or electricity, and cost of maintenance. Fixed costs consist of interest on the investment, depreciation, taxes, and insurance. Fixed costs per acre-foot of water pumped decrease as the number of acre-feet pumped per year increases because fixed costs accrue regard less of the length of time the plant is operated. The only costs determined in the field were the power costs.
The Highline Electric Association furnishes electricity for irrigation by either of two contracts. The applicant may pay a service charge of $7.50 per horsepower per season plus 1.5 cents per kilowatthour for all energy used each month; or he may pay a minimum seasonal charge of $7.50 per horsepower, which is applied as a credit on charges for electricity used during the season at the following rates:
First
ThirdSecondMore than
(kilou 150_ .150_.150_.450_.900_.
Electrical energy used <iatts per horsepower per season)
Cost per kilowatts per horsepower
(cents)_________ 5.0
__________ 3.0._____ _ 2.0._______._ 1.5..________ 1.2
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The amount of power required to lift 1 acre-foot of water a distance of 1 foot, the cost of electric power and service required to lift 1 acre- foot of water a distance of 1 foot, and the efficiency of pumps were computed for 12 wells from power-cost data furnished by the Highline Electric Association and from field data. The results of these com putations are shown in table 17. A comparison of the cost of pumping ground water by the different types of power used in the basin is given in table 18.
The average power consumed per acre-foot pumped per foot of lift during the 1953 irrigation season was 1.77 kilowatthours; the average lift was 81 feet; and the operating cost of pumping an acre-foot of water per foot of lift, including service charge, was 8 cents for a well that pumped 22 acre-feet and 3.5 cents for a well that pumped 325 acre-feet. The lower unit costs were attained by the consumption of greater amounts of power during a comparatively short growing season.
SUBSURFACE OUTFLOW
The water-table contour lines (pi. 5) indicate that ground water percolates out of the basin in, the following places: (1) eastward through the Ogallala formatiqnX across a section extending from Palisade, Nebr., southward for 7 miles (D-C, pis. 5, 7); (2) southeast ward through the Pleistocene and Recent alluvium underlying Frenchman Creek and adjacent bottom lands at Palisade, Nebr. (D-E, pis. 5, 7); and (3) eastward through the Ogallala formation across a section extending from sec. 18, T. 8 N., R. 35 W., Hayes County, Nebr., to sec. 33, T. 12 N., R. 38 W., Perkins County, Nebr. (F-G, pis. 5, 7). Subsurface outflow between sections D-E and F-0 (pis. 5, 7) is insignificant because of a ground-water divide between the sections.
Subsurface outflow from the basin was estimated by means of a modified form of Darcy's law, which may be written as:
Q=TIW in which
Q= quantity of water, in gallons per day, passing through thecross section being studied;
T= coefficient of transmissibility, in gallons per day per foot; /=hydraulic gradient (slope of the water table), in feet per mile;
and
W= width of cross section, in miles, through which the water moves, measured parallel to the water-level-contour lines.
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_. _
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_
7-41
-1 7
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____
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18dd
b__
__
7-4
3-3
3ac
d--
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_ __
35bc
c___
_ __
7-4
4-
2ccd
_ _
_ _
8-41
-34a
bc _
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44-3
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Bill
ed
hors
epow
er
19.
711
. 2
35.8
25.
323
.6
36.2
33.0
26.
324
.648
.2
38.6
48.
2
30.9
Ene
rgy
cons
umed
(K
w)
16.
39
.329
.621.0
19.6
30.0
27.
421
. 8
20.4
40.0
32.0
40.0
25.6
Tot
al e
nerg
y co
nsum
ed
(Kw
hr)
24,
160
2,74
018
,990
20,
680
27,
290
9,47
011
,990
46, 2
2030
, 76
912
, 950
34,
230
16,
390
21,
320
Pum
ping
ra
te (
gpm
)
1,35
041
01,
250
870
980
1,20
01,
000
800
1,17
098
0
1,06
01,
020
1,00
?
Wat
er
pum
ped
(acr
e-ft) 36
8 22 148
158 25 70 80 312
325 57 209 77
'
173
Pum
ping
li
ft (
ft) 33 65 86 65 75 89 70 58 130 95 126 81
Ene
rgy
con
su
med
per
ac
re-f
oot o
f pu
mpi
ng li
ft
(Kw
hr)
1. 9
91.
921.
49
1. 6
7
1. 80
1. 6
82.
11
1. 63
1. 7
5
1. 7
21.
69
1. 7
7
Cos
t of
pow
er a
nd
serv
ice
(dol
lars
)
512.
40
114.
90
584.
85
497.
70
596.
85
395.
10
437.
80
894.
67
655.
84
517.
67
863.
45
628.
11
558.
28
Cos
t pe
r ac
re-f
oot
(dol
lars
)
1. 3
95.
22
3.95
3. 1
52.
39
5. 6
45.
472.
87
2.02
9.08
4. 1
38.
16
4. 4
6
Cos
t pe
r ac
re-f
oot
per
foot
of
pum
ping
lift
(c
ents
) 4. 2
8.0
4. 6
3. 7
7.5
6. 1
4. 1
3. 5
7.0
4. 3
6. 5
5.4
Eff
icie
ncy
of p
ump
(per
cent
) 57 60 76 68 63 68 54 70 67 66 67 65
GROUND WATER 95
TABLE 18. Average power costs per foot of lift for engines and motors in pumpingan acre-foot of water
[Horsepower hours required at pump shaft i]
Type of power or fuel
Diesel. ..............Electric..... ........Gasoline. ............Natural gas ..........Propane. ............Tractor fuel.. .......
Unit of power or fuel
Gallon.................
Gallon...... ............
Gallon. ___ ..........
Horsepower hours per
unit of power or fuel
M4.5 1.21
211.24.065
28.6Ul.l
Average cost per unit of power or
fuel (cents)
141.5
19.025
1416
Number of units of
power or fuel used
0.1431.72.186
32.242.187
Cost per acre-foot of water per foot of lift
(cents)
2.0052.58
3.53.80
3.392.99
1 Horsepower hours=Gallons per acre-foot times lift, in feet, times weight of water, in pounds per gallon; divided by foot-pounds per minute times length of test, in minutes, times pump efficiency; computation based on a pump efficiency of 66 percent.
_326,OOOX1X8.33 33,000X60X0.66
2 Data from tractor-testing laboratory, University of Nebraska College of Agriculture and U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture (Lambert, 1953).
' Data from tests of motors within the area.« Data from pumping tests in Scott County, Kans. (McCall, 1944). « Does not include service charge.
The foregoing formula may be rewritten conveniently in the formQ=1.12X10~8 TIL (cosine a)
in which
Q= quantity of water, in acre-feet per year, passing through anygiven cross section:
L=width of cross section through which the water moves, in miles;
and
a= angle between the given cross section and its projection ontoa cross section oriented normal to the direction of movement.
The subsurface outflow from the basin is shown in table 19.
TABLE 19. Subsurface outflow from the Frenchman Creek basin
Section 1
c-z>..__. ______D-E**-<?________
Total__._
T(gpd per ft) 2
50, 000250, 000190, 000
/(ft per mile)
161010
L(miles)
71. 75
28
a(degrees)
00
37
Cosine a
1. 01. 0
. 8
Q(acre-f t per
yr)
6,3004, 900
48, 000
59, 000
1 See pis. 5, 7.2 Average.
The water-table contour lines (pi. 5) indicate that ground water moves across the State line from Colorado into Nebraska, through the Ogallala formation along a 42-mile section (A-B, pi. 7). Sec tion A-B was divided into 9 parts, each part corresponding to a
96 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
different average value of transmissibility. Point A was designated as station 0 and point B as station 42. Results of computations to determine the subsurface flow across the Colorado-Nebraska State line in the Frenchman Creek basin are shown in table 20.
TABLE 20. Subsurface flow across the Colorado-Nebraska State line in the FrenchmanCreek basin
Station
0-4.0 ---__-.4.0-8.5_ _______8.5-13.0_._____13.0-17.0. __._.17.0-19.0_ ____ _19.0-24.5______24.5-29.529.5-34.5_ _____34.5-42.0__ ___
Total____
T(gpd per ft)
50, 00038, 00020, 000
110, 000220, 000280, 000240, 000210, 000190, 000
7(ft per mile)
101214141313131313
L(miles)
4.04.54. 54.02. 05. 55. 05. 07.5
a(degrees)
1825455010
030100
Cosine a
0 951906707642984
1 00866984
1 00
Q(acre-ft per
yr)
2, 1002, 1001,0004,4006, 3©0
22, 00015, 00015, 00021, 000
89, 000
SUMMARY OF ANNUAL DIG CHARGE AND RECHARGE
A summary of the quantity of ground water estimated to be dis charged annually and the calculated rate of annual recharge from precipitation is given in table 21. If it is assumed that the annual recharge to the underground reservoir is in effect equal to the annual discharge, the annual rate of recharge, all of which is derived from precipitation on the basin, can be calculated. Thus, it was deter mined that the annual recharge is equivalent to a layer of water 0.9 inch deep over the basin or about 220,000 acre-feet. The annual recharge is about 0.8 inch in the Colorado part of the area and about 1.0 inch in the Nebraska part.
QUANTITY IN STORAGE
Most of the recoverable ground water stored in the Frenchman Creek basin is in the Ogallala formation and the alluvial deposits of the stream valleys. The approximate quantity of ground water stored within the area was determined by multiplying the volume of saturated material by an assumed specific yield of 0.20, a factor which is discussed in the section on aquifer tests. The volume of saturated material was determined from the map of the area showing saturated thickness (pi. 8).
Calculations indicate that about 33 million acre-feet of recoverable ground water is stored in the Colorado part of the area and about 48 million in the Nebraska part, so that the total for the basin is
GROUND WATER 97
TABLE 21. Quantity l of ground water discharged annually, in acre-feet, and equiva lent rate of annual recharge from precipitation, in inches
Ground-water discharge: Subsurface flow 2 _ _ _ _ _Base flow of streams 3___ ____Evaporation and transpiration 4 :
Sandhills. __ _ _Stream valleys __
Pumpage from wells : Domestic and stock _ _Industrial _____________Irrigation _ _ ________ _Municipal ________________
Total acre-feet 5___ _________
Area of recharge _ acresEquivalent recharge from precipita-
Frenchman Creek basin
Colorado part
90, 000 None
15, 000 None
1,800 None 4,000
400
111,000
1, 648, 000
0.80
Nebraska part
-30, 000 100, 000
10, 000 9,000
1,600 10
16, 000 700
107, 000
1, 252, 000
1.03
Total
60, 000 100, 000
25, 000 9,000
3,000 10
20, 000 1,000
218, 000
2, 900, 000
0.90
1 Estimated.2 From tables 19 and 20. ' From page 83. « From data in table 10. 5 Figures rounded.
about 81 million acre-feet. This vast amount of water is about 2% times that capable of being contained by Lake Mead, the body of water impounded by Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. The quantity of ground water that is estimated to be in storage does not include all the ground water in storage in the basin but only the quantity that would drain by gravity. Even the full amount that would drain by gravity could not be practicably recovered by pump ing from wells, but most of it could be.
WELL CONSTRUCTION
Most of the wells in the basin were drilled by cable-tool, standard hydraulic-rotary, or reverse-rotary methods. The cable-tool method is used to drill both small- and large-diameter wells and test holes. The standard hydraulic-rotary method generally is used only for drill ing small-diameter wells and test holes, and the reverse-rotary method is restricted to large-diameter wells.
Methods of constructing irrigation wells have been improved greatly during the past 25 years. The first shallow irrigation well in the basin, well 7-39-33cca north of Champion, Nebr., is 48 inches in diameter and was dug in 1913 to a depth of 22 feet and curbed to the bottom with concrete and brick; however, its measured depth in July 1952 was 11.8 feet below the land surface. The static level of
98 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
the water was about 7 feet below the land surface both in 1913 and in 1952.
The first deep irrigation well in the area, well 8^7-16ccc near Haxtun, Colo., was dug in 1918 by hand, using shovels and sand buckets, and cased with 48-inch plain concrete casing to the water table at a depth of about 170 feet; a smaller casing was placed by sand bucket below the water table to a depth of 200 feet. Fine sand, which entered the bottom of the casing, caused much difficulty and reduced the yield of the well. An electrically powered centrifugal pump was placed in the well directly above the water table; however, as the capacity of the pump exceeded the yield of the well, the draw down became too great for the suction lift. At a later time, the water level rose 20 feet and the electric motor and pump were submerged. A cylinder pump was installed in 1933 and used for 2 years to irrigate fruit trees; the well has not been used since 1935.
Since about 1935 most of the irrigation wells have been constructed by drilling a large-diameter hole into or through the water-bearing formation, lowering a perforated metal casing, generally 18 inches in diameter, into the hole, and packing the annular space between the casing and walls of the hole with clean screened gravel. Such a well is called a "gravel-packed" well. The perforated sections of the casing are placed below the water table opposite the most permeable zones in the water-bearing formation; care is taken to omit perfora tions in zones of silt and fine sand. The gravel used to pack wells generally is uniform in size and slightly larger than the casing perfora tions, which commonly are of the "eyelid" type. Where the water bearing materials are relatively fine, the wells are packed with a finer gravel or even with coarse sand. Upon development and completion, the well is tested to determine the yield and drawdown, and a perma nent pump is installed with it's intake at an adequate depth below the pumping water level.
A concrete pumphouse foundation and floor generally are con structed level with the top of the well casing. A 6-inch hole through the concrete floor at the side of the casing sometimes is provided so that the well owner can replenish the gravel pack if it settles as a result of the pumping of fine material from the aquifer. A 1- or 2-inch opening into the well casing, fitted with a threaded plug if desired, also should be provided in the pump base or concrete floor so that the depth to the water table can be measured with a steel tape.
Although methods of well construction in the area generally are satisfactory, insufficient attention has been given to the selection of screen size for gravel packing and to the proper methods of develop ment, with the result that the yield and life of many wells are reduced and the cost of pumping thereby is increased.
GROUND WATER 99
A detailed treatment of well construction is not within the scope of this report. It should be reemphasized, however, that, to obtain the maximum yield from a well at the lowest possible pumping cost, more attention should be given to proper design of well screens or casing perforations, to use of properly graded gravel in gravel-packed wells, and to adequate development of the well after the drilling is completed and casing is installed. The several methods of drilling and devel oping wells are discussed by Code (1929), Tolman (1937), Rohwer (1940), Bennison (1947), Wood (1950), and Meeks (1952).
EXPLORATION FOB GROUND WATER
Many methods of exploration are used to locate ground-water supplies, including resistivity and seismic surveys and other geo physical methods. The most reliable method, however, especially in the Frenchman Creek basin, is test drilling. The saturated-thickness map (pi. 8), the depth-to-water map (pi. 5), the geologic map (pi. 1), the fence diagram (pi. 2), and the transmissibility map (pi. 7) can be used to delineate areas favorable to the development of pump irri gation. Plate 6 indicates areas of bedrock "lows," such as the trough north of Frenchman Creek in T. 6 N., Rs. 38 and 39 W., and T. 7 N., R. 40 W., Chase County, Nebr., where, other factors being equal, prospecting for irrigation supplies should be rewarding; and areas of bedrock "highs," such as the closure southeast of Haxtun, Colo., where prospecting for irrigation-water supplies is likely to be unsuc cessful because the post-Oligocene deposits are relatively thin.
Use of the depth-to-water map (pi. 5) must include consideration of the many variable and complex factors which enter into a definition of a depth beyond which lifting water for irrigation is infeasible economically. Water pumped from depths ordinarily considered too great for economic recovery might be used advantageously for supple mental irrigation at critical times during the growing season. If a cheap fuel, such as natural gas, becomes available in the basin, greater pumping lifts will become economical; of interest in this regard is the recent leasing activity of oil companies in northeastern Colorado. Price fluctuation of marketable crops also is a factor, as is the fact that more valuable crops might be grown in certain areas underlain by soils particularly suitable to those crops. In short, defining a maximum economic pumping lift becomes complex if not impossible. At least one well in the basin, used to irrigate relatively valuable seed crops, has been operated profitably at a pumping lift as great as 276 feet. Ordinarily, however, pumping lifts in the basin are considered marginal if greater than about 200 feet.
Areas underlain by 100 feet or more of saturated materials (pi. 8) can be considered potentially capable of yielding sufficient water to
100 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
sustain irrigation; the potential increases as the saturated thickness increases. Areas underlain by very permeable water-bearing mate rials might yield sufficient water for irrigation even if the materials were less than 100 feet thick; areas underlain by relatively imper meable water-bearing materials probably would not yield sufficient water for irrigation even if the thickness were greater than 100 feet. In all areas, topography and soil suitability also are limiting factors.
Data obtained from the saturated-thickness map and coefficients of permeability obtained from aquifer tests were used to prepare a map of the basin showing the inferred transmissibility of the aquifer by means of contour lines (pi. 7). This map, when used in conjunc tion with the other maps, is in effect a water-yield map, and ideal sites for irrigation wells of large capacity would be in areas of greatest transmissibility subject, of course, to the suitability of topography and soil.
Local test drilling is highly desirable in selecting the exact site for an irrigation well. The lenticularity and wide range in permeability of the beds constituting the Ogallala formation and the narrowness of the underlying Tertiary stream channels make it possible to construct wells of high yields close to those of much lower yields, and vice versa. Therefore, lines of closely spaced test holes should be drilled, if economically practicable, before the site of an irrigation well is selected. The braided Tertiary streams that deposited the sand and gravel of the Ogallala formation flowed generally eastward from the Rocky Mountains, in a direction similar to that followed by the present-day streams; thus, test holes should be drilled on a line as nearly as possible at right angles to the stream courses that is, in north-south or northeast-southwest lines in order to locate the thickest saturated sections of permeable materials.
CHEMICAL QUALITY OF THE WATER
By E. R. JOCHBNS and R. A. KRIEGBR
A reconnaissance of the chemical quality of ground water in the Frenchman Creek basin was made during 1952 and early 1953. Samples of water were collected, wherever possible, from wells used for irrigation or municipal supply; most of the samples were repre sentative of water from the Ogallala formation, and a few were representative of water from dune sand and alluvium. Previously, samples of water had been collected from Frenchman Creek near Enders and at Culbertson, Nebr., before the construction of Enders Reservoir and from the reservoir after the closure of the dam in October 1950. The locations of all sampling points are shown on plate 9.
CHEMICAL QUALITY OF THE WATEiR 101
The samples were analyzed by the U.S. Geological Survey with methods common to the field of water chemistry (Am. Public Health Assoc., 1946). For many of the samples of ground water, only hardness, specific conductance, and concentration of sodium, which are essential for rating the quality of the water for irrigation, were determined.
The concentrations of the dissolved constituents and the hardness given in tables of this report are in parts per million. A part per million is a unit weight of a constituent in a million unit weights of water. The specific conductance is a measure of the ability of the water to conduct an electrical current. It is related to the con centration of dissolved solids and, therefore, can be used to estimate the total mineralization of the water. Specific conductance is expressed in reciprocal ohms (mhos) per centimeter X106 and is referred to as micromhos per centimeter at 25°C. Percent sodium is the ratio, expressed as a percentage, of the concentration of sodium to the sum of the concentrations of the principal cations (calcium, magnesium, sodium, and potassium), if concentrations are expressed in equivalents per million. Parts per million can be converted to equivalents per million by multiplying by specific factors. These factors together with statements pertaining to the significance of the various dissolved constituents in water are given in Water-Supply Paper 1291 (U.S. Geol. Survey, 1958, p. 6-15).
SURFACE WATER
Twenty-six samples were collected from Frenchman Creek near Enders and at Culbertson, Nebr., between March 1947 and September 1949. Eight additional samples were collected from Enders Reservoir between December 1951 and June 1953. Results of chemical analysis of these samples are shown in table 22 and are summarized as follows:
Extremes and averages of some of the properties of surface waters
Property
Specific conductance micromhos at 25°C__
Hardness as CaCO3 __-_____ppm__ Percent sodium
Enders Reservoir
Max
389 160 26
Min
355 142 20
Avg
370 150
23
Frenchman Creek
Near Enders
Max
402 195 26
Min
358 155
8
Avg
383 171
17
At Culbertson
Max
628 252
39
Min
374 162
6
Avg
482 205
20
Although these extremes and averages are based on only a few samples and may be subject to error, the data for Frenchman Creek indicate that the mineralization of the water increased downstream.
TA
BL
E 2
2.
Che
mic
al a
naly
ses
of
surf
ace
wat
er i
n N
ebra
ska
[Res
ults
in p
arts
per
mill
ion
exce
pt a
s in
dica
ted]
Dat
e of
col
lect
ion
^^ 22 Discharge
(cSilica
(SiO2)
Iron
(Fe)
o 1
o
§ Magnesium
1
1
M Potassium
(
o B Bicarbonate
-^ O o Carbonate (
Sulfate (SOt
N Chloride
(CFluorid
e (F)
'CT Nitrat
e (NOBoron
(B
)
Dis
solv
edso
lids
Residue on
evapora tion
at
180°CTons
per acre-foo
t
o 03 Hardness as
d C3 q<5
«o Noncarbona ness as Ca
c 3 Percent
sodi
1 +J
O
C3
£% Specific com
(micromh< 25°C
)
W n
End
ers
Res
ervo
ir N
ear
End
ers
Dec.
17,
1951.
July 24.
.. . ___..-
Sept
. 22
....
...
............
Mar.
23, 1953
i 41,
240
139,400
33,7
8032
, 17
0
30,200
34,3
5034
,560
25 30 26 18
0.04 .04
.04
39 38 39 37 33 41 39
13 13 12 14 14 13
21 17 2217
|... ...
23 23 22 99
221
203
205
919
207
221
9Q6
0 0
17 10 10 20 18 20 23
3.0
3.0
4.0
3.0
3.0
4.0
4.0
0.8 .6 .9
1.0
1 Q
2.4
29
ftQ
.05 08
230
234
225
99^
0.31 .32
.31
.31
152
147
148
144
142
160
151
0 0 0 0 0 0
23 20 25 20 25 26 23 24
375
358
367
361
377
355
389
374
7.7
7.9
7.6
8.1
8.2
8.1
O to
Fre
nchm
an C
reek
Nea
r E
nder
s
Apr.
29
_
May27 .
Sep
t. 2
3
Aug
. 9,
18
48
.. .
-
Aug. 30
Sep
t. 2
8 -
Feb
. 28
, 1949..... ... __
Mar
. 2
8
_ _
.__.
May
31
. .
. .
Sep
t. 2
6.. _
_ _
_
77 89 73 92.9
74 63 85 115 88 83 87 68
60 58 60 58 65 63 52 4Q 49 50 52 51
0.05 .05
.05
.02
.00 00 .02
.05
.05
.08
ft9
.04
.02
49 41 50 46 43 44 46 48 50 44 43
15 17 14 14 12 11 12 13 13 11 14
11 U 7.2
13 14 16 99 17 15 25 20
200
1ft4
.
220
91
9
919
211
218
220
220
91
4
218
10 14 |0
0 0
1Q on 91 18 14 3
0
11 16 19 91 20
39
3.0
2Q
9
ft9
ft
9
ft
3.0
3(\
4.0
3.5
3n
4.0
2.6
0 9 9 .7 .9 .9 .8 .7 .8
5.0
5.0
5.0
4n
9
8
3.8
4.5
4.1
4C
4 9
5.0
5 A
0.04 04 ns 00 .00
97
1O
fift
254
282
274
268
«>no
OA
Q
974
273
97
ft974
00
7O
K
.35
.39
.38
.37
.36 34 .37
.37
.37
.37
.37
1Q
Q
195
172
159
155
174
165
Q 15 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 JO 15 8 14 16 18 94.
18 16 16 26 21
4A
9
388
392
379
373
358
370
385
399
398
4A
9
377
87
87
8.7
8.0
8.0
8.2
7 a
7.7
7
Q
7.7
8.0
8.0
Fre
nchm
an C
reek
at
Cul
bert
son
Mar.
25, 194
7 --------
May27 -- -
Sept
. 22 - --
Aug.
2, 1948
A iin
r Oft
Feb.
28, 1949 -----
Apr.
25
May 31 -----------------
171
166
121 60 19 23 47 335
256
204
190
168 63
55 57 59 59 84 67 51 39 44 52 53 46 55
0.05 .10
.05
.02
.10
.00
.02
.02
.02
.08
.05
.02
.08
59 61 61 60 61 68 46 45 52 55 52 49 52
16 16 17 20 21 20 16 12 17 15 14 12 15
12 6.2
1212 33 38 54 15 13 26 30 28 39
5.6
5.6
6.0
245
209
221
228
280
308
287
212
250
256
254
226
242
0 16 17 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12
30 28 31 34 56 57 44 10 8.8
30 29 32 39
5.0
5.4
5.4
4.0
11 10 7.0
3.5
6.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
6.0
0.9 .9 .9 .8 1.0 .9 .9 .8 .8 .9 .9 .8 .9
6.0
2.0
4.0
4.6
6.7
6.0
6.3
4.4
4.8
5.6
4.8
6.1
7.0
0.06 .00
.08
.11
.06
.09
310
306
322
328
402
434
366
256
312
320
330
300
356
0.42 .42
.44
.45
.55
.59
.50
.35
.42
.44
.45
.41
.48
213
218
222
232
239
252
181
162
200
199
188
172
192
12 20 12 22 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 6 10 10 23 24 39 17 13 22 26 26 30
461
449
474
467
550
628
513
374
465
470
474
454
485
8.6
8.7
8.8
8.5
7.9
7 Q 7.8
7.6
7.5
7.9
7.9
7.9
8.4
Res
ervo
ir c
onte
nts,
in
acre
-fee
t.
O
GO
104 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
The increase was probably the result both of evapotranspiration and of influent seepage of relatively highly mineralized ground water, though it might have been partly the result of inflow from Stinking Water Creek.
The surface water is moderately mineralized and is of the calcium bicarbonate type. The mineralization of the water was very uniform near Enders, but varied significantly as the water discharge varied at Culbertson.
GROUND WATER
Samples of water were collected from 71 wells, and the results of analysis are listed in table 23. Water from 8 of the wells sampled was used for public supply; 16, for irrigation; 23, for stock; and 18, for domestic and stock. Water from four wells was not being used. Ex tremes and averages of some of the properties of the ground water are given below:
Maximum Minimum Average
Specific conductance___micromhos at 25° C__ 1, 120 197 391Hardness as CaCO3 ________________-_-ppm__ 436 60 157Percent sodium.____________________________ 44 7 17
In most of the area the ground water is moderately mineralized and is of the calcium bicarbonate type. Eight of the samples had specific conductances of more than 450 micromhos at 25° C. They were from shallow wells, most of which tapped dune sand or alluvium, in south western Chase County and northeastern Yuma County. The hard ness of the 8 samples far exceeded the average of 157 ppm for all the samples.
DOMESTIC USE
Water for domestic use, particularly for drinking, should be clear, pleasant to the taste, of reasonable temperature, and free from orga nisms that are capable of producing intestinal infections. Excessive concentrations of certain chemical constituents in water may be very undesirable. Departments of health from time to time have estab lished standards that govern the quality of water used under their ju risdiction. The only nationwide standards pertaining to the quality of potable water supplies are the Drinking Water Standards of the U.S. Public Health Service (1946). These standards were established in 1914 under the provisions of the Interstate Quarantine Kegulations and were revised in 1925, 1942, and 1946. These standards apply only to the waters that are used for drinking and culinary needs on railroad cars, aircraft, and vessels in interstate traffic. However, they have been adopted by the American Water Works Association and by many States as recommended limitations for public water sup plies. Some of the standards that pertain to chemical constituents
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are given in table 24 along with abridged chemical analyses of water used for public supply in the basin.
Iron and manganese in water, if present even in small amounts, are objectionable because they stain utensils, fixtures, and fabrics. Also, iron may cause turbidity in water and introduce an unpleasant taste. Of the five public supplies analyzed for iron, that for Palisade, Nebr., contained iron in excess of the standard and that for Grant, Nebr., contained iron in concentrations only slightly less than the standard. (See table 24.)
Fluoride in water in concentrations that exceed 1.5 ppm is associated with the dental defect known as mottled enamel if the water is used for drinking by children during calcification of the permanent teeth (Dean and others, 1941). Recent investigations, however, indicate that the incidence of dental caries is less when there are small amounts of fluoride present in the drinking water than when there are none. The concentrations of 0.7 to 0.9 ppm in most of the water analyzed is very near the concentration of 1.0 ppm recommended by the American Dental Association and by many State and local health agencies.
TABLE 24. Suitability of water from public supplies for domestic use
[Concentrations in parts per million]
State and town ,~&~
Colorado: Fleming,..
Nebraska:
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129 127 118
152 153 201 136187
1 Iron plus manganese.* Mandatory maximum for waters under the jurisdiction of the Public Health Service. 'Maxcy (1950).* 1,000 ppm permitted if no better water is available.
Although a standard for nitrate has not been adopted by the U.S. Public Health Service, Maxcy (1950) recommended that water having a nitrate content (as NO3) in excess of 44 ppm be regarded as unsafe for use in infant feeding. High concentrations of nitrate in drinking water have been associated with cyanosis, which sometimes develops in infants (Comly, 1945; Waring, 1949; Bosch and others, 1950). High concentrations of nitrate in water may be an indication of con tamination by sewage or other organic matter, as nitrate represents the final stage of oxidation in the nitrogen cycle. The nitrate con-
CHEMICAL QUALITY OF THE WATEiR 109
centrations of the water analyzed were much less than the recom mended maximum.
Hardness is the characteristic of water usually recognized because of the increased quantity of soap required to produce a lather and because of the deposits of insoluble salts formed when the water is heated or evaporated. Calcium and magnesium cause most of the hardness of water. Certain other constituents, such as iron, alumi num, strontium, barium, zinc, and free acid, also cause hardness; however, they are not present in sufficient quantitites, as a rule, to have any appreciable effect. Specific limits have not been set for hardness, but the following gradations generally are recognized:
Hardness (ppm) Rating and usability
Less than 60_--_ Soft suitable for many uses without further softening.
60-120- ________ Moderately hard usable except in some indus trial applications.
120-200________ Hard softening required by laundries andsome other industries.
More than 200_ _ Very hard softening desirable for most purposes.
The hardness of the water sampled ranged from 60 to 436 ppm; however, most of the ground water, including water used for municipal supply, had a hardness of 120 to 200 ppm.
IRRIGATION USE
Although water from the basin is being used successfully for irriga tion, an evaluation of water quality is necessary for sound planning of future expansion. The samples that were analyzed are few, but they are considered to be representative of the general quality of the water in the area.
The water can be rated for irrigation by a method proposed by Wilcox (1948). In this method, water is rated as to its suitability for irrigation on the basis of its percent sodium and its specific con ductance. If the percent sodium is less than 48, the water can be rated by the specific conductance alone. Because the maximum per cent sodium in all the water analyzed was 44, the following ratings are applicable:Specific conductance (micromhos per centimeter
at 85° C) Bating for irrigation
Less than 750_____________ Excellent to good.750 to 2,000- ___---____-__ Good to permissible.2,000 to 3,000- ____________ Doubtful to unsuitable.More than 3,000_--________ Unsuitable.
Water in Enders Reservoir and lower Frenchman Creek, and most ground water rate excellent to good. Water from four shallow wells (32.5 to 49.0 feet deep) in southwestern Chase County and northeastern Yuma County rates good to permissible.
110 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
In addition to rating water on the basis of percent sodium and specific conductance, various investigators have rated irrigation water also on the basis of boron content. The tolerance of various plants to boron has been studied by Eaton (1935) and Scofield (1936). According to Scofield, water having less than 0.33 ppm of boron is suitable for irrigation, even of boron-sensitive crops. All the samples analyzed had less than 0.33 ppm of boron.
PROSPECTIVE DEPLETION OF STREAMFLOW BY PUMPIRRIGATION
The water-table contour map (pi. 5) and the saturated-thickness map (pi. 8) indicate that a larger volume of ground water is discharged into Frenchman Creek from the south than from the north. The extensive dune-sand deposits lying south of and close to the creek along most of the reach of perennial flow upstream from Enders Reservoir constitute an excellent catchment area from which emerges a large part of the ground-water discharge into Frenchman Creek. The greater part of the land considered to be irrigable, however, is north of Frenchman Creek.
Land areas generally suitable for irrigation were outlined from the results of a reconnaissance land-suitability survey made by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Areas in which pumping of ground water for irrigation eventually may deplete the flow of Frenchman, Spring, and Stinking Water Creeks are outlined by hachures on plate 10, and individual areas were assigned identifying block letters from A to N. A comparison of plate 10 with the water-table contour map (pi. 5) indicates that, because of the location of ground-water divides, the movement of ground water under blocks C and N is toward Spring and Stinking Water Creeks, and the movement under all other blocks is toward Frenchman Creek. A change in the ground-water divides whereby pumping in blocks J and N could cause a depletion of both Frenchman and Spring Creeks, might occur after years of pumping. Pumping in some of the other blocks also might deplete the flow in both creeks, but the depletion of the streams farther from the block will be extremely small in comparison to the depletion of the nearer stream. The net change in results at Enders Reservoir, however, would be negligible (about 5 percent), and practically no change in results would be noticed at Palisade because Frenchman, Spring, and Stinking Water Creeks are all in the Frenchman Creek basin and converge at Palisade.
In this study, it is assumed that all the water required for the irri gable lands within a block would be pumped from one source, located at the centroid of that block (pi. 10).
PROSPECTIVE DEPLETION OF STREAMFLOW BY PUMP IRRIGATION 111
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FIC-CKE 39. Estimated rate of development of irrigation with ground water.
In estimating the annual rate of irrigation development from ground-water sources in the irrigable areas (fig. 39), the Bureau of Reclamation assumed that only about half the irrigable land would be developed, even after many years. The development may be re tarded during years of more than normal precipitation, when the incentive to change from dryland to irrigation farming is lessened. In a series of drought years, however, or even years of average pre cipitation, the estimated rate of development of irrigation wells may be exceeded. Irrigation development is related also to the farm economy, including low-cost power and the market price of crops. The reconnaissance land-suitability survey indicated that topography and soil are the principal factors, other than the availability of water, that would control the development of irrigation.
The irrigable land along Spring and Stinking Water Creeks (block C) was estimated to include 2,500 acres, all underlain by alluvium. About 600 acres was irrigated during 1953, and it was assumed that about 950 acres more, in small tracts, would be developed during the next 50 years.
The irrigable land in the Frenchman Creek valley (block G] was estimated to comprise about 2,600 acres, also underlain by alluvium but having somewhat heavier soil than that along Stinking Water Creek. The land in the valley is readily irrigable because it is level or only gently rolling. About 1,100 acres was irrigated by water from
112 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
wells and from the stream during 1953; about 1,125 additional acres is expected to be irrigated by ground water by 1999.
On the basis of the land-suitability survey, it was estimated that irrigation in the remainder of the area in which pumping of ground water for irrigation might eventually deplete the flow of Frenchman Creek would be developed during a period of 40 years. This land is underlain by the Ogallala formation, and about 50,000 acres is suitable for irrigation. About 5,000 acres was irrigated by water from wells during 1953, and about 20,000 additional acres is expected to be irri gated by ground water by 1989.
Thus, the estimates of rate of development were based on the assumption that the development will be completed between 1989 and 1999. The computations of depletion, which follow, show only a slight increase in acreage irrigated after 1989, the increase after 1989 being restricted to blocks C and G. The computations were based on 6 periods of time, each being 10 years longer than the pre ceding one so that the last interval spans a 60-year period, from 1949 to 2008. Each period begins with data for 1949, even though some land was developed before 1949. Depletion was not computed for acreage in the stream valleys now irrigated by ground water pumped from wells because, theoretically, wells in the stream valleys at the time of this study already were obtaining indirectly more than 90 percent of their yield from the streams.
The approximate ground-water contribution (base flow) to the flow of Frenchman, Stinking Water, and Spring Creeks had to be determined to enable computation of the depletion in the streamflow that might be caused by future withdrawal of ground water for irri gation. Therefore, the flow in those creeks was measured on October 23, 1952, at 28 places, including 7 permanent stream-gaging stations (pi. 10). The date in October was chosen because previous heavy frosts had minimized evapotranspiration and because the meagerness of precipitation during the preceding weeks had minimized the overland-runoff contribution to the streams. As Frenchman Creek is fed primarily by ground water, any overland runoff is of short duration and can be considered to be negligible. The streamflow measurements on October 23, 1952, therefore, are thought by the writers to represent the base flow, or the actual contribution of ground water to the streamflow upstream from each point of measurement. The base flow, so determined, was taken to represent the average annual base flow; and the base-flow measurements were extrapolated to derive the average annual discharge, in acre-feet, which then was plotted on the hydrographs shown in figures 40-42. The computed rate of flow at the gaging station downstream from Imperial, Nebr. (at the proposed Harvey damsite) was 57,000 acre-feet per year,
ANNUAL STREAMFLOW, IN THOUSANDS OF ACRE-FEET PER YEAR8 g & s s s §
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EXPLANATION
A 20Point of supplementary stream-
flow measurement, Oct. 23, 1952
Point on median line or center of stream at base of per pendicular to centroid of block
Confluence with Stinking Water Creek
5 10 15
DISTANCE, IN MILES, BELOW POINT OF EFFLUENCE
20
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which compared favorably with the measured average annual rate of flow of 55,000 acre-feet during the 7-year period 1946-52.
COMPUTATIONS
The computations of average annual depletion of streamflow that may be caused by the development of ground water for irrigation involve the following factors and information: (1) the distance of the pumped well from the stream; (2) the coefficient of transmissi- bility of the aquifer; (3) the specific yield of the aquifer (assumed to be the same as the coefficient of storage); (4) the pumping time; (5) the rate of development of ground water for irrigation (estimated); (6) the pumping rate; (7) the annual consumptive use of water per acre irrigated; (8) the rate of evapotranspiration; (9) the average annual streamflow; (10) the Theis-Conover chart (fig. 43); and (11) the nonequilibrium formula as applied by Theis (1941). Each of
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these elements in the computations will be treated in turn. As a possible refinement to the computations a twelfth factor, namely, the ratio between the solutions for depleting a stream of finite length and a stream of infinite length, was examined. The ratio was not used, however, for reasons stated in a following paragraph.
To simplify computations, it was assumed that all ground water required in each block of irrigable land was pumped at one point. The distance from that point (centroid of the block) to the stream was measured (except for blocks C and G) along a perpendicular (pi. 10) erected from the centerline of the stream if the distance was 3 miles or less; or from the median line of the stream if the distance was more than 3 miles. This distance, in miles, is the factor a indi cated on the Theis-Conover chart (fig. 43) and the factor YQ in the Muskat formula, discussed on page 120 in this study.
By means of the transmissibility map (pi. 7), a coefficient of 200,000 gpd per ft was selected for block G; 140,000 and 130,000 gpd per ft for blocks C and N, respectively; and 175,000 gpd per ft for each of the remaining blocks.
The specific yield of the aquifers, treated in a preceding section on the hydrologic properties of water-bearing materials, was assumed to be 20 percent for aquifers underlying all blocks of irrigable land.
For convenience, the pumping times were selected in 10-year cumulative increments spanning a 60-year study period from 1949 to 2008, inclusive.
It was assumed that the withdrawal of water from the ground-water reservoir through wells would be at a constant rate throughout the year. Actually, however, pumping is sporadic and generally is heaviest during the growing season. The water table declines during the pumping period; when pumping ceases, the water table recovers and approaches, reaches, or exceeds the original static level, according to available recharge.
Data presented in table 16 indicate that the quantity of water pumped per irrigated acre per year (1949-53) ranged from 0.72 to 2.24 acre-feet and averaged about 1.5 acre-feet. The aquifer tests (figs. 26, 27) indicate that some of the water pumped percolates downward and returns to the aquifer. Therefore, in this study, it is assumed that annual net withdrawal of ground water is about 1 acre- foot of water per acre irrigated.
When the withdrawal of ground water causes a regional decline of the water table, the points of effluence of streams will move down stream, and evapotranspiration along the streams will be reduced. Also, the space made available by the unwatering of sediments then can be utilized in the capture and subsurface storage of a part of the overland runoff previously rejected because of lack of storage space.
PROSPECTIVE DEPLETION OF STREAMFLOW BY PUMP IRRIGATION 117
Because the computations indicate that the point of effluence of Frenchman Creek will move downstream 5 miles by the year 2008 (fig. 40), a total of 500 acre-feet per year then will be salvaged as a result of the regional decline of the water table, an amount about equal to 1 percent of the average annual streamflow of Frenchman Creek at Palisade, Nebr. Therefore, in this study, it is assumed that the net effect of the reduction of evapotranspiration and the increase in salvage of overland runoff caused by the point of effluence having moved downstream will be negligible.
It was discovered during this study that the average annual stream- flow could be derived fairly accurately from the flow measured on October 23, 1952; and that it is about 57,000 acre-feet in Frenchman Creek at the gaging station near Imperial, Nebr.; about 76,000 acre- feet in Frenchman Creek at the gaging station at Palisade, Nebr.; about 10,000 acre-feet at the mouth of Spring Creek; and about 22,000 acre-feet in Stinking Water Creek at the gaging station near Palisade, Nebr. (See p. 112.)
Of the ground water pumped to irrigate the lands in each block during each year of the six study periods, the percentage that should be ascribed to depletion of streamflow was determined from the Theis-Conover chart (fig. 43). To use the chart, it is necessary to know or assume 'the following: (1) the distance a between the center of pumping and the nearby stream, (2) the coefficient of trans- missibility (T) of the aquifer, (3) the specific yield (S) of the aquifer, and (4) the pumping time (i).
The example given in figure 43 indicates that a well (block B, pi. 10), 3.6 miles from a stream of infinite length, that has been pumping for a period of 10 years from an aquifer having a coefficient of trans- missibility of 175,000 gpd per ft and a specific yield of 20 percent is obtaining 52 percent of its yield by diversion of flow that otherwise would reach the stream.
The Theis-Conover chart was used in determining the percentages for each block, which then were converted into rates (acre-feet per year) of streamflow depletion at the end of each 10-year study period and totaled as shown in tables 25 and 26.
The use of the Theis nonequilibrium formula for these stream- depletion studies was based on the assumptions given in the section of this report dealing with aquifer tests. The application of this formula, as stated by Theis (1941), and the development of the Theis-Conover chart, are restricted to aquifers that contact a line source of infinite length. As the segments of the streams considered in this study are finite in length, the ratio of depletion of a finite stream to that of an infinite stream needed to be ascertained to determine if any further refinement or adjustment of the depletion
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TABLE 26. Depletion of streamflow in Spring Creek from the point of effluence to the mouth of Spring Creek 1 and depletion of flow in Stinking Water Creek from the point of effluence to the gaging station near Palisade, Nebr.2
[Measurements in acre-feet per year]
Period of depletion
1949-58------_-_1959-68---------1969-78_-----_--1979-88__----___1989-98---------1999-2008_._-___
Depletion at mouth of Spring Creek
Block s
N
95 260 445 610 685 725
c<
45 95
140 190 235 240
Total
100 400 600 800 900
1,000
Flow at mouth of
Spring Creek at end of period
9,900 9,600 9,400 9, 200 9, 100 9,000
Depletion upstream from gaging station
near Palisade
Block C *
140 280 425 565 710 710
Total
300 600
1,000 1,400 1, 600 1, 700
Flow at gaging station near
Palisade at end of period
21, 700 21, 400 21, 000 20, 600 20, 400 20, 300
1 Streamflow at mouth of Spring Creek is assumed to have been 10,000 acre-feet per year (projected from base-flow measurements made on Oct. 23,1952).
2 Streamflow in Stinking Water Creek at gagin? station near Palisade is assumed to have been 22,000 acre-feet per year (projected from base-flow measurements made on Oct. 23. 1952).
s See plate 10 for area of block, in acres, and distance from centroid of block to median line of stream, in miles.
4 Assumed that 25 percent of block C will cause a depletion of Spring Creek, and 75 percent will cause a depletion of Stinking Water Creek.
computations appeared warranted. J. G. Ferris, of the Geological Survey (personal communication to V. C. Fishel, Jan. 6, 1953), recommended the use of two steady-state formulas developed by Muskat (1937, p. 178, 191). The required ratio is expressed as Qf /Qt in which Qf is the flow intercepted by a well that induces in filtration from a nearby line source (stream) of finite length and Qi is the flow intercepted by a well that induces infiltration from a nearby line source of infinite length.
From Muskat (1937, p. 191, equation 16) the steady-state flow from a finite line source to a discharging well that induces infiltration therefrom is given by:
2irk(pe pw)4?7 Il°Se-~\ - 'w L.C
(1)
where r02 =x02 -\-y02 ; and where x0 ' y0' and c are as shown by figure 44.Also from Muskat (1937, p. 178, equation 8), the steady-state
flow from an infinite line source to a discharging well is given by:
/z loge 2d/rt(2)
whered=Y0 in terminology of equation (1) and
figure 44.
PROSPECTIVE DEPLETION OF STREAMFLOW BY PUMP IRRIGATION 121
Finite line-c
Well
source 1
FIGURE 44. Diagram showing system corresponding to the flow from a finite-line source into a well.After Muskat (1937, p. 187).
Trial computations of the ratio Qf/Qt substituting appropriately in equations (1) and (2), yielded values in the range 0.90 1.00. Inasmuch as Muskat's formulas are for steady-state conditions, and throughout much of the study periods analyzed in this report pumping would not have reached steady state, the computed values of Qf/Qi would be too low. Thus, true values of the ratio generally would approximate unity, obviating the need for their use in additional refining of the depletion computations.
When the upper part of Frenchman Creek no longer is effluent, wells in parts or all of blocks A, B, F, and M will intercept more water that otherwise would have reached the stream, and the water
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122 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
table will continue to decline. Eventually, sufficient natural dis charge thus should be intercepted to balance the amount pumped. This "change in point of diversion" will not change the overall effect of the pumping in depleting the flow of Frenchman Creek.
The total of the rates of depletion of Frenchman Creek upstream from Enders Reservoir for the end of each study period is shown in column 13 of table 25 and the sum of the rates of depletion of French man Creek upstream from Palisade, Nebr., in column 16. The total of the rates of depletion of Spring Creek upstream from its confluence with Stinking Water Creek is shown in column 4 of table 26, and the sum of the rates of depletion of Stinking Water Creek upstream from Palisade is given in column 7.
The total depletion of streamflow in Frenchman Creek upstream from Enders Reservoir (column 13, table 25) subtracted from the streamflow at the gaging station near Imperial, Nebr., during 1949 gives the amount of residual streamflow per year at that gaging station (column 14) or the amount of residual streamflow per year entering Enders Reservoir. The total depletion in Frenchman Creek upstream from Palisade (column 16, table 25) subtracted from the streamflow at the gaging station at Palisade during 1949 gives the amount of residual streamflow per year at the Palisade gaging station (column 17). The total depletion for Spring Creek upstream from its confluence with Stinking Water Creek (column 4, table 26)- sub tracted from the streamflow at its mouth during 1949 gives the amount of residual streamflow per year at the mouth of Spring Creek (column 5). The total depletion for Stinking Water Creek upstream from Palisade (column 7, table 26) subtracted from the streamflow at the gaging station near Palisade during 1949 gives the amount of residual streamflow per year in Stinking Water Creek at the gaging station near Palisade (column 8).
A summary of tables 25 and 26 is given in figures 40 to 42. The streamflow by the year 2008 can be estimated from figures 40 to 42 by subtracting the depletion curve from the base-measurement curve of October 23, 1952, which represents average streamflow.
CONCLUSIONS
The preceding computations of the depletion of streamflow indicate that the assumed irrigation development would reduce the average annual ground-water discharge into Enders Reservoir by about 30 percent by the year 2008. The point of effluence will move from its present position downstream as much as 5 miles, along the median line of Frenchman Creek upstream from Enders Reservoir, or about a fourth of the initial 21-mile length of the median line. As the rate of streamflow in 1949 at the gaging station near Imperial was 57,000
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acre-feet per year and the computed depletion of streamflow at that station after a 60-year period is 17,000 acre-feet per year, the residual streamflow will be 40,000 acre-feet in the year 2008.
The computed depletion of streamflow in Frenchman Creek at the gaging station at Palisade, at the end of the 60-year period, is 18,000 acre-feet per year; thus, by the year 2008, the residual streamflow in Frenchman Creek at the gaging station at Palisade would be about 60,000 acre-feet per year.
The computations of depletion of the flow in Spring and Stinking Water Creeks indicate that the streamflow at the gaging station near Palisade would be reduced about 10 percent by the year 2008. The present point of effluence would be moved 1 or 2 miles downstream along the median line of Spring Creek, whereas the point of effluence of Stinking Water Creek would remain approximately at its present (1953) location. The streamflow at the mouth of Spring Creek on October 23, 1952, was at the rate of 10,000 acre-feet per year. The computed depletion of streamflow at the end of the 60-year period was 1,000 acre-feet per year; thus, by the year 2008, the residual stream- flow at the mouth of Spring Creek would be about 9,000 acre-feet per year. The streamflow of Stinking Water- Creek at the gaging station near Palisade on October 23, 1952, was at the rate of 22,000 acre-feet per year. The computed depletion of streamflow, for the end of the 60-year period, was 1,700 acre-feet per year; thus, by the year 2008, the residual streamflow at the gaging station near Palisade would be about 20,000 acre-feet per year. The combined streamflow of Frenchman and Stinking Water Creeks at their confluence near Palisade was at the rate of 98,000 acre-feet per year in 1952. The computed depletion of streamflow at the confluence of these 2 streams near Palisade at the end of a 60-year period was 20,000 acre-feet per year; thus, by the year 2008, the residual streamflow of Frenchman and Stinking Water Creeks near Palisade will be about 78,000 acre-feet per year. This is the amount that will be available for diversion at Palisade.
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1935, The Pleistocene geology of Nebraska: Nebraska Geol. Survey Buil. 10, 2d ser., 223 p., 2 pis., 38 figs.
1939, Classification of the Tertiary system in Nebraska: Geol. Soc.America Bull., v. 50, no. 8, p. 1245-1275.
Lugn, A. L., and Wenzel, L. K., 1938, Geology and ground-water resources ofsouth-central Nebraska, with special reference to the Platte River valleybetween Chapman and Gothenburg: U.S. Geol. Survey Water-Supply Paper779, 242 p., 16 pis., 21 figs.
Mather, K. F., Gilluly, James, and Lusk, R. G., 1928, Geology and oil and gasprospects of northeastern Colorado: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 796-B, p. 65-124,5 pis.
Maxcy, K. F., 1950, Report on the relation of nitrate concentrations in well watersto the occurrence of methemoglobinemia: Natl. Research Council Bull.,Sanitary Engineer, p. 265, app. D.
McCall, K.D., 1944, Growth of irrigation in Scott County, Kansas: KansasState Board Agriculture Report, v. 63, no. 262, 31 p., 14 figs.
McLaughlin, T. G., 1946, Geology and ground-water resources of parts of Lincoln,Elbert, and El Paso Counties, Colo.: Colorado Water Conserv. Board,Ground-Water Ser. Bull. 1, 139 p., 6 pis., 15 figs.
1948, Ground water in the Julesburg area, Colorado: Colorado Water Conserv. Board Circ. 1, 20 p., 2 figs.
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1861, Description of new Lower Silurian (Primordial), Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Tertiary fossils, collected in Nebraska Territory, with some remarks on the rocks from which they were obtained: Philadelphia Acad. Nat. Sci. Proc. 1861, v. 13, p. 415-447.
Meeks, T. O., 1952, Developing and testing irrigation wells: U.S. Soil Conserv. Service, Region 6, Bull. 114, Geol. Ser. 4., 42 p.
SELECTED KEFERENiCEIS 127
Meinzer, O. E., 1923a, The occurrence of ground water in the United States, with a discussion of principles: U.S. Geol. Survey Water-Supply Paper 489 321 p., 31 pis., 110 figs.
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Meyer, A. F., 1928, The Elements of hydrology: New York, John Wiley & Sons,522 p.
Moore, R. C., 1933, Historical geology: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co.,673 p., 413 figs.
Muskat, Morris, 1937, The flow of homogeneous fluids through porous media:New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 763 p., 284 figs.
Newell, F. H., 1895, The public lands and their water supply: U.S. Geol. Survey16th Ann. Kept., pt. 2-E, p. 457-533.
Osborn, C. A., Dermeyer, R. D., and Nesbitt, A. P., 1947, Geologic report of theWray damsite, North Republican Unit, Missouri Basin Project: Indianola,Nebr., U.S. Dept. Interior, Bur. Reclamation, 10 p., 7 pis., 3 figs.
Paulsen, C. G., 1952, Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1947: U.S.Geol. Survey Water-Supply Paper 1102, 651 p.
Presc.ott, G. C., Jr., 1952, Geology and ground-water resources of CheyenneCounty, Kansas: Kansas Geol. Survey Bull. 100, 106 p., 8 pis., 10 figs.
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Rankin, C. H., Jr., 1933, Study of well sections in northeastern Colorado: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull., v. 17, no. 4, p. 422-432.
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128 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Tolman, C. F., 1937, Ground water: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 593 p.,189 figs.
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U.S. Geological Survey, 1958, Quality of surface waters of the United States,1953: U.S. Geol. Survey Water-Supply Paper 1291, 472 p.
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Waite, H. A., and others, 1948, Progress report on the ground-water hydrologyof the Republican and Frenchman River valleys: U.S. Geol. Survey Circ. 19,83 p., 1 pi., 5 figs.
Waring, F. H., 1949, Significance of nitrates in water supplies: Am. Water WorksAssoc. Jour., v. 41, no. 2, p. 147-150.
Wenzel, L. K., 1942, Methods for determining permeability of water-bearingmaterials, with special reference to discharging-well methods, with a sectionon direct laboratory methods and a bibliography on permeability and laminarflow, by V. C. Fishel: U.S. Geol. Survey Water-Supply Paper 887, 192 p.,6 pis., 17 figs.
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municipal water supply: Kansas Geol. Survey Bull. 79, 455 p., 34 pis., 31figs.
Wood, I. D., 1950, Pumping for irrigation: U.S. Soil Conserv. Service Tech.Paper 89, 40 p.
BASIC DATA 129
BASIC DATA
"Sample logs" are those for which well cuttings were studied by qualified geologists. Listed in the following pages are the sample logs of 102 test holes. Seventy-two of the test holes were drilled for or by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in the Frenchman Creek basin. Nineteen were drilled for the U.S. Geological Survey in the divide area between the South Platte and Frenchman Creek basins in 1949 during the field investigations for a report on the geology and ground-water resources of the lower South Platte River valley between Hardin, Colo., and Paxton, Nebr. (Bjorklund and Brown, 1957); the samples from those test holes were studied by geolo gists on that project. Three of the test holes were drilled by pri vate drilling contractors for municipal, stock, or domestic water supplies. Eight were seismograph shotholes or oil-test holes for which well ciittings were studied microscopically by Nebraska Geological Survey geologists. The well cuttings from all test holes, other than those drilled in 1949 or otherwise noted, were collected and studied by Cardwell and Spiegel. The locations of test holes used in constructing the fence diagram (pi. 2) are shown on plate 6. The sample logs are grouped in table 27 in alphabetical order ac cording to counties and in numerical order within counties, first in Colorado and then in Nebraska.
The logs of 972 seismograph shotholes, test holes, and wells presented in table 28 also are in alphabetical order by counties and in numerical order within counties, first in Colorado and then in Nebraska. The location of test holes used in constructing the fence diagram (pi. 2) is shown on plate 6.
All drillers'logs are of seismograph shotholes unless otherwise noted. The logs of seismograph shotholes are of doubtful value in subdividing lithologic units; their principal value is that they re cord the depth to the top of bedrock at the site of the shothole.
The term "caliche" is siibstituted for "magnesia," "magnesia rock," and "gyp rock," which are terms used by the drillers to describe certain calcareous beds. The term "sandstone" is used here as a substitute for the drillers' terms "sandstone," "sand rock," and "sandyrock;" the term "sandstone" is used variously for all sandy rocks from hard "mortar beds" to fairly well com pacted or cemented sand. Formational names have been added to the drillers' logs.
Records of wells are presented in table 29 and measurements of water levels in observation wells are presented in table 30.
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___________________Toble 27. Sample logs of test holes ______________
LOGAN COUNTY, COLO.
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-49-31ccc
[Drilled for U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 4,344.7 ft]
Soil, silty, clayey,.medium-brown--------_-------_----------__ 5 5Ogallala formation:
Caliche, soft to hard, white to buff; contains grains ranging fromsand to very fine gravel and thin layers of clay _------_---___- 18 23
Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, clayey_________________________ 2 25Caliche; interbedded with clay, sand, and gravel __..-__...__.._. 18 43 Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose ______________________ 22 65Caliche, sandy, hard, buff; interbedded with clayey silt; contains
some very hard zones _____________________________________ 37 102Clay, hard, brown; contains some caliche __-___--_______-_____- 11 113
Chadron formation:Clay, silty, hard, green.....__...-_---..-----_--.___-_-.... 19 132Clay, hard, plastic, light-green to gray with yellow stain;
interbedded with yellow clay..--________-_-___----------_--- 10 142Clay, hard, plastic, yellow..__________________________________ 26 168Clay, hard, plastic, yellow, gray, green, and pink _____________.-' 14 182Clay, hard, plastic, yellow, light-blue, and pink. __----___-_-_.__ 20 202Clay, hard, plastic, light-blue......._._-..-_-....-.-_-_--.__-- 12 214
Pierre shale:Clay, hard, plastic, dark-gray _--_-.--_-__--__-_.-.-___-----.- 8 222
8-48-laaa
[Drilled for U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 4,075.3 ft]
Dune sand:Soil, sandy, silty, brown _..._.___________._.__..____..-..___- 4 4Silt, clayey, brown __________________________________________ 3 7Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel _____________________________ 1 8Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty_.___-____._----_-__-----_- 2 10 Sand, medium to coarse, loose; contains very fine to very coarse
sand----_--_-__-_-----_-_---___-____-_--------___---_--_- 4 14Ogallala formation:
Caliche, sandy, hard, white to buff; contains thin layers of clay___ 17 31 Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose _________.--___-__-___ 7 38Caliche, hard to soft, buff; contains sand, gravel, and clay _-.____ 14 52Caliche, clayey, sandy, gravelly, soft, buff _----_-------_--_-__- 9 61Sand, very fine, to mediuir gravel, loose_______-_---_--_-_-___ 28 89Clay, soft _______________________________________________ 2 91Sand, very fine, to medium; gravel, loose ______--_._____-----_- 8 99Clay, sandy, soft, buff to white ____________--_-___-__.--___-__ 3 102Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, clayey; interbedded with
layers of clay..---__-_____-______________-_.__-_--_--__-_- 17 119Sand, fine, to fine gravel, loose; contains some layers of caliche- 12 131 Clay, sandy, soft, buff -_---___--___-_---_---_--___-------___- 5 136Caliche, clayey, buff to white; contains sand and gravel.__.-_.___ 4 140 Clay, soft, buff_---_._-_______________________---_-._--_--_ 5 145Clay, sandy, silty, light-tan ________----__-_-.--_---_-_------_ 11 156Sand, medium to coarse, clayey; loose; contains very fine sand
to very fine graveL-----___--_-_-__--_-_--_-___--_-__---.__ 8 164Clay, sandy, gravelly, hard, tan___________--____________-____- 4 168Clay, sandy, gravelly, hard, tan; interbedded with caliche ________ 4 172
BASIC DATA 131Table 27. Sample loss of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-48 -laaa Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedClay, sandy, gravelly, hard, tan_____...._______________--_____ 10 182Clay, sandy, silty, hard, tan.._..._._._.._...____.....______._ 22 204Sand, medium to coarse; contains very fine sand to very fine
gravel and thin streaks of clay and caliche-_--_--__--_------_ 15 219Caliche, sandy, soft, buff; contains thin streaks of hard caliche... 23 242 Caliche; interbedded with clay and sand-_-------_----------.__- 20 262
Brule formation:Silt, clayey, sandy, light-brown; contains some layers of clay and
slightly cemented zones.-.__._--.--._-__---._--.--_---...__ 20 282 Siltstone, clayey, light-brown_________________________________ 42 324
Chadron formation:Sandstone, fine-grained, light -green and blue.. _________________ 4 328Clay, silty, hard, light-brown__----__________-________________ 9 337Clay, silty, hard, light-blue; contains thin layers of white caliche. 15 352 Clay, hard, dense, light-blue; contains thin layers of white caliche. 30 382 Clay, hard, dense, light-blue, light-gray, pink, brown, andpurple__ 41 423
Pierre shale:Clay, hard, plastic, dark-gray; and dark-gray shale_______-.____ 9 432
8-49-9daa
[Test hole for municipal well for town of Fleming (at site of observation well 8-49-9daa) drilled by William Shocke, 1953. Surface altitude, 4,227.2 ft]
Soil, sandy, black ------__---___.____________________________ 3 3Ogallala formation:
Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, clayey, red_________________ 17 20Gravel, fine, loose, pink; contains very fine sand to medium gravel _ 6 26 Sand, medium, silty, slightly clayey, gray; contains coarse sand
to medium gravel _________________________________________ 8 34Gravel, fine, silty, clayey, light-brown; contains very fine to very
coarse gravel-____________________________________________ 4 38Gravel, fine, loose, pink; contains very fine sand to medium
grave) ____________________________________________________ 10 48Gravel, fine, slightly clayey, fairly loose, pink; contains very fine
sand to medium gravel.-___-__-____________________________ 6 54Sand, fine, silty, clayey; contains very fine sand to fine gravel____ 4 58Sand, fine to coarse, loose, tan to pink__--_----_____-._________ 6 64Sand, fine, fairly loose, tan; contains very fine sand to medium
gravel and water-worn pebbles of caliche____________________ 6 70White River group:
Clay, silty, calcareous, sandy, medium-hard, tan _______________ 3 73Clay, silty, calcareous, sandy, medium-hard, light-brown;
contains water-worn pebbles of caliche ______________________ 3 76Silt, clayey, soft, gray _______________________________________ 6 82Silt, clayey, calcareous, soft, light gray-green__________________ 14 96Silt, clayey, slightly calcareous, soft, light pinkish-tan __________ 6 102Silt, clayey, slightly calcareous, soft, light reddish-brown _______ 7 109Silt, clayey, very calcareous, soft, light-gray_-.________________ 1 110Silt, clayey, and gravel, medium gray_._--____________________ 8 118Gravel, medium, loose; contains pebbles of caliche and medium to
very coarse sand._________________________________________ 6 124Sand, medium, silty; contains streaks of red sandy clay and
pebbles of caliche______._____._..___.._.__._._.____.____.. 4 128Sand, medium, silty, very calcareous, slightly cemented,
gray-green; contains pebbles of caliche.._____________._._._. 4 132
132 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-4 9 - 9daa-Continued
White River group-ContinuedCaliche, very sandy, clayey, medium-soft, gray-green; contains
water-worn pebbles of caliche--_____-_---__._-__--_---__-. 31 163 Caliche, very sandy, silty, clayey, medium-soft, gray-green;
contains water-worn pebbles of caliche.____________________ 46 209Clay, calcareous, medium-soft, gray__--------__-------_---_- 2 211Sand, coarse, calcareous, medium-loose, gray-green; contains
pebbles of caliche________________________________________ 26 237Sand, fine, calcareous, medium-loose, gray-green; contains
pebbles of caliche________________________________________ 2 239Sand, fine, silty, calcareous, medium-loose, gray-green________ 1 240Sand, very fine to coarse, loose, blue-green __________________ 6 246
Pierre shale:Clay, medium-hard, gray and dark -blue _-___-_---_----__-_-_- ____2 248
8-49-31ccc
[Drilled for U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 4,313.3 ft]
Soil, silty, clayey, brown _-______-___--____---___------_---- 3 3Silt, clayey, buff; contains caliche______-___--_---------_---_- 3 6
Ogallala formation:Caliche, sandy, gravelly, hard, buff _______-_--____-_---_----_ 11.5 17.5Sand, medium to very coarse, loose; contains very fine sand to
coarse gravel ___-_____-_____--___-__--__---__-_--------_ 23.5 41Clay, sandy, hard, light-tan ________________-__--._--____-_-- 6 47Caliche, sandy, hard, buff___________._-___--_.___-___--_--- 4.5 51.5Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel, loose--.-----..------------ 5.5 57Silt, clayey, sandy, gravelly..__......_-_----_---_-----_.---- 8 65Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose.______.__.._-_.-____ 12 77Silt, clayey, sandy..________...--_____-_-__--..-.--.-----_-- 7.5 84.5Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, loose.._______________________ 11.5 96Clay, sandy, brown; interbedded with layers of fine sand _______ 9 105Caliche, sandy, hard, buff; interbedded with layers of sandy clay. 33 138 Sand, very fine to coarse____-_-_-._______.-_._----..._.--_-- 6 144Sand, very fine to coarse, partly cemented with caliche____.____ 8 152Sand, very fine to coarse..-_-___----__--_---___.-----_-----_ 2 154
Brule formation:Siltstone, sandy, buff-._...._.____.__----------_____--_. 14 168Silt, clayey, tan__...__.....__..____.__..___.-.-.-._ 18 186Sand, very fine to coarse; contains come caliche....._--._----- 7 193Claystone, tan; contains caliche..__._._--__--_-_-----_------ 26 219
Chadron formation:Clay hard, dense, light-green and yellow.----_---------------- 23 242Clay, hard, dense, light-green and yellow; interbedded with
layers of fine sand and claystone.---------..--------------- 16 258Clay, dense, and claystone, light-blue, tan, green, yellow, and
pink_________...._.____._______.__________.__----- 82 340Pierre shale:
Clay, hard, plastic, dark-gray._______.______-__._______----_ 9 349
BASIC DATA 133Table 27. Sample Ions of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
9-50-4dab
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,812 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Clay and sand, hard; brown___._______________________________Sand, fine to medium, light-brown_____________________________Gravel, medium, sandy, pink to tan______________._.___________Gravel, medium; contains fine sand and clay, tan to pink-tan _____Gravel, fine to medium; contains fine to coarse sand; pink to tan__ Gravel, medium to coarse, and medium sand, pink to tan __-___- Gravel, very fine to medium; contains coarse to medium sand;
stained yellow-brown with iron oxide ________----___-__-_-__.Gravel, fine to medium, and siltstone, of Brule formation,
reworked, tan.____________________________________________Clay; contains medium to fine sand; buff to yellow. ______________Gravel, medium and coarse; and pink to tan sand, course ________Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to tan _________________________Sand, medium to fine; contains 20 percent fine to very fine
gravel; pink to tan.___--_______--_---__--__------____--__--Sand, medium to fine; contains 30 percent fine to medium gravel;
pink to tan._______________________________________________Gravel, coarse to medium, pink to tan; contains tan fine sand___._
Pierre shale:Clay and shale, yellow to brown...____________________________Shale, blue to black....._____________________________________
7.513.5
2202040
11537
10
1015.4
1.6 3
7.521234363
103
112
123128136143
153
163178.4
180183
9-50-4dd
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,852 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand, fine to medium, brown____._---_--._.-_._._._._____..... 23 23Sand, fine to medium; contains fine gravel and siltyclay; brown... 10 33 Sand, medium; contains some fine sand and fine gravel; brown ... 10 43 Sand, medium; contains some fine sand, brown _________________ 20 63Sand, fine to medium; contains clay, buff to tan _________________ 10 73Sand, very fine, light-brown..__._--_.--....-_..-..-.___...__. 7 80Sand, course, and very fine gravel, pink to tan ...._-...__-__..- 13 93Gravel, fine to medium, pink to tan _...._...._..__..__________ 10 103Gravel, fine to coarse, pink to tan; contains tan to buff layers of
clay at 116.5 and 119.4 ft --.--.-__-_-_--.__._--_.__------ 33 136Clay, tan to buff.--------......_----------------_-_------_-.- 1.5 137.5Gravel, fine to coarse, pink to tan. ___________^__________ ______ .5 138Clay, tan tobuff____________________________________...... 1 139Gravel, fine to coarse, pink to tan.._______._....__...__._._.__ 4 143Clay, sandy, tan to buff --.-----.------.-____.-_----___-..__ 34 177Gravel, fine to medium; contains sandy clay, pink and blue
reworked clay of Chadron formation, and tan siltstone of Bruleformation .-._.-.___________..-.--____-_______________..._ 68 245
Gravel, medium to coarse; contains sandy clay, pink and bluereworked clay of Chadron formation, and tan siltstone ofBrule formation.......___..______.......__________________ 31 276
Pierre shale:Shale, black, hard __......._.._._._.__......._........_._._.__ 4 280
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Table 27. Sample IORS of test holes Continued __________
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
9-50-10bcc
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude 3,863 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand, fine to medium, brown _________________________________ 100 100Gravel, fine to very fine, pink to tan _____-_.__--____--__-__-_- 3 103Gravel, medium, pink to tan; contains yellow to brown clay______ 8 111
Pierre shale:Shale, blue to black....____.._......-...-.----__...-.___ 12 123
9-51-34bbb
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,904 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand, fine to medium, light-tan.____._..-_._.-_-._..---_.__--- 43 43Sand, medium to coarse, light-tan _.._.____._.__.__.--____--._ 10 53Gravel, fine to medium; contains 30 percent medium sand,
light-tan...__..._..__..___.........._..__..--.-._...-- 10 63Gravel, fine to medium; interbedded with layers of tan clay...... 10 73Gravel, fine to coarse, pink to tan ____.___.___.___-_._-____--. 21 94
Pierre shale:Clay, sandy, cemented, very hard, light-gray __-.___-_-__-__-_. .5 94.5 Shale, black to blue-black _.-..__-...-____---------------- 8.5 103
9-51-34bc
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,941 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand, very fine to medium; contains 10 percent coarse sand,
light-brown___-_____-__________________-_---_---_-------- 50 50Sand, very fine to coarse; contains 20 percent fine gravel, pink
to tan .--.-._..-______...__.....__....._.__--...-.- 3 53Gravel, fine to medium, and tan clay._.__-.___-_-_------.__--- 10 63Gravel, fine to coarse__-_-_____-_____-______--_----_-------- 20 83Sand, very fine to fine________________-_________-__--_---_-_- 10 93Gravel, medium and coarse, pink to tan _____._--_-_---_------_ 10 103Gravel, medium and coarse; contains 30 percent very fine sand.. 10 113 Gravel, medium and coarse, pink to tan _______________________ 3.5 116.5Clay, tan __---__---___-____________--_-___.__._..-.__... 1 117.5Gravel, medium and coarse, pink to tan-__-____-_____--_-_---_ 9.5 127
Pierre shale:Shale, black to blue-black -----__---------------._-------__ ____5 132
10-48-lccc
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,669 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand, fine, and tan clay___..._.._____._______________________ 5 5Clay, light-tan ____________________________________________ .5 5.5Sand, fine to medium brown _________________________________ 21 26.5Sand, medium; interbedded with coarse gravel, pink to tan ______ 11 37.5Sand, medium; and fine to coarse gravel; contains interbedded
clay___________________________________________________ 41.5 79Chadron formation:
Clay, tan to yellow _________________________________________ 4 83Clay, tan to yellow and pink--.---..--.------------._--------- 20 103
BASIC DATA 135Table 27. Sample has attest holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10-48-llacd
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,716 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand, medium and fine, and fine gravel; cemented from2.5to3ft __ 30.5 30.5 Gravel, fine to medium, and fine sand, tan______________________ 12.5 43Sand, medium to coarse, and gravel, fine, pink to tan _-_---_____- 28.5 71.5Clay, very slightly sandy, white to light-gray_-_-_-_-__--------- 3.5 75Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to tan_-_----___-__-___-_-__--_- 58 133Gravel, very fine to fine; contains 30 percent medium to coarse
sand -..._..__._...___._..._.___.._..__-.-------._---.._- 10 143Gravel, medium and coarse to very fine; contains medium to
coarse sand and tan reworked siltstone of Brule formation _____ 10 153 Gravel, fine to coarse; contains medium to coarse sand
interbedded with layers of clay._________________-___--_____. 10 163Gravel, fine to medium, and fine to coarse sand, pink to tan ______ 30 193Gravel, fine to medium, pink to tan ____________________________ 10 203Sand, very fine to fine, and medium gravel, tan----_-_-__-___._- 20 223Gravel, fine to medium, pink to tan ____________________________ 21 244Gravel, coarse to very coarse, pink to tan______________________ 49 293
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow to brown --____--_-_-_____--____-_-_____________. 3 296
10-48-14ba
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,793 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand, coarse to medium, brown_________________________,______ 13 13Sand, fine to coarse__________________________________________ 10 23Sand, coarse, and fine gravel, light-tan________________________ 25 48Gravel, fine to medium, pink to tan ____________________________ 15 63Gravel, fine to very coarse, and medium sand___.______________ 22 85
Chadron formation:Clay, tan to light greenish-gray __-----__-____-________________ 8 93Clay, light greenish-gray. ____________________________________ 12 105
10-49-23bbb
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,711 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Soil____ __ -___--__.________________________________ 3.5 3.5Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to tan _________________________ 9.5 13Gravel, medium to very coarse, pink to tan (cemented47-49ft)____ 40 53Gravel, medium to very coarse, and pink to tan pebbles.______-._ 10 63Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to tan _________________________ 10 73Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to tan; contains pink and blue
reworked clay of Chadron formation and fine to medium sand__. 15 Chadron formation:
Clay and silt, pink and gray to blue and green___________________ 5 93
10-49-23bc
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,744 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand, very fine to medium, light-brown to tan. ______ ____-___.__- 13 13
136 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
_________________Toble 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued__________
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10-49-23bc-Continued
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated ContinuedSilt and very fine sand, tan to brown.. ___-__--_---_---___---_-- 10 23 Silt and very fine to coarse sand---_-_-_.-_---------.--.-----. 10 33Sand, medium to coarse, and fine gravel, pink to tan...-__-.-__. 10.5 43.5 Gravel, medium to coarse..__..._..-_.--._--._-------_-.---_- 19.5 63Gravel, fine to medium, pink to tan........_-_-.-----------.-__ 6 69Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to tan _.____-____-__--------___ 18.5 87.5Clay, sandy, light-tan..._......._.....__..-._......_---_-.._. 25.5 113Silt and sand, green to green-brown..___-._---__-_--_-_._-.--- 3 116 Gravel, medium-pink to tan __________________________________ 28.5 144.5
Chadron formation:Silt and clay, blue and light-gray.._..----..-_.-.__------------ 8.5 153
lO-49-23cbb
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitute, 3,745 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand, fine to medium, light - to medium-brown __________________ 23 23Sand, fine to medium, light-to medium-brown; contains yellow
to brown clay _____________________________________________ 11.5 34.5Gravel, fine to medium, gray to pink to tan____-_--_--_-____--__ 8.5 43Gravel, medium to coarse, gray to pink to tan -_____--_-__.___-_ 46.2 89.2
Chadron formation:Cle.y, pink.______......____..__________...____ 3.8 93Clay, pink and blue .----....._._....___..........-__-....-__. 10 103
10-49-23ccc
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,765 ft]
Okgocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand, fine to medium, brown----_--_-_---_-----___-----_------ 58 58Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to tan _.___._-__--___--__-____. 50 108Gravel, fine to medium, pink to tan__.__...._--___.-__---__-___ 1.5 109.5Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to tan ______--_____-__-____-___ 13.5 123Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to tan; contains tan reworked
siltstone of Brule formation._._....__.._..._...-......._... 20 143Gravel, fine, pink to tan, and brown coarse sand and clay .__._.__ 10 153 Gravel, fine to medium, pink to tan; interbedded with light-tan
clay _.__._..______.____._._.______...____.___........____ 10 163Sand, fine and very fine, and clay, tan ____._____-___--__._.__-. 7 170Clay, sandy, blue....___.................--_-_....-__-.-..- 3 173Clay, blue to blue-gray....__._.____...__.__-__.__.______._-._ 17 190Gravel, medium to coarse; contains chips of blue clay__-__.____. 18 208
Pierre shale:Shale, black to blue-black ..---.--.-.-...-__--.-.----------.- 6 214
10-49-26bcc
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,802 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand, fine to medium, brown,_._____..________..__.-__-__.__Clay, sandy, brown ..__..___.._____.._____..__.__..____.__.._ 5 13Sand, medium to fine, and dark-brown clay__---._._-.-___.--.-. 10 23
BASIC DATA 137
Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10-49-26bcc-Continued
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated-Continued Clay, interbedded with fine to coarse gravel and fine to coarse
sand, light-tan_----_--___..__.___...______.__.._.______..._ 20 43Sand, very fine to fine; interbedded with tan to brown clay _-__-_-- 40 83 Sand, very fine to coarse, and fine gravel, interbedded with
light-tan clay_____..__..______--.---....._._._.-______-...- 20 103Sand, very fine to coarse; interbedded with tan clay...-._...____- 12.5 115.5Clay, sandy, white to light -tan. _....__.__.___........___.___... 3.7 119.2Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to tan.._.______________________ 10.8 130Clay, sandy, tan____-__---__________-_-____________.__________ 3 133Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to tan.___________--____________ 20 153Gravel, very fine to fine, and coarse sand__--___--_--_________- 30 183Gravel, fine to coarse _ _____________________________________ 51.5 234.5
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow to brown with dark-gray streaks-___-_---_---_----_ 9.5 244 Shale, blue to black __-_-----------_--______.-----_______._. 6 250
10-49-26cc
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,875 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand, fine to medium; contains light-brown clay __-----______--_- 33 33Sand, fine to coarse; contains tan clay.________--__-_-___-_----- 30 63Sand, coarse; and very fine to fine gravel, pink to tan ____________ 10 73Sand, fine to medium; contains some coarse tan sand ____________ 30 103Gravel, fine to medium, and tan sand___________________________ 40 143Sand, medium to coarse, and very fine gravel --___----__------_- 20 163Sand, fine to coarse, tan------_-_------_-_----------_---_----- 10 173Gravel, fine to medium; interbedded with light-tan to buff clay -.__ 16 189Clay, sandy, light-tan to buff __________________________________ 19 208Gravel, fine to medium, pink to tan _---__________---_________-. 6 214
Pierre shale:Shale, blue to black .--.___--_-_--_---_-_-_---__.____-___-.- 9 223
PHILLIPS COUNTY, COLO.
6-43-36ddd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,589.0 ft]
Dune sand:Soil, dark-brown; contains very fine to medium sand.____________Sand, very fine to medium, buff; contains silt, some caliche, and
clay-__--________-_-________-_-___-____-----_--,_--____--_Sand, very fine to coarse; contains very coarse sand and very
fine gravel_________-_-__________---_______--__-_____------Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel; contains streaks of gray clay. _ Sand, fine, to medium gravel, well-rounded, loose, stained green __
Ogallala formation:Clay, silty, soft, gray ----_--_--_---_-_-__---_--_----_--__----Caliche, hard, white------___--_--_----___--_-------__---_-_--Clay, silty, plastic, gray..____-_____--_______--_-_-___-_------Sand, very fine,to fine gravel, loose ___________________________Caliche, hard to soft, white to buff _-_--_-_---_------------_-__-Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, calcareous ___---___-_-_-___
1
17
142 3.5
243.54.5
17.53
18
323437.5
39.543.54751.56972
655012 O - 63 - 10
138 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
________________Table 27. Sample lofls of test doles Continued
Thickness (feet)
6 -43 -36ddd Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, very fine, to very fine gravel, calcareous, cherty.________ 3Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, calcareous, cherty, loose... 2Sand, very fine,to very fine gravel, cherty ___-___-__----_--_- 3Caliche, hard, white to buff __._....._____-_.__--____--_._--_- 3.5Clay, soft, brown to buff __________-__------_-----------_---_ 6.5Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, slightly cemented __________ 2Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, slightly cemented; contains
thin streaks of clay_____________-_--------_--_---_____----_ 10Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, slightly cemented___________ 4Clay, silty, hard, brown _____________________________________ 2Silt and sand, cemented-_.___________________________________ 6Clay, silty, soft, brown ______________________________________ 5Silt and sand, cemented...___________________________________ 6Sand, clayey, slightly cemented._.____________________________ 11Clay, soft, brown; contains some caliche.______________________ 19Clay, soft, brown; contains some very fine to coarse sand _______ 10Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel; contains clay.___--_-___-__ 3Caliche, clayey, sandy, buff_______________________--_____-_-_ 7Sand, very fine, to medium gravel; contains thin streaks of clay____ 5Clay, silty, brown; contains very fine to coarse sand.___________ 4.5Sand, very fine, to fine gravel ______..___._.____-_.__-____-___ 11.5Caliche, buff; contains very fine to coarse sand ________________ 12Clay, silty, soft, tan; contains very fine to very coarse sand _____ 6Sand, fine to coarse, loose; contains very fine to fine gravel and
a streak of clay at 224 ft________._____.-_____---_-_-__--_._ 14Clay, silty, soft,tan to green_-_-___-____-_---_-_-_____--_---_ 6Caliche, sandy, white to buff _____________.-________--_____---_ 5Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, partly cemented_-___------_--_- 7,5Clay, silty, plastic, light-brown ______________________________ 4.5-Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, silty, clayey ______________ 12.5Clay, silty, sandy, soft, tan __________________________________ 12.5Sand, very fine to coarse; interbedded with clay and caliche______ 10Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, partly cemented ___________ 7Clay, sandy, soft, tan________________________________________ 5Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel. __________________ _________ 5Clay, sandy, soft,tan___.____________________________________ 10Caliche; interbedded with sand and silt ________________________ 9Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty_______.____.____._________ 3Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty; interbedded with clay ______ 3Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty_____-__-_________________- 6Caliche, hard, white_________________________________________ 2Sand, very fine to very coarse; contains some caliche________.__ 4Clay, soft, yellow to tan .__________._______-_--____-__-__--_ 6Sand, very fine to very coarse, calcareous.-.._______-___.-___ 2Caliche, hard, buff__________________________________________ 1Sand, very fine, to fine gravel ___________.-____---____----_-__ 8
Pierre shale:Clay, hard, yellow to light blue-gray; stained with limonite______ 7.5Clay, hard, plastic, dark-gray________________________________ 2.5
6-47-6bbb
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 4,080.1 ft]
Soil, clayey, dark-brown; contains very fine sand to coarsegravel..._____________________________________________ 2
BASIC DATA 139
Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-47 -6bbb Continued
Ogallala formation:Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel...___________________________ 1 3Clay, sandy, gravelly, soft, light-brown________________________ 5 8Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel, clayey ______________________ 17 25Clay, soft, light-brown; contains very fine sand to fine gravel ____ 11 36Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, loose____________________'______ 16 52Sand, very fine, medium gravel _______________________________ 10 62Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, clayey _____________________ 33 95Clay, sandy, gravelly, hard, light-brown _______________________ 7 102Sand, very fine, to medium gravel; contains thin layers of clay
and some coarse gravel ___________________________________ 24 126Clay, silty, sandy, soft, light-brown ___________________________ 2 128Sand, very fine,to coarse gravel______________________________ 2.5 130.5Clay, sandy, soft, light-brown to buff; contains some gravel______ 11.5 142Clay, sandy, hard, plastic, buff _______________________________ 13 155Caliche, sandy, hard, white to buff __________________________ 10 165Clay, sandy, soft, brown _-_----_--__-.__----_--___.__________ 2.5 167.5
Chadron formation:Clay, hard, plastic, green ____________________________________ 4.5 172Clay, hard, plastic, green; contains some white caliche.________ 4 176Caliche, hard, white _________________________________________ 16.5 192.5Clay, silty, hard, plastic, light blue-green with yellow stain______ 9.5 202Clay, silty, hard, plastic, light blue-green and tan with some
yellow stain .____________________________________________ 4 206Clay, hard, plastic; contains thin streaks of white soft caliche and
thin stringers of blue-green fine-grained sandstone ___________ 27 233Pierre shale:
Clay, hard, plastic, dark-gray, and dark-gray shale_____________ 4 237
7-43-33adcl
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,637.0 ft]
Soil, silty, dark-brown--------_-_----------_---------_---____ 2 2Ogallala formation:
Silt, sandy, calcareous, tan___________________________________ 6 8Clay, silty, soft, gray__________________ ___________________ 9 17Sand, fine to coarse, loose, tan; contains reworked pebbles of
white hard caliche___._____________________________________ 10 27Clay, sandy, medium-hard, gray; contains streaks of white hard
caliche___________________________________________________ 10 37Sand, medium, to coarse gravel, tan __________________________ 2 39Clay, sandy, medium-hard, gray ______________________________ 1 40Sand, medium, to coarse gravel, loose, tan ____________________ 8 48Sandstone, very fine grained, silty, calcareous,medium-hard, tan _ 5 53 Caliche, sandy, medium-hard, gray; contains streaks of very fine
to medium gravel and red-brown soft clay.. __________________ 7 60Sandstone, very fine grained, silty, calcareous, medium-hard, tan. 3 63 Clay, medium-hard, plastic, brown..___.....______.._____.___. 3 66Caliche, sandy, medium-hard, gray ---__.______-__-___________ 3 69Sandstone, very fine grained, silty, calcarious, medium-hard,
light-tan __---_------_-_---_____.________________________ 5 74Sand, very coarse, to coarse gravel, tan ______________________ 10 84Clay, medium-hard, plastic, brown; contains streaks of gray
hard caliche ______________________________________________ 5 89Sandstone, very fine grained, silty, medium-hard, red-tan _______ 9 98Clay, sandy, silty, calcareous, medium-hard, tan to red-brown. __ 18 116
140 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
1 -43 -33adc 1 Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedClay, calcareous, medium-hard, plastic, gray__________________ 1 117Clay, sandy, silty, calcareous, medium-hard, tan to red-brown __ 6 123 Sandstone, very fine grained to very coarse grained, calcareous,
medium-hard, gray; contains layers of gray to tan caliche. ____ 4 127Clay, calcareous, medium-hard, blocky, gray__________________ 6 133Sand, very coarse, to medium gravel, loose, tan to green _______ 16 149Clay, sandy, soft, red-brown to gray; contains streaks of fine
to coarse gravel __________________________________________ 14 163Sand, medium, to fine gravel, loose, tan; contains thin streaks
of gray-green soft clay ___________________________________ 30 193Silt, clayey, sandy, calcareous, soft, tan to gray---------------- 12 205Sand, very coarse, to medium gravel, loose ___---____-._______ 40 245Clay, silty, soft, brown ______________________________________ 8 253Caliche, siliceous, very hard, white___-__---__---_---_---__--_ 1 254 Gravel, very fine to very coarse, loose; contains medium to very
coarse sand and pebbles _____________________-._______._- 28 282Clay, sandy, soft, brown ._________________-_-_---_-----______ 2 284Silt, micaceous, soft, brown______________________-__-___-____ 10 294Sand, medium, to fine gravel, loose, tan to green -_-_____-._-__ 11.5 305.5Silt, micaceous, medium-hard, brown; contains thin streaks of
sand______--____________________________________________ 1.5 307Sand, coarse to very coarse, loose, tan_____-__________________ 6 313
Pierre shale:Clay, limonite stain, hard, yellow...-___-__--.________________ ____9 322
7-43-33adc2
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,636.2 ft]
Soil, sandy, silty, dark-brown _______________________________ 3 3Ogallala formation:
Sand, very fine to fine, silty, tan______________.._____._.______ 9 12Sand, very fine to coarse; contains reworked pebbles of white
hard caliche______________________________________________ 18 30Silt, clayey, sandy, calcareous, soft, light-gray. _________.._.__ 8 38Sand, coarse, to medium gravel; contains streaks of gray soft
clay__ ____________ __________________._________ 11 49Siltstone, clayey, medium-soft, tan _________________________ 3 52Clay, silty, calcarious, medium-hard, tan to gray.._.________ 11 63Clay, sandy, medium-hard, tan _______________________________ 3 66Clay, silty, light-brown______________________________________ 2 68Clay, sandy, calcareous, medium-hard, gray__________________ 3 71Sandstone, very fine grained, silty, hard, red-brown ___________ 4 75Sand, very coarse, to medium gravel, loose, tan___ ____________ 8 83Clay, medium-hard, plastic, light-brown to red-brown________.__ 8 91Sandstone, very fine grained, silty, hard, red-brown ___________ 11 102Clay, silty, calcareous, medium-hard, brown _________________ 21 123Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, silty, loose, tan __________ 3 126Clay, sandy, medium-hard, brown ____________________________ 4 130Clay, sandy, calcareous, medium-hard, gray_____.___________ 7 137Sand, very coarse, to medium gravel, loose, tan to green ______ 14 151Clay, sandy, soft, red-brown _________________________________ 4 155Clay, silty, sandy, red-brown; contains streaks of white hard
caliche __________________________________________________ i 156Sand, medium, to fine gravel, loose, green ____________________ 4 160Clay, soft, plastic, gray _____________________________________ 2 162
BASIC DATA 141Table 27. Sample lops of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-43-33adc2 Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, very fine to very coarse, silty, clayey, slightly cemented __ 7 169Sand, very coarse, to medium gravel, loose, tan to green.__,__ 29.5 198.5Caliche, clayey, hard, gray __________________________________ 1 199.5Clay, silty, sandy, soft, tan ______________..._...________ 7.5 207Sand, coarse, to medium gravel, silty, loose, tan____._________ 7 214Clay, calcareous, soft, plastic, light-gray _____-_____-__-___.-. 8 222Caliche, hard, white_______________..______..___.___________. 1 223Sand, very coarse, to medium gravel, loose, tan...------------ 19 242
7-44-7bbb
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,760.5 ft]
Soil, sandy________.________________________________________ 2 2Ogallala formation:
Sand, clayey; contains some caliche __________________________ 5 7Caliche, sandy, white _______________________________________ 1 8Sand, very fine, to medium gravel; contains some caliche ______ 10 18Clay, sandy, bufL.__.._.._._______.._._..______._.._..___.__ 2 20Silt, sandy, brown ..__.__.___.___._______.____.____________ 2 22Silt, sandy, brown; contains caliche _______ ____________________ 1 23Clay, silty, sandy, brown ____________________________________ 6 29Sand, very fine to very coarse ____________________________ 6 35Clay, sandy, brown _________________________________________ 3 38Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, loose _________________________ 4 42Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, loose; contains caliche _________ 3 45Limestone, hard____________________________________________ l 46Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, loose; contains caliche._________ 6 52Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, cemented; contains streaks of
caliche______________________________________________ 2 54Clay, sandy, soft ___________________________________________ 4 58Sand and silt, cemented, greenish-brown; contains streaks of
caliche ____________________________________________ 8 66Silt, slightly cemented; contains sand and gravel ______________ 2 68Caliche, well-cemented; contains sand, gravel and thin streaks
of clay _______________________________________________ 12 80Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose _____________________ 39 119Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose; contains streaks of
clay . _________ 5 124 Clay, sandy, soft, brown __________________________________ 9 133Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, loose_________________________ 9 142Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose ___________________ 6.5 148.5Caliche, hard, white to buff_______________________________ 3.5 152Caliche, hard, white to buff; contains layers of very fine grained
to fine-grained sandstone _________________________________ 13 165Silt, sandy; cemented in thin streaks _______________________ 7 172Silt, sandy; cemented in thin streaks; contains caliche_________ 10 182Silt, sandy; cemented in thin streaks; contains caliche and thin
streaks of chert_________________________________________ 4 186Clay, dense____________________________________________ 6 192Silt, sandy, clayey; cemented in thin streaks, light greentotan.. 10 202 Clay and silt, sandy, light-green to tan; contains caliche and
dense clay_______________________________________________ 20 222Caliche, hard, white ________________________________________ 2 224Silt, sandy, brown to green __________________________________ 5 229Silt, sandy; cemented in streaks, brown to green_______________ 21 250
142 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
________________Toble 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-44 -7-7bbb Continued
Ogallala ContinuedCaliche, white to gray; contains streaks of sand.....____.____.__
Pierre shale:Clay, hard, plastic, yellow-green; contains some brown shale ____
256
262
7-44-36ddd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,677.2 ft]
Soil, clayey, sandy___________________________________________ 2 2Ogallala formation:
Clay, sand, and caliche; interbedded ___________________________ 3 5Clay, hard, plastic; contains streaks of sand.____-_--___----_--. 23 28Clay; contains sand, gravel, and caliche._______________________ 5 33Sand, very fine to very coarse ____---_---------------_-------- 3 36Caliche, hard, white to buff; contains sand and gravel______._____ 12 48Limestone, hard_---__-_-____________________________________ 1 49Caliche, hard, white to buff; contains sand and gravel.___________ 3 52Caliche, clayey; contains sand and gravel _-------__-__-_-___--- 11 63Gravel, very fine to medium, loose; contains very fine to very
coarse sand_____________________________.___---____----__- 9 72Silt, partly cemented; contains sand and caliche__---__-__-_--__- 10 82 Caliche, hard, buff; contains silt, sand, gravel, and layers of sand
and gravel________________________________________________ 9 91Clay, sandy, hard, brown; contains gravel and caliche....________ 13 104Sand, very fine, to fine gravel; contains clay and caliche..__----. 8 112Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, well-cemented in streaks;
contains clay and caliche .____...______.-.___._----___-----. 4 116Caliche, hard, buff; contains sand and gravel _______-.___--__.__ 2 118Clay, sandy, hard, brown _______________-_______------_______- 4 122Clay, sandy, hard, brown; contains thin layers of sandstone and
hard caliche ______________________________________________ 11 133Sand, very fine,to fine gravel, clayey___.--_---_--__--.------- 7 140Clay, sandy, hard, brown _--_____-________-_--__--------_--___ 2 142Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, silty, clayey_____________--_--_- 7 149Clay, silty, hard; contains sand and gravel ___-___--_-_-_--____- 10 159Sand, coarse, to fine gravel__________________________________ 13 172Sand, coarse, to medium, gravel __-__-__---__--_--_---_--_---_ 23 195Silt, clayey, sandy......._________------__-___-__---__.--. 9 204Sand, very fine, to medium gravel ______----_--_--_--_-------. 22 226Clay, silty, sandy, brown -------____--_-__---_--------_-_-_--- 12 238Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, silty __-_____-_-_-__--_-_-_ 8 246Clay, sandy, hard, brown _------_-----_-------__------_------- 6 252Clay, sandy, hard, brown; contains steaks of sand and caliche.____ 6 258Sand, very fine,to fine gravel_______.__--_-_-__---__--_-__-_- 4 262Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, clayey ___________.-__-_.__--___ 11 273Clay, silty, sandy, micaceous, hard_____________________.__-_._ 13 286Sand, very fine, to fine gravel________________________________ 6 292Sand, very fine, to medium gravel _-_--_-_------.------_------. 10 302Caliche, hard, white _________________________________________ .5 302.5Sand, very fine, to fine gravel____ _____.-_--__.---------_---_ 8 310.5Clay, sandy, hard, brown _____________________________________ 13.5 324Caliche, cherty, hard, white ___________ _______-_____________ 2 326
Pierre shale:Clay, hard, plastic, yellow, and brown shale _.______--___-__-_._ 3 329
BASIC DATA 143Table 27. Sample Ions of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-45-36ddd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,766.1 ft]
Pierre shale ContinuedSoil, sandy, silty...._________._._.__-_________..-_---__- 2 2
Ogallala formation:Caliche, clayey, buff ________________________________________ 2 4Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel__._________-________-__-_. 1.5 5.5Clay, sandy, hard, buff to light-brown; contains caliche _________ 8.5 14Sand, very fine, to medium gravel--_-_____-_------____-_-___- 2 16Clay, hard, plastic; contains caliche and silt ___________________ 6 22Clay, hard, plastic; contains caliche, silt, gravel, and sand ..-_-. 3 25Clay, soft, light-brown; contains sand and caliche ...__.._-_.--_ 12 37Sand, very fine,to fine gravel, loose ._______.--___________-_. 5 42Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, cemented; contains layers
of caliche ________________________________________________ 3 45Sand, very fine', to medium gravel, loose..____________________ 10 55Caliche -_____-----------____________________--_____________ .2 55.2Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose._____________________ 7.8 63Caliche..._______________________________........___.. 1 64Clay, sandy, soft; contains gravel_--__-_--__--__-_.___________ 9 73Clay, sandy, partly cemented; contains gravel....._._..._______ 6 79Clay, sandy, cemented; contains gravel................____.__. 5 84Caliche, sandy, clayey, hard, buff; contains layers of clay .-.--_. 6 90Clay, sandy, soft, plastic, medium-brown.___.-_--_______---___ 4 94Clay, hard, plastic; contains sand, gravel, and caliche.__________ 12 106Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose_--____--_____________ 18 124Clay, silty, sandy, soft -._-.-__..._.......______________... 4 128Sand, very fine to very coarse_________-_-_--_-_-_-__-__-_--_ 4 132Sand, very fine, to medium gravel ____________________________ 2 134Clay______________________________________ .2 134.2Sand, very fine, to medium gravel____________________________ 2.8 137Clay, sandy, soft, plastic_____________________________________ 3 140Sand, very fine, to medium gravel____________________________ 14 154Clay, soft, plastic__-_---____._______________________________ 4 158Clay, soft, plastic; contains layers of sand---___-_-__-___-_--_- 4 162Clay, soft, plastic___________________________________________ 2 164Sand, very fine, to medium gravel-_--__-_-_-----_________--__ 7 171Caliche, very hard, white; contains sand and gravel__________-_. 1 172Caliche, hard, white; contains sand and gravel _________________ 2 174Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, loose_-__-_-__----______--_____ 5.5 179.5Caliche and clay, sandy, partly cemented -__------_-_____-___-- 4.5 184Sand, very fine, to fine gravel_ ______________________________ 5 189Silt, sandy, clayey____.-__-__________________________________ j 8 197Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose-__--_-_-_______---___ 14 211Clay, hard, plastic, light-brown ______________________________ 3 214Sand, very fine, to medium gravel__-_-____---______-____---_- 7 221Silt, sandy------__--------____________________-_______-_-.-_ 2 223Sand, very fine, to fine gravel ____-_--_-_--___--______-__-_-- 19 . 242Sand, very fine, to medium gravel___________________________- 10 252Clay, very sandy, soft, buff __________________________________ 3 255Sand, very fine,to fine gravel -_-_--____-_-__-_-_--__--__-_- 3.5 258.5Clay...______-._____..._________--.---_____-.__. .2 258.7Sand, very fine,to fine gravel ___...______--_____.-___-__--_ 7.3 266Clay, soft, medium-brown -_.-_-_-__-._._.____--_____________ 4 270Sand, very fine,to fine gravel ______________.-___________-._ 4 274Clay, silty, sandy, hard.. ___________________________________ 24 298
Pierre shale:Clay, hard, plastic, yellow to light blue-gray.-----_._....______ ___4 302
144 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-46-laaa
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,866.6 ft]
Pierre shale ContinuedSoil, sandy, clayey, silty, dark-brown.______ ___________-__..- 2
Ogallala formation:Silt, clayey, buff-______.._.______-_--_.--_-_----__-- -- 2Sand and gravel _-__________________-_-___----__------------- 1Silt, sandy, clayey, tan __________________________-__-_----__- 5Sand, very fine,to fine gravel______________--___---__------_- 6Sand, very fine, to medium gravel; contains nodules of caliche;
interbedded with clay_______________________________________ 19Clay, soft, tan; contains sand and gravel ________________-_----- 4Caliche, hard, white; interbedded with sandy and gravelly clay._._ 11 Gravel, very fine to fine; contains medium sand to coarse gravel.. 8 Clay, hard, plastic, gray-_---__________---_---__-------------- 2Sand, medium, to coarse gravel .._________-___-_._---.__----- 5Caliche, clayey, sandy, gray; contains some streaks of clay ..-___ 22 Clay, silty, soft, tan; contains some cemented zones -_______--_- 11Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel ---_____-_-------.-_------- 5Clay, hard, brown _______-__________----__-----___--__--_---- 4Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel ________---____-____-__-__- 4Clay and caliche.__-_-_______.-__________-__-_--___-__------- 6Sand, very fine,to fine gravel_________________-_-_____--_---- 5Caliche, sandy_______________________________________________ 3Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel ..______.________-__--____- 6
Brule (?) formation:Clay, hard, plastic, brown _____________.___-______--_-_-_--__ 12.5Siltstone, sandy; interbedded with brown to gray clay ____________ 3.5Clay, hard, plastic, brown ____________________________________ 5
Chadron formation:Clay, hard, plastic, light-green ___________________--_--__--.- 14Sand and gravel ____________________'__________-_-_____---_-_ 1Clay, hard, plastic, light-green _________________.____._-__--- 4.5Sand and siltstone, green ___-__________----__-_-_--____---__-- 1.5Clay, hard, plastic, light-green _______________________________ 9Siltstone and chert, hard, green ______________-___--_--___--_-- 1.5Sandstone, silty, green_______________________________________ 25Chert and sandstone, very hard, green _______________--_-___-_- 3Clay, silty, soft, light-green ._______________.___----_---_-_._ 8Clay, hard, dense, light-green, gray, and light-pink --_-___------ 32.5Clay, limonitic, hard, plastic, gray, green, and pink _____________ 20Clay, hard, plastic, gray, green, and pink with yellow
limonitic stain ___________________________-___-_---_---___- 14Pierre shale:
Clay, hard, plastic, dark-gray ________________________________ 6____
7-46-36ddd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,863.7 ft]
Soil, clayey, sandy, dark-brown _______________________________ 6Ogallala formation:
Clay, hard, plastic, medium-brown ____________________________ 3Caliche; contains clay, sand, and gravel----..._________________ 1.5Clay, hard, plastic, medium-brown; contains silt ________________ 7.5Clay, silty, sandy, gravelly ___________________________________ 4Caliche, sandy, gravelly, buff _-__--_-__-__-_-__-__-_-_-_-___-_ 5
BASIC DATA 145
Table 27. Sample Ions of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7 -46 -36ddd Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedGravel, very fine to medium----_-----_--_-_---_-_------_---_- 1 28Clay, hard, plastic, medium-brown______._._____--___._------- 4 32Caliche, sandy, buff ____.______________ -- 2 34Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, contains clay-------------- 14 48Clay and caliche; contains sand and gravel __-_...__-___.-___--- 5 53 Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose ______________________ 10 63Clay, sandy, gravelly, soft, brown._____--___-_--._---__--__--- 2 65Caliche, buff-. -- -.-_---.-..-. 2 67 Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, loose _____________________ 7.5 74.5Silt, clayey, sandy,,...______________________________________ 2.5 77Caliche, hard, white __---.__-____--_._-_..__--_-.----__--_._- 2 79Caliche, soft, buff to tan; contains sand and clay _--__--.______-- 18 97Clay, silty, dark-brown ______________________________________ 2 99Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose ______________________ 10 109Clay, sandy, hard, plastic __-_____-______-__----__-__--__----_ 5 114Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, clayey_______--____-____----__- 18 132Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, slightly cemented ___________ 7 139Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, clayey ____________________ 3 142Sand, very fine, to medium gravel ________.-______---__--___-- 10 152Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel, partly cemented _.-._____.__- 14 166Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, clayey; contains some medium
gravel _________.___..___.....____.....___-_-.-__----__- 11 177Caliche, hard, white; interbedded with buff to tan hard clay;
contains sand and gravel--------__-_-_--_--___-_---------_- 13 190Chadron formation:
Clay, silty, soft, light-green to tan; contains thin layers of greensandstone.____-__________________________-_--__--__--_---- 4 194
Clay, hard, plastic, green ____________________________________ 4 198Pierre shale:
Clay, sandy, hard, plastic, yellow; contains layers of brown shalyclay -----___---__--____.________________________________ 5 203
Clay, hard, plastic, dark-gray, and dark-gray shale --_-________ 4 207
7-47-laaa
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,956.2 ft]
Soil, sandy, silty, dark-brown; contains some very fine gravel ___Ogallala formation:
Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, loojse_______.________________Caliche, hard, buff; jicjntains^ome^ sand and gravel____________Caliche, clayey, buff; contains some sand and gravel .________.Sand, fine,to medium gravel, loose_,_________________________Silt, sandy, tan; contains some caliche.______________________Clay, sandy, hard, plastic, light-green; contains thin layers
of caliche ______________________________________________Caliche, sandy, hard, white to buff ---__---___-__-_-___-_--.. Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, loose _______________________Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, well -cemented ____________Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose ____________________Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel; interbedded with silt _____
Brule(?) formation:Silt, sandy, partly cemented with calcium carbonate.__________Sand, silty, cemented with caliche in thin zones. ______ ______ __Sand, silty; contains some gravel and layers of caliche ________Siltstone, clayey, dark-brown ______________________________
255
12.53.5
7.5 7.5 334
19.5
13.52011
131830.534
41.54952555978.5
92112123129
146 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample tofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-47- laaa Continued
Brule(?) formation ContinuedSand, very fine to coarse, loose.______________________________ 2 131Siltstone and caliche._.______________________________________ 5 136Sand, medium to coarse; contains very fine sand to very fine
gravel ._--____-___._____ ______________________________ 4 140Sandstone, silty, and caliche._________________________________ 4 144Siltstone, clayey, tan; contains sand, gravel, and layers of silty
clay ---------.____-_____________________________________ 8 152Clay, silty, soft, buff ________________________________________ 20 172Siltstone, clayey, tan and green; contains some caliche and is
interbedded with green silty clay.___-_-_-_---__-______-_____ 40 212Chadron formation:
Clay, silty, dense, green, gray, and blue-green; contains somecaliche ___________________________________________________ 20 232
Clay, hard, plastic, dense, gray, blue-green, pink, and varicolored. 67 299 Chert, hard; interbedded with clay ____________________________ 1 300Clay, hard, plastic, dense, varicolored--__-__----______.______ 17 317
Pierre shale:Clay, hard, plastic, dark-gray ____---_____-__---________-_____ 5 322
7-47-10cbb
[Test hole for stock well drilled by Shocke Drilling Co., 1953. Surface altitude, 4,004.5 ft]
Ogallala formation:(No sample)_________________________________________________ 61 61Sand, fine, to coarse gravel __________________________________ 2.5 62.5Sand, fine, to fine gravel, silty; contains some clay .-__----____. 9.5 72Sand, fine, to fine gravel, clayey; contains nodules of caliche ____ 8 80Clay, silty, buff _____________________________________________ 8 88Clay, silty, buff; contains sand and gravel ______________________ 8~ 96Sand, very fine to very coarse; contains nodules of caliche _______ 8 104Silt, clayey, buff; contains sand and gravel _____________________ 16 120Clay, silty, gravelly, buff to light-green________________________ 4 124
Brule formation:Siltstone, light-green; contains sand and gravel _________________ 4 128Silt, sandy, light-green...____________________________________ 16 144Silt, clayey, light-green______________________________________ 6 150
7-47-36ddd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,975.3 ft]
Soil, clayey, silty, sandy, brown...____________________________ 1.5 1.5Ogallala formation:
Caliche, sandy, gravelly...___________________________________ 2.5 4Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, clayey; contains nodules of
caliche _____________________._________________________ 25 29Silt, sandy, soft, brown___________-_____----__.____.____. 6 35Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, silty; contains some partly
cemented zones ------__-.__..___________________._._______ 8 43Clay, sandy, soft, light-brown; interbedded with sand and gravel .. 23 66 Clay, sandy, soft, light-brown; contains caliche and gravel _______ 6 72Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, clayey _________________________ 5 77Clay, soft, light-brown; contains sand and gravel___________,____ 5 82Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, clayey_____.________________ 15 97Clay, sandy, soft, light-brown----__--__----__--___.___________ 6 103
BASIC DATA 147
Table 27. Sample loflS of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-47-36ddd Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, coarse, to very fine gravel;contains very fine sand to
coarse gravel and some thin layers of clay___-_-____-___--___ 14 117 Clay, soft, tan to green; contains thin layers of gravel..__---___- 6 123 Sand, medium to very coarse; contains very fine sand to fine
gravel and thin layers of clayl------_------__-----_---_---_- 12 135Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel _____________________________ 5 140Sand, medium to very coarse; contains some cemented zones.____ 15 155Silt and sand, fine --_-_-_---_--_--_-___--_-_-_-----_--------- 3 158Sand, medium to very coarse _____---__------___-___----_----_ 4 162Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel; contains some cemented zones. 12 174 Clay, silty, sandy..___________---__-_----_____---__--__.._.- 3 177Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, partly cemented;interbedded
with clay ____.....____..___________________ 15 192 Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel, silty; well-cemented -__-.___. 14 206 Clay, silty, sandy, tan; contains some thin streaks of caliche..__. 33 239
Pierre shale:Clay, soft, plastic, yellow to light blue-gray. ... ___--__------__- 3__ 242
8-42-32dcc
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,570.8 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, very silty, soft, green _._--.____._-_._..--___-.--__.-__- 3 3Clay, very silty, soft, green; contains streaks of white soft
caliche.__._..____._._____________________________________ 4 7Sand, very fine to very coarse, clayey, brown ___---_-_---_-___- 5 12Sand, very fine, silty, lightly cemented, brown-_------_---_--__- 4 16Caliche, sandy, soft, tan -..._____________-.._..__-------- 6 22Sand, very fine to very coarse, clayey, brown ._--___..---_-.___ 1 23Caliche, silty, soft, gray to white ____________________________ 3 26Clay, sandy, soft, brown _-________-__________------___---___- 5 31Clay, sandy, soft, red-brown __--______________---___-------_- 6 37Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel, loose, tan __________--_-____. 7 44Clay, silty, soft, red-brown __________________________________ 2 46Sand, very coarse, to coarse gravel, loose, tan ________________ 5 51Clay, silty, soft, red-brown __________________________________ 3 54Caliche, sandy, medium-hard, white___._______________________ 9 63Sand, very fine, silty, lightly cemented, brown____--__-_-_--__-_ 6 69Caliche, sandy, medium-hard, tan to white _____________________ 3 72Sand, very fine, silty, calcareous, medium-hard, tan ___-.---___- 11.5 83.5Caliche, sandy, soft, white ___________________________________ 2.5 86Sand, very fine, silty, calcareous, medium-hard, tan; contains
layers of medium to very coarse sandandbrown soft silty clay.. 8 94Clay, silty, sandy, calcareous in streaks, soft, tan ______________ 33 127Sand, very coarse, to medium gravel, loose, green to tan _______ 26 153Clay, silty, sandy, lightly cemented in streaks, soft, brown;
contains thin layers of white soft caliche_--__--_--_____-__--- 19 172Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, loose, green to tan_____________. 10.2 182.2Sand, very fine, cemented, tan ________________________________ .8 183Caliche, sandy, siliceous, very hard, white________--___-_______ 3 186Sand, very coarse, to very coarse gravel, loose, pink to tan _____ 31 217Clay, silty, sandy, soft, brown _________-_-______.-___----____- 12 229Caliche, sandy, hard, white.___-_-_____--_______-_____-______- 1 230Sand, very fine to very coarse, loose, tan ______________________ 4 234
Pierre shale:Clay, limonite stain, hard, yellow to green _____________________ ___8___ 242
148 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-44-6bbb
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952: Surface altitude, 3,794.9 ft]
Ogallala formation:Soil, clayey, sandy..__--___-___-____-_---_---------___------- 2Clay, soft, white to tan; contains sand, gravel, and caliche.._--__. 8Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel, loose; contains caliche ___--___ 12Sand, fine to coarse, loose; contains caliche _-_-----_---_---____ 10Sand, fine to fine gravel ________.__-_.___._____-_____-------_ 10Sand, fine, to coarse gravel--_______------_-_------_----_---_ 8Sand, fine, to coarse gravel; contains clay _____________________ 2Clay, sandy, soft,tan ________________________________________ 8Clay, sandy, soft, tan; contains streaks of caliche--____--__---_. 2Clay, sandy, soft,tan ________.______-_---_--__-_-_----------- 10Clay, soft, buff; contains layers of white to buff hard sandy
caliche _______-__________-____--__-_-_---_----_---_------- 13Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, loose__--_---_----------------- 4Clay, sandy, soft, tan; contains caliche..-__--_----------------- 26Sand, very fine, to fine gravel; contains thin streaks of clay...... 9Clay, silty, sandy; contains caliche-_-_------------------------ 9Caliche, clay, sand, and gravel.._____--___------.._-------__--- 5.5Clay, sandy, soft, buff; contains chert.-----___------__--_-----_ 3.5Caliche, soft, buff; contains clay and sand ________--___-_--_--_- 8Sand, very fine,to fine gravel______----_-__-_-_---__-------_- 10Caliche, clayey, sandy.-___--___-_--__-------------__-_-----_- 8Sand and gravel; contains caliche and chert_____________________ 6Sand, medium to very coarse; contains caliche._________________ 7Clay, sandy, soft, buff to green-gray--------------------------- 14Sand, fine to very coarse; contains streaks of clay_-_------------ 7Sand, fine to medium.____--_-_______--__-___--___--_-_-__---_ 20Sand, medium to coarse ______________________________________ 5Clay and caliche; contains thin layers of sand---_---_------_---_ 15Sand, medium, to fine gravel; contains thin layers of caliche.____ 10Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel; contains layers of caliche
and chert--__-_----._.-._-_____--__----.---_----_-_------- 16Caliche and clay; contains chert______.___-.-_._--_______-__.._ 4Sand; contains layers of caliche and clay ___.__--___--___.-_---_ 8
Pierre shale:Clay, hard, plastic, yellow.___-__-__-_-_-______--_----_-_--_-- 5
8-45-6bbb
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,884.3 ft]
Soil, silty, dark-brown---_____--___-__-_-__--_---_-_----_.--- 1Ogallala formation:
Silt,calcareous, tan ___________.._.____._.-_-____-.___._.-_.. 1Sand, very fine to very coarse, loose, tan ______________________ 10Clay, sandy, calcareous, soft, red to brown_____-_-._.-__--.___- 8Sand, very fine, to medium gravel; loose, tan __--_---___------. 2Silt, sandy, micaceous, soft, brown _-___--_-____----_--_-_----- 4Sand, very fine, to fine gravel; loose, tan ___-_--___-_-___-_--__ 23Silt, soft,tan__---.__._________________-------_---------.. 6Silt, sandy, clayey, soft, tan; contains streaks of white hard
caliche-____-__-_____.--__....____-_._-_________________._ 39Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, loose, dark-gray-_---__--__---._ 6Silt, sandy, clayey, calcareous, soft, tan to gray-___-____-_______ 3Caliche, sandy, medium-soft, gray----------------------------- 5
BASIC DATA 149
Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-4 5-6bbb Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedGravel, medium, to very fine sand loose, tan__________-____-__ 5 113Caliche, sandy, very hard, white _-__-_______________-___-_---_ 1.5 114.5Clay, silty, soft, gray-green__________________________________ 2.5 117Gravel,medium,to very fine sand loose, tan ___________________ 2 119Silt, sandy, clayey, calcareous, medium-hard; contains
medium-hard streaks of caliche; tan to gray------------------ 21 140Chert, very hard, white---__-_-__--_-.------------_---------- 2 142Caliche, sandy, medium-hard, gray-_----___--------_--------__ 12 154Silt, soft, tan; contains streaks of cemented fine sand ___________ 14 168Sand, very fine to coarse, loose, tan__--___-__----___-__--_-__. 12 180Chert, sandy, very hard, gray_---_----_-_--_--_------____--_-_ .5 180.5Sand, very fine to coarse, loose, tan__.________________________ 2.5 183Chert, sandy, very hard, white to gray-_-____--------_--_---._- 2 185Silt, medium-soft, brown -___------_---___.-____--_-__-_----. 10 195Chert, sandy, very hard, gray ------_---_-__--.__-_--_---_---- .2 195.2Caliche, sandy, medium-hard, gray__-------_-------------__-_- .8 196Silt, sandy, calcareous-_--_------------__-_-----------_-----_ 12 208
Brule formation:Siltstone, medium to very hard, green; contains streaks of white
hard caliche ._-...._-.-_________-_---_.___________________ 1 209Siltstone, hard, gray-green__________.______________--_._.-___ 44 253Siltstone, hard, tan_____--_--__-.-_________-----__...-.-_--__ 20 273Claystone, brown...__...---__--._-.-....----_--_-.---_---- .2 273.2Siltstone, hard, tan __________________________________________ 36.8 310
Chadron formation:Claystone, silty, hard, olive-green ____________________________ 5 315Siltstone, clayey, medium-soft, blue-green___------_____.______ 6 321Siltstone, clayey, medium-hard, white--_--__-_---------____--- 20 341Silt, medium-soft, blue-green ________________________________ 9 350
Pierre shale:Clay, medium-hard, yellow limonite stains_-_--_----___-------- 25 375Shale,hard, dark-blue-_-----_--_----_..----_---_-----_-_--_. 5 380
8-47-laaa
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,953.8 ft]
Soil, clayey, dark-brown_____________________________________ 2 2Ogallala formation:
Silt, clayey, buff; contains sand and gravel -_.--_--_--___-_----- 2 4Silt, clayey, sandy; contains white chert and caliche...._________ 1 5Clay, sandy, hard, white to gray___._-_________________________ 8 13Clay; interbedded with silt, sand, and caliche; contains slightly
cemented zones___________________________________________ 6 19Sand, very fine to coarse, loose; contains some white caliche ____ 3 22Clay; interbedded with caliche and sand; contains slightly
cemented zones___________________________________________ 18 40Sand, very fine to very coarse ________________________________ 3 43Caliche, sandy, buff; contains thin streaks of clay_______________ 15 58Clay, hard; contains silt, sand, gravel, and caliche______________ 13 71Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel, loose -___-__----__--__-__-__ 15 86Clay, sandy, hard, gray-green ____--________.-____--_-________ 16 102Sand, very fine to coarse------__-______-___-___-___._-________ 5 107Clay, sandy, soft, gray...___._____-__-___--_____--__-____- 5 112Clay, hard, plastic; interbedded with bentonitic clay_______-_____ 5 117Clay, silty, sandy, hard, gray.--__--______.__.____-_.-..__._._ 5 122
150 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
_________________Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
8 -47 - laaa Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSilt, clayey; contains sand, gravel, and some bentonitic clay_____- 2Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose..__________------_--_ 22Clay, silty, hard, gray and brown________._______._____-_------ 5Sand, very fine,to fine gravel___________________--__-_------- 4Clay, silty, hard, brown and green; contains some layers of
caliche and sand________________________________----------_ 37Sand, medium to coarse, loose; contains very fine sand to
fine gravel.._____________________________________________ 8Silt, clayey; contains some sand....___________________________ 18Caliche, silty, sandy, white to gray __----__-__---_-_--_--__---- 7Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, well cemented with caliche; hard.. 15 Clay, silty, brown to green ___________________________________ 2Sand, very fine,to fine gravel_____________________-_------_-- 6Clay, silty, soft, tan; interbedded with very fine to medium sand-- 4 Sand, very fine to coarse.__..__..-__________________---__--_- 10
Brule formation:Silt, clayey, sandy, tan .__.....____............___.__---.-._.. 20Silt, clayey; interbedded with thin layers of sand ________________ 22
Chadron formation:Clay, sandy, hard, plastic, light-green to gray-white __._---___-. 18 Clay, bentonitic, limonitic, hard, plastic, white to gray.-----..--. 20Clay, hard, plastic, white to gray and pink__.-__--__-_--__------ 4Clay, hard, plastic, yellow, yellow-green, and light blue-gray. ___. 16 Clay, hard, plastic, yellow, blue, and pink ______________________ 10.5
Pierre shale:Clay, hard, plastic, dark-gray _______-_____________---_----__- 4.5
8-47-29aad
[Test hole for municipal well for town of Haxtun. Drilled by L. L. Canfield, Surface altitude, 4,040.8 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel, fine to medium, pink, gray, and black mottled; contains
sand and silt-_-----__-___--_-____-________--____-_______--Silt loam, sandy, micaceous, buff-tan; contains roots and organic
matter in upper section ____________________________________Sand, coarse, pink and gray; contains gra vel_-___._. ______ ______Sand, fine to coarse, and buff-brown silt; contains gravel and clay_ Caliche, sandy, calcareous, porous, friable, buff _.-_-_-------_-_Clay, sandy, calcareous, weakly compacted, friable, buff; contains
a small amount of fine to medium gravel and a few calcareousconcretions up to 1 in. in diameter.__________________________
Caliche, sandy, slightly plastic, light-brown___-______.-_--_____Gravel, calcareous, tan-gray; contains medium to coarse sand
pebbles._----__-_-_____________________________-_--___-__-Clay, sandy, firm, light-gray; contains medium to coarse sand __. Caliche, firm, friable, buff-gray, contains minor amount of
medium sand._____________________________________________Sand, slightly silty, argillaceous, friable to loose, gray; contains
some gravel ______________________________________________Caliche, sandy, friable, light-gray..._____-___-_-__--_----__---Sand, medium to coarse, loose, gray--_-___---__----_-------_-_Sand, medium to coarse, argillaceous, highly calcareous, porous,
compact, friable, buff -__-_.-________-__---__-__-__-_-----_-
13724
912
206
34
10
23
BASIC DATA 151
Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-47-29aad Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedCaliche, silty to slightly sandy, micaceous, plastic to firm,
light-buff....__..__---.---.._-._---._-._---.___..-__. 17 142 Sand, fine to medium, slightly clayey binder, very friable, tan;
contains water-worn pebbles of clay and small pipy calcareousconcretions in the lower section. ---_-___--__--___---_----___ 15 157
Caliche, plastic to firm, light-gray; contains fine sand ___________ 3 160Gravel and sand, slightly calcareous clay binder, fine to medium
sand at top to medium and coarse gravel at base, looselycompacted, gray, tan, and brown ____-_-________-__--_-_____- 15 175
Clay, sandy, calcareous, firm to hard, brown to buff..___________ 10 185Gravel, coarse, subrounded, buff ___________________.____. 7 192Clay, sandy, calcareous, firm to hard, tan_______.______________ 6 198Gravel (reported).__._______________________________________ 17 215Clay (reported)_______--.----.------.--___..______.-. 2 217
8-47-Slccc
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 4,085.1 ft]
Soil, silty, clayey.-_-____---__-____-__-__--__--___________.__ 4 4Ogallala formation:
Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, clayey _-__-_---_-___------_ 7 11Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel, loose.--_---__.--__-_--___--- 28 39 Clay, soft, tan; contains sand and gravel ---_--__--__---_---_-__ 8 47 Sand, very fine, to fine gravel____--___--__--___-._-____-_--_- 4 51Clay and caliche, buff; contains sand and gravel....-_-__-___--__ 30 81Caliche, soft, white......__.---------_-_.--_--.---____. 8 89Caliche, hard, buff; contains sand, gravel, and thin layers of clay. _ 17 106 Clay, silty, soft, tan _.___________________________..______ 11 117Sand, medium to coarse; contains very fine sand to medium
gravel____________________________________________.._ 4 121Sand, medium to coarse, well-cemented; contains very fine sand
to medium gravel__--_________-_--_-_-__-_-_____--__--___-_ 4.5 125.5Clay, silty, sandy, hard, tan ____._-__-_______._______-____ 16.5 142Clay, silty, hard, tan; interbedded with caliche.__-___-_---_-___- 33 175 Clay, hard, plastic, light-green; interbedded with sand, gravel,
and caliche ..._____-__________-___-___.____.____________-. 6.5 181.5Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, cemented with caliche ____.. 3 184.5Sand, medium to very coarse, clayey, loose; contains very fine
sand to very fine gravel-_-___-_---_--___.___________-____-_ 15.5 200Caliche, sandy, gray _________________________________________ 4 204Sand, very fine to very coarse, loose __________________________ 10 214Sand, very fine to coarse, silty_____________________.__________ 8 222Clay, silty, tan ______________________________________________ 13 235
Chadron formation:Clay, hard, plastic, gray to light-green _______________________ 27 262Clay, hard, plastic, light-gray, pink, and yellow ________________ 5 267Chert, yellow.___-_.---.-_____________________________ 1 268Clay, hard, plastic, light-gray, pink, and yellow____.__-.________ 4 272Clay, hard, gray, yellow, pink, and blue __--_-_____--___-_______ 2 274Chert.. _______________________________________________ 1 275Clay, hard, gray, yellow, pink and blue_______._________________ 19 294
Pierre shale:Clay, hard, plastic, dark-gray_-________-_-_---__--_---___-____ 4 298
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Toble 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
9-42-32ccd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,592.0 ft]
Pierre shale ContinuedSoil, silty, light-to dark-brown_-_----_---_--_-_-------------- 2 2
Ogallala formation:Caliche, sandy, soft, white-______________----__---------_----_ 1 3Sand, coarse, to very coarse gravel, loose, green ______________ 6.5 9.5Caliche, sandy, soft, white to gray_--___----_--_---_-..--------_ 2.5 12Siltstone, sandy, soft, brown..___________---__-__--_-_---__--_ 4 16Clay, silty, sandy, soft, brown ___________.______-__---_--_---_ 8 24Gravel, very fine, to pebbles, loose; contains very fine to very
coarse sand ___-______________________-____--_---___-_--.._ 15.5 39.5Clay, silty, hard, red-brown_______-_..___--__.___---_.--__--_ 6.5 46Clay, silty, soft, brown --...._._-_...-..-_-_-._-----_---.__-- 3 49Caliche, sandy, clayey, soft, white to tan__-_-______-__-__-_---_ 9 58Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, loose, green _____-___.___.-___. 8 66Clay, silty, soft, gray..___..._..____-----___----_._-------- .5 66.5Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, loose, tan; contains pebbles. _ 6.5 73 Clay, silty, soft, tan____-_-____-_.__-__----_--_------_------- 12 85Caliche, silty, hard, white_______________-___--_-_-____-__---_ 6 91Clay, sandy, soft, tan.......______________..____.-_-----. 1 92Gravel, very fine, to pebbles, very loose, tan to pink; contains
very fine to very coarse sand_________--_-____----___---___- 34 126Caliche, silty, medium-hard, gray to white_____________-__-___- 11 137Caliche, sandy, hard, gray..._____________--___-_.--___------_ 1 138Caliche, sandy, medium-hard, gray to white; contains layers of
gray soft to hard silt --___-___---_-_-__--_----------_----_- 44 182Sandstone, very fine grained, silty, medium-hard, tan ___________ 22 204
Chadron formation:Clay, silty, soft, olive-green -____---_--_--____-----__-------- 10 214Silt, slightly clayey, soft, olive-green --.__--_-_-----_--------- 18 232Sandstone, very fine grained, silty, hard, olive-green; contains
streaks of white hard caliche and green clay._____-______--_-_ 12 244Sand, very fine to medium, slightly cemented, tan._._________._. 6 250Clay, soft, plastic, olive-green ___--__--_----___----_-_-_---_- 6 256Clay, silty, limonite stain, hard streaks, yellow to green _____._. 12 268Clay, limonite stain, hard, mottled yellow, gray, green, mauve,
and red ....___________________.___-.._-__..__.-_-.... 5 273Pierre shale:
Shale, hard, black..________________________________________ 9 282
SEDGWICK COUNTY, COLO.
9-47-lddd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,988.6 ft]
Dune Sand:
Soil, sandy, brown._.___.______..___..___._____-____----__.Sand, medium, loose; contains very fine sand to medium gravel __
Ogallala formation:Caliche, sandy, medium-soft, white to brown _--_-_.--___-_-_. Gravel, very coarse, to very fine sand,loose; contains pebbles and1
cobbles -___-_- -________________________--__--___-_-_-Clay, silty, soft, red-brown __________--____-__----_---_--_.
1
28
10
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BASIC DATA 153
Toble 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
9-47 - Iddd Continued
Ogaliala formation ContinuedSand, very fine., silty, loose, tan; contains fine to very coarse
sand..______._________...___ 8 54 Sand, very fine to very coarse, loose, tan___-._.____-____-----. 18 72 Silt, sandy, soft, tan; contains layers of white soft bentonite and
white hard caliche.__-_____--______-_____---_-_------_---_- 8 80Silt, medium-hard, gray-green-_____-__-__---__--___-__------ 2 82Caliche, sandy, soft, white _-_-.__-__-__-_-_-___-_--____------ 5 87Caliche, siliceous, very hard, white___-___--__------__-------_ 2 89Caliche, sandy, medium-soft, white; contains streaks of hard
caliche.-...-.-----_----_..-__..---__.---__-_----------_- 12 101Silt, clayey, calcareous, medium-soft, tan ._-._____--_-_----__- 5 106Clay, plastic, soft, brown __.____.._.-..___-_.___.______---__- 10 116Sand, coarse, loose, tan; contains very fine sand to very fine
gravel__-_____--___---_-_------_----_------__-----------_ 8 124Sand, very fine, silty, loose, tan ______________________________ 4 128Sand, very fine to very coarse, loose, tan___-_______--______.-_ 5 133Caliche, medium-hard, white to tan ....____....____...__.---_- 1 134Silt, sandy, calcareous, soft, tan; contains thin streaks of brown
soft clay and white hard caliche ____________________________ 14 148Clay, silty, sandy, soft, tan _.__..._.-_-._.__-..._-_.-..--_--_ 15 163 Silt, clayey, sandy, calcareous, soft, tan__._-.-____-----_--_--- 6 169Sand, fine, loose, tan; contains very fine sand to very fine gravel
and pebbles_________-______-______-____--_--__---_-_-_-__- 8 177Clay, silty, medium-soft, tan__--_____-_____----___---_.__---- 7 184Clay, very calcareous, soft, white ____---__--__-_..-_---_-_---- 4 188Bentonite, soft, white--------.------------------------------- 2 190Clay, sandy, silty, calcareous, medium-soft, tan .__---___-____- 11 201Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, loose, tan.____--_____---__ 2 203Clay, sandy, silty, calcareous, medium-soft, brown.-.-.-------- 3 206Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, cemented, tan.-------.--------. 14 220Clay, sandy, silty, medium-hard, brown __-.._.____._...___-._. 5 225Sand, very fine, loose, tan; contains fine sand to fine gravel--..-. 20 245 Silt, sandy, medium-soft, brown; contains thin streaks of white
hard caliche.-------------------.------------------------- 33 278Sand, coarse, loose, tan; contains very fine sand to very fine
gravel_---_-.-------_---__----..----._-_--_--_-__-------- 13 291Silt, slightly clayey, micaceous, medium-hard, gray-green __-_-. 16 307 Sand, coarse, loose, tan; contains very fine sand to very fine
gravel.----..--..-._--....--_.._.....-._....__-__..-_-__- 5 312 Brule formation:
Siltstone, slightly clayey, micaceous, medium-hard, brown ______ 20 332
10-42-32ccd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,612.0 ft]
Soil, silty, sandy._-_..______________________________________ 2 2Ogaliala formation:
Limestone, hard, white to orange--___---_._---__.-___--______ 1 3Caliche, hard, white-___--.--_-___........___________________ 7 10Caliche, sandy, soft, buff to tan_._____________________________ 13.5 23.5Clay, silty, sandy, soft, medium-brown-__-----__._.______--__- 17 40.5Sand, fine, to fine gravel------------.-.-_._--_-.-__._.---.-- 8.2 48.7Clay, silty, sandy, soft, medium-brown___.___--_._-___._..--__ 3.3 52 Sand, coarse to very coarse, silty; contains very fine to medium
sand and very fine to medium gravel _-__-_-----_--_-_-----__ 11 63
655012 O - 63 - 11
154 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample Ions of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
10 -42 -32ccd Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedClay, soft, brown; interbedded with green to brown sandy, silty
caliche __________ _________________________________________ 13Clay, plastic, brown ____-_.__...____________--__-_--___-____-- 16Silt, clayey, and clay, silty, sandy--------_--_-_-__---_----_--_ 13Sand, fine, to medium gravel; contains some coarse gravel.--... 50 Clay, silty, sandy, hard, brown to buff ____._---___-_---__-_--__ 11Caliche, soft, white; interbedded with white chert -_-----__--__-- 3Clay, silty, sandy, hard, tan .-.__---___-_-.___---_-----_--__-- 5.5Silt, clayey, hard, medium-brown -____---,--__--_--_--__--_-_- 4.5Caliche, sandy, silty, soft, gray..----------------------------- 13Clay, silty, sandy, buff.--...____----_---_-_--------_-----_-_- 13Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, calcareous, well-cemented ______ 15Clay, soft, gray.._________________________________--------- 13.5Clay, silty, sandy,tan --_____.___-_-----_.--_-_-_-----_--___- 11.5Sand, fine to coarse, loose; contains very coarse sand to very
fine gravel and thin layers of clay and silt _____---__---__-__- 29Silt, clayey, hard, green; contains thin streaks of caliche________ 9Sand, fine to coarse, well-rounded; contains some very coarse
sand to fine gravel ________________________________________ 3Silt, clayey, soft, buff__-____.__---_--_------------------__--- 8Sand, fine to coarse, well-rounded, frosted; contains very coarse
sand to very fine gravel and some caliche._._________________ 18Sand, very fine to coarse; contains very coarse sand to very
fine gravel _______________________________________________ 4Silt and caliche _____________________________________________ 2Sand, very fine to coarse; contains very coarse sand to very
fine gravel _-._-.-._____-_.-_-._--._____.._.-._.__________ 8Brule formation:
Clay, silty, soft, gray to green___----_--__---__-__-__--_______ 16.5Clay, dense, brown, and buff silt, sandy_______________-________ 2
Chadron formation:Sandstone, very fine grained, quartzitic, light-green -__-._-_-___ 1 Silt, clayey, hard, gray to green _--_-_--__--_-_--_-____-----_- 26.5Silt, sandy, soft, green; contains partly cemented layers._-_--___ 10 Silt, clayey, sandy, soft, green; contains some caliche and
limonitic stains at 397 ft __-___------____-_--____.__.--_._ 20Silt, clayey, hard, white to gray-_---___-_-_-_-_--------_-_-__- 6Sand, very fine, silty, white to gray---------------------------- 26Clay, limonitic, plastic, yellow___-_--_--------_-----_-------__ 8.5Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty, well-cemented, blue_.______ 4.5Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty, blue--_---__---__-_--_--._ 5 Clay, plastic, varicolored with light shades of blue, purple, green,
and tan___________________________________________________ 8.5Pierre shale:
Clay, plastic, yellow, light-blue and dark-gray, and dark-grayshale. ____________________________________________________ 11.5
10-43-6bbb
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,724.6 ft]
Soil silty, sandy, dark-brown _____-_----____--_----__--_---___ 1 Ogallala formation:
Caliche, soft to hard, buff; contains sand and gravel..-.-____-___ 4 Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose _..____.._.__...______ 17Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel, loose _-.-_-__-----_--._.-__- 32
BASIC DATA 155
Table 27. Sample JQfls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10-43-6bbb Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, very fine, to coarse gravel,well cemented with caliche ----- 1.5 55.5Clay, sandy, hard, plastic, tan_--_-________-__-___-__---___-_-- 8.5 64Sand, very fine, to fine gravel _________________________________ 13 77Clay, sandy, hard, tan _______________.____________-_--___----- 20 97Sand, very fine, to fine gravel _________________________________ 29 126Caliche, hard...._____.______-.-.._______..-.-__..-- 1 127Clay, soft, tan; contains sand, silt, and gravel.__________________ 55 182Clay, soft, tan; interbedded with caliche; contains sand, silt, and
gravel_._.________________________________________.. 31.5 213.5Sand, very fine, to fine gravel _-_-______--_-_--___--_-_--___--_ 5.5 219Clay, silty, sandy, gravelly, buff_______________________________ 23 242Silt, clayey; contains sand and gravel _________________________ 10 252Clay, sandy, soft, tan; interbedded with buff caliche_.._--_____--- 11 263Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel ________-_______-__--_--_-_- 21 284Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,clayey__-______-_________-_- 2 286Clay, sandy, soft, white to brown __________.______--__-_--___-_ 6 292Clay, sandy, soft, white to brown; contains some brown to green
dense clay...___________________________________________ 16 308Sand, very fine.to fine gravel__________________________________ 2 310Clay, sandy, soft; interbedded with thin layers of sand and gravel __ 11 321 Clay, sandy, soft, tan to buff _-_--___--____------___-_--_-__--- 13 334Caliche ________.________________.-_-.________.__ 1 335Clay, sandy, soft, tan to buff __________________________________ 17 352Clay, sandy, soft; interbedded with dense clay___________________ 9 361Sand, very fine, to fine graveljcontains some clay and streaks of
caliche..__________________________________________________ 26 387Clay, sandy, soft, tan to brown; contains some dense clay ________ 13 400Caliche, hard, white______________________..._._____._________ 4 404
Brule formation:Clay, dense, dark-brown; contains tan hard silty clay -___-_--_--_ 18 422 Clay, silty, hard, tan_________________________________________ 83 505
Chadron formation:Clay, hard, dense, blocky, light-green, gray, and white; contains
thin layers of red sandstone-__-_--__--__-__-__---_.---___-_- 37 542 Clay, hard, dense, blocky, green, gray, yellow, and brown with
some red stain ____________________________________________ 38 580Pierre shale:
Clay, hard, plastic, light-gray, yellow-green, and dark-gray..--_. 18___ 598
10-44-31ccc
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,794.5 ft]
Soil, silty, dark-brown ______________._______________...____-. 2.5 2.5Ogallala formation:
Sand, very fine, silty, clayey, calcareous, red brown ____________ 15.5 18Sandstone, silty, red-brown, and gray soft sandy caliche; contains
streaks of red-brown soft sandy clay ____---__--------_--_--_ 27 45Clay, silty, sandy, soft, red-brown; contains streaks of white
soft caliche______._.______._.____.___.__.______--_--__._-- 10 55Caliche, sandy, clayey, soft, gray..-____-_-----___---____-__--- 2 57Sand, very fine, silty, clayey, loose, red-brown _________________ 13 70Sand, very fine, to fine gravel.loose, tan---___------_--__------ 2.5 72.5Clay, silty, sandy, soft, brown --_--_______-__-__--------_----- 1.5 74Gravel, very fine to very coarse; contains very fine to very
coarse sand-___----__-___-_-___-___-_________--__._____-__ 17 91
156 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample Ions of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
10-44-31ccc Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSilt, clayey, medium-hard, brown. ________ _---_--_--_--_-_-___ 3Clay, plastic, medium-hard, gray-green; contains streaks of
white hard caliche ________________________________________ 9Silt, clayey, micaceous, medium-hard, red-brown ______________ 3Clay, blocky, hard, brown_-_--_---_---_----_---__-----_-____- 11Silt, clayey, micaceous, calcareous, medium-hard, light-gray;
contains streaks of white hard caliche_________---__--_-_____ 9Caliche, hard, white________________________-__-____________- 3Clay, blocky, medium-hard,tan ______________________________ 3Caliche, sandy, clayey, medium-hard, gray; contains streaks of
white hard caliche.________________________________________ 22Clay, silty, sandy, micaceous, calcareous, hard, tan .__-._______ 18Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,cemented, hard, tan to green _____ 7Caliche, sandy, clayey, medium-hard, gray __-_-_--_-_____-_-_- 12Clay, sandy, calcareous, medium-hard, gray to brown __________ 3Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,cemented, medium-hard _____ 7Clay, silty, sandy, medium-hard, tan--_--_-__----------_--_-_- 3Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,silty, slightly cemented, tan __ 26 Silt, sandy, medium-hard, tan ________________________________ 2Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,loose, tan to gray ___.-__._______ 8Silt, micaceous, medium-hard, tan. _________._-_____-___-__-_. 2Clay, blocky, hard, gray; contains tan medium-hard micaceous,
sandy silt ________________________________________________ 21Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,cemented, tan to green __________ 14Silt, sandy, micaceous, medium-hard, gray to brown____________ 7Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,silty, loose, green ___-_---_--.__ 25
Brule formation:Silt, slightly clayey, micaceous, hard, gray-green ___----__--___ 67
Chadron formation:Caliche, hard, white_________________________-_---___________ 2Silt, clayey, sandy, calcareous, tan to light-gray tinged with pink;
contains red-brown claystone _____-----___-__-------_-.__-_ 20Siltstone, clayey, calcareous, very hard, white _________________ 4.5Siltstone, clayey, very hard, light-green__------_-------___-_-_ 2Siltstone, clayey, calcareous, very hard, light-gray; contains
light-green and gray claystone ____________-_.----_-______-_ 13.5Siltstone, clayey, very hard, light-gray; contains gray claystone__ 10 Claystone, very hard, gray, green, and tan; contains pink
claystone-_____________________ _ ____________ -____-____- 52Silt, clayey, soft, light blue-green ____ __-_-____-_-_.-________ 4Claystone, very hard, red-brown, tan, and green .-.____-_______ 8
Pierre shale:Shale, black with limonite stain_____-_-------___-_-___--_-____ 2
10-44-36ddd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,710.6 ft]
Soil, silty, sandy.___________________________________________ 2Ogallala formation:
Caliche, clay, and sand; interbedded -.__--_---_-----_-_-___-__ 2Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel;contains some caliche_________ 5Clay, sandy, soft____________________________________________ 4Sand, very fine to very coarse; contains reworked nodules of
caliche ________________________________________________Clay, sandy, silty, brown _-___-___________--___--_---_-___-
BASIC DATA 157Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10-44 -36ddd Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, very fine, to medium gravel_____----_-__________________ 10.5 41.5Clay, sandy, soft, brown _____________________________________ 8.5 50Sand, very fine, to medium gravel--_------__-_-_-_---_--_--_-_ 5 55Clay, silty, soft, dark-brown; contains some sandy layers _.__-._ 23 78 Clay, hard, plastic, brown.___________________________________ 2.5 80.5Clay, sandy, brown __________________________________________ 3.5 84Sand, very fine to coarse, loose; contains very coarse sand to
fine gravel_-._'--___--____________________________________ 14 98Clay, silty, sandy, hard ______________________________________ 2 100Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel,loose____-_--__-___-__-______ 14.5 114.5Caliche, hard _______________________________________________ .5 115Clay, sandy, gravelly, hard, plastic____________________________ 9 124Caliche, hard _______________________________________________ 2 126Clay, hard, plastic __________________________________________ 10 136Clay, sandy, soft, brown; contains some gravel and caliche .-.___ 4 140 Caliche, white; interbedded with clay __________________________ 7 147Clay, silty, sandy, brown_____________j_______________________ 5 152Caliche, sandy, gravelly, buff-_----_._________________________ 12 164Silt and clay, sandy, buff.____________________________________ 5 169Silt, clayey, sandy, hard, green to tan _-___--_-______-__-_____- 8 177Sand, coarse, to very fine gravel,loose; contains very fine to
medium sand and fine to medium gravel _--_-_--_______--___- 12 189Sand, coarse, to very fine gravel,well-cemented; contains very
fine to medium sand and fine to medium gravel ---_____--__-__ 5 194 Sand, coarse, to very fine gravel,loose; contains very fine to
medium sand and fine to medium gravel ---_-___-___-_----___ 3 197Silt, sandy, hard,tan ________________________________________ 5 202Caliche, silty, sandy, tan_____________________________________ 2 204Silt, clayey, sandy, hard, tan -_-----_---__-_________-_________ 3 207Sand, very fine,to fine gravel,clayey _________________________ 9 216Clay, silty, hard, tan ________________________________________ 3 219Clay, silty, hard, tan; contains thin stringers of caliche....______ 3 222Clay, silty, hard, tan ________________________________________ 1 223Silt, clayey, sandy,tan_______________________________________ 10 233Caliche, buff to gray; interbedded with silty clay._______________ 7 240Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,clayey; interbedded with
blue-gray caliche and some fine gravel ._---__-__.___________ 24 264Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, clayey, well-cemented;
interbedded with blue-gray caliche and some fine gravel. ______ 1 265Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,clayey; interbedded with
blue-gray caliche and some fine gravel-_--__-._____.--___._ 8 273Silt, sandy; interbedded with cherty, sandy caliche __.__-_-_-.___ 19 292 Caliche, sandy, hard, white; contains thin streaks of clay ________ 32 324Sand, very fine, to fine graveljcontains caliche and chert._______ 9 333Clay, sandy, soft, plastic; contains some caliche-_-------_-__-__ 41.5 374.5
Pierre shale:Clay, hard, plastic, yellow .-....-_._._...................._..____7.5 382
10-45-7bbb
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,911.1 ft]
Soil, silty, dark-brown_______________________________________ l 1Ogallala formation:
Clay, sandy, calcareous, red-brown ___________________________ 5 6
158 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Somple lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
10-45- Tbbb C ontinued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, very coarse, loose, tan; contains very fine sand to coarse
gravel___________________________________________________ 13Clay, sandy, soft, red-brown.________________________________ 3Silt and sand, very fine, cemented/ medium -hard; contains
stringers of gray hard caliche._____________________________ 12Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,loose, tan --__-_---________ 3Silt and sand, very fine, cemented, medium-hard; contains
streaks of red-brown soft clay _____________________________ 13Clay, sandy, medium-hard, red-brown _.-__----____________-__ 10Gravel, very fine, loose; contains very fine sand to fine gravel __ 3 Clay, sandy, soft; contains streaks of cemented silt and very fine
sand; tan to red brown ____________________________________ 10Silt, clayey, sandy, medium-soft, gray --__-.__-____-___--__.-- 2Silt, clayey, sandy, medium-soft, red-brown.__________________ 7Sand, coarse, loose; contains very fine sand to fine gravel ______ 43Clay, silty, sandy, medium-soft, gray... -___-__.-__-____-__-_- 16Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, ,loose, tan _____________________ 9Silt, sandy, soft, brown______________________________________ 18Caliche, sandy, medium-hard, white __.-__---_..______________ 7Clay and caliche, silty, medium-hard, gray to brown -_---.__--_ 50 Sand, medium, loose, tan; contains very fine sand to very fine
gravel___________________________________________________ 10Clay, sandy, calcareous, medium-hard, tan to gray_.--_-__---.- 10 Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, partly cemented, tan.__--._ 22 Silt and sand, very fine, cemented, tan ________________________ 9Sand, very fine; contains fine to very coarse sand and tan hard
cemented silt ____________________________________________ 30Clay, sandy, silty, medium-hard, brown.-_-___________________ 24Sand, coarse; contains very fine sand to fine gravel, slightly
cemented, tan ____________________________________________ 14White River group:
Clay, silty, medium -hard, brown _____________________________ 38Clay, silty, medium-soft, brown; contains thin layers of
red-brown hard claystone --___-____--____--_______________ 20Clay, silty, medium-soft, brown to red-brown; contains thin
layers of red-brown hard claystone _________________________ 24Clay and silt, micaceous, medium-soft, brown _________________ 160Caliche, hard, white ___________________________________ ___ .5Clay and silt, micaceous, medium-hard, brown ________________ 10.5Siltstone, white to gray, and brown very hard claystone __________ 2Sandstone, silty, clayey, hard, blue-green; contains streaks of
brown claystone and white siltstone.._______________________ 39Claystone, hard, olive-green to brown with limonitic stain __.-_. 54
10-46-36ddd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,899.2 ft]
Ogallala format'Soil, silty, sandy, dark-brown.. ______________________________Silt, calcareous, light-gray __________________________________Sand, very coarse, loose, tan; contains very fine sand to medium
gravel and streaks of gray caliche__________________________Gravel, medium, loose, tan; contains very fine sand to very
coarse gravel____________________________________________Clay, sandy, medium-hard,tan ______________________________
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BASIC DATA 159
Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10-46 -36ddd Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, coarse, loose, tan; contains very fine sand to fine gravel... 24 Sand, very fine, silty, clayey, medium-soft, tan __--___-___-____ 7Silt, soft; contains very fine sand, tan _________________________ 15Sand, coarse, loose, tan to green; contains very fine sand to fine
gravel ....___.__.._____________-______--___---_-_-_- 23Caliche, siliceous, very hard, white.-.__--.._--_-______----_-_ 2Clay, sandy, soft,tan__._-_--_-_______-__--___-____-___---_- 2Silt, clayey, sandy, medium-hard, gray-to red-brown; contains
streaks of white medium-hard caliche __ ___-___-_-______---__ 31Sand, very coarse, loose, tan; contains very fine sand to very fine
gravel___________________________________________________ 3Clay, medium-hard, plastic, brown ___________________________ 16Sand, very fine, cemented, medium-hard, tan; contains fine to
very coarse sand __________________________________________ 6Silt, clayey, sandy, calcareous, medium-hard, tan _________---__ 29Sand, medium, silty, slightly cemented, tan; contains very fine
sand to very fine gravel _________________________________ 16Sand, very fine, slightly cemented to loose, tan; contains fine to
very coarse sand _________________________________________ 9Sand, coarse, loose, tan to green; contains very fine sand to very
fine gravel; interbedded with streaks of brown soft clay ___.__- 58 Sand, very fine, silty, calcareous, cemented, tan _______________ 14Silt, clayey, soft, tan ___--_-___-___-_______--___-__--___--__- 6Sand, very coarse, loose, tan; contains very fine sand to very
fine gravel_______________________________________________ 13Brule formation:
Siltstone, slightly clayey, very hard, gray _--_-___--__----_-_-- 7
95102117
140142144
175
178194
200229
245
254
312326332
345
352
10-47-Slccc
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 4,104.8 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Soil, sandy, silty, dark-brown _--_-_--_-_-___________-___-____Clay, silty, soft, brown ______________________________________
Ogallala formation:Caliche, sandy, clayey, soft, white to red-brown. _ ______________Gravel, fine, loose; contains very fine sand to pebbles __________Clay, sandy, soft, red-brown _________________________________Clay, sandy, medium-hard, tan _______________________________Caliche, hard, white___-________-___-________-___________-___Clay, sandy, medium-hard, tan _______________________________Caliche, sandy, medium-hard, gray_____--_-_________-_-____-_Sandstone, medium-soft, brown; contains streaks of white hard
caliche __________________________________________________Silt, sandy, clayey, calcareous, soft, red-brown ________________Sand, very fine, loose, tan; contains fine to very coarse sand ____Clay, silty, soft, brown ____________________-_____-_----_---_Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,silty, loose, tan ________________Caliche, medium-hard, white_-______-________-__-_--_____-___Silt, sandy, medium-soft, tan----_-___________-__-_-_-____--__Sand, very fine, loose, tan; contains fine sand to very finegraveL. Clay, silty, soft, brown; contains steaks of sand ________________Sand, fine, loose, tan; contains very fine to very coarse sand ____Clay, silty, sandy, medium-soft, gray-green to brown__________.
56
628
49
.36.7
10
20311211.515.5
16
2410
211
511
1745495858.36575
95126138149.5165166172196206208219
160 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
________________Toble 27. Sample Ions of test holes Continued_________
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10-47-31ccc Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, very fine, loose, tan; contains fine sand to medium gravel._ 23 242 Silt, medium-hard, brown.___________________________________ 2 244Sand, very fine, loose, tan; contains fine sand to medium gravel._ 30 274 Clay, silty, soft, red-brown __-_-----__-_----__-_-----_-_-_--- 2 276Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose, tan; contains thin streaks
of red-brown clay-------_------._------------------------- 14 290Brule formation:
Silt, clayey, micaceous, medium-hard, tan__---___-___--__----- 74 364Chadron formation:
Siltstone, hard, gray-green.___________________----------_____ 30 394Siltstone, hard, tan; contains streaks of maroon and green
claystone. __________________________.__..__..____--.. 17.7 411.7Siltstone, clayey, hard, tan; contains streaks of maroon and
green claystone___._.____.___...__..._-___.________.______ 52.3 464Siltstone, clayey, hard; contains streaks of blue-green claystone. _ 72 536 Sandstone, very fine grained, clayey, silty, medium-soft, white
to tan___.________________________________________________ 2 538Claystone, sandy, hard, blue-green and white _...--_--_--._-_-- 28 566 Claystone, sandy, hard, blue-green and white; interbedded with
pink clay... .. __________________________.---..__--- 35 601Pierre shale(?):
Clay, hard, yellow __________________________________________ 1 ___ 602
ll-42-32ccd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,614.4 ft]
Soil, silty, sandy, brown _____________________________________ 2 2Ogallala formation:
Caliche, hard, white to buff; contains very fine sand to finegravel ___________________________________________________ 3 5
Sand, fine, to medium gravel_-________.___--__.._-_-______._- 21 26Silt, clayey, hard; contains very fine to very coarse sand _______ 6 32Clay, silty ___ __________________________ 4 36Sand and gravel.____________________________________________ 1 37Clay, silty _________________________________________________ 1.5 38.5Clay, hard, plastic, gray-green___.___________________________ 2 40.5Caliche, hard, buff __________________________________________ 2.5 43Silt, hard, tan; contains very fine to very coarse sand_._._______ 13.5 56.5Sand, fine, to fine gravel,loose__-____________________________ 14 70.5Clay, hard, plastic, tan; contains fine sand to medium gravel;
interbedded with layers of sand and gravel-__________________ 10.5 81Sand, medium to very coarse, loose; contains very fine sand to
fine gravel _______________________________________________ 17.5 98.5Clay, silty, hard, gray________-____.________________________ 7.5 106Sand, very fine, to fine gravel_silty___________________________ 19 125Clay, silty, hard; contains very fine to very coarse sand ________ 10 135Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel _____________________________ 6 141Silt, hard, tan; contains very fine sand to fine gravel.___________ 11 152Clay, silty, hard, light-brown; contains very fine to very coarse
sand; interbedded with dense clay_ _______ ___________________ 21 173Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,silty________._________________. 5 178Clay, silty, hard, light-brown; contains very fine to very coarse
sand___..__________________________.___________ 6 184Sand, medium to coarse; contains very fine sand to very fine
gravel ___________________________________________________ 3 187
BASIC DATA 161
Table 27. Sample Ions of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
11 -42 -32ccd Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedClay, silty, hard, light-brown, and clayey silt; contains very fine
to very coarse sand..._____________________________________ 17 204Caliche, hard, white; contains some white chert _____ ____________ 7.5 211.5Silt, hard, light-brown; contains very fine to very coarse sand____ 7.5 219Chert, white______________________________________________ 2 221Silt, hard, light-brown; contains very fine to very coarse sand
and buff hard caliche_______________________________________ 11 232Silt and clay; light-brown; contains very fine to very coarse sand
and caliche _______________________________________________ 16 248Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,silty; interbedded with
sandy silt___._____________________________________________ 4 252Silt, hard, tan to green; contains sand, gravel, and caliche._______ 6.5 258.5Caliche, hard, buff_..________________________________________ 1 259.5Silt, hard, tan to green; contains sand, gravel, and caliche;
interbedded with silty clay_--______-__-____________-___.____ 12.5 272Silt, sandy, hard, tan; contains some large pebbles; interbedded
with lenses of clay.._______________________________________ 13 285Sand, very fine, medium to gravel _____________________________ 4 289Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, well-cemented.._____________ 2.5 291.5Clay and silt; contains very fine to very coarse sand ____________ 17.5 309Sand, fine, to very fine gravel,well -cemented; interbedded with
soft sandy to silty clay ______________________________________ 11 320Clay, hard, plastic, tan; contains very fine to very coarse sand
and some caliche ...._...________________________________ 12 332White River group:
Silt, clayey, tan; contains very fine to coarse sand and caliche.... 40 372Silt, clayey, tan; contains lenses of brown dense clay _______...__ 10 382Silt, clayey, tan; contains lenses of very fine to very coarse sand _ 4.5 386.5 Sand, medium to coarse; contains very fine to very coarse sand __ 9.5 396 Clay, hard, plastic, light-green _______________________________ 6 402Claystone, hard, green; contains maroon hard clay ..__--_____.__ 10 412Clay, silty, hard, gray-green _-___.__.._____________.__..____ 7 419Clay, plastic, and hard green claystone; contains layers of gray
and maroon hard clay ______________________________________ 23 442Clay, silty, calcareous, hard, gray to tan_______________________ 40 482Clay, hard, plastic, white to green________________.____________ 30 512Clay, hard, plastic, green ____________________________________ 17 529Clay, silty, calcareous, very hard, white to gray .__.._______..__ 22 551Silt stone, hard, white to light-green; contains layers of white hard
silty clay _______.__..._________________________.... 14 565Clay, hard, plastic, yellow and light-gray with limonitic stain .__. 17 582 Sandstone, very fine grained, hard, light-blue..________________ 13 595Sandstone, fine-grained, very hard, royal-blue to blue-gray ______ 4 599
Pierre(?) shale:Clay, silty, hard, light-blue___________________________________ 14 613
ll-45-8ddb
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,550 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Soil, sandy, black; contains fine to medium gravel.__.__.__._._.. 6 6 Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to tan _________________________ 7 13Gravel, coarse, pink to tan ___________________________________ 1 14Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to tan _______________________ 19 33
162 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
__________________Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued__________
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
11-45 -8ddb Continued
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated Continued Clay, light-brown to black; contains silt. _________________Gravel, fine to medium, pink to tan ________-_--_-_--__-..
Brule formation:Clay and siltstone, light-tan ____________________________
8.6 2.3
9.1
41.643.9
53
ll-45-17dcd
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,677 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Soil, sand, and gravel, black to tan ___________________________ 5.5 5.5Sand and gravel, tan to light -brown __-----_---_---------_---__ 11.5 17Silt and sand, fine, gray _..___.__..___...______._________.___ 6 23Gravel, fine to medium, pink to tan ___----_---__--_-__----_-__ 12 35Gravel, medium, pink to tan _________________________________ 8 43Gravel, fine to medium, pink to tan ___________________________ 10 53Gravel, medium; interbedded with tan sand and clay ---_-_-_--__ 7 60Clay and silt, light-tan to gray .......____._.______-__._____-. 7.5 67.5Gravel, fine to coarse.______________________________________ 9 76.5Clay and silt, light -gray to brown _____________----___--_-___- 8 84.5Gravel, fine to medium, pink to tan _---_--__---_----_------___ 17.5 102Silt; contains pink to tan very fine sand _______________________ 17 119Gravel, fine to medium, pink to tan ___________________________ 4 123Gravel, fine to medium, calcareous cement, pink to tan _________ 6.2 129.2
Brule formation:Silt; contains very fine sand and light-gray to tan clay---------- 23.8 153
ll-46-19aaa
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,582 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Road fill.----------_-..__..-..-_________-__--_-----__----_- 8.9 8.9Gravel, medium and coarse, pink to tan .-__.____--...__..._.__ 4.1 13Silt; contains medium to coarse sand; tan to brown _-..-_--.____ 8 21Gravel, fine to medium, pink to tan to light-gray _-__-.-__-.-_-. 7 28 Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to tan ________________________ 5 33Gravel, medium; contains coarse sand, pink to tan ____-__--_--- 8.6 41.6Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to tan _-_-_._.___._-.--_-..__. 7.4 49 Clay, interbedded with silt and fine sand, tan to light-brown .__.. 7.5 56.5 Gravel, fine to medium, pink to tan; interbedded with tan clay.-.- 6.9 63.4 Sand, fine to msdium; contains silt and clay, tan to light-brown __ 25.5 88.9 Gravel, fine to medium, pink to tan ___________________________ 4.5 93.4Sand, medium; cemented with calcium carbonate, tan to
light brown ______________________________________________ 10 103.4Sand, fine to medium, and silt, tan_----_-------_--_--_--_----- 4 107.4Gravel, medium, pink to tan _________________________________ 11 118.4Sand, medium to coarse, cemented with calcium carbonate;
contains fine to medium gravel, pink to tan __________________ 5 123.4Gravel, fine to medium, cemented with calcium carbonate _______ 10 133.4Gravel, fine to medium, cemented with calcium carbonate;
contains medium to coarse sand, pink to brown ------_-_-____ 19.6 153Gravel, fine to medium, pink to brown _-_--__-_-__--___--__-. 8 161 Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to brown_---_--_-----___---__. 6 167Sand, medium to coarse, light-tan; contains calcareousnodules __ 4 171
BASIC DATA 163
Toble 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
11-46-19aaa Continued
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated ContinuedSiltstone, pink to tan___-_____-____---__--____________-----___ 2 173Gravel, medium, pink to tan __________________________________ 2.5 175.5Sand, coarse, and fine gravel,pink to tan to brown ______________ 4.3 179.8Gravel, fine to medium, pink to brown __________-___-__------__ 5.5 185".3Gravel, medium to coarse, cemented with silica, pink to tan -_-.- 29.7 215
ll-46-19add
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,583 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Soil, silty, black; contains some gravel ________________________ 4.5 4.5Clay, iron-stained, gray _____________________________________ 6 10.5Gravel, medium to coarse, pink to tan _________________________ 6.7 17.2
Brule formation:Siltstone; contains some clay, gray to tan ______________________ 25.8 43Siltstone, sandy, slightly clayey, gray to tan ___..__._.._.._._._ 40 83
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, light-gray-to light-green ______._.._._.._._____________ 10 93Clay, light-gray-to light-green; contains trace of tan siltstone _._ 20 113 Clay, light-gray to white _____________________________________ 23 136
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow to brown; contains concretions _____-__---_--_----_ 17 153 Shale, hard, laminar, black___-_--__--_--____-____-____-__-__- 10 163
ll-46-19ddd
[Test hole drilled for U.S. Geological Survey, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,628 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Silt, black; contains fine to coarse sand and medium gravel...... 8.5 8.5Gravel, medium to coarse..._________________________________ 3.5 12
Brule formation:Siltstone, tan to light-brown.....-.-.-..-..._.........---_---. 11 23
WASHINGTON COUNTY, CQLO.
4-49-laaa
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude 4,153.2 ft]
Soil, silty, clayey, dark-brown.--_.___..__._____._____ Silt, clayey, buff...-_........--._..._..._.__..._.....
Ogallala formation:Sand, very fine, to fine gravel;contains caliche and clay. Clay, sandy, soft, brown _____________________________Clay, hard, plastic, brown____________________________Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel,clayey_._____________Silt, sandy, gravelly, brown .-_--_-__.________________Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,silty___________________Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel,loose._______________Clay, silty, soft, brown ______________________________Sand, very fine, to medium gravel;contains silt and clay- Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel,loose________________
22
4262
1429
147
101618323443576473
164 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4 -49 - laaa Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSilt, clayey; contains sand and gravel_.____-____-___-_-__-_-_-_ 4 77Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel,loose_-_-_____-_--__--------- 15 92Sand, very fine, to medium gravel_____________--_.--_-_------- 15 107Clay, silty, sandy, hard, brown _________________----__-__---_- 19 126Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,clayey.--------------------- 11 137Silt, sandy,tan_._______________....._.______.______----_---- 6 143Caliche --------_.._._._.____________..._____..__--_-_-.-- 4 147Sand, very fine, to medium gravel-.-..____-.___-_-----__---_-_ 3 150
Brule formation(?):Clay, silty, sandy, hard, brown; contains some caliche _-_-____-_ 12 162Silt, clayey, brown; contains sand, gravel, and caliche.-------.-- 40 202Caliche, hard, white .__.__..._..____........__--..--__------ 9 211
Chadron formation(?):Clay, hard, plastic, light-green, yellow, and light-blue; contains
thin layers of blue silt stone _--._____-______--__-------__--- 12 223Pierre shale:
Clay, hard, plastic, dark-gray _--___-_---.-------------------- 3 226
4-51-laaa
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude 4,398.2 ft]
Sanborn formation:Soil, silty, clayey, brown._-_____-._.________-__----__--_--_-- 4Silt, clayey, light-brown -----_--___..._._._------.-___------ 29 33Sand, fine to medium; contains some very fine to very coarse
sand--_-_-----_-------------...-----_-_--------.__.-__- 4.5 37.5Silt, clayey, light-brown ___-_______.-_____-__-_-_--___-_--_-- 13.5 51Sand, very fine to very coarse--__-___.__-_--_____---____--__- 3 54Silt, clayey, light-brown _____-____-._____-_-__-_--___-_---_-- 2 56Silt, sandy, buff ___..________.__.._______ 10.5 66.5 Clay, silty, hard, buff----.-.---._____---__-.__.___-------- 3.5 70Silt, clayey, sandy, buff_--._-______-_-----------._---_-_-__- 11.5 81.5
Ogallala formation:Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel;interbedded with thin layers
of silt---_____________-.__________-- - 4.5 86 Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel; interbedded with layers of
caliche___________________________________________________ 2Pierre shale:
Clay, hard, plastic, gray, with limonitic stain, and light-brownshale ...________________.__________________ 14 102
Clay, hard, plastic, yellow to yellow-gray__________-__----_-_-_ 2 104Clay, hard, plastic, dark-gray________________________________ 8 112
YUMA COUNTY, COLO,
3-42-4ccc
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,587.0 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated: Soil, sandy, dark-brown______________________Clay, sandy, fossiliferous, gray to green .-_--.. Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty .--___---_.
1 19
15
BASIC DATA 165
Table 27. Sample Ions of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-42 -4ccc Continued
Ogallala formation:Clay, soft, light-gray________________________________________ 10 25Clay, sandy; contains caliche_._______________________________ 6.8 31.8Sand, very fine to very coarse; contains some caliche_-___-____- 20.2 52Sand, very fine to coarse, silty, calcareous __--_-__---_-__-____ 14 66Sand, very fine to coarse, silty, calcareous; contains streaks of
clay_____________________________________________________ 3 69Sand, very fine to coarse, silty, calcareous _---___-__-_-___-___ 6 75Caliche, sandy, white__._.___________________________________ 19 94Caliche, sandy, clayey, cemented, buff to brown ________________ 11 105Sand, very fine to medium, calcareous ________________________ 10 115Caliche, sandy, clayey, white to buff __________________________ 20 135Sand, very fine to coarse.-________________________________.__ 2 137Sand and caliche, slightly cemented; interbedded with thin
streaks of brown dense clay__-_-__-________________________ 15 152Sand, very fine, to fine loose gravel; contains caliche ___________ 12 164Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, well-cemented; contains caliche _. 5 169Sand, very fine, to fine loose gravel; contains caliche ______ 6 175Siltstone, calcareous, dark-brown __----------__-_-___________ 9 184Sand, silty; contains caliche.......___________________________ 5.5 189.5Clay, silty, dense, dark-brown _______________________________ 2.5 192Sand, silty, calcareous ______________________________________ 8 200Sand, very fine, to fine gravel; contains caliche ________________ 9.5 209.5Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, partly cemented; contains caliche _ 2.5 212Sand, very fine, to fine gravel; contains caliche _______________ 1 213Caliche, hard----_-_________________________________________ l 214Sand, very fine, to medium gravel; contains some thin layers of
clay._______________ ________________________________ 26 240Clay, silty, sandy, soft, light-brown___..______________________ 11 251Sand, very fine to very coarse_-_.____________________________ 11 262Silt, sandy, clayey, soft, tan to green__-_____-.________________ 10 272Sand, fine to medium, loose; contains coarse sand to fine gravel-. 14 286Clay, silty, sandy; contains thin layers of sandstone__.__________ 8.5 294.5Clay, sandy, soft, tan; contains thin layers of caliche and streaks
of dense hard clay ________________________________________ 22.5 317Sand, fine, to very fine gravel _____________________________ 4.5 321.5Clay, hard, tan -------__----_-______________________________ 7.5 329Sand, very fine, to fine gravel ________________________________ 8.5 337.5Sand, very fine, to fine gravel; contains streaks of clay_________ 3.9 341.5
Pierre shale:Clay, hard, plastic, yellow ___________________________________ 8.5 350Clay, hard, plastic, dark-gray________________________________ 4.5 354.5
3-42-31bdd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,614.0 ft]
Dune sand:Sand, very fine to coarse..___________________________________Sand, very fine to coarse; contains some very coarse sand to fine
gravel-----_-------------_----___________________________Ogallala formation:
Clay, hard, buff to brown with limonitic stain; contains sand,gravel, and caliche________________________________________
Caliche, hard, buff __________________________________________Caliche, hard, buff; contains streaks of sand _-----_.___________Clay, silty, hard, medium-brown _____________________________
12
9
1285
12
21
30425055
.166 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued_________
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-42-31bdd Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, very fine, to fine gravel and caliche; partly cemented ___ _ 6.5 Caliche, hard, buff_______....--_....._--___.---_.._.--------- .5Clay, silty, soft, and caliche; buff ____.-_--_---_----__------_-_ 6Caliche, sandy, hard, buff ________________-__-_--_-__----_____ 15Caliche, cherty, hard, white-------__--_-----_------_---------- 3Sand, fine to coarse, calcareous; contains very fine sand to fine
gravel-____-_________________.__.-__________-_____----_--- 6.5Clay, silty, hard, medium-brown .-___.-_.--___-----__----_-_-. 5.5Sand, very fine to very coarse, calcareous; contains thin layers of
clay.-.-_...-__...___.._._..._......_....._.__.__...-_---- 14Sand, very fine to very coarse, calcareous; contains some very
fine to medium gravel and thin layers of clay----------------- 14Clay, interbedded with sand and caliche ---------__----_---_---- 6Clay, and caliche; contains very fine to coarse sand ------------- 21Sand, very fine to very coarse; contains buff caliche--__-__-__-_- 9 Sand, very fine to very coarse, cemented.---------------------- 10Sand, very fine to medium, loose; contains coarse to very coarse
sand -_....-_...._...._....-.-.--_-_.__-_.._.....-_-.-_.-- 38.5Clay, soft -_.-_-...-.....--....--..._.-_..-_.._._-........-- .5Sand, very fine to medium, loose; contains coarse to very coarse
sand ______---__.___.-_---__----____-----..-______.______. 6Clay, sandy, soft, white to_gray; contains some caliche and thin
layers of chert ____..__.____..____..____.___.___.___.__._._ 9Clay, sandy, soft, gray to buff______._________-________--__-_-- 16Clay, silty, soft, gray to buff..---.....__-_...----_.-------__-_ 16Caliche and sand, very fine to very coarse _____________________ 5
Pierre shale:Clay, hard, plastic, greenish-yellow to gray-------------------- 11Clay, hard, plastic, dark-gray__-_____--------------__-_------- 5
4-44-6bbb
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,792.3 ft]
Dune sand:Sand, very fine to coarse, silty, dark-brown ___---_-___--___---- 6Clay, silty, white to gray ----.--__..._-___------_-------____-- 2Sand, very fine to very coarse, loose .__-__--.__----_--_------_ 18
Ogallala formation:Clay, silty, gray..___________________________________________ 7Clay, hard, gray to brown; contains caliche-___--_---_----_-__-- 6Clay, silty, sandy, hard, light-brown...------- -__-___----.---.- 5Clay, silty, sandy, gravelly ______.__.._______-_______---_____- 3Silt, clayey, sandy ___________________________________________ 19Clay, hard, brown _-__--_-____-______--______--_______-______ 1Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,clayey, loose.__._-__-.-_---____- 6Caliche, cemented, hard, white to buff .-------_---_-_-.----__-- 5Clay, silty, sandy, plastic ____________________________________ 10Sand, fine, to medium gravel,loose_.._._--___.----__--------_- 5Clay, silty, sandy, buff-_--__.---.....--_----_------_---_-.--- 8Sandstone, very fine grained to very coarse grained; interbedded
with layers of caliche -___._.--__._.___----__----_------__-- 23Sand, very fine to very coarse, clayey, loose _.__-_-______-__-_- 11Caliche, hard, buff---_--.____________-_-_-____-.-_-_--------- 5Silt, clayey, sandy, tan ---__..__......-_--_--------__------.-- 8
BASIC DATA
Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
167
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4 -44 -6bbb Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedCaliche, hard, white to buff-----_---___-_-__-__-_-_-_-____--_- 2 150Silt, compacted, tan; contains sand and gravel __________________ 6 156Clay, silty, sandy, gray; contains some caliche _________________ 6 162Clay, sandy, plastic, gray-green______________________________ 5 167Clay, sandy, plastic, tan _____________________________________ 5 172Clay, sandy, silty, plastic, tan ________________________________ 10 182Clay, silty, sandy, calcareous ________________________________ 9 191Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,loose._--_--_--____-____-___ 18 209Clay, silty, sandy, gravelly, tan.______________________________ 5 214Caliche, hard, white to gray __--____-____-.--_--__-____---____ 8 222Caliche, soft; contains thin streaks of silty to sandy clay-__-_--._ 20 242Silt, clayey, gray to tan; interbedded with dense clay ._-_______._ 20 262Silt, clayey, sandy, gray to tan________________________________ 10 272Silt, clayey, gray to tan; contains some caliche and thin layers
of clay ____--__--__-__._______._______________.____ 11 283Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel____________________________ 2.5 285.5Clay, hard, plastic, light-brown...____________________________ 6.5 292Clay, hard, plastic, light-brown; contains some dense blocky clay
and thin layers of sand....___._._________________.__.._.___ 14 306Silt, sandy, clayey.........__________________________________ 18 324Sand, very fine to very coarse-__-..._.___..___.._-._.__.._.._ 4 328Caliche, gray to buff.._-._-.._.__________________._____.__.__ 6 334Clay, silty, hard, light -brown.....__.__._.....___. .._.._._.__. 3 337Sand, very fine, to fine gravel _..___..__._._____________.__.__ 6 343Caliche, silty; contains thin layers of dense clay________________ 12 355Sand, very fine to medium; contains caliche -_____--__-_________ 4 359Caliche, sandy, hard, white to gray. ________ ___________________ 10 369
Pierre shale: ^Clay, hard, plastic, yellow to yellow -green. _-------___-__-_-___ 3 372
4-46-6bbb
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,936.0 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, very fine to coarse............._______._.._.__________- 6 6Silt, sandy, gray; contains some gravel________________________ 1 7Sand, very coarse, to very fine gravel;contains very fine sand to
fine gravel -___-.-_----.--_-_____-__-__.__.___________ 3 10Clay, silty, hard, gray _______________________________________ 6 16Clay, silty, brown; contains sand and gravel.__________________ 3 19Caliche, hard, buff; contains sand and gravel __________________ 8 27Clay, soft to hard, brown; contains some sand and caliche__-_-___ 9 36 Sand, very fine to coarse; contains very coarse sand to fine gravel. 6 42 Sand, coarse, to very fine gravel___________________.____.__._ 10 52Sand, coarse, to very fine gravel; contains thin streaks of caliche _ 2.5 54.5 Clay, sandy, soft, light-brown ________________________________ 10.5 65Sand, very fine to very coarse, partly cemented; contains silt and
caliche___________________________________________________ 2 67Clay, sandy, light-brown; contains streaks of plastic hard clay ___ 9 76 Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,silty; partly cemented with
caliche-__________________________________________________ 8.5 84.5Caliche, clayey, buff___._____________________________________ 3.5 88Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,clayey__________________________ 4 92Clay, soft, tan; contains sand, gravel, and some caliche _________ 17 109
168 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4 -46 -6bbb Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedClay, hard, plastic, gray---_-_-_-____---_--_-_---_------.._--- 3.5 112.5Sand, very fine, to fine gravel __-_--___----------_----__------ 2.5 115Clay, micaceous, hard, plastic, gray to brown; contains sand and
gravel...__..________.._.._.._._...._____.__.__..__._____ 18 133Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,clayey, partly cemented._____ 9 142Clay, sandy, hard, plastic, brown __________-_-__-___--_____-_- 10 152Clay, silty, micaceous, hard, brown; contains some layers of sand. 10 162 Clay, silty, sandy, gravelly, hard, brown ______________________ 2 164Sand.--------_---.-_._--__-_______.__.__._..___.-.__-.___._ 2 166Clay, silty, sandy, gravelly, hard, brown .__..__.._._..___..___ 15 181 Sand, fine, to fine gravel,clayey..____________________________ 8.5 189.5Clay, silty, sandy, hard, gray to brown; contains thin streaks of
caliche __________________________________________________ 9.5 199Sand, very fine, to fine gravel-___--__---_--------_--_----_--- 3 202Silt, sandy_--______-_____________________________-___-___.__ 5 207Clay, silty, sandy, hard, tan__--___--_--.--------__----------_ 7 214Caliche, sandy, gravelly _--___-__--__--------_--__---_---_--- 9 223Sand, very fine, to medium gravel _--_-_------_--__----_-_---- 14 237Clay, silty, soft, tan; interbedded with caliche.-.--..-_-_-_-_--- 2 239 Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,loose __-___-_--_------_-------_ 17 256Caliche and clay; white to gray; contains very fine to very coarse
sand_____________________________________________________ 18 274Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel;contains some clay and
caliche _----.--_--__-_____________________-___-___-___.__ 9 283Clay, sandy, hard, plastic, tan-_-_--__---_--___---_-_-___----- 5 288Caliche, sandy, hard, buff to gray.--..-...-..-_---------_-.-_- 34 322Caliche, sandy, gravelly, hard, buff to gray; contains thin streaks
of brown and green clay._______-________-_-___---____-_-_-_ 18 340Clay, silty, sandy, soft, tan _-_--_-___-____--__-__--_---_----_ 2 342Clay, silty, sandy, soft, tan; interbedded with thin, layers of sand
and caliche_______________________________________________ 31.5 373.5Pierre shale:
Clay, soft, plastic, yellow, and yellow shale_---_---_-------._-_ 4.5 378
5-43-36ddd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,605.9 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand, very fine to medium, silty, compact ___-__---__---__-____Silt, clayey, fossilliferous, gray __-_-__-_-- _---_----_--_--__--Clay, silty, limonitic, gray..__-__-_-___-__-__---_-----_-___--Clay, silty, sandy, gray._____________________________________Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,silty_____--__-__--___-_--_-___-Caliche, hard, buff; contains sand_._-_____-__-_-__-__-__-.___-
Ogallala formation:Limestone, sandy, white to gray -_______--_-__----__--_------_Caliche, clayey, sandy, hard, gray _________-____-_-__--___-.__Caliche, sandy, hard, gray-green ______________-____--__--___.Clay, silty, calcareous, hard, plastic, gray___________---_---_-_Sand, fine, to medium gravel,loose _-__-----__----.----_--_--_Caliche, sandy, cherty, hard, white to buff __-_--_____-__--_____Clay, dense, dark-brown; contains some sand and caliche _______Sandstone, very fine grained to very coarse grained, calcareous. _ Sand, fine, to medium gravel -__-__--___--____-_---___-__-_.-_Clay, sandy; interbedded with sandy caliche.--.__.-.___________
21012
713
12
308
1211
620
714
21224313235
363868768899
105125132146
BASIC DATA
Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
169
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-43-36ddd Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSiltstone and caliche; sandy __-_-_-__-__-______-_-____________ 2 148Clay, silty, soft_____________________________________________ 4 152Sand, very fine, to medium gravel_-_-__________-______________ 14 166Clay, silty, calcareous; contains streaks of caliche and sand...-. 15.5 181.5 Clay, sandy, hard, light-brown...._._______._________... ...... 9 190.5Caliche, sandy/white_--_-----_-_-____________-______________ 1.5 192Caliche and sand, very fine to very coarse; contains streaks of
clay at 198.5 ft.__.._._..._._....._........._..__..._...__. 13 205Caliche, hard and soft streaks, white __________________________ 3 208Clay, silty, sandy, soft.........._......_._..__...._..___.__.. 4 212Silt and sand; consolidated ___________________________________ 3 215Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,slightly cemented, greenish stain_. 9.5 224.5 Clay, sandy, calcareous..-__--_----___-________--______.__-__ 8.5 233Caliche, buff to brown ------------__-__--__----_-________-___ 11 244Sand, very fine, to medium gravel;contains streaks of clay at
255 ft.........___....._._.._..__.---------........-... 22 266Caliche, sandy, hard, white........_..._.._........__..._..._. 7 273Sandstone, very fine grained to medium-grained, silty; contains
thin beds of clay ......._._______________________________ 14 287Clay, sandy, calcareous, soft, buff ____________________________ 17 304Clay, sandy, soft, buff _-----_._-._._._......._________.___._. 5.5 309.5Sand, very fine to very coarse; interbedded with clay and sandy
clay..... ._ ----_.--_-.-_.__._..__......__________. 12.5 322Sand, very fine to very coarse, clayey, calcareous ..._.__.__.... 10 332
Pier re shale:Clay, hard, plastic, yellow to light blue-gray ___________________ 10.5 342.5Clay, hard, plastic, dark-gray ________________________________ 4.5 347
CHASE COUNTY, NEBR.
5-36-2aac
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,002.7 ft]
Ogallala formation:Silt, tan; contains very fine sand to fine gravel _________________Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel;contains nodules of caliche_____Silt and sand, very fine to coarse, partly cemented,
medium -brown. ___________________________________________Caliche, hard, buff; contains streaks of sand, gravel, and silt _.__ Caliche and siltstone, hard; contains very fine to coarse sand ____Caliche and silt, soft -----__---_-____________________________Silt, sandy, hard to soft; contains some caliche _.______________Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,silty, slightly cemented ______Caliche and silt; contains very fine to medium sand _____________Sandstone, very fine grained to very coarse grained, gray-green
contains some very fine gravel _____________________________Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,slightly cemented.___________Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,silty _.-_--_-_._____________Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,loose_______________________Sand, very fine,to fine gravel ________________________________Silt, clayey, buff ----_--__----__.____________________.__.____Silt; interbedded with siltstone and very fine grained 'to
coarse-grained sandstone --_----___._______________________
12.5 2.5
2.223.8
6.73.329.5
15.5
74158.81.2
12.3
12.515
17.2 41 47.7 51 79 88..S
104
111115116121129.8131
143.3
.655012 O - 63 - 12
170 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-36 -2aac Continued
Ogallala formation continuedSilt, clayey, soft, light-brown; contains very fine to very coarse
sand. .__...._..__......_______....._____-___-___. 17.7 161Siltstone, tan; contains thin layers of caliche--___-_-__--_______ 10 , 171Sandstone, very fine grained to fine-grained; interbedded with
siltstone and silt......._.._.____.__..... ...._.---- 10 181Silt, clayey, hard; contains some caliche.___--__-_---_-___----- 8 189Sand, very fine to very coarse, partly cemented; contains some
silt and gravel...__..-._...____._---_...----- ... 25 214 Pierre shale:
Clay, plastic, yellow to light blue-gray, and yellow shale.-.-...- 3 217 Clay, plastic, dark-blue .._.___..-.-_------.----------------- 4 221
5-36-36ccc
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,118.6 ft]
Sanborn formation:Silt, soft, tan.___.____._..._...___.__...-.--.__-.--- 22 22Silt, soft, tan; contains some caliche_-___------__--_---------- 14 36
Ogallala formation:Limestone, hard, buff and white ___-___-__--_--_--_----.----_--. 2 38Caliche, hard to soft, buff to white _..__----------------------- 16 54Silt, tan, and sand, very fine to very coarse; slightly cemented.._ 22 76 Chert, glassy, translucent _.....__.._......-_.--.--.----_.--- 1 77Silt, light-brown; contains very fine to very coarse sand and
caliche ._____.__..__._______________________.. 35 112Sand, very fine to very coarse; contains silt, caliche, and some
very fine to medium gravel _-___-_-_-__-_--_---___--__----- 10 122Silt and siltstone; tan-_-_-____-_-_-______-_-------_---------- 10 132Silt, cemented in layers; contains very fine to very coarse sand.. 10 142 Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,silty-__---_-----.-_------------- 8.5 150.5Silt, sandy; contains some caliche_--____________--__---_------ 11 161.5Caliche, nard___.____________________________-_____._- 0.5 162Silt, sandy; interbedded with thin layers of fine sand and hard
caliche _-__-__________________________--______-__-__----. 33 195Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,loose; contains some
light-green silt ________________________________________ 19 214Clay, silty, hard, brown to light-green; contains some caliche ___ 9.5 223.5 Sand, very fine to medium, slightly cemented; interbedded with
silt and caliche_--__-_______________-______-_-_--_------_- 8 231.5Clay, hard, brown to light-green; contains some very fine to
medium sand and caliche ____-____-___-___-__-------------- 2.5 234Clay, hard, light-green, and silt; contains very fine to medium
sand and caliche __________________________________________ 24.6 258.6Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty; and clayey, sandy silt _____ 13.4 272Clay, silty, dense, light-green to brown; contains very fine to
coarse sand and caliche ___-____-_-__-._ ___.-_-___-_--__. 20 292 Clay, hard, green to brown; and sandy hard green to brown clay. 13.5 305.5 Sand, very fine, to fine gravel;contains green silt and clay -___-. 7 312.5
Pierre shale:Clay, hard, plastic, yellow to light blue-gray_____-.__-------___ 6.2 318.7
BASIC DATA 171
Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-37-9bbc
[Drilled by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Samples studied by C. T. Jamison, geologist U.S. Bureau of Reclamation]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand, fine to medium, silty, light-brown___-__-__-____-__------- 7 7Sand, fine, silty, dark-gray _--------__-----.-----_------_------ 13.5 20.5Sand, fine to coarse, clean, brown __________---_____-_-___-___- 5 25.5Sand, fine, silty, dark-gray---_----_---------__-__----------_- 1 26.5Sand, fine to coarse, clean, brown.....__..____._..___-.---..__ 2.8 29.3
Ogallala formation:Sand, fine to coarse, silty, gray; contains a few slightly cemented
zones .__..__..__..._..___-._.._____________..-. 15.4 44.7Sand, fine to medium; contains some brown silt _.___--__-_____-- 1.3 46.0Sand, medium to coarse, brown; contains small amount of graveL. 6.8 52.8Clay, buff; contains small amount of fine sand __-_--_--__--___-_ 5 57.8Sandstone, hard, gray; contains a few soft seams._______________ 3.8 61.6Sand, fine, light-gray; contains a small amount of silt. -___-___--_ 3.7 65.3Sand, fine, silty, gray--------_----------_--------------.----- 1.7 67.0Sand, fine to medium; contains a few cemented zones __-_______-- 2.5 69.5Sand, fine, silty, light -green ____--_________--_____------_-_--- 4.5 74Sand, fine to coarse, silty, gray ___-________--__--_---____-__-- 4 78Sand, medium to coarse, clean, light-brown ____________________ 5.4 83.4Sand, fine to coarse; contains some brown silt -__-__-----------_ 3.3 86.7Clay, buff; contains small amount of sand -._----___------__-_-- 2.5 89.2Sand, very fine, buff --_-__-_---__-__--__----___---------_-_-- 1.6 90.8Silt, light-green; contains large amount of chalk _-__-__-______-- 2.7 93.5Sandstone, hard, gray.----.-._-__--___-------_-_______-_----- 1.2 94.7Sandstone, soft, gray _________________________________________ 0.7 95.4Sandstone, hard, gray -------_--_-_---_--_-----------_---_.--- 2.7 98.1Sand, fine, light-brown; contains some silt--_--__------_-------- 1.9 100.0Sand, fine to medium, cemented; contains some fine gravel;
contains minor solution channels 1/16 in.in diameter___________ 6.4 106.4Sand, fine, silty, light -brown ________________-__._-_---__..-- 5.8 112.2Clay, buff-._______.-._______________________._--.___._-- 1.1 113.3Sand, fine, silty, light -brown _--------_-------------___------- 11.6 124.9Sand, fine, light-brown ________________________--_...___.. 2.4 127.3Silt, light-brown----------_.--__---.._-----.-__.-----_...-- 1.7 129.0Clay, lean, light-brown _.--.__-----_-__----------.-_------.-- 2.5 131.5Sand, fine, silty, light-brown _-_-___--____-_----.__--_-_-_-__-- 15.9 147.4Sand, fine, silty, gray; contains a few slightly cemented zones _.__ 5.1 152.5Sand, fine, slightly cemented, gray__-____-__-______--___--___-_ 3.7 156.2Sand, fine, silty, light -brown -_-------_--------__-.---__---__-- 1.8 158.0Sand, fine to medium, light-brown _____________________________ 4.5 162.5Sand, fine to coarse, silty, light-brown _________________________ 7.1 169.6Clay, silty, gray__.__-_-_---________-__________________-___-_ 1.1 170.7Sand, medium, light-brown...______..____._.___.__________._-. 7.0 177.7Silt; contains layers of medium to coarse sand; brown _-_-_-.-_-_ 4.3 182.0
Pierre shale:Shale, weathered, yellow.._-----___-__-_------__--_-----_--.-- 2 184
5-37-31ccc
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,347.9 ft]
Sanborn formation: Soil, silty, clayey ___ Silt, clayey, soft, tan
458
462
172 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
5-37-31ccc Continued
Sanborn formation ContinuedClay, silty, soft, tan.._______________________________________ 40Silt, clayey; contains some sand and caliche __--_--_-__-_--___- 24
Ogallala formation:Caliche, sandy, silty, soft to hard, buff to white.--...----------- 16Caliche, sandy, white to buff; interbedded with thin streaks of
very fine to very coarse sand__-___.---------~---------------- 15.5Sand, cemented _._...___.-.__-_--_-__---___-----_-_----_---- 1Caliche, sandy, white to buff; interbedded with thin streaks of
very fine to very coarse sand.------------------------------ 2.9Sandstone, very fine grained to very coarse grained _-..-.--_-_- 1.6 Caliche, sandy, white; contains thin stringers of very fine to
very coarse sand --_-___--_______-__--_---_----__-__------ 22Silt, sandy, calcareous _________...________--___-___-__---__- 4.5Caliche, silty, soft, white to buff__.__-______-------_-_--_---_- 3Caliche, silty, hard, white to buff; contains streaks of silty sand
and clay-.--..._-_.._.__--.__.--..-_..----_--.---_-_-_-- 1Caliche, silty, soft, white to buff..---------------------------- 6.5Caliche, silty, hard, white to buff; contains streaks of silty sand
and clay.----____--______-______________------______--____ 1Caliche, silty, soft, white to buff____------_----------_-----_-- 1Silt, sandy, gravelly, calcareous; interbedded with caliche....... 12.5Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,silty, calcareous, loose _____ 4.5Caliche, sandy, silty, hard, buff to white..___.-_-_--__-_-._-__- 13 Caliche, sandy, cemented in thin zones, buff to white--.-...----- 13Sand, very fine to coarse, gravelly, calcareous, cemented in
zones, light-green -__._____._...___.______._.___.--_-__-.. 10.2Caliche, white; contains light-green very fine to coarse-grained
sandstone _____--__-__________.___________--_-___-___-_-__ 4.8Sand, very fine to medium -__--_-___--__---_--_--_-----_-_--- 2Caliche; interbedded with very fine sand and greenish-brown
dense clay ______-____.-____.-.._________--______________- 10Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, greenish stain; interbedded
with thin streaks of caliche.-_-._.----_____------__-_---_-_- 11.7Silt, clayey, sandy, calcareous, hard_.--_____.-________-____-- 13.3Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,silty; contains nodules of caliche
and thin streaks of green clay __...__-___-_--_--____-__-___- 19.9Clay, silty, brown_____-___._-__--_____-___.__----__-___--_-- 4.7Caliche, soft, white __----------__----.-._-----_____._-- 1.4Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty, calcareous __--___-.-____- 7Silt, sandy, hard, gray._______-_-_._____-_-__-__-____--__-__- 2Silt, clayey, and sand, very fine to very coarse, cemented _______ 5Clay, silty, sandy,tan__--.________.-^___-___--______--_____- 14.5Sand, very fine to coarse, silty, loose ___-__._-______--_---__-- 16
Brule(?) formation:Clay, silty, hard, yellow to tan; contains sand _.---._-_--___-__- 14.5 Clay, hard, yellow to tan _____________________________-_--.. 4.7Clay, hard, dense -_----_.__-_____-___--__-__--___-_--_---__- 1Clay, hard, yellow to tan__-______..__._______________________ 9.3Clay, hard, yellow to tan; interbedded with layers of white to
green caliche..._-_______-_______-___.____-_--___---_-__.- 5Clay, hard, yellow to tan.______...________.-_..._._.-___-___ 3
Pierre shale:Clay and shale, ferruginous, hard, yellow to light-blue _______-_- 17.4Shale, hard, dark-gray____________.__________________________ 5
BASIC DATA 173
Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-37-35ddd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,262.1 ft]
Sanborn formation:Soil, silty, dark -brown___.__.._______________________________ 4 4Silt, soft, dark-brown to tan __________________________________ 48 52Silt, soft, dark-brown to tan; contains clay _^____-_____________- 10 62Clay, plastic, tan; contains some silt __________________________ 20 82Clay, plastic, tan, contains silt and very fine to coarse sand _____ 10 92Silt, soft, tan; contains very fine to coarse sand ________________ 20 112Silt, cemented in thin zones, soft, tan; contains some very fine to
coarse sand and caliche_.__________________________________ 26.5 138.5Ogallala formatiop:
Caliche, soft, white to buff; contains very fine to coarse sand ____ 13.5 152Caliche, hard to soft; interbedded with brown silt; contains very
fine to very coarse sand___________________________________ 11.5 163.5Sand, very fine,to fine gravel,loose __________________________ 13.5 177Silt, clayey, soft, tan; contains very fine to fine sand ._____--__-_ 5 182Caliche, hard, buff; interbedded with brown hard clay ___________ 12.5 194.5Caliche, hard, white; contains very fine to very coarse sand and
thin layers of chert-___-----_-__-__-______-_-__--______--__ 7.5 202Caliche, hard to soft, white to buff; contains very fine sand to
very fine gravel... ________________________________________ 10 212Caliche and siltstone, hard; contains very fine tb very coarse
sand-_-------_-_--_--__._________________________i_______ 12 224Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,loose; contains silt and
streaks of caliche _________________________________________ 7 231Caliche and silt; contains very fine to very coarse sand _________ 11 242Sand, very fine, to medium gravel; slightly cemented to loose;
contains silt and streaks of green clay_....---_--_-_--_--_-__ 20 262Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,loose____________-_____________- 9.7 271.7Caliche, hard, white to buff; contains very fine to very coarse
sand _--_--___-.__-----_.______________________________ 2.6 274.3Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose; contains green and
brown silt ________________________________________________ 7.7 282Silt, cemented in zones; interbedded with caliche and very fine to
fine sand _________________________________________________ 20 302Silt and caliche; contains very fine to coarse sand; interbedded ._ _
with very fine to coarse sand _-__--___-__-_._______________ 21 323Sand, very fine to medium, loose; contains some cementedzonesL- 5 328 Caliche, hard, white _______________________________________ 1.2 329.2Clay, silty, green; contains very fine to medium sand ___________ 8.8 338Caliche and silt, hard, gray; contains very fine to medium sand_._ 14 352 Silt, hard, gray; contains very fine to very coarse sand and brown
slightly cemented very fine grained to very coarse grainedsandstone ________________________________________________ 12 364
Caliche, hard_______________________________________________ 1 365Silt, hard, gray--___-____-.._____________________________ 6.5 371.5Sand, very fine to coarse, silty; interbedded with gray hard sandy
clay and caliche_.____-__._________________________________ 10.5 382Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty, clayey, gravelly ___________ 10.5 392.5
Pierre shale:Clay, plastic, tan, yellow, and light blue-gray with yellow stain-._ 9.5 402
174 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
_________________Toble 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued___________
Thickness (feet)
5-38-Slccc
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,303.6 ft]
Ogallala formation:Soil, silty, clayey, dark -brown. _._._____..___..__.__..._____._ 2.5Silt, clayey, sandy, dark-brown _______________________________ 2.5Caliche, silty, sandy, soft, gray___.__________________________. 12.5Silt, sandy, soft, light-brown _________________________________ 8Silt, clayey', sandy, light-gray; contains small limonitic
concretions _______________________________________________ 6.3Caliche, silty, sandy, soft ____________________________________ 11.2Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty, gravelly; interbedded with
clayey silt________________________________________________ 4.5Limestone, hard, dense, buff _________________________________ 3Sand, very fine, to medium gravel^loose; contains nodules of
caliche___________________________________________________ 10.6Clay, silty, sandy.___________________________________________ 0.9Caliche, sandy, hard to soft, white, buff, and brown .._.......... 13.4Silt, sandy, calcareous zones, medium-brown __________________ 9.1Sand, very fine, to medium gravel;partly calcareous.___________ 4Caliche, hard, white _________________________________________ 11Chert, white ________________________________________________ 1Silt, brown, and very fine to coarse sand_______________________ 2Caliche, hard, white _________________________________________ 13.5Caliche, sandy, gravelly, hard, white __________________________ 2Clay, silty, sandy, medium-brown; interbedded with caliche ______ 14Caliche, sandy, hard to soft, buff to light-brown ________________ 10Silt and sand, very fine, to fine gravel,calcareous ______________ 11Caliche, sandy, silty, gravelly, white to buff-----_--_----------_ 5Caliche, hard, white to buff._-._____________________________ 1Silt, sandy, soft, medium-brown ______________________________ 3Sand, very fine to fine, silty, hard, brown ______________________ 10Caliche, hard, white _________________________________________ 1.5Sand, very fine to fine, silty, hard, brown ______________________ 12.5Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel;contains streaks of caliche;
green ----_-------._______________________________________ 10.2Silt, hard, brown --_------.---_______________________________ 2.8Sand, very fine to coarse; contains streaks of caliche, green _____ 9Sand, very fine to fine, silty, and hard white caliche.___.-__--__. 7.5Caliche, hard, white_________________________________________ 1.5Sand, very fine to medium, hard, green _-_.___-.--_-___________ 9.5Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,calcareous, loose.._________ 13Clay, silty, soft, green.___....______..._.____.._.__._....._.. 1.5Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,calcareous, loose.___.______ 1Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,green _.__..____.__._______ 8.5Clay, silty, green ___________________________________________ 3.5Sand, very fine, pink_________________________________________ 15.8Clay, silty, green; contains brown claystone____________________ 3.2Sand, very fine to fine, cemented, pink and gray ________________ 9Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,well-cemented, pink and
green ----_--------_._____________________________________ 10Sand, fine, to fine gravel^loose, green_________________________ 8.5
Pierre shale:Clay, limonite stain, yellow.__________________________________ 5Shale, blue._________________________________________________ 6.5
BASIC DATA 175
Table 27. Sarcple Ions of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-39-31ccc
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,395.5 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Soil, silty, brown____-_______________________________________ 3 3Silt, sandy, tan______________________________________._______ 9 12Caliche, soft, gray __________________________________________ 3 15Sand, very fine, silty, brown__________________________________ 3 18Clay, silty, brown___________________________________________ 4 22
Ogallala formation:Caliche, sandy, gray.-.______________________________________ 3.5 25.5Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,gray _______________________ 12 37.5Sand, very fine, calcareous, hard, green _______________________ 10.5 48Caliche, sandy, gray_._______________________________________ 3 51Sand, very fine, silty, calcareous, tan _________________________ 1 52Siltstone, soft, brown ________________________________________ 3 55Sand, very fine; contains streaks of hard clay; brown.-_-_____-_- 24 79Sand, very fine; contains brown clay_--___--__--______--______. 8 87Sand, very fine,to very fine gravel-_.-_____-_--______--_______ 7.5 94.5Clay, sandy, brown __________________________________________ 3 97.5Caliche, partly silicified, hard, white._._______________________ 7 104.5Sand, very fine, calcareous, loose, tan.________________________ 8 112.5Caliche, soft, white__________________________________________ 7 119.5Sand, very fine, clayey, tan___________________________________ 5 124.5Caliche, sandy, gray.--_________-_____________________________ 1.5 126Sand, very coarse, calcareous --_-__---__--_-_-_______-______- 11.2 137.2Caliche, sandy ______________________________________________ 2.3 139.5Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel, well-cemented, black _________ 4 143.5Sand, medium, to medium gravel,loose, black .--______-._______ 15.5 159Caliche, sandy, hard, white___________________________________ 7 166Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty_---__-__---______-________ 3 169Caliche, hard, white _________________________________________ 1 170Sand, very fine, silty,tan_.-_-________________________________ 7.5 177.5Sand, very fine to very coarse ________________________________ 1.5 179Caliche, sandy, gray--_-_-----_______________________________ 1 180Sand, very fine, silty, hard, tan _______________________________ 8.5 188.5Caliche, sandy, hard, white-_.____--_--_______________________ 8.5 197Caliche, cherty, very hard, white_____.________________________ 6 203Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,loose, gray_________________ 6.5 209.5Sand, fine, to medium gravel;contains gray cemented layers of
clay and caliche___________________________________________ 22.5 232Sand, very fine, to medium gravel;contains green hard cemented
layers....________________________________________________ 10 242Sand, very fine, to fine gravel;contains green lightly cemented
layers...__-_._..._.._______._.._..__.______.._..____..._. 25 267Clay, sandy, hard, red-brown; contains green hard claystone_-__. 11 278Clay, sandy, hard, light-gray to tan ___________________________ 19 297Claystone, hard, brown ______________________________________ 8.2 305.2Sand, fine, to very fine gravel,loose, gray _-_-_-_-----_----_--- 3.8 309
Pierre shale:Clay, limonite stain, hard, yellow _____________________________ 6 315Shale, hard, blue____________________________________________ 7 322
176 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
________________Tab I e 27. Sa nple logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
6-36-llaad
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 2,956.3 ft]
Alluvium:Sand, very fine to fine.______ _________________________________ 5Sand, very fine to fine; contains medium sand to fine gravel and
some silt_________________________________________________ 22Sand, very fine, to medium gravel;contains nodules of caliche.-.. 14 Sand, very fine, to medium gravel _____--_----_--------_------- 5
Ogallala formation:Caliche, white, and very fine grained greenish-gray sandstone --- 7 Silt, clayey, sandy, white; interbedded with well-cemented
fine-grained sandstone and light-brown plastic clay. _____._..__ 9Sand, very fine, to medium gravel _____________________________ 9Silt, soft, gray; contains some very fine sand ___________________ 5Sand, very fine, to me,dium gravel _____________________________ 6.5Sandstone, very fine grained to medium-grained, greenish-gray
to white___________________________________________________ 14.5Silt, cemented in layers, tan; contains very fine to medium sand ._ 14 Sand, very fine to medium gravel; slightly cemented in layers.___ 36
Pierre shale:Clay, limonitic, plastic, yellow_-___--_--__----________________ 4
6-38-21aaa
[Drilled by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1951. Surface altitude, 3,293.2 ft]
Dune sand:Sand, fine, well-sorted; contains very fine sand _______._-_.--___ 6Caliche, soft, white __________________________________________ 0.5Sand, very fine; contains fine sand to medium gravel ._______-_-- 13Clay, silty, brown ___--___-_______---_--_----_-__----_-_----_ 3.5
Ogallala formation:Caliche, soft, white-______-____________-_-.-----__--_-__----- 13Sand, fine to medium; contains silt __-__-__-_-----_------_----- 7Caliche, soft, white ----___--______-_-___----__----__------_-- 3Clay, brown; contains silt and sand ________-_--_-__-_------___- 7Sand, coarse, cemented with calcium carbonate _________________ 6Clay, sandy, brown __________________________________________ 4Gravel, fine; contains very fine to very coarse sand _-__-__----__ 11Clay, sandy, tan _____-___________________-___-____-_--___---_ 2Gravel, very fine to fine; contains fine to very coarse sand and
medium gravel_________.________-_______-_____-_--_---_--- 10Clay, sandy, light-brown _____________________________________ 2Sand, very coarse; contains very fine to coarse sand and very fine
to medium gravel. ___________________________________________ 3Clay, brown; contains sand and silt__-___-_______-_-_----_-_-_- 5Sand, fine; contains very fine to very coarse sand and very fine to
fine gravel________________________________________________ 6Caliche, soft, white __________________________________________ 2Clay, silty, brown ___________________________________________ 3Caliche, hard, gray; contains fine sand_________________________ 1Gravel, very fine to fine________________________-_-__--__----_ 4Clay, silty, brown ___________________________________________ 6Sand, very fine to fine, tightly cemented._______________________ 6Clay, silty, calcareous, brown ________________________________ 8Caliche, very hard, white____________-_____--___-__-_-___--__- 3
BASIC DATA 177Table 27. Sanple lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-38-2 laaa Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedCaliche, soft, white........._-___.______-___-____--_________- 14Sand, very fine; contains fine sand and clay_________--_-__-___-_ 10Clay, silty, hard, tan _-_-____-_________-____-___-___--_-__-__ 3Sand, medium, calcareous; contains very fine to fine sand _..__-_ 11Caliche, soft, white__________________________________________ 9Caliche, siliceous, hard, white....__.____.___._____.___._._.._ 1Sand, very fine, cemented with calcium carbonate..._._...___.-. 11Caliche, silty, hard, white.___________________________________ 10Sand, very fine, calcareous; contains silt.---_--_.-.---_---_---- 21Clay, silty, calcareous, soft, gray-brown ______________________ 10Siltstone, tan; contains thin streaks of brown clay_-_____---__-_- 17Sand, very coarse; contains very fine to medium gravel _________ 9Clay, sandy, calcareous, gray________.__________j_____________ 28Sand, very coarse; contains very fine gravel... _________________ 10Clay, sandy, soft, gray.______________________________________ 5Sand, medium to coarse; contains fine sand,green_______________ 18Siltstone, hard, tan __________________________________________ 4Clay, silty,tan--_--__----_-----____-_-_____-____-____--___-- 1Gravel, fine to medium ----_-_--__-__---____-__-___________-_ 2Clay, silty, tan___-_________--______________________________- 7Caliche, hard, white----___--___-_-___________-__-________--- 1Sand, fine to very coarse; contains very fine sand^ green ________ 19Clay, silty,tan______________________________________________ 8
Pierre shale:Shale, blue-gray....---_-___-__-____-__-___--__--_____-___-_- 6
149159162173182183194204225235252261289299304322326327329336337356364
370
6-38-30aaa
[Modified from log of seismograph shothole. Samples studied microscopically by M.G. Christenson, Nebraska Geological Survey]
Dune sand:Soil and sand, fine to medium.________________________________
Ogallala formation:Marl, silty, sandy, very well indurated in part, light-gray .-.__-. Sand, very fine to fine,brown; contains some medium sand and
medium light brown very calcareous silt____-_______-__-__-_.Silt to Siltstone, very calcareous, pale-brown; contains very fine
to coarse sand____________________________________________Marl, silty, sandy, well indurated in part, very light gray with a
slight brown tint _________________________'_____._____.____.Siltstone, calcareous, light-brown____________-____________.__.Siltstone, calcareous, light-brown; contains a very small amount
of sand __________________________________________________Siltstone, calcareous, very light brown; contains a very small of
amount of sand____________________________________________Siltstone, slightly micaceous, calcareous, very light brown;
contains a very small amount of sand________________________Siltstone, slightly micaceous, very calcareous, very light brown;
contains a very small amount of sand_-________-_-___--__-__.Siltstone, slightly micaceous, very calcareous, very light brown;
contains a small amount of medium to coarse sand.___________Siltstone, slightly micaceous, very calcareous, very light brown;
contains medium to coarse sand __________-___-____-___.--_.Siltstone, slightly micaceous, very calcareous, light-gray with a
slight tint of brown; contains medium to coarse sand ___.___._.
10
10
1010
10
10
10
20
10
20
10
10
20
30
4050
60
70
80
100
110
130
140
178 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6 -38 - 30aaa Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSiltstone, slightly micaceous, very calcareous, pale-brown;
contains medium to coarse sand_____________________________ 10 150Gravel, fine to medium, and slightly micaceous, very calcareous,
pale-brown Siltstone______-______-_____--___-___--______-_- 10 160Siltstone, slightly micaceous, very calcareous, pale-brown;
contains some fine gravel __________________________________ 30 190Siltstone, slightly micaceous, very calcareous, pale-brown;
contains interbedded fine to coarse sand and some fine gravel ._ 10 200 Sand, fine, to medium gravel;contains a little calcareous silt__-_. 10 210 Siltstone, very sandy, micaceous, calcareous, pale-brown;
contains some fine to coarse sand __-_-____-__-_-_--__-___-._ 10 220 Siltstone, very sandy, micaceous, calcareous, light-gray; contains
some fine to coarse sand ___________________________________ 10 230Sand, fine to coarse; contains pale-brown calcareous, micaceous
very sandy siltstone_________________________ _______________ 10 240Sand, fine, to medium gravel;contains a trace of calcareous silt__ 10 250 Sand, very fine to coarse; contains medium light-brown calcareous
silt.______________________________________________________ 10 260Siltstone, very calcareous, poorly indurated, light-gray, and fine
sand to medium gravel __-________-__-____-___--__-__-___-__ 10 270Siltstone, clayey, very calcareous, poorly indurated, light-gray;
contains some fine sand to medium gravel_--__---__--___--__- 10 280 Sand, fine, to medium gravel; contains light-gray poorly indurated
very calcareous clayey siltstone______--__-___-___--__--__--_ 10 290Sand, fine, to medium gravel; contains light greenish-gray poorly
indurated very calcareous clayey siltstone----_-_-_------_-__- 20 310Clay, silty, moderately to very calcareous, medium-hard,
light-gray; contains sand and gravel _________________________ 10 320Pierre shale:
Shale, clayey, slightly micaceous, moderately to very calcareous,medium dark-gray___-___________-__-_______-------__--___- 10 330
Shale, clayey, slightly micaceous, very calcareous, mediumdark-gray.________________________________________________ 75 405
6-40-6bbb
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,445.7 ft]
Soil, sandy; contains a little clay ______________________________ 2 2Ogallala formation:
Sand, very fine to very coarse, calcareous; contains some caliche. 4 6 Caliche, buff________________________________________________ 4 10Sand, fine,to coarse gravel,loose.__________-___-____-__-___-- 20 30Silt, sandy, partly cemented __________________________________ 2 32Clay, sandy, gravelly, buff to brown; contains thin streaks of
caliche ___________________________________________________ 9 41Caliche, sandy, gravelly, hard, buff.--_-__--_-_-_-___-___------ 1.5 42.5Clay, silty, sandy, brown; contains thin cemented zones..-------- 19.5 62Clay, silty, sandy, brown; contains thin streaks of caliche and
chert.__________________..___._..._.______.__..___.-_.... 10 72Caliche, sandy, gravelly, hard _________.__.--__---__---__..___ 16.5 88.5Chert, white..---,-,._----___-_____--_________________.______ 1 89.5Clay, silty, sandy, light -brown _______..___.___._______.____... 2.5 92Caliche, sandy, gravelly, hard _..._.-.._-..__..__-__._.___.__. 31 123 Clay, sandy, gravelly, soft.______.___..__.._______________.._. 8.5 131.5
BASIC DATA 179Toble 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-40-6bbb Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, very fine, to medium gravel,loose__-_---________________ 6 137.5Clay, silty, hard, light-tan .._...____________....________..___ 28.5 166Sand, very fine to very coarse; contains some gray clay ......... 4.5 176.5Clay, sandy, dense, dark-brown......._____..._______.._..____ 5.5 182Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,calcareous.-..-._---_-___--__-_- 8 190 Caliche, sandy______________________________________________ 4.5 194.5Sand, coarse to very coarse, silty, loose; contains some gravel _. 7.2 201.7 Clay, silty, sandy,tan ___-._._._.___________..______._.._____ 6.3 208Caliche, sandy ______________________________________________ 3 211Sand, very coarse, to very fine gravel silty, loose; contains fine
to medium gravel and very fine to coarse sand___-___---__-___ 18 229 Clay, silty, soft _____________________________________________ 3 232Clay, silty, soft; contains thin streaks of sand and gravel ________ 9.8 241.8Sand, fine to very coarse; contains some gravel; interbedded with
soft clay-_---------___-_..--__--...__.__--_....____..._... 10.2 252Silt, sandy, tan______________________________________________ 12.5 264.5Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,silty; interbedded with silt ___.._. 9.5 274 Clay, plastic, tan..._________________________________________ 10.2 284.2Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,silty; contains some caliche and
clay. _____________________________________________________ 25.8 310Clay, silty, soft _____________________________________________ 2 312Clay, silty, sandy, soft; interbedded with thin layers of sand and
fine gravel _______________________________________________ 5 317Pierre shale:
Clay, plastic, yellow, and dark-brown shale __...___.___...____ 5 322
6-40-31ccc
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,441.4 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Soil, sandy, silty, light-brown ________________________________ 3 3Clay, silty, sandy, dark-gray_________________________________ 9 12Caliche, sandy, soft, light-gray_--__-__--__--_________________ 5 17Clay, sandy, soft, tan ________________________________________ 6.7 23.7Sand, very fine, loose, tan ___________________________________ 0.5 24.2Caliche, sandy, soft, white____________________________________ 1.8 26Clay, sandy, soft, tan ________________________________________ 2 28
Ogallala formation:Caliche, sandy, hard, white___________________________________ 11 39Sand, very fine to medium, loose, tan__________________________ 3 42Caliche, soft, white______..__________________________________ 1 43Clay, sandy, soft, gray_______________-_-_--_____-___.-_____- 6 49Sand, very fine to very coarse, cemented, brown__--__--______-- 10 59Caliche, sandy, hard, white___________________________________ 2 61Sand, very fine, cemented, brown _____________________________ 9 70Clay, very sandy, gray to brown ______________________________ 2 72Caliche, soft, white_--_-__-_________________________________ 10.5 82.5Sand, medium,to coarse gravel.loose__________________________ 5.5 88Clay, silty, soft, green.______________________________________ 6.5 94.5Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel; cemented, brown ___________ 5.5 100Caliche, soft, white___.--____________________________________ 1 101Sand, very fine, cemented, green______________________________ 1 102Sand, very fine, cemented, brown _____________________________ 2 104Sand, very fine, cemented, hard, brown; interbedded with sandy
clay._____________________________________________________ 6 110
180 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
6-40-31ccc Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedCaliche, sandy, soft, light -gray to green. _.__...___....____..__ 10Sand, very fine, cemented, hard, gray-_-_--------_---__-_--_-_ 2Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,loose, tan; contains thin
streaks of caliche....__._..____..___.__...._..____.__._.__ 12Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel.silty, loose, green..._______ 8Caliche, hard, white_._____._________________________________ 1Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel.loose, green stain _-_-.___-- 6 Sand, very fine; contains tan hard cemented streaks of caliche _-- 3 Sand, very fine, cemented, hard, brown; contains streaks of clay. _ 7 Sand, very fine,loose, tan ___________________________________ 3Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,silty, loose, red to buff ----- 12Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel.silty; contains brown
cemented streaks of clay_______.___________________________ 8Clay, sandy, soft, red to tan.__.-._____,._____________________ 4.3Clay, sandy, calcareous, soft, light-gray----.-_----_-.------.-- 9.2Sand, fine, to medium gravel, green___________________________ 8.5Clay, sandy, soft, tan.-______._______________________________ 14.5Sand, fine, to medium gravel, loose, green.-..---....--_----_-. 21Clay, sandy, soft, tan_._________.____________________________ 2.5Sand, fine, to medium gravel, loose, green..___---__-_--_____-- 7.5Clay, sandy, soft,tan.--__-____-___._________________________ 6Sand, fine, to medium gravel, loose, green__-__--__.___________ 18Sand, very fine to medium, silty, clayey, calcareous, cement
soft, brown_______________________________________________ 18.5Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, silty, clayey, calcareous, lightly
cemented, brown__________________________________________ 12.7Sand, fine, to fine gravel, loose, dark-gray to black_____________ 8.3Sand, very fine to fine, silty, calcareous, brown ________________ 3Clay, sandy, soft, tan.-___.________._________________________ 2.5Sand, fine, to fine gravel, loose, dark-gray to'black_____________ 7Sand, fine, to very fine gravel, loose, dark-gray to black;
contains layers of gray hard caliche ________________________ 5.5Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, silty, loose, brown; contains
layers of caliche and clay.----_--_---_---------__-----_-_-- 9Brule formation:
Clay and siltstone, very hard, cream to pink ___________________ 9Pierre shale:
Clay, limonitic stain, soft, yellow.---------------------------- ___3_____
6-40-36ddd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,394.3 ft]
Dune sand:Sand, very fine to fine, silty__________________________________ 10Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, frosted and well-rounded
grains.. _______________________ ___ __---_---___--__. 1Silt, sandy, tan _____________________________________________ 2
Ogallala formation:Caliche, white______________________________________________ 2Silt, and caliche; contains some cemented Eones______-___---___ 16Silt, sandy, tan and gray, and caliche.-...--_--__---_-..._-_.__ 16.5 Sand, very fine, to fine gravel; contains silt and caliche __._.__.. 9 Caliche, silty, sandy ________________________________________ 4.5Siltstone, sandy, and silt..____..__..__._._.._._______________ 10Siltstone and caliche, hard to soft...__________________________ 13.5
BASIC DATA 181
Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6 -40 -36ddd Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSilt, sandy, hard, light-brown_----_-_------__--------_-------- 7.5 92Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, and caliche.._________-_--_. 2 94Silt, sandy, hard, light-brown............___.-._--___--.-__--- 9.5 103.5Sandstone, very fine to fine-grained __-._____.___--_______-__-- 4 107.5Silt, clayey, hard, gray.-.-----.---,----_--_------------.----- 3.5 111Silt and caliche, sandy..___._..____.____...._.._-.__._-_.__-- 12 123Caliche, hard to soft, gray,wlth some yellow stain ______________ 3.2 126.2Caliche, sandy, hard, gray..._________________________________ 9.4 135.6Caliche, sandy, soft, gray-_---_-___--______--------___ ------ 5.4 141Sandstone, very fine to coarse-grained, greenish-gray, and
gray caliche ______________________________________________ 7 148Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, silty, calcareous ________________ 13 161Caliche, sandy, and silt; contains some cemented zones _________ 10 171Silt, sandy, gravelly, hard; contains some cemented zones _.___-- 36 207 Sand, very fine, to medium, gravel, loose..-.------------------- 5.7 212.7Silt, sandy, gravelly, calcareous ______________________________ 14.3 227Sand, very fine,to fine gravel _-_-----_.._.._--.____._-_.----- 8.5 235.5Silt, sandy, gravelly; interbedded with sandstone-____.__________ 25.5 261Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose.--_-------__------.--- 3 264Silt, sandy......----.---....---.---__-.-..------_---.------ 5 269Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, loose; contains silt -____--__-__-- 10 279Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, slightly cemented...______._- 6 285Silt, sandy, hard; contains some cemented zones.---___---_----- 16 301Silt, clayey, sandy; contains some cemented layers--________---- 10 311Silt, clayey, sandy, tan; interbedded with siltstone --..._____---- 12.5 323.5Sand, very fine to very coarse, gravelly, greenish stain; contains
fragments of limonitic shale_-_-_-__.._-._._-..-..__---_---- 10.5 334Pierre shale:
Clay, plastic, yellow, light blue-gray and pink; contains__ dark-brown shale ___---________._-__....___--_...-___-___. 7 341
7-36-6bbb
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,205.1 ft]
Soil, sandy, silty, light-brown _--__--__-________-_________--_- 0.8 0.8Ogallala formation:
Sand, very fine; contains some fine sand ___-_---_--_-____-_---- 10.2 11Caliche and clay; contains some medium sand to fine gravel __-._ 13.2 24.2 Caliche; contains slightly cemented fine-grained sandstone...... 0.8 25Sand, fine, to coarse gravel, loose ____________________________ 14.7 39.7Caliche, buff_________________________________________------ 1.3 41Caliche, buff; interbedded with layers of white to light-brown soft
to hard clay-------_----------_----..---__---_.-------_--.- 13 54Sand, very fine, to medium gravel__________...________________ 4 58Clay, sandy, soft, light-brown _-___-_-_______-___-___-_-_----- 3 61Clay, hard, light-brown; contains very fine to medium sand ______ 22 83Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose; contains cemented
streak at 96.5 ft___________________________________________ 15.4 98.4Sandstone, fine-grained, and hard light-brown clay .____.___.--_ 5.6 104Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel,loose; contains some thin
cemented streaks.-__--_.___-___-__-___..._________..___--. 20.4 124.4Clay, sandy, medium-hard, light-brown....-..__--._._._____-__ 11.1 135.5Sand, fine to coarse; interbedded with well-cemented fine-grained
sandstone and hard clay__--_--___-__-________.._____-___-__ 7.1 142.6Sand, very fine, to fine gravel _--- ---.__-______--_________.___ 2.4 145
182 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7 -36 -6bbb Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedClay, sandy, soft, light-brown, and fine-grained sandstone ... Silt, sandy, gravelly, light-brown and fine-grained sandstone
buff...._______-.__.--..-.---.---___------.--.Sand, fine, to medium gravel, loose; interbedded with
fine-grained sandstone and white soft clay.---------------Sand, fine, to medium gravel; interbedded with thin layers of
clay and sandstone ____________________________________Caliche, hard, white, and soft buff silt _._.__._.._._____...Clay, soft, white _-____-_________________--_.__----_-__--Sandstone, very fine to medium-grained, well-cemented,
light -brown ___________________________________________Brule(?) formation:
Silt, sandy, light -brown __________________________________Clay, silty, sandy, some cemented zones, white to buff -.___.
Pierre shale:Clay, sandy, some limonitic stain, hard, yellow-brown __.__.
6
9.3
8.7
15.8 8.7 5.5
534
11
151
160.3
169
184.8193.5199
201
206240
251
7-37-29dda
[Modified from log of seismograph shothole. Samples studied microscopically by V. H. Dreeszen, Nebraska Geological Survey]
Ogallala formation:Sand, very fine to fine, slightly silty, grayish-brown .-.__-.--_- ------- -..._Silt, coarse, to very fine sand, slightly calcareous, very light
yellowish brown; contains some secondary nodules of lime_._._ _______ 10Silt, fine to very coarse, moderately calcareous, very pale
yellowish-brown; contains large nodules of lime ___-_.___-__- 10 20 Silt, fine to very coarse, slightly sandy in part, slightly
calcareous, medium light-gray_--------_--_-_-------------- 10 30Silt, fine to very coarse, slightly sandy in part, slightly
calcareous, light yellowish-gray-___----___--------_------- 10 40Silt, fine to coarse, very pale yellowish-gray--.-.------------- 10 50Marl, silty, well-indurated in part, white.--------------------- 10 60Marl, silty, well-indurated in part, white; contains a little very
fine to medium sand __-_..___..___..-__-___---_-_--------- 10 70Sandstone, very fine grained to medium-grained, silty very
calcareous, whitish-gray; contains a few rootlets----__--._-- 10 80 Marl, silty, well indurated in part, whitish-gray; contains very
fine to fine sand-_-_-__.____--..-.-__-__---_-_----_------- 30 110Silt, slightly clayey, moderately calcareous, pale reddish-brown;
contains very fine to medium sand _-_____-----__-----___-_- 30 140 Sandstone, very fine grained to coarse-grained, moderately
calcareous, very light brown; contains some rootlets and afew reworked granules of reddish-brown clay___..___._--____ 10 150
Siltstone, very calcareous, very light brown; contains very fineto fine sand..____________________________________________ 30 180
Siltstone, very calcareous, very light brown; contains very fineto very coarse sand _-..__--__-_-.______--____-_-___---___ 20 200
Sand, fine to very coarse; contains a few yellowish weatheredgrains -_--___---.__.__.--__-_..____..____._________-____ 10 210
Sand, fine to very coarse; contains some fine to medium gravel__ 30 240 Pierre shale:
Shale, clayey, slightly silty, iron-stained, moderatelycalcareous, pale-yellow.--__-____--__-_---__------__------ 10 250
BASIC DATA 183
Toble 27. Soifiple lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-37-29dda Continued
Pierre shale(?) ContinuedShale, clayey, slightly siny in part, moderately calcareous,
medium dark-gray.......__________________________________ 180 430Shale, slightly clayey, slightly silty in part, moderately
___calcareous, medium-gray.--____-----___-_______.--...__..-. 15___ 445
7-37-35daa
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Syrface altitude, 3,085.7 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, very fine to fine; contains a small amount of buff silt....... 2.6 2.6Sand, very fine to fine, medium-brown; contains some medium
sand to fine gravel.______.__._-_______.__.-.___________..-_ 1.9 4.5Silt, soft, tan; interbedded with very fine sand to medium gravel
and caliche..______________________________________________ 13.5 18Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel, loose; contains nodules of
caliche ___________________________________________________ 20.5 38.5Sandstone, very fine grained to very coarse grained, silty,
fossiliferous, light-brown ____-__.-.._..___-.___...____...-_ 3.7 42.2 Caliche, silty, hard, and very fine grained to very coarse grained
light-brown sandstone.._____..__....__._._._....._.___._._. 6.5 48.7Caliche, hard to soft, white ___________________________________ 18.3 67Sandstone and sand, very fine to coarse, well-rounded grains;
green-brown ______________________________________________ 5 72Silt, sandy, gray; interbedded with sandstone and caliche..._..___ 7.4 79.4 Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose ..._._-....-___-___.-._ 4.6 84Caliche, sandy, buff, and sandy silt -____.__._.-._____.._____.._ 15.5 99.5Silt, clayey, soft, light-brown _________________________________ 7.3 106.8Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty, gravelly, loose ___._____-._ 11 117.8Silt, clayey, sandy, hard, tan to light-brown, and sandstone. _._.__ 15.2 133 Sand, very fine to very coarse, slightly cemented; interbedded
with thin layers of white to brown soft clay _-_..._._.__..____- 11.5 144.5Sand, fine, to medium gravel, loose...________..____..__.._____ 4 148.5Silt, clayey, sandy, hard, brown ....__.____.___..._..._..__..__ 8.5 157Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty, gravelly, loose......___--._ 11.2 168.2Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty, gravelly, cemented......... 2.8 171Sand, very fine, to very coarse, silty, gravelly, loose. ........... 7 178Silt, sandy, gravelly, hard, brown __.__..__....___.__..._._._.. 10 188Silt, sandy, gravelly, cemented, hard, brown.......__._._._.____ 1 189Silt, sandy, gravelly, hard, brown ___._..__......__.___._____._ 2 191Silt, clayey, sandy, white _____________________________________ 2.5 193.5Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, contains some clayey layers... 25 218.5
Pierre shale:Clay, some limonitic stain, plastic, tan ________________________ 20 238.5Clay, plastic, blue ___________________________________________ 2.5 241
7-38-2aaa
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude 3,274.7 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Soil, sandy, medium-brown ___________________________________ 1.2 1.2Silt, sandy, light-brown .....__._.__.____..______.._._____._.. 4.8 6Clay, hard, medium-brown, and very fine to fine sand ___________ 10 16
Ogallala formation:Caliche, sandy, buff, and sandy soft white clay._____----_---___ 15 31
184 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-38-2aaa Continued
Ogallala formation Continued Clay, soft, white, and hard medium -brown clay; contains some
Caliche, hard, light -brown ___________________________________
Clay, sandy, hard ___________________________________________Sand, fine, to medium gravel _________________________________
Clay, sandy, gravelly, brown _________________________________
Caliche, hard, white _________ _ ____________________________
Sandstone, fine -grained ______________________________________
Clay, sandy, hard, light -brown; contains some cemented zones ___
Pierre shale:
20 3
12.7 10.6 3.7 9 2.7 5.3 8
10.8 1 7.2 9.3 3.7 3
15 1 5.3 8.7 6.2 2.7 6.8 2.3 9.4 1 5.3
20.8
25.54.4
51 54 66.7 77.3 81 90 92.7 98
106 116.8 117.8 125 134.3 138 141 156 157 162.3 171 177.2 179.9 186.7 189 198.4 199.4 204.7 225.5
251 255.4
7-38-9dcd
[Modified from log of seismograph shothole. Samples studied microscopically by M.G. Christenson, Nebraska Geological Survey]
Ogallala formation: Sand, fine to coarse, and slightly micaceous, light -brown,and silt
Silt, slightly micaceous, light -brown, and fine to coarse sand,
Silt, slightly micaceous, very slightly calcareous, light -brown;
Silt, very calcareous, light pinkish-gray, and fine sand to medium gravel ________ ___ _________________
Sand, fine, to medium gravel; contains a little light pinkish-gray
Sand, fine, to medium gravel; contains pale -brown very
Marl and silt, very calcareous, light -gray to pale -brown; contains
10
20
10
10
30 10 10 40
30
10
10
30
40
50
80 90
100 140
170
180
BASIC DATA 185
Table 27. . Sample iofls of test holes-^Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet
7 -38 -9dcd Continued
Ogallala formation:Silt, very calcareous, pale-brown; contains a little interbedded
sand, gravel, and marl_----------------------------------- 10 190Sand, fine to coarse; contains a little fine gravel and some
pale -brown very calcareous silt ________________-------_--- 10 200Marl, silty, light-gray; contains a little interbedded sand .._---- 10 210
Pierre shale:Clay, silty, slightly micaceous, very calcareous, light
yellow-brown; contains some fragments of free lime ____._--- 10 220 Clay, silty, slightly micaceous, very calcareous, brown-yellow;
contains some fragments of free lime_-_.--_----_----------- 10 230Clay, silty, slightly micaceous, limonite-stained, very
calcareous, brown-yellow; contains some fragments of freelime......... . 10 24 °
Clay, silty, slightly micaceous, limonite-stained, calcareous,brown-yellow; contains some fragments of free lime ______--- 10 250
Shale, very limonite stained, very calcareous, mediumdark-gray...- ..-. -- -- 1° 26 °
Shale, lightly limonite stained, very calcareous, mediumdark-gray.-------- - -- - - - 1° 27 °
Shale, dark-gray ------------------------------------------
7-38-16ddd
[Drilled by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1951. Surface altitude, 3,288.2 ft]
Soil, silty, black ___________________________________________ 1.3 1.3Ogallala formation:
Silt, tan ------.---.-...-.........--------------_----------- 4.7 6Sand, very fine to medium.---..._.---__-__..----__---------- 3 9Caliche, soft, white. ____-_--___________.____....______.___.. 21 30Silt; contains very fine sand and calcium carbonate, hard; tan ___ 35 65Sand, medium; contains very fine sand to fine gravel _-._____-__ 5 70Gravel, very fine to medium..____-__---__---_-----------__-- 2 72Clay, silty, brown...._........_........_.._---_....------_- 15 87Gravel, fine to medium._---_____-______.__.._...._..__._.... 3 90Caliche, hard, white_....._-.-__-..._.-_-....__..---------__ 1 91Clay, silty, brown _-_------_-_-------_--_--------_______-__- 12 103Caliche, hard, white________________________________________ 1 104Clay, silty, brown __________________________________________ 13 117Caliche, hard, white ________________________________________ 1 118Clay, silty, brown __________________________________________ 5 123Siltstone, soft, brown _______________________________________ 2 125Caliche, hard, white ________________________________________ 1 126Gravel, very fine to medium.________________________________ 3 129Sand, very fine; contains silt and fine sand _-_---_---_-_.----_- 10 139Sand, coarse; contains very fine sand to fine gravel ---_____-___ 9 148Caliche, soft, white_________________________________________ 1 149Gravel, medium; well-sorted, contains fine gravel-_.___--____- 3 152Caliche, hard, white ________________________________________ 6 158Siltstone, hard, green_______________________________________ 2 160Clay, silty, soft, green.----.._______________________________ 3 163Caliche, hard, white ________________________________________ 2 165Clay, sandy, green _________________________________________ 14 179Clay, silty, brown __________________________________________ 17 196Caliche, hard, white ________________________________________ 2 198Clay, silty, brown __________________________________________ 5 203Sand, very fine; contains fine sand to very fine gravel --______-_ 9 212
655012 O - 63 - 13
186 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
Toble 27. Sample lo.qs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-38 - 16ddd Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSiltstone, hard., brown..______________________________________ 40Sand, fine; contains very fine to medium sand__ ______ ___________ 6Caliche, hard, white._________________________________________ 1Sand, very coarse; contains medium sand to very fine gravel;
cemented with calcium carbonate; .hard __._-_---__-________Caliche, hard, white _________________________________________ 2Sand, very fine; contains fine to medium sand; cemented with
calcium carbonate; hard______________________._____________ 10Caliche, hard, light-green --_-____-_--_-___--_-.-_-___________ 5
Pierre(?) shale:Clay, sandy, hard, yellow._._-__________-__-__-__--__________. 36
7-38-36ddd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,246.9 ft]
Soil, silty, sandy, brown______________________________________ 1.3Ogallala formation:
Silt, sandy, soft, buff________________________________________ 6.7Caliche, sandy, hard, buff to white; contains well-cemented zones _ 13Caliche, sandy, soft to hard, white to buff ______.-----__-_______ 27Silt and caliche, sandy, light-brown to gray _____________________ 13Silt, sandy, gravelly, tan _____________________________________ 8Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose _______________________ 2Silt, sandy, light-brown ______________________________________ 13Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose _______________________ 3Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, silty _______________________ 4Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose _______________________ 5.5Silt, clayey, sandy, soft, light-brown____.____- -_-------__--____ 18.5Caliche and sand, very fine, to medium gravel. _________________ 2Sand, very fine,to medium gravel_____________________________ 4Silt, clayey, sandy; contains slightly cemented zones ____________ 13.5Clay, white-----_.___________________________________________ 0.5Silt, clayey, sandy; contains slightly cemented zones ____________ 6.5Silt, sandy, soft, white to brown, and white caliche_______________ 19.5Caliche, sandy, gravelly, white, and sandy tan silt ______________ 7.8Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose .___--_-___--__________ 8.9Silt, sandy, tan, and caliche...._______________________________ 23.3Caliche and silt, white to green-gray; contains very fine to very
coarse sand and thin stringers of sandstone __________________ 11Silt, clayey, hard, tan; contains sand and gravel; slightly cemented
in zones __________________________________________________ 19Silt, clayey, brown...________________________________________ 6Silt, clayey, brown; interbedded with very fine to very coarse
sand._____________________________________________________ 4Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, silty, loose _____________________ 12.8Silt, sandy, soft, buff_________________________________________ 8.4Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, silty ___________________________ 7.8Silt, sandy __________________________________________________ 1Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, silty ___________________________ 7.8Silt, sandy, buff ______________________________________________ 2.2Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, silty ___________________________ 10Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, silty; interbedded with layers
of silt ____________________________________________________ 9.6
BASIC DATA 187
fable 27. Sample loas of test doles Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-38-36ddd Continued
Brule(?) formation:Silt, clayey, sandy____-_________.Silt, clayey, sandy, gravelly, hard.
Pierre shale:Clay, plastic, yellow.____________Clay, plastic, blue_______________
40.411
341352
356361
7-40-5bbcl
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude 3,463.6 ft]
Ogallala formation:Soil, silty, dark-brown.______________________________________ 2.5 2.5Silt, blocky, light-gray; contains streaks of organic material...-. 1.5 4Caliche, sandy, buff; interbedded with light-brown plastic clay.... 23.3 27.3Clay, sandy, plastic, light-brown; interbedded with thin streaks of
plastic clay..--_-...--------.---.-.-----.-..-_----.---.--- 18.7 46Sand, fine to medium, calcareous..---_--_-.----_--_-------..-- 3 49Clay, silty, sandy, soft, plastic, light-brown... _________________ 7 56Sand, fine to coarse, well-cemented; contains some caliche __-._. 10 66Sand, fine, to medium gravel, slightly cemented _____-______--_- 3.5 69.5Clay, silty, hard ._.--_.....-.-__--.---.-....._-.__...-_---. 1.5 71Clay and caliche _____---____________-__-__--_____---___---_- 5 76Clay, soft, buff, and hard light-brown silty clay_--_------_-_--_- 30.6 106.6Caliche, hard, buff; interbedded with clay ..__...__.____._-.-._- 18.4 125Silt, clayey, and fine to coarse sand ___________________________ 6 131Silt, hard, and very fine to coarse sand, cemented ___-_---_---__ 15 146Clay, soft, and fine to coarse sand ____________________________ 4 150Sand, medium, to fine gravel _________________.._________------ 1.5 151.5Clay, silty, soft, medium-brown ______________________________ 14.5 166Clay and sand, fine to coarse ________-_-__---_____-____-____-- 1 167Sand, medium to very fine gravel, loose _______________________ 4 171Sand, medium, to medium gravel, black and green ______________ 6 177Clay...___.._____.__..____.._________._____. 1 178Sand, medium, to medium gravel, black and green..._-.__.--_--. 3 181Sand, very fine to medium, cemented __________________________ 1 182Caliche, silty, hard, green ___-_-_-_--_-__----______--_-_--_-_ 2 184Clay, silty, hard, medium-brown_____.______________._______.. 8 192Sand, very fine to medium___-_______-___.________.___________ 9 201Silt, clayey, sandy___________________________________________ 14 215Caliche, hard-_._--_--_--__-____---__----__-.__-__-.-___--__ 0.5 215.5Sand, fine, cemented______________________________.__________ 4 219.5Sand, fine, to medium gravel._______________________________ 10.5 230
Brule(?) formation:Silt, clayey, medium-brown __________________________________ 11 241Sand, medium, to fine gravel; interbedded with silt ______________ 9 250Sand, fine,to very fine gravel ________________________________ 10.5 260.5
Pierre shale:Clay, limonitic, hard, yellow____________-____-_______-_____-_- 15 275.5Clay, soft, plastic, blue--_____--__-___-____________________-. 1 276.5
7-40-5bbc2
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,462.6 ft]
Soil, silty, dark-brown; contains streaks of organic'material. ______ 1.5 1.5Silt, sandy, light-brown ______________________________________ 3.5 5
188 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7 -40 -5bbc2 Continued
Ogallala formation:Caliche, sandy, well-cemented, hard, buff__---__----_-----__-- 3 Caliche, sandy; interbedded with thin layers of light-brown soft
sandy, gravelly clay _-_-__-____-____--___-_-__-___-----__- 3Clay, soft, yellow-brown, and soft silt ________________________ 3Sand, fine, to medium gravel ________________________________ 10.1Clay, silty, medium-hard, light-brown; interbedded with
light-brown caliche.._____________________________________ 12.4Caliche, sandy, gravelly _________________-____--_----_--_-__ 3.5Clay, hard, light-brown; interbedded with thin layers of soft
clay and silt _____________________________________________ 11Silt, clayey, sandy..._______________________________________ 6Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose.__-_-.__--_-_---_-__- 9.1 Clay, hard, medium-brown __-___________--_.___--___------_- 14.9Clay, hard; contains fine sand; interbedded with caliche_-__-_-__ 10 Caliche, very fine to coarse sand___ --_--_-_--------_-----_-- 6Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, loose _________________________ 4Caliche, hard; interbedded with thin beds of white soft clay -.__- 16.5 Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, slightly cemented ______________ 3.6Caliche, soft to hard, buff to light -brown.. -_---_----__--_----_ 11.2Sand, fine, to medium gravel, calcareous; interbedded with
light -brown soft clay. -___________----_---_--------..---_--- 8.7Clay, silty, sandy, gravelly, soft __------_---_-_-__---_---_-_- 7.5Sand, fine, to medium gravel, loose --_--_-_------------------ 3.9Clay, sandy, hard __________________________________________ 8.1Sand, fine to coarse, loose ____________________-_-___..__----- 4.8Clay, sandy, hard, medium-brown; interbedded with white soft
clay-----.-------.----------..-----.-----:--------------- 5.7
7-40-12aaa
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,399.3 ft]
Soil, silty, sandy, dark-brown _______________________________ 1.5Ogallala formation:
Caliche, silty, medium-hard, buff __--_____----_--_-_---_---_- 0.5Caliche, sandy, hard, buff ___________________________________ 11.2Clay, sandy________________________________________________ 2.8Sand, very fine to medium; interbedded with hard caliche _______ 4Caliche, hard, buff -----________________-__--__---__---_.__- 1Sand, medium; interbedded with caliche; slightly cemented______ 2Sand, medium to coarse; interbedded with caliche._____________ 6.5Clay, sandy, soft, medium-brown __-_____---_-____---__--_-_- 1.5Caliche, soft to hard_-_-____-___________---___----_____--._- 1Caliche, brown; interbedded with stringers of brown clay and
thin beds of brown cemented coarse sand ___________________ 9Sand, fine to medium, medium-brown. ________________________ 10Clay, sandy, light -brown _________________-_-___-_-____--.__- 8.7Sand, medium to coarse, pink; contains some very coarse sand
to fine gravel---_---__-____--__---__-------_--_----_-____ 15.5Clay, light-brown _________________-____-__--__----_. ._-. 7.8Sand, fine to medium; contains thin stringers of caliche _.-_____ 13.1Sand, fine to medium; contains some very fine sand _--___--____ 5.9Clay, soft, light-brown--_--_---_-_--_---_---___--_---------- 3.5Sand, coarse; contains medium sand to fine gravel _____________ 5.5Sand, fine to coarse ________________________________________ 7.6Clay, plastic, gray; contains some caliche ____-__---__-----___ 2.4
BASIC DATA 189
Table 27. San.ple Ions of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-40-12aaa Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, medium to coarse______________________________________ 1.5 122.5Sand, medium,to fine gravel--_-------._--_-_________-_______ 2.8 125.3Sand, very fine to fine, cemented... ______ ______________________ 4.2 129.5Sand, medium; contains fine to coarse sand ____________________ 1 130.5Sand, coarse,to fine gravel __________________________________ 0.5 131Clay, hard to soft; contains cemented zones of sand __----_---___ 7.5 138.5Sand, fine, cemented; interbedded with hard to soft clay __---_--_ 14.5 153 Sand, fine to medium, slightly cemented _______________________ 2 155Sand, fine, cemented-________________________________________ 5 160Sand, fine to medium, loose; interbedded with cemented layers;
contains some coarse sand _________________________________ 16.5 176.5Sand, very fine to coarse; contains very fine to medium gravel;
bed grades downward from very fine to coarse________________ 25.5 202Sand, fine to medium, slightly cemented; contains some very
fine sand _________________________________________________ 8 210Sand, coarse, to very fine gravel.___-_---___--_---___.______- 13.7 223.7Clay, silty, plastic, buff to light-brown _____.___.___.___»._____ 5.3 229Sand, coarse; interbedded with buff plastic clay--_----_---_---_- 2 231Sand, medium to coarse, loose to cemented; interbedded with buff
plastic clay_________________~______________________________ 30 261Pierre shale:
Clay, sandy, plastic, yellow-brown ____________________________ 30 291Shale, hard, plastic, dark-blue________________________________ 10 301
7-40-36ddd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,378.1 ft]
Soil, silty, clayey, dark-brown________________________________ 1.5 1.5Ogallala formation:
Clay, silty, dark-brown ______________________________________ 2.5 4Silt, sandy, gravelly, tan ____________________________________ 13 17Silt, sandy, gravelly, tan; contains thin stringers of caliche ______ 4 21Silt and sand, very fine to very coarse; contains very fine to
medium gravel ____-----_-----____________________________ 3 24Caliche, hard, white ________________________________________ 4.5 28.5Silt, sandy, tan; contains cemented layers_.-_______-___________ 2.5 31Caliche, hard, white _________________________________________ 6.3 37.3Silt, sand, and caliche; contains slightly cemented zones__._---_. 6.2 43.5 Silt, sandy, gravelly, light-brown _____________________________ 9.5 53Sand, coarse,to medium gravel.______________________________ 2 55Silt, sandy, gravelly, light-brown _____________________________ 6.5 61.5Silt, soft; contains cemented zones _-_-_---_-_-________________ 9.5 71Silt, clayey, sandy, medium-brown; interbedded with caliche and
silt stone. ---___--_-_--__--________________________________ 11 82Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel, loose________________________ 13.5 95.5Silt, calcareous, hard; contains thin layers of siltstone-____-__-_ 15.5 111Silt, hard, and hard to soft white caliche---__--__._____________ 10 121Caliche, soft to hard, white; interbedded with silt and
greenish-gray fine-grained sandstone _______________________ 10 131Caliche, soft to hard, white; interbedded with thin layers of
sandstone ----___.--_.___-_______________-___-___-__--____ 10 141Caliche, white, and silt ______________________________________ 5 146Silt, sandstone, and caliche; contains very fine to coarse sand____ 19.2 165.2Sandstone, very fine grained to coarse-grained; interbedded with
stringers of silt and caliche ________________________________ 7.3 172.5
190 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
Toble 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
7-40 - 36ddd Continued
Ogallala formation Continued
Sand, very fine to coarse; contains very coarse sand to very fine gravel ___________________________________________________
Sand, very fine to coarse; contains very coarse sand to very fine gravel, silt, and caliche. ______________ ____________________
Silt, sandy, soft, buff _______________________________________
Pierre shale: Clay, yellow, and dark-brown shale _ _ __ _ _____Clay, plastic, blue.. ________________________________________
Thickness (feet)
8.5 5.5 2.5 5 1
31 9.5
5.5
10 5.5
14 5.5 5
18 12
1 3
16 20 30
5.6
12.9 1.5
Depth (feet)
181 186.5 189 194 195 226 235.5
241
251 256.5 270.5 276 281 299 311 312 315 331 351 381 386.6
399.5 401
7-42^35dca
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,551.5 ft]
Dune sand:
Ogallala formation:
Clay, silty, calcareous, hard, brown to gray; contains streaks of
217
3 5 9 7 9 4 7
10 8
14 7 4 5.5 3.5
7 7 2 6 6
2 19
' 22 27 36 43 52 56 63 73 81 95
102 106 111.5 115
122 129 131 137 143
BASIC DATA 191Toble 27. Sarr.ple logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-42-35dca Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedClay, silty, brown to buff; contains very fine to fine sand and
caliche.-------.--.--------------------------------------- 5 148Clay, silty, sandy, brown..___________________-__--_.__-..--_-- 5 153Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,loose------_---------------- 6 159Silt, hard, tan; contains sand, clay, and caliche ----------------- 4.5 163.5Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,loose------.---------------- 6 169.5Clay, hard._____..____-------- - -- - 1 HO.5Sand, fine to very coarse, loose; contains gravel---------------- 11.5 182Sand, very fine to coarse, gravelly; contains thin streaks of
silt and clay.-__.._____..__-----__-------- . - 10 192Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,loose_---.----_------------- 18 210Clay, silty, sandy, calcareous, tan ____________________________ 6.5 216.5Sand, very fine to very coarse, cemented zones; contains some
silt and caliche.------------------------------------------- 8.5 225Clay, silty, sandy,tan ................ r ...................... 14 239Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel----.---.------.------------ 12.5 251.5Clay, silty, sandy, hard, tan to green _-_--___--_--------_----_- 14 265.5Sand, very fine to very coarse, loose ---_____-----_----_------- 5.5 271Caliche, hard, white, and hard sandy, silty clay --__--._---_----- 4 275Sand, fine, to fine gravel;partly cemented __.____-.-__----_---- 10 285Clay, sandy, hard, tan _-_._--.-----_---_-_-_----------------- 11 296Clay, soft, white, and tan silt _._------_--.__----------------- 6 302Clay, hard, plastic, tan .....-.-.-...-_--._--..-.------------- 4.5 306.5Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty.._---_--___---_-.--_------ 5.5 312Clay, silty, hard,tan --.-----.-----------.----_-------------- 2 314Sand, very fine to very coarse; contains caliche.----.--_---_.--- 12 326
Pierre shale:Clay, sandy, hard, plastic, yellow-tan _--___----_-__________-_- 29 355Clay, hard, plastic, blue to blue-gray.__.-.__--____----_----__- 7 362
8-38-14cbd
[Modified from log of seismograph shothole. Samples studied microscopically by V.H.. Dreeszen, Nebraska Geological Survey]
Dune sand:Sand, very fine to fine, silty, dark grayish-brown ._---__--__--__ Sand, fine to coarse, slightly silty, well-rounded, light
brownish-gray ----__----_---_----_---------_--__-----.----Ogallala formation:
Marl to limestone, silty, white and very light brown; containsvery fine to fine sand __________-,____-____-_----___---.----
Sandstone, very fine grained, silty, very calcareous in part, verypale brown; contains some fine sand, very fine to fine gravel,and a few rootlets ----___--_-----_----__------___----------
Sand, medium, to coarse gravel; contains some darkly stainedgrains-.--_.-._-_-.--__---_._---_----___--_.---.------.--.
Silt, slightly clayey to slightly sandy, moderately calcareous,pale reddish -brown _______-____-___---__--_-_--_-_-_--_._--
Sand, fine, to fine gravel,very silty, moderately to verycalcareous, very pale reddish-brown ________________________
Silt, slightly clayey,'very calcareous in part; contains very fine tofine sand in part and zones of whitish limy nodules _____________
Silt, slightly clayey, very calcareous in part, pale-toreddish-brown; and very fine to coarse sand; contains zones ofwhitish limy nodules _______________________________________
10
10
10
10
10
50
20
10
20
30
40
50
60
110
130
192 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
_____Toble 27. Saif.ple logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8 -38 - 14cbd Continued
Oga.lla.la. formation ContinuedSand, very fine to very coarse, and slightly clayey silt,very
calcareous in part, pale-to reddish-brown; contains zones ofwhitish limy nodules...____._._._..._.._...._.._____-__-_._ 10 140
Sand, fine, tp medium gravel,slightly silty_-_-_--__----_------- 10 150Sand, very fine to fine, silty, and sandy silt; very calcareous;
pale-brown; contains a little medium to coarse sand _____..___ 10 160 Sand, fine, to medium gravel, slightly silty, moderately
calcareous, very pale brown.__._.--__--_--_.__--_---------- 10 170Sand, fine, to medium gravel,very pale brown._________________ 10 180Silt, moderately clayey, very calcareous in part, light-to
reddish-brown; contains very fine to very coarse sand in part-. 10 190 White River group:
Silt, clayey, moderately calcareous, pale-brown-_--___-.------- 20 210Silt, clayey, slightly calcareous, pinkish-brown---------------..- 10 220Silt, slightly clayey, slightly calcareous, very light
brownish-gray_------.---_-_-_---_-----___--------_--_---- 10 230Clay, slightly calcareous, light-green and greenish-gray _--.__-- 20 250 Clay, very calcareous, light-green to light-gray---------------- 10 260
Pierre shale:Shale, clayey, moderately calcareous, some limonite stain,
medium dark-gray._-_.____________________________________ 10 270Shale, clayey, moderately calcareous, some limonite stain,
medium-gray__-___-___-_._-___--__.__..--___._.__-.-__-.. 10 280 Shale, clayey, moderately calcareous, medium-gray.------------ 20 300
8-39-lccc [Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude 3,364.0 ft]
Dune sand:Soil, silty, very sandy, brown.________________________________ 1 1Sand, very fine to medium, silty, loose, tan _---.__-----_-_.---_ 16 17Sand, very fine to very coarse, well-rounded grains, loose, tan___ 3 20
Ogallala formation:Caliche, sandy, soft, pink ____________________________________ 3 23Clay, sandy, hard, brown..___________________________________ 1 24Caliche, hard, gray._________________________________________ 3 27Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,,silty, loose, pink ____________ 10 37Caliche, sandy, clayey, hard, gray to pink.-..-_--___-____--__.- 8.5 45.5Clay, silty, sandy, calcareous, hard, tan ._____________-..___.__ 20.5 66Sand, very fine, to pebbles, silty, loose .--_-_------_---.___--_- 6 72Sand, very fine, to medium gravel cemented, green.___-.__-_--- 12 84Clay, silty, soft, brown ______________________________________ 12 96Clay, silty, calcareous, very hard, gray -__----.-__----__---._. 7 103Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,loose, green ---.--___-.____ 1 104Caliche, silty, siliceous, very hard, white..-.____-____-_..___-- 2.5 106.5Clay, silty, calcareous, hard, gray-green ..---..-_____-__-____- 8.5 115Clay, silty, soft, brown --__--_______-_-._-__.---_----__--__-_ 4 119Sand, fine, to very coarse gravel,loose, green _________________ 19.8 138.8Clay, silty, soft, red-brown .-_______--_-___-----_.---__---___ 6.2 145Sand, very fine to medium, clayey, cemented, hard_-_-_--_-_-___ 4 149Sand, fine, to pebbles, cemented, medium-hard_--------__------ 4 153Clay, silty, calcareous, hard, gray-green __-___.-___--___-_-_._ 10 163 Clay, silty, calcareous, hard, brown to red-brown; interbedded
with white very hard caliche_._--____--_---__---__---___--_. 11 174Clay, silty, very hard, gray to brown _--_-_--_-_--------_--___- 10.5 184.5
BASIC DATA 193
Toble 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-39-lccc Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedCaliche, sandy, silty, siliceous, very hard, white________________ 10.5 195Silt to medium sand ; cemented, medium hard, tan, contains thin
layers of caliche ---___--___.--_--____________________-.__- 38 233Caliche, silty, hard, gray.-_-____--_._._.__.._____._.___.____. 9 242
Brule formation:Siltstone, hard, gray-green __.__._._______._________.._______. 50 292Silt, soft to hard, light-gray; contains limonite stain at bottom of
bed ___________________________________________________ 11 303Chadron formation:
Sandstone, very fine grained, hard, blue-gray.------------------ 1 304Sandstone, very fine grained to fine-grained, clayey, calcareous,
limonite stain, hard, gray ___---_--_---__________________-_- 28 332Sandstone, very fine grained to fine-grained, clayey, limonite to
red stain, hard-.---..............._-..-.-....-.-._--..._._ 5 337Sand, fine to very coarse, well-rounded grains, loose,
yellow -green._____________________________________________ 12 349Sand, coarse, to medium gravel,loose, white; contains many
subrounded grains of quartz ________________________________ 8 357Sand, very fine to very coarse, well-rounded grains, loose, tan ___ 8 365 Clay, sandy, soft, green ______________________________________ 4 369Sand, very fine to very coarse, well-rounded grains, loose, tan __. 8 377 Claystone, limonite stain, hard, light gray-green to dark-gray
mottled with red.----....-._....__-._._-__-.______.__-..,.. 12.5 389.5Pierre shale:
Shale, hard, blue..___________________________________________ 2.5 392
8-39-15cbb
[Modified from log of oil-test hole. Surface altitude 3,375 ft. Samples studied micro scopically by Nebraska Geological Survey]
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:(No sample)_________________________________________________Sand, coarse, and gravel; contains a few granules of light-gray
calcareous silty clay and a few fragments of marl ____________Sand, coarse, and gravel; contains a few granules of light-gray
calcareous sandy, silty clay, a few fragments of marl, and some pale -brown very calcareous clay ____________________________
(No sample)_________________________________________________Sand, coarse, and gravel; contains a few granules of light-gray
calcareous sandy, silty clay, a few fragments of marl, and some pale-brown very calcareous clay___________________________
Pierre shale:Shale, clayey, iron-stained, weathered light-gray; contains a few
pieces of medium-gray unweathered slightly calcareous shale _Shale, clayey, silty, micaceous, moderately to very calcareous,
medium -gray. -----_-------_-_-_-______________________---Shale, clayey, silty, micaceous, very calcareous, medium
dark-gray; contains some free calcium carbonate ____________
200
10
1010
60
10
60
70
200
210
220230
290
300
360
430
194 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-39-35ccc
[Modified from log of seismograph shothole. Surface altitude, 3,334.0 ft samples studied microscopically by V. H. Dreeszen, Nebraska Geological Survey]
Dune sand:Sand, very fine to fine, slightly silty, medium grayish-brown;
contains a little medium sand___________-_--_-___-__-_-----_ _______ ______Ogallala formation:
Sandstone, very fine to medium-grained, silty, very calcareous,whitish-gray._____________________________________________ __--___ 10
Sandstone, very fine to very coarse grained, silty, verycalcareous, whitish-gray; contains very fine to fine gravel.___. 10 20
Silt, calcareous in part, pale-to reddish-brown; contains veryfine to coarse sand ________________________________________ 10 30
Siltstone, very pale whitish-brown, very calcareous; contains veryfine to medium sand and a few rootlets ______--___-__-___--._ 10 40
Sand, fine,to medium gravel;slightly" silty and calcareous _._-_-_ 20 60 Silt and sand, fine to coarse,light reddish-brown_________---___- 10 70Silt, moderately clayey, sandy in part, moderately calcareous;
contains some white limy nodules _____-_-_--___--___---_---- 10- 80 Silt, sandy, reddish-brown, and sandy calcareous white
silt st one._________________________________________________ 10 90Sand, very fine, to fine gravel, silty, slightly calcareous;
pale-brown _______________________________________________ 10 100Sandstone, very fine to coarse-grained, silty, and sandy
siltstone; very calcareous; very pale brown-_---_--__--__-___ 10 110 Sand, fine, to medium gravel, silty, moderately calcareous, very
pale brown .........^..................................... 10 120Marl, silty, well-indurated in part, white; contains very fine to
fine sand--_-.________-______._____________________----.__ 40 160Silt, moderately to very calcareous, white to very pale brown;
contains very fine to fine sand and zones of limy nodules.._____ 20 180 Silt, white to very pale brown, and very fine to fine sand;
moderately to very calcareous; contains zones of limy nodules . 10 190 Sandstone, very fine grained to very coarse grained, silty,
moderately calcareous, soft, reddish-brown.-___--__-__-___-_ 10 200 Sand, fine, to medium gravel _________________________________ 20 220Sand, medium, to coarse gravel_-_--__-_---_---------------__- 10 230Sand, very fine to very coarse, slightly silty, slightly calcareous _ 10 240 Marl, well-indurated in part, white; contains slight to moderate
amounts of very fine to fine sand________-_-___-_-__-__-___._ 10 250Pierre shale:
Shale, clayey, slightly calcareous, pale grayish-yellow __________ 10 260Shale, clayey, some limonite stain, moderately calcareous, very
light gray to medium dark-gray________---_--_-______-__--__ 10 270Shale, clayey, slightly silty in part, very calcareous, medium-to
medium dark-gray____-_-_-----_-_--__----_-----_-__-___-__ 60___ 330
8-41-ldaa
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,477.1 ft]
Soil, silty, dark-brown__-_____________-__-__-_-_-___--------- 0.5 0.5Ogallala formation:
Silt, sandy, clayey, calcareous, tan________--__-_-___-__----__- 6.5 7Sand, medium, to very coarse gravel; contains pebbles _.___-___. 7.5 14.5 Clay, sandy, soft, gray to brown ________--_--__-_-__-___--__-_ 13 27.5Sand, fine, to fine gravel,loose _______________________________ 7 34.5
BASIC DATA
Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
195
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-41 -Idaa Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedClay, sandy, calcareous, hard, brown to gray_-__--___--____--__ 11.5 46Sand, very fine, to very coarse gravel,loose ___________________ 23 69Clay, sandy, soft, red-brown _________________________________ 15 84Sand, very fine, to pebbles ___________________________________ 10 94Clay, sandy, hard, gray..___-_...___._..._._.._____.____...__ 2 96Caliche, sandy, white, and very fine sand; cemented; hard _______ 18 114Clay, sandy, soft, gray----------___--_---_____---___--___-___ 4 118Caliche, sandy, hard, white; contains streaks of hard cemented
very fine sand ____________________________________________ 12 130Sand, very fine, tightly cemented, tan--__________-_____-____-__ 21 151Clay, sandy, medium-hard, green_____________________________ 3 154Sand, very fine, clayey, green-gray; contains layers of white hard
caliche_________________________________________________ 22 176Clay, sandy, hard, tan ----___---__--___-__-_-__________-_---_ 11 187Sand, very fine, clayey, cemented, brown; interbedded with
streaks of white medium-hard sandy caliche____--______--__-_ 28 215Brule formation:
Siltstone, sandy, very hard, gray-green________________________ 42 257Chadron formation:
Siltstone, clayey, hard, red___________________________________ 4 261Sandstone, very fine to coarse-grained, subrounded to rounded
grains, very hard _________________________________________ 28 289Clay, sandy, limonite stain, hard, orange; contains red and green
mottled claystone__________________________________________ 7 296Pierre shale:
Shale, hard, blue ____________________________________________ 16 312
DUNDY COUNTY, NEBR.
4-41-lbbb
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,482.9 ft]
Dune sand:Soil, silty, and very fine sand; brown __________________________Clay, silty, soft, brown ______________________________________Clay, sandy, hard, tan _______________________________________Clay, very sandy, tan ________________________________________Sand, very fine to medium, loose, tan__________________________Caliche, sandy, soft, white.___________________________________Clay, sandy, soft, brown _____________________________________
Ogallala formation:Sand, very fine, silty, cemented, brown ________________________Clay, sandy, hard, light -gray _________________________________Sand, very fine, silty, slightly cemented, brown. _______ _________Clay, sandy, soft, tan to gray _________________________________Clay, sandy, soft, brown _____________________________________Sand, very fine to coarse, silty, clayey, cemented, hard, brown;
contains streaks of caliche _________________________________Chert, very hard, white______________________________________Sand, very fine to medium, silty, calcareous, hard, green.__-_-__ Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty, calcareous, hard, brown.___ Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty, calcareous, hard, brown;
contains layers of caliche __________________________________
53
122552
3323
11.5
590.56
17
2022273234
3740424556.5
115.5116122139
144
196 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
________________Table 27. San.ple Ions of test holes Continued_______________
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-41- Ibbb Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, very fine, to fine gravel, silty, cemented _________________ 8 152Clay, sandy, soft, brown ___________ __________________________ 5 157Sand, very fine, to fine graveljloose..-.--.-------------------- 4.5 161.5Caliche, hard, white ...________.'.....________..__--.-__.__ 0.5 162Sand, very fine, silty, cemented, hard, green ___________________ 8 170Clay, hard, green; contains siliceous layers__-_.-----_.-------- 2 172Clay, very silty, cemented in layers, hard, brown--_---__-----__ 20 192Sand, very fine, silty, cemented; contains brown hard layers of
caliche...._______________________________________________ 8.5 200.5Sand, very fine,to fine gravel,loose _---_--_-__-_-__._-----_-- 1.5 202Sand, fine, to fine. gravel,loose, cemented in streaks, green _____ 8 210Clay, sandy, silty,tan ______.__..___.__________________----__ 19 229Sand, very fine to coarse, silty, brown_-_-_--___-___.__--_--_-- 3 232 Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,green _______________-___------- 10 242Sand, fine,to fine grave],loose ________---__---_-.-_---___---_ 2.5 244.5Clay, soft, brown_-___________________j_______-._____-_------ 1 245.5Sand, fine, to medium gravel,loose ___________________________ 4.5 250Caliche, and fine-grained sandstone; lightly cemented __.--.-___ 12 262 Caliche, hard, buff ______________i.________-_-_-_____- ------ 10 272Caliche, hard, white, and very fine grained sandstone ___--_--_-- 2 274 Clay, sandy, hard, brown____________________________________ 10.5 284.5Sand, medium; contains very fine to very coarse sand ___________ 8 292.5Sand, medium; contains very fine to very coarse sand and thin
layers of caliche __________________________________________ 3 295.5Sand, medium; contains very fine to coarse sand__________--____ 6.5 302Sand, medium; contains very fine sand to fine gravel; cemented in
thin zones __-_--_--__________________________-____--_-___- 12 314Clay, hard to soft, tan, gray, and yellow; contains some thin
streaks of dense caliche _____________-_-_-_________--_---_- 10.5 324.5Sand, medium, to medium grave^loose.-.-----------.----.---- 6.5 331
Pierre shale:Clay, plastic, yellow to light-green, and yellow shale ___________ 4.5 335.5Shale, light blue-gray_______________________________..-_-_._- 1.5 337
HAYES COUNTY, NEBR.
5-33-6bbb
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,022.0 ft]
Sanborn formation:Silt, soft, tan; contains very fine sand___-___---_-_-_-___---_--.
Ogallala formation:Caliche, sandy, hard to soft, white to buff ___--___-____-------_.Caliche, sandy, hard, buff ---_-_________--_-_-__.____---_--_-.Sand, very fine, to medium gravel;contains some well-cemented
zone s ---------___---_-_-_-____-----_---_________-__---_-.Silt, sandy, soft, tan; contains some caliche _____----___-__---_.Sandstone, very fine grained to medium-grained, silty; contains
some siltstone _______________________..-_____-__---_-_-_-_.Caliche, silty, sandy, white _______________.__-_______--___-_..Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty, gravelly, loose ____________Silt, cemented in zones: contains very fine to coarse sand and
some caliche______________________________________________
59.3
12.710.8
14.9 6.8
6.5 8.8 5.5
16.7
59.3
7282.8
97.9104.5
111119.8125.3
142
BASIC DATA
Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
197
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-33-6bbb Continued
Ogallala formation:Silt, clayey, sandy, soft, gray_________________________________ 6.5 148.5Silt, sandy, soft, light-brown; interbedded with thin streaks of
sand and gravel ___________________________________________ 21.5 170Caliche, silty, calcareous, hard to soft, white_--_----__-___-____ 12 182Caliche, soft, white, and sandy silt _.._._._____._.______._._._. 10 192Caliche, calcareous, hard to soft, white ________________________ 4.3 196.3Sand, very fine, silty, light-green, and soft white caliche_-_--____ 5.7 202Caliche, hard, white _________________________________________ 23 225Silt, hard, gray; contains very fine to coarse sand. ______ ________ 7 232Silt, hard, brown and gray; contains very fine to coarse sand _____ 10 242Silt, soft, tan to gray; contains very fine sand to very fine graveL. 13.5 255.5 Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,silty; partly cemented in
zones_____________________________________________________ 19.1 274.6Silt, sandy, soft, gray ________________________________________ 7.4 282Sand, very fine to coarse; contains very coarse sand and silt_.___ 10 292 Silt, sandy, soft, green _______________________________________ 10 302Sand, very fine to coarse, green; contains some silt and caliche___ 10 312 Silt, soft, green, and very fine sand____________________________ 20 332Silt, hard, green; contains very fine sand_______________________ 6 338Caliche, hard, white, and sandy soft tan silt ___________________ 17 355Sand, very fine, to fine; gravel silty, loose _____________________ 10.6 365.6
Pierre shale:Clay, soft, yellow, and dark-brown shale; contains some
pale-blue plastic clay ______________________________________ 6.4 372
6-34-6bbb
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,066.4 ft]
Sanborn formation:Soil, silty, hard, dark-brown__________________________________Silt, soft, light-brown ________________________________________Caliche, white to buff; contains very fine to coarse sand .-___-___ Silt, sandy, soft, light-brown; contains some caliche. ____________
Ogallala formation:Sand, very fine, to medium graveljloose _______________________Silt, clayey, soft; contains some very fine to fine sand and caliche. Sand, very fine,to coarse gravel______________________________Silt, hard, light-brown; contains very fine to very coarse sand____Silt, sandy, hard, light-brown; interbedded with streaks of caliche. Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,loose _______________________Silt, light-brown; contains very fine to coarse sand and some
caliche ___________________________________________________Silt; contains very fine sand to fine gravel______________________Sand, very fine to coarse, silty________________________________Clay, plastic, light-brown; and sandy blocky medium -brown silt. _ Silt, clayey, light-brown; contains very fine to very coarse sand __ Sandstone, fine-grained ______________________________________Silt, clayey, light-brown; contains very fine to very coarse sand__ Silt, sandy, light-brown; contains some caliche _________________Silt, clayey, sandy, plastic, medium-brown _____________________Silt, white; contains very fine to coarse sand _______----___--___Silt, sandy, and fine-grained sandstone_._______________________Caliche, sandy, white; interbedded with thin streaks of light-brown
silt; contains some cemented zones _________________________
2.77.39.2
25
11.910.50.8
13.69.56.5
1418.52.98.6
10284.25.8
2015.2
2.71019.244.2
56.166.667.48190.597
111129.5132.4141151153161165.2171191206.2
216
198 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. San.ple lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-34 -6bbb Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSilt, clayey, sandy, light -brown.... _..__..___.___.___.____.__. 5 221Silt, clayey, buff; and very fine sand to very fine gravel; hard____ 20 241Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,silty, hard __-_----_--------_--_ 6 247Sand, very fine, to fine gravel^loose __________________________ 12.4 259.4Silt, sandy, soft, gray..._.______.._._..__.._____.____.___.___ 6.6 266Sand, very fine to very coarse; interbedded with white to blue soft
clay and streaks of sandstone___________________--____-____- 4 270Sand, very fine to very coarse, loose; contains very fine to
medium gravel ___________________________________________ 6.7 276.7Silt, hard, medium-brown; contains very fine to medium sand____ 14.3 291Silt, clayey, sandy, medium-brown to white __-____----------_-- 7 298Silt, sandy, hard, greenish-gray-___--__-_--______-_-------__- 2.3 300.3Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, loose_______________________ 16.3 316.6Silt, tan; contains some very fine to medium sand __---__-_-____ 6.9 323.5
Pierre shale:Clay, hard, plastic, yellow-brown_.___________________________ 6 329.5Clay, plastic, blue ..._.__...__..__...._..._.....__.._._...__ 1.5 331
6-34-31ccc
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 2,840.5 ft]
Soil, silty, brown; contains some fine sand.________-____---_-__ 4 4Ogallala formation:
Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel,loose; contains some silt andnodules of caliche________________________________________ 17 21
Sand, very fine, to gravel, silty; contains some thin cementedlayers and nodules of caliche___________________---__--__-__ 24.5 45.5
Caliche, hard to soft, buff; interbedded with very fine grained tomedium-grained sandstone.._______________________________ 8.5 54
Sandstone, very fine grained to medium-grained, gray-green;contains some caliche _____________________________________ 13 67
Silt, soft, green; contains some very fine to coarse sand ________ 4 71Silt, slightly cemented brown; contains some very fine to coarse
sand.______._____________________________________________ 20 91Silt; interbedded with very fine sand to fine gravel__--_---_____. 13 104Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty, gravelly__________________ 12.5 116.5
Pierre shale:Clay, plastic, yellow and light blue-gray_______________________ 4.5 121
7-34-6bbb
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,152.0 ft]
Dune sand:Soil silty, medium-brown; contains some very fine sand_________ 1.3 1.3Sand, very fine to fine; contains some silt _____________________ 8.7 10
Sanborn formation:Clay, silty, soft, light-brown, and silt _________________________ 11 21Silt, light-brown; contains some very fine to fine sand __________ 52 73Clay, silty, hard, light-brown ---_________________-__-_-_.____ 19 92
Ogallala formation:Caliche, white; contains very fine to medium sand __.__---_-____ 17 109Sand, very fine to medium ___________________________________ 2 111Sand, very fine to coarse, calcareous _________________________ 5.5 116.5Silt, sandy, and caliche ______________________________________ 10.5 127
BASIC DATA 199
Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7 -34 -6bbb Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, very fine, to medium gravel,loose.___--___--._________-_ 31.5 158.5Silt, clayey, hard, light-brown; contains very fine to medium sand;
interbedded with caliche and fine-grained sandstone.._..___.__ 12.5 171 Silt, hard, medium-brown; contains very fine to coarse sand.____ 6 177Silt, sandy; interbedded with very fine sand to very fine gravel ... 11.5 188.5 Silt, ciayey, sandy; interbedded with fine-grained sandstone...._. 2.5 191Silt, clayey, sandy; interbedded with caliche and siltstone________ 20 211Silt, clayey, and sandy caliche __.__-.______.____._._.__...__._ 5 216Clay, sandy, gravelly, light-green; interbedded with light-brown
sandy, gravelly silt._______________________________________ 9 225Sand, very fine, to medium gravel_.___________________________ 19 244Silt; interbedded with caliche and sandstone ____________________ 17 261Silt, hard, light-brown; contains very fine to coarse sand ________ 20 281Silt, hard, medium-brown; contains very fine to medium sand___. 29.5 310.5 Caliche, sandy; interbedded with greenish-gray and white
fine-grained sandstone_____________________________________ 10.5 321Silt, sandy, hard, gray-green.________-.__--____-_._________._ 20 341Silt, sandy, hard, gray-green; contains cemented zones_____--__- 20 361Silt, sandy, hard, white.._____________________________________ 5.2 366.2Sand, medium to very coarse, calcareous ______________________ 4.8 371Silt, sandy, hard, white ______________________________________ 20 391Sandstone, fine-to medium-grained, calcareous.---.._--__-_--._ 10 401 Silt, white, and very fine to coarse sand _______________________ 10 411Sand, fine to very coarse, well-rounded grains, white to
light-green--___-_-__--____________--__--_--_______-_-____ 5 416Sand, very fine to very coarse, well-rounded grains, white to
light-green; contains some light-green to pink silt and very fineto fine gravel____________-_-_-__________-_._-______-___-._ 5 421
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow and yellow-brown shale _-__--___--.-__________-__ 8.5 429.5Clay, plastic, dark-blue______________________________________ 2 431.5
8-35-31ccc
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,216.6 ft]
Sanborn formation:Soil, silty, medium-brown; contains some very fine to medium
sand___________________________________________________Silt, light-brown; contains thin clayey zones... _______________Silt, hard, orange-brown; contains streaks of white clay _______
Ogallala formation:Clay, silty, soft, light-gray; contains thin streaks of caliche and
some very fine to coarse sand ____________________________Silt, hard, light-brown; contains very fine to medium sand ____Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,loose.___________________Silt; contains very fine to medium sand ______________________Sand, fine, to medium gravel,loose _________________________Clay, hard, light-brown, and very fine to coarse sand _________Sand, fine to very coarse, loose; contains very fine to medium
gravel ..._.._.__..._________._____________.____________Clay, hard, light-brown; contains very fine to coarse sand _____Sand, fine, to medium gravel,loose.__--___-__-_-_.________-_Clay, silty, sandy, hard, light-brown ________________________Sandstone, fine-grained, and soft white clay; contains some layers
of fine to coarse sand____________________________________
7817
1312.50.595.76
4.33115.7
86103
116128.5129138143.7149.7
154185200.7209.5
217.5
200 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-35-31ccc Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedClay, sandy, hard, light-brown; interbedded with gray soft clay.-. Sand, very fine, to medium gravel...._----__-___--__----------Silt, clayey, sandy; contains some caliche-----------------.-.--Sand, very fine to very coarse, slightly cemented; contains some
very fine to medium gravel ________________________________Sandstone, fine-grained, buff; interbedded with white soft sandy
clay and light -gray silt ________________________-_-----_--_-Silt, light-gray, and very fine to very coarse sand; contains some
thin well-cemented layers. ______________---_____---_-_----_Silt, clayey, sandy, white to light-brown _______________________Silt, clayey, hard, light-gray to white; contains very fine sand to
very fine gravel and streaks of white clay._-_____---_-----__- Pier re shale:
Clay, hard, yellow-brown, and dark-brown shale.-..__-_-__-_-._ Clay, hard, blue.-------.____________________________________
122023.2
6.8
18
2220
14
297
229.5261284.2
291
309
331351
365
394401
HITCHCOCK COUNTY, NEBR.
3-35-2aaa
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,145.9 ft]
Sanborn formation:Silt, clayey, soft,tan ________________________________________ 102 102Silt, clayey, soft, tan; contains thin streaks of caliche ----..__-_- 10 112 Silt, clayey, soft, tan ________________________________________ 20 132Silt, clayey, soft, tan; contains very fine sand -___.______--___-- 30 162Silt, soft; contains very fine to fine sand ___-----_____----_--_-_ 10 172Silt, soft; contains very fine sand to very fine gravel and some
caliche.....-.__.__.._...__..___..______.._._.________.___ 21 193Ogallala formation:
Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,slightly cemented ___-_-----.-_-_ 6.5 199.5Caliche, soft, white__________________________________________ ' 0.3 199.8Limestone, hard, white ---_.________---_----________-_---__-- 2.2 202Silt, and caliche; hard; white --.__..-_----___-_._-_---_---_-._ 21 223Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,silty; contains some cemented
zones ____________________________________________________ 9 232Sand, very fine to fine graveljloose--_---_-------._---__--_--_ 3.2 235.2Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,well-cemented __________________ 5.8 241Silt, sandy, soft, tan, and silty, sandy hard caliche -__--__--_-.- 23.5 264.5 Sand, very fine to coarse, loose; interbedded with gray soft sandy
silt and very fine to very coarse sand ----_-___-__------_-_.- 17.5 282Caliche and silt; sandy; gray..._________-_--.________--_-_-_-- 10 292Silt, sandy, soft, tan to gray ---__--_-------_--.---_._----__--_ 10 302Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel, light-green; contains silt and
some caliche.----____-_-------._.__---_____---__-____.____ 3 305Silt, soft, gray to light-green -_-__---_-_-_--_-__-_-____-_--_-- 7 312Sand, very fine, to fine graveljinterbedded with layers of silt -__- 18 330 Silt, clayey, sandy, and some caliche; yellow to tan; interbedded
with thin layers of sand ____________________________________ 36.5 366.5Sand, very fine to coarse, silty, light-green to tan, and
sandy, gray silt ________..._.__._.______.__....________.___ 15.5 382.0Sand, very fine to very coarse, well-cemented; interbedded with
silt and caliche.___________________________________________ 6 388
BASIC DATA 201
Table 27. Sample lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-35-2aaa Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, very fine, to fine gravel,silty, loose, light-green..._--___ 4 392 Sand, very fine, to fine graveljinterbedded with light-green silt. _ 11.7 403.7
Pierre shale:Clay, soft, plastic, yellow to light blue-gray-.--.---.-.---._--- 6.6 410.3
4-34-2aaa
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 2,773.6 ft]
Alluvium:Silt, soft, light-brown to gray-.--.-... ....__.__.__...__._.___ 22 22Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,silty, fossiliferous; contains
nodules of caliche ________________________________________ 30 52Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty; contains nodules of caliche
and some thinly cemented zones _________-_-_.--____-_____- 20 72Sand, very fine to very coarse, loose; contains nodules of
caliche...______________________________________.-___._ 13 85Sand, very fine to very coarse; contains very fine to medium
gravel ---_---____-_____--___-_____________._.__.________ 6 91Pierre shale:
Clay, soft, light-gray to dark-blue with slightly yellow stain ____ 1 92Clay, soft, plastic, gray to dark-blue; contains yellow streaks... 4.8 96.8
4-34-6bbb
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,060.1 ft]
Sanborn formation:Silt, clayey, soft, tan _______________________________________ 79 79Silt, Soft, tan; contains very fine to coarse sand and caliche.---. 4 83 Silt, soft, and sandy white caliche.__..__.....--_________.._.- 16 99
Ogallala formation:Sand, fine, to medium gravel,loose; contains silt and caliche.... 2 101Caliche--__-.......__------_._--__________.-_____.______._ 1 102Silt, soft, brown; contains very fine sand to fine gravel and
caliche__..-....._...__...._..__...--..__.....___________ 9.5 111.5Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,silty, loose.._.--_.__._--_.- 5.5 117 Silt, clayey, soft, light-brown; contains sand and caliche. _______ 25 142Caliche, white to gray, and silt; contains very fine sand to very
fine gravel -----_---_---._-___._--_______-__--________-__ 10 152Caliche, soft, white; interbedded with light-green silt and
light-green very fine grained to medium-grained sandstone ... 10 162 Caliche, soft, white, and medium-brown silt; contains some
cemented zones __________________________________________ 10 172Caliche, hard, white; interbedded with light-brown to light-green
soft silt; contains very fine sand to fine gravel _-._..-._.-..- 52 224 Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,loose-...-....-.__..._._--- 6.5 230.5Caliche, hard, and sandy silt; light -green___________________ 23 232 8Silt, cemented in zones, soft, light-green; contains very fine to
very coarse sand____________________________________.____ 9.2 242Silt, clayey, sandy, light-green; contains some white caliche .__. 13 255 Sand ______________________________________________________ i 256Silt, clayey, sandy, light-green; contains some white caliche .__. 1.5 257.5 Sand ______________________________________________________ 2 259.5Silt, clayey, sandy, light-green; contains some white caliche .-.- 6.5 266 Silt, clayey, hard, yellow to tan ______________________________ 10 276Sand, very fine to coarse, silty, tan __________________________ 6 282
655012 O - 63 - 14
202 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 27. Sanyle lofls of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4 -34 -6bbb Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSilt, clayey, sandy, hard, yellow to tan; contains some streaks of
silt stone_________________________________________________Silt, clayey, plastic, and tan and gray caliche; sandy____________Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,silty; interbedded with layers
of silt _-_---__-__--____________________-_------_____---_-Pierre shale:
Clay, plastic, hard, yellow to light-gray. -___--_-------_-_-_---Clay, plastic, hard, dark-gray____-_________------_-__--_---_-
2025
13
4.5 2.5
302327
340
344.5347
4-34-26ddd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 2,984.4 ft]
Sanborn formation:Silt, clayey, dark-brown to tan _______________._________.---_-. 22 22Silt,tan ____________________________________________________ 20 42Silt, clayey, soft, tan______________________---_-_-___-__---._. 25 67Silt, clayey, soft, tan; contains very fine sand---_-----_-__--___- 4 71Silt, soft, tan; contains some sand, gravel, and pebbles _.._---__- 26.5 97.5
Ogallala formation:Caliche, soft to hard, white ___________________________________ 4.5 102Caliche, sandy, silty, soft, buff_--_----_---_--_------_-.------- 16.5 118.5Caliche, hard, white_____________________________-______------ 3.5 122Caliche and siltstone; gray____________-______---__-_--._-_-_-_ 4 126Silt; contains very fine to coarse sand and some caliche.___-_._._ 9 135 Silt, cemented; contains very fine to coarse sand________________ 6 141Silt; contains very fine to coarse sand and some caliche._________ 1 142Sandstone, very fine to medium-grained, and white to gray caliche- 18 160 Silt, clayey, gray, and caliche.___--__------_--_-_--_--__------ 7 167Silt, hard,tan, and caliche-____--_-_-__--_____-_.__---__---_-_ 7 174Sand, very fine to fine, silty, loose ____________________________ 2 176Silt, clayey, soft, tan, and caliche _---_--.___--__-_______------ 13 189Sand, very fine to coarse, silty, frosted wellr-rounded grains,
loose.____________________________________________________ 10.5 199.5Silt, sandy, soft, gray ________________________________________ 8.5 208Sand, very fine to coarse, silty; contains some slightly cemented
zones.___________________________________________________ 6.5 214.5Caliche.____________________-_________-___-_----_-__._.-_-- 0.5 215Sand, very fine to coarse, silty; contains some slightly cemented
zones... __________________________________________________ 19.3 234.3Silt; contains very fine to very coarse sand_____________________ 3.7 238Silt, clayey, hard, tan, and siltstone._-_______.-_-.___--_.--_--- 4 242Silt, clayey, hard, tan, and siltstone; sandy .__--_---___._._-___. 25.5 267.5 Sand, very fine to very coarse; interbedded with silt and caliche __ 4.5 272 Silt, sandy, soft, gray._______________________________________ 6.8 278.8Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,and silt; gray to green_.__-.__ 19.9 298.7
Pierre shale:Clay, plastic, light-green, light-blue, and yellow __________.-__-. 4.3 303Clay, plastic, dark-blue _______---_-__-___________-___-------- 5 308
BASIC DATA
Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
203
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
PERKINS COUNTY, NEBR.
9-37-36ddd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,225.0 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Soil, silty, soft, chocolate -brown ______________________________ 5 5
Ogallala formation:Clay, silty, soft, brown ______________________________________ 2 7Clay, silty, calcareous, hard, red-brown; contains streaks of
white soft sandy caliche___-_-_--___--__-___-_--_--__-_-_-_- 19 26 Caliche, very sandy, silty, medium-hard, tan_------_---_------- 4.5 30.5Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, well-rounded, loose, clean,
dark-gray ________________________________________________ 2.5 33Caliche, very sandy, clayey, silty, medium-hard, tan__---_------ 7 40Clay, silty, medium-hard, red-brown_-__---_-_---__-----_-_-_- 12 52Sandstone, very fine grained, silty; contains tan medium-hard
calcareous fine sand to medium gravel _______.__.-____-__--- 16 68Sand, very fine, to medium gravel.loose, green ________________ 6 74Clay, silty, soft, brown ______________________________________ 6 80Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel,loose, green to pink..-___._--. 6.5 86.5 Clay, silty, calcareous, medium-hard, gray to tan ______________ 3 89.5Caliche, very sandy, silty, medium-hard, tan_---_--_----------- 4 93.5Clay, silty, hard, green _____________________--______--_-__--- 4.5 98Clay, silty, hard, brown_____________________________________. 5 103Sand, very fine, silty, cemented, tan.------..------------------ 1 104Clay, silty, hard, brown_____-_______--_-____--__-_---_-.____- 8 112Siltstone, sandy, hard, brown--__--__-_--__-_-_--__------__-..- 6 118Caliche, sandy, hard, white_________._________________________ 3.5 121.5Sand, very fine, to pebbles, loose, green to gray _____-_-_.____._ 30.5 152Clay, sandy, calcareous, soft, light-brown _-_---_-__-__--_-_--- 6 158 Caliche, sandy, silty, hard, white to brown _____________________ 5.5 163.5Clay, sandy, soft, light-brown _--_--.--______--_----__--__---- 7.5 171Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel,loose, green ____._--__-__-_-. 4 175Clay, sandy, soft, green-gray._._-___-__--__-_--___--__--._--- 6 181 Clay, sandy, soft, red-brown ___-____----____--___.--____-_--- 5 186Caliche, sandy, silty, hard, white to brown _____________________ 9 195Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,loose, green _________._-_-_._-_- 17 212Sand, very fine, silty, cemented, soft, brown ___________________ 10 222Caliche, sandy, hard, white.__________________________________ 1 223Clay, sandy, soft, light-gray to brown _--____-____-__--___----_ 10 233Caliche, sandy, soft, white to gray__________________________.._ 5 238Caliche, sandy, soft, white, cemented____-_____--__-___---__-_- 11.5 249.5Caliche, sandy, silty, cemented, soft, gray to tan ________.-_--__ 2.5 252Clay, sandy, silty, soft, red-brown ____________________________ 8 260Caliche, sandy, silty, hard, white_____-_-_____----__--_---____- 3.5 263.5Caliche, sandy, silty, soft, white to brown; interbedded with brown
soft clay- --..-.--- --------- --- -- - --- 17-5 281Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty, loose, tan--_----_----_---_ 5.5 286.5Caliche, silty, sandy, medium-hard, white; interbedded with thin
layers of brown soft clay_________________________.______--_ 4.5 291Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,loose, tan_______.-________- 11 302Caliche, very sandy, silty, soft, white to tan_________.___.--_- 26 328
Brule formation:Siltstone, sandy, calcareous, soft, gray-green _-_-____.____----_ 14 342
204 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
9-40-3add
[Modified from log of oil-test hole. Samples studied microscopically byGeological Survey]
Nebraska
Dune sand:Sand, fine, to fine gravel,quartzitic; contains some silt and soil (No sample)___-________-____-___-____--_-_-__-----_-_-----
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel; becomes progressively coarser with depth ____ Sand and gravel; becomes progressively coarser with depth;
contains trace of lime..--____--___-__--__-___-___-------_(No sample)_______________________________________________Gravel, very coarse; contains a few calcareous granules.----_-
Brule(?) formation:Clay, silty, sandy, moderately calcareous, light-gray with a
slight greenish cast, and quartzitic sand and gravel _________Clay, silty, sandy, slightly calcareous, light-gray with a slight
greenish cast, and quartzitic sand and gravel -___--_-_______Clay, silty, sandy, very slightly calcareous, light-gray with a
slight greenish cast, and quartzitic sand and gravel _._-_-___ Pierre shale:
Shale, slightly calcareous, dark-gray ______--_------__----___
2010
110
60100
10
20
10
94
2030
140
200300310
330
340
434
434
10-36-9ddd
[Modified from log of oil-test hole. Samples studied microscopically by E. D. Gordon, Nebraska Geological Survey]
Dune sand:Sand, fine to medium, light-brown; contains some coarse sand
and a little dark-brown sandy silt ___________________________ 10Sanborn formation:
Sand, fine, light-brown; contains some medium to coarse sand anda little dark-brown sandy silt __________________--_---___--_. 20
Sand, fine to medium, light-brown; contains some coarse sand anda little dark-brown sandy silt _______________________________ 10
Sand, very fine to medium, light-brown; contains some coarsesand and a little dark-brown sandy silt----------------------- 20
Sand, very fine to medium, light-brown; contains some coarsesand, a little dark-brown sandy silt, and very small amounts ofcaliche and lime-cemented sand.. _.__________-_-__--_-_____- 30
Sand, fine to medium, silty, light-brown; contains some tinyfragments of caliche and lime-cemented sand _.___-.--_------. 10
Sand, silty, somewhat calcareous, light-brown to tan; containsconsiderable amounts of caliche and lime-cemented sand_______ 30
Sand, very fine, somewhat silty, slightly cemented with calcareouscement, well-sorted, light-brown to tan-_.----_---_--------_- 10
Sand, very fine, somewhat silty, slightly cemented with calcareouscement, well-sorted, light-brown to tan; contains a little caliche _ 10
Sand, very fine, somewhat silty, slightly cemented with calcareouscement, well-sorted, light-brown to tan; contains caliche andlime -cemented sand ___-_-_______.-.--__.___________--____- 20
Sand, very fine to medium, somewhat silty, slightly cemented withcalcareous cement, well-sorted, light-brown to tan; containscaliche and lime-cemented sand. ______._________---____-_--- 10
Tertiary deposits undifferentiated:Sand, fine to coarse, lime-cemented, light-gray to tan; contains
abundant caliche----_-_-__-_-_--____--__------_---------__- 10
10
30
40
60
90
100
130
140
150
170
180
190
BASIC DATA 205
Table 27. Sample lo.qs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10 -36 -9ddd Continued
Tertiary deposits undifferentiated ContinuedSand, coarse, lime-cemented, felspathic, light-gray to tan
tinged with pink; contains abundant caliche __________________Sand, coarse, very limy, cemented, felspathic, pink to tan;
contains abundant caliche__________________________________Sand, medium to coarse, limy, cemented, felspathic, pink to tan;
contains abundant caliche __________________________________Sand, fine to coarse, calcareous, light-pink to gray; contains
considerable caliche ______________________________________Sand, medium to very coarse, calcareous, light-pink to gray;
contains considerable caliche and a little fine gravel _________Sand, medium, to fine gravel, calcareous, light-pink to gray;
contains considerable caliche and a little tan silt _____________Sand, medium, to fine gravel, calcareous, light-pink to gray;
contains considerable caliche and a little pinkish-tan sandysilt stone-_-----__-_-_--____-_____________________________
Sand, medium, to fine gravel, calcareous, light-pink to gray;contains white caliche, granular marly limestone, and a littlepinkish-tan sandy siltstone___ ______________________________
Gravel, fine, to coarse sand, pink to gray; contains white caliche_ Gravel, fine, to coarse sand, pink to gray; contains white caliche
and some medium gravel __________________________________Gravel, fine, to coarse sand, pink to gray; contains white caliche,
light - to greenish-gray silty sandstone, and some mediumgravel___________________________________________________
Sand, medium, to fine gravel, light-pink to gray; contains alittle white caliche________________________________________
Sand, coarse, to medium gravel, pink to gray to brown; containsa small amount of caliche _________________________________
Sand, coarse, to medium gravel, pink to gray to brown; containsmuch pink to tan silty sandstone and a small amount of caliche.
Sand, coarse, to medium gravel, slightly calcareous, pink togray to brown; contains much pink to tan silty sandstone and asmall amount of caliche ___________________________________
Sand, coarse, to fine gravel, pink to gray; contains some mediumgravel and a little caliche _________________________________
Sand, coarse, to medium gravel; cemented in part with lime;pink to gray; contains a little caliche._______________________
Gravel, fine to medium, pinkish-gray to brown; contains alittle caliche _____________________________________________
Gravel, medium, to coarse sand, pinkish-gray to brown; containsa little caliche.___________________________________________
Gravel, medium, to coarse sand, pinkish-gray to brown; containsa little caliche and very small amounts of tan silty clay.______
Sand, medium, to medium gravel, angular grains, light-pink togray__ _ ___ __ _ _____
Sand, medium, to coarse gravel, angular grains, light-pink togray.. __ ____ _ _______ _______
Pierre shale:Shale, slightly calcareous, somewhat silty, light grayish-yellow
(coarse gravel cave) ______________________________________Shale, clayey, somewhat silty, slightly calcareous, medium
dark-gray (coarse-gravel cave)____________________________
10
30
10
20
20
10
40
1010
10
20
20
10
10
10
20
50
10
10
20
10
15
5
10
200
230
240
260
280
290
330
340350
360
380
400
410
420
430
450
500
510
520
540
550
565
570
580
206 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
ll-38-36aaa
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,313.8 ft]
Sanborn formation:Soil, silty, brown___________________________________________Caliche, silty, sandy, soft, white to tan -----_--__--_-----_-__- Sand, very fine, to pebbles, loose, green _--__---_----_---_-_-_ Caliche, silty, sandy, soft, white to tan _______________________Clay, sandy, hard, gray _____________________________________Clay, silty, hard, red-brown.________________________________
Ogallala formation:Sand, very fine,to pebbles, loose, green _____________________Sand, very fine, to medium gravel, dark gray______---___-_-__-Clay, sandy, medium-hard, tan to brown _----_----_-_-_---____caliche, sandy, soft, white----___----_---_-_--_--------_--__-Clay, silty, hard, red-brown_._______________________________Caliche, sandy, hard, pink to white ___________________________Clay, sandy, hard, brown_---_-_-_--_-_---_-__--_--_--_---___ Sand, very fine, to medium gravel,loose, pink to tan ___________Clay, sandy, hard, brown__-_-__-__-_---_-----__---_---_-____Caliche, sandy, soft, white to gray -_--___----------__----_-._Caliche, sandy, hard, gray______-__-----_--__-------_--___--_Clay, sandy, hard, brown....___--_-_-----___--__------____--Caliche, sandy, hard, white_____--_-__--__-__-_-_--------_-_-Clay, sandy, hard, tan _--_-------_-_--_-_--__--___---_--_---Caliche, sandy, hard, white...._---_.._-_---__-___-------__-_Clay, sandy, hard,tan -_--___.__--_----__---_-----.___---_._Sand, very fine,to fine gravel,loose, green--_-_------_---_-__-Clay, sandy, hard, brown; contains streaks of white hard
caliche __________________________________________________Clay, sandy, hard, browrt____________________________________Caliche, sandy, hard, white..________________________________Clay, sandy, hard, tan ______________________________________Caliche, sandy, hard, white_________________________.-___.__Sand, very fine to medium, cemented, tan _____________________Caliche, sandy, hard, white.______-----_-__-_______-_________Sand, very fine to very coarse, loose, green__-___-_----___,___Clay, silty, soft, gray-green_______-___-_---__-----___-______Caliche, sandy, silty, soft, white to gray __---_-__--__--_-_____Clay, sandy, very calcareous, soft, gray --_-__-_----_---______Sand, very fine, to medium, and cemented gravel, green ________Clay, sandy, soft, brown ________-_-----__-_-________________Sand, very fine,to fine gravel,loose, green ___________________Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,slightly cemented, green to tan __ Clay, silty, hard, brown_____________________________________Clay, silty, hard, tan; contains layers of very fine to medium
sand ____________________________________________________Sand, very fine to medium, silty, tightly cemented, green to tan- Sand, very fine to coarse, loose, green __-__---._-.--____--___Caliche, silty, medium-hard, white. ______ ____--_-_-_---_--___Sand, very fine to very coarse, loose, green___________________
Chadron formation:Clay; hard, yellow, green, and red, and limonite-stained very
hard green claystone_____________________________________Pierre shale:
Clay, limonite-stained, hard, yellow_-_-------_-_-_---________Shale, hard, blue _-__---________-__---_-__---__-____._______
41310
83.5
15.5
166
1014
6186.54.55
171218
23
1317
52
163837
132016
37
3310
131017
6.5
7.5 3
BASIC DATA 207
Table 27. Sample logs of test holes Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
ll-41-36ddd
[Drilled for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,529.6 ft]
Pierre shale ContinuedSoil, silty, sandy, chocolate-brown. ____________________________ 2.9 2.9
Ogallala formation:Sand, very fine, to pebbles, silty, brown _-----_----_---_---_--.- 0.6 3.5Sand, medium, to medium gravel,loose, tan ____________________ 4.5 8Clay, sandy, soft, brown _______-_-____________--._-___-___---- 0.5 8.5Sand, very fine, to very coarse gravel,loose, tan.-..------------ 41.5 50Clay, sandy, soft, brown---_...___--_..__.-._.-___---_--__---- 4 54Caliche, sandy, clayey, medium-hard, gray to tan ___-.____..___- 7 61Gravel, medium, to sand medium, loose, tan .___-.__-___-_.-_-- 10 71 Clay, silty, soft, brown _-__-___--__--__--___---_-.-___-------- 13 84Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,loose, tan _.--._-__.-___.--- 1 85 Clay, silty, medium-soft, tan...... __-..-..-_---___-__---__--.- 51 136Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,slightly cemented, tan _._.___.__-- 8 144 Clay, silty, calcareous, medium-soft, gray to brown _____________ 29 173Sand, very fine to very coarse, silty, slightly cemented, tan ______ 2 175Clay, calcareous, soft, gray-green; contains thin streaks of white
hard caliche and red-brown soft silty clay ____--___----____-_- 14.5 189.5Clay, soft, red-brown ____________._________--__--__.___.._ 7 196.5Sand, very fine, to very fine gravel,loose, tan ._-___-___-___--_- 5.7 202.2 Caliche, silty, soft to hard, white to gray ---_--_--__--__--_.---- 5.8 208Clay, silty, medium-soft, gray-green __________________________ 6 214Caliche, sandy, medium-hard, white to gray and silty
medium-soft gray-green clay...__--___._--_-----_-----_---_ 21 235 Clay, silty, hard, brown; contains white hard caliche, opalized
pebbles, and layers of green hard claystone__.____-.__--_.-_-_ 21 256Sand, very fine, to fine gravel,cemented, green to tan ___________ 12 268Clay, silty, hard, white to brown_______________________________ 7 275
Brule formation:Siltstone, hard, gray-green _-__.-__--_--_-_---_--.-------_---_ 7 282Silt and clay; sandy; gray green to light brown___-____-__--__.__ 12 294Sand, medium, to fine gravel;cemented, well-rounded to
subangular grains-_-_-_-_----__----_-___---___--------_-_-_ 9 303Silt, sandy, soft, brown to gray; interbedded with thin lenses of
dense clay..______-.______________----------- 19 322Chadron formation:
Clay, dense, brown to green, and hard white caliche; interbeddedwith very fine sand to very fine gravel ___________--__-.__-___ 20.5 342.5
Sand, very coarse, green; contains medium to coarse sand andcaliche .___________________________________- 9 351.5
Clay, plastic, light-green to brown.._..-_-___________ __________ 14.5 366Sand, very coarse, to very fine gravel..________.---_---._----_- 1 367Clay, plastic, light-green to brown_______. _____________________ 5 372Clay, soft, tan-.--.---.--__..__-----__.___-__---.-._--_ 10 382Clay, dense, hard, green to brown __-_--__.__________-___--__-_ 15 397Sandstone, clayey, very dense, hard, white; contains layers of
green hard claystone.__-.____--__-__---_------------------_ 16.5 413.5Claystone, orange limonite stain, dense, hard, white; contains
layers of yellow hard clay ..._-.-__----_--------_-_--------- 28.5 442Sandstone, very fine grained to coarse-grained, cemented, hard,
tan.............................__-.-.--._---_-----.----- 2 444Clay, silty, hard, red-brown, and hard green claystone----------- 19 463
Pierre shale:Shale, hard, blue...__-.---------------------_------.-__-... 9 472
208 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
_________Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells__________
LOGAN COUNTY, COLO.
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-48-5aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,165 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel; clayey______________________________________ 110
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown and white _______________________________________ 40
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 55
6-48-5bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,196 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel___________-___--__-_-------_---------------- 70Clay, sandy, and sandstone_---_----_----.-------------------- 90
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, gray and green --_----___----_-----_-----_---_--_---_-- 40
6-48-19ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,181ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel-.---..-------------------------------------- 120
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green and yellow..-_----__---_--_---------------------- 30
Pierre shale:Shale, blue ----------------------------------------- ----- 55
6-48-19ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,168 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel____-_-------.-_---.------------------------- 130
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, brown and green; contains streaks of sandstone ----------- 20
Pierre shale:Shale, blue -------------- . . - 55
6-48-20ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,149 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel.--.------.-__-------------------------------------- 80Sand and sandy brown clay ..._____-____.____.__________-_.--_ 90
Pierre shale:Shale, blue..--..-.__.__....._.__.--.- -- ------ 30
110
150
205
70160
200
120
150
205
130
150
205
80170
200
BASIC DATA 209
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-48-22ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,148 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel...__-_-_-__-.__-.__._______._____._.._._._.___.._____ 170
Chadron(?) formation-:Limestone and aandy brown clay____----_--__--_--.-----___---- 10
Pierre shale:Shale, blue....................__..__.__.._...__...__...._.. 30
6-48-22ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,141 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.______________________________________________ 170
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, sandy, brown and gray.__________________________________ 40
Pierre shale:Shale, blue...__...__..__.__...____-...--.________..._ 10
6-48-23dcd
[Surface altitude, 4,116 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel..-__---.-----_.-.--------_--_---------------- 160
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, sandy, green -_---_-----_---_--_--_--------------------- 30
Pierre shale:Shale, blue ------------------------._-....------------ .--- 10
6-48-25aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,097 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, and clay _._.._.---___----._-__--_---__-_-------- 160
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green, and hard sandstone------------------------------- 45
6-49-2aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,263 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, and clay---------------------------------------- 165
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green ------------------------------------------------- 40
6-49-3aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,277 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel..--..-.---------------------------------------------- 5°Clay, sandy, brown, and sand..--__----_--------_-------------- 150
170
180
210
170
210
220
160
190
200
160
205
165
205
50200
210 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK
______Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
BASIN
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-49-3bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,278 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel__.._.__......______....____...__________._._ 140
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, sandy, gray ...._.____._...___._.__..__._._.._.________ 60
6-49-4bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,280 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel._-.-_----._........_.....__.._-.-_-...--_._-_.--___- 50Clay, sandy, brown__.___.--__-.___.-_____---__-_____----__.- 60
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, gray and green _.__..__.._____.__.__--__-_-___-----_._- 90
6-49-5bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,307 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, and clay _____-_____--____---------__------_---- 80
Chadron( ?) formation:Clay, brown .__.-.__...._...._._...___.----_-_-------------- 40Clay, white, and soapstone ___________________________________ 40
6-49-9bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,303 ft]
Ogallala formation;Sand and gravel_________.___.___________________-____--.---- HO
Chadron( ?) formation:Clay, sandy, gray .__________________-__---.__--------------- 90
6-49-16bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,315 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel--_----__-_-__-__-------.--------.------------ HO
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown and white __._________________-.___-------------- 40
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green _--__.--__----__--_---_------------------------- 55
6-49-18aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,335 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel...____----__--__---_------------------------ 120
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, sandy, gray .______----_____-_-_---__------------------ 50
Pierre shale:Shale, blue _____.________ - 30
140
200
50110
200
80
120160
110
200
110
150
205
120
170
200
BASIC DATA 211Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismoflroph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-49-19aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,295 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, brown_________________________________________________ 30Sand and gravel _____________________________________________ 30Clay, brown__---__--____-_____________.___..___..____....... 20
Brule(?) formation:Clay, white ------_-----__-___--_-_--________________________ 40
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green _________________________________________________ 50
Pierre shale:Shale, blue..._________________._-.--..-__..__._.._.__.__. 30
6-49-19d
[Test hole]
Soil....____________.______..._______________ 5Ogallala formation:
Sand and clay.__._.__..___.__._____._______.____________...__ 55Gravel _____________________________________________________ 10
Pierre shale and White River(?) group, undifferentiated:Shale, blue__________________________________________________ 280
6-49-30ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,317 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel _____---_-____-__-__---_--____-__-___-______- 50
White River(?) group:Clay, brown, yellow, and green _______________________________ 20
6-49-31ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,316 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel --___----______-__-_--___--_-_-__-_-----_---_ 50
White River(?) group:Clay, green and yellow _______________________________________ 40
Pierre(?) shale:Shale, blue_____..______..__..______.._______.--_ 115
6-50-4dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,424 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel __---_---_-_--_-_--_--__--_-__-_--___-_---__- 30 Clay, brown-__-____-----_----_--_--_---_---------_.--------- 100
Chadron( ?) formation:Clay, brown and green ____________..__________-_--__-____-_-_ 60
306080
120
170
200
6070
350
50
70
50
90
205
30130
190
GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
6-50-5cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,426 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel._____________________________________________ 100
Brule(?) formation:Clay, sandy, brown______.__...-.___..._....__..._.....____.. 90
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green ________________________________________________ 35
6-50-6bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,458 ft]
Sanborn formation and Ogallala formation, undiff erentiated:Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 90
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy.....________._.___________..___...___...___.._._ 130
6-50-6dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,461 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 80
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 100
6-50-7bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,446 ft]
Sanborn formation and Ogallala formation, undiff erentiated:Sand, gravel, and clay _______________________________________ 80
Brule(?) formation:Clay, sandy, brown__________________________________ ________ 60
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, brown and green.______________________________________ 20Clay, green ________________________________________________ 65
6-50-7cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,455 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel______________________________________________ 50Clay, sandy...._____________________________________________ 40
Brule(?) formation:Clay, yellow_-__--_-____-____________-___---__-_--_-____--_- 70
Chadron{?) formation:Shale, green..______________________________________________ 30
Pierre shale:Shale, blue _________________________________________________ 30
BASIC DATA 213
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth . (feet)
6-50-8cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,417 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.___.__..-______.-__.__..__.._.__..._______.. 80 80
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown and yellow-_-___-___-___-___-___-______________. 40 120
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, yellow and green -____.._.__._..__._______.___..___._._ 30 150Clay, green ________________________________________________ 40 190
Pierre shale:Shale, blue _________________________________________________ 35 225
6-50-9dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,370 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel..___________________________________________ 60 60
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown and yellow __--_---__---_-------_-------_-_-_---_ 60 120
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green _.__...__...-...-__.-__.___.__._-_._--___--_-._- 70 190
Pierre shale:Shale, blue _____...__-----____-_______________ 25 215
6-50-10baa
[Surface altitude, 4,415 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel__-__-_-_--__---_-____-_---____-_-_-_---__-__ 140 140
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, sandy......-_...___.___.-.--__-._--_.__-_..___-.....__ 80 220
6-50-10dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,370 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel__.____.._.__.__.____._._.___._..____-____-__ 60
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, brown _________________---_-----------_--_-------__--_ 80Clay, green ________________________________________________ 65
6-50-llbaa
[Surface altitude, 4,387 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel__-_-__--_-_-_-_-_--__---_--__--------------- 120 120
White River (?) group:Clay, sandy.____________-._.__.__..-_-.._-_ . 60 180Clay, yellow.._________.--.---_-._ ._ 25 205Clay, green ..__.-_._-._---__--__--._--.--__---_-_-----._--- 15 220
60
140205
214 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shothoies, and wells- Continued
Thicknes (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-50-12abb
[Surface altitude, 4,350 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.___...___.__._.._.___.._.___.____.._._._____ 80
White River(?) group:Gravel and brown clay___._._____...__.___.__._.____._______. 60Clay, brown --.__._-__..._____._..__..__.___-__._---_.__--_- 50Clay, green ________________________________________________ 35
6-50-12daa
[Surface altitude, 4,367 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_.._-_._..____.__.__...__..____-_--_-._-__-__ 110
White River(?) group:Clay, yellow--..----..__._..._.__.__...__._____.___.___.____ 70 Clay, green _-._..._-_._....__...._..___._.----.-__--__-.__. 40
6-50-13baa
[Surface altitude, 4,352 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.____..____-.._._-._.---..__-----_-_---_--_-. 45 Clay, sandy......._....._...___..._.....___.__..._---.---__. 30
White River(?) group:Clay, yellow._.........__..__..._..__..__..__-....._-_..-... 100
Pierre shale:Shale, blue.._.____.._..__._...___.._...__....__...._._.___. 25
6-50-13daa
[Surface altitude, 4,317 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, and clay..._.__..____._____--__._-___-_-..--__-. 60
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown _-_....._...__..._...._.._-.._.--_..-._---.---_- 20
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green.________________________________________________ 90
Pierre shale:Shale, blue _______.._.____.__....__-- - 195
6-50-14baa
[Surface altitude, 4,346 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.___-.__.___...__-.__---__---_-_------.------ 50Clay, sandy._____-_-____-______--_--._--------_------------- 20
White River (?) group:Gravel and clay..--___-__-,____-----__----.----------------- 115
Pierre shale:Shale, blue __.---.-..---__........--.--..---------.--.---- 35
80
140190225
110
180220
4575
175
200
60
80
170
365
5070
185
220
BASIC DATA 215
Toble 28. Drillers' lo.qs of test holes, seismoflraph shotholes. and wells Continued______
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-50-15cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,377 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.____________________________________________ 48Rock _____________________________________________________ 12
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy.---__---__---________-___._________.____________ 90
Pierre shale:Clay, ye llow---__--_________________________________________ 30Shale, blue _________________________________________________ 40
6-50-16cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,386 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 100
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green ----------_---__-_-__---__-_______________-____- 35
Pierre shale:Shale, blue _________________________________________________ 50
6-50-17dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,401 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 80
BruLe(?) formation:Clay, brown ...._.__.............._.__..._....._..._.....___ 20
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green ________________________________________________ 40
Pierre shale:Shale, blue _________________________________________________ 45
6-50-18cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,461 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand, gravel, and clay _______________________________________ 60
Brule(?) formation:Clay, yellow.-.-...___________________________.--_-----. 20
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, yellow and green _--------_-_-__-_-_--_---_----_--_---- 20Rock -_-__---------------_------_----_-------------------_- 4Clay, green .--_.___-__---___----_----_----_----------_----- 36
Pierre shale:Shale, blue._.-......___-.------.-------___--_----_.------ 65
6-50-19cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,556 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy_________-__--___----___---__-_._---------------- 150
White River(?) group:Clay, yellow ______---__----------_----_------_--_----------- 70
4860
150
180220
100
135
185
80
100
140
185
60
80
100104140
205
150
220
216 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' loo,s cf lest fol?s, seismograph sfiotfioles, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
6-50-21cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,385 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy_________________________________________________ 45
Brule(?) formation:Clay, yellow _____..___.__________.._._.________-____._..____ 50
Chadron(?) formation:Shale, green ________________________________________________ 40
Pier re shale:Shale,blue _.._______________.._____.______..___._.__.______ 45
6-50-23aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,358 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sand, and gravel_______________________________________ 40Clay, sandy, brown _.___.__________..___._.______._____-___-_ 40
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown and yellow _.______-______-____--_---___----_-_-_ 40
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green____________._____________--_--_____..-_--------_- 20
Pierre shale:Shale, blue ...__._________________________----- ---- 45
6-50-24aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,324 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel___________..___________._______.___-__---_-- 50Clay, sandy___-_________-_________-_-____-------__--__--__--. 60
White River(?) group:Clay, yellow ______-__________________-__-_---__---------_-_- 48
Pierre shale:Shale, blue.__--______--_________.____--_------------------_- 42
6-50-25baa
[Surface altitude, 4,316 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel, large--__--------_-----------_-_-------_-------_---- 60
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown __-_--___-___--___-___---_-__---_---__---_---_-_ 40
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green_________________________________________________ 30
Pierre shale:Shale, blue .__-.._-..__.........._-..--.---_---..---_---_--_ 55
BASIC DATA 217
Table 28. Drillers' lo.qs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-50-27baa
[Surface altitude, 4,361 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy.._-___.___-____________..._..__._.._.____.___... 20 20
Brule( ?) formation:Clay, yellow._______________________________________________ 65 85
Chadron(?) formation:Shale, green---_---__-----------__----____________________-- 10 95
Pierre shale:Shale, blue.__---_-______.._.____.._._._.__..__.__._...___._ 85 180
6-50-27c
[Test hole]
Soil..__._____..__________..______________ 2 2Ogallala formation:
Caliche......_.._.__._____..__..__-_.___...__..._...___.._.- 13 15Gravel........._______.___...__-_._._____.__..._..____.-__. 20 35
Pierre(?) shale:Shale, yellow.._____.._______._.__._______... - 45 80 Shale, blue.-....--..-.-.-------_--------.--_--__-------.---- 140 220
6-50-30cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,496 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy, brown.....--__----_---------------_------- -- 100 100
Chadron( ?) formation:Clay, green.-...-------------------------------------------- 30 130Clay, yellow--..-------------------------------------------- 20 150
Pierre shale:Shale, blue ..___.__..______________.____----- 40 190
6-50-31a
[Test hole]
Sanborn(?) formation:Soil.._________.___________-.____-___ - 15 15
Ogallala formation:Sand and yellow clay_..______....________..____-__.___. --- 120 135
Chadron(?) formation:Shale, yellow ________----- -------- . 50 185Quicksand and clay __--__.---_-_----__----------------------- 15 200
Pierre(?) shale:Shale, hard,__------______- ___ - - - 200
6-50-31baa
[Surface altitude, 4,485 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay, sand, and gravel___-_----_---_---_-----_--------------- 80 80
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown and yellow -_-------_-----_---------------------- 40 120
655012 O - 63 - 15
218 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
6-50 -Slbaa Continued
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green_________________________________________________ 10
Pierre shale:Shale, blue ----._.__._____._______.._________________________ 55
6-50-31cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,450 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Clay and sand_______________________________________________ 80
Brule(?) formation:Clay, yellow and brown ______________________________________ 10
Chadron( ?) formation:Clay, green---______________________________________________ 20
Pierre shale:Shale, blue._-_---------_-.__________________________________ 75
6-50-32abb
[Surface altitude, 4,524 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand ________________________________________________________ 30Clay, brown.________________________________________________ 50
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown and yellow_ ______________________________________ 40
Chadron( ?) formation:Clay, green_________________________________________________ 50
Pierre shale:Shale, blue _________________________________________________ 35
6-50-33abb
[Surface altitude, 4,414 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 50
White River(?) group:Clay, yellow--------_--_________________________.___________ 40
Pierre shale:Shale, blue._________________________________________________ 90
6-50-34baa
[Surface altitude, 4,377 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, and clay________________________________________ 40
Brule(?) formation:Clay, yellow ________________________________________________ 40
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green...-_._.__............._...._____________________ 10
Pierre shale:Shale, blue._________________________________________________ 95
BASIC DATA
Toble 28. Drillers' lo.qs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
219
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-50-35baa
[Surface altitude, 4,346 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sandstone ___________________________________________________ 40 40
White River(?) group:Clay, yellow................................................. 35 75
Pierre shale:Shale, blue.------.-...---.-...-.....-......-..--..---.-.--.. 105___ 180
6-51-3b
[Test hole]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Soil __________________________________.....---.-------_----. 1.5 1.5Sand and clay.-------------------------.._-.-----------.----- 8.5 10Clay..-.---.--..................-....-..-..-.--..--.-------- 40 50Gravel .........._._..___...._.....__.............__.-_-..._ 25 75
Pierre(?) shale:Shale...................__.....__.........____..__... 187___ 262
6-31-3c
[Test hole]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Soil-..-....____..__---------------------- 2 2Loam, sandy---._..-----__.---__---_--_--------.------------ 8 10Clay.--------...---..-_.---..----.-------------------------- 50 60Gravel .__........__...._..____..__-----__-------- . 20 80
Pierre(?) shale:Shale...____..__...__.....__.__.__..-.--.--- --.. 160 240
6-51-4d
[Test hole]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Soil-----------.-.-------.--------------------.------------- 1.5 1.5Sand and clay....__...____.______-._.____-----.---.-_-------- 8.5 10Clay-----------.---..--.-----__---------..-. ----- - 40 50Gravel .........__.__.__..__-....__-----__------ . 30 80
Pierre(?) shale:Shale...__.............__..____.__----- ----- - 145 225
6-51-24add
[Surface altitude, 4,445 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay, brown.----......---...----------.-__....--._.------.. 10 10Sand and gravel ____..______.______._________._---_---------- 50 60
Brule(?) formation:Clay, yellow......__.__.____.....__..--..-. -... 45 105
Chadron(?) formation:Shale, green ..__._..._..___..___-_---__-.-.-.__--.--.-.----. 20 125
Pierre shale:Shale, blue-------------- ----- ---- -- ----- - 55 180
220 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thicknes (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-48-19ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,176 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and brown clay__________________________________________ 50Sand and gravel _____________________________________________ 80
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, brown_________________________________________________ 70
7-48-20aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,204 ft]
Ogallala formation:Limestone __________________________________________________ 10Clay, sandy, brown -__-_------------_--._-_------------------ 50Gravel ___________________________.....__._... ... 120
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, aandy ............................._.------------------ 20
7-48-20ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,164 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel; and clay.------------.-------------------------- 160
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, brown______--------..--___--._------_------------------ 45
7-48-21ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,160 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel __---_-_-----_-.-_---_-_--------------_------ 180
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, sandy, brown --_-------------._--------_--_------------ 20
7-48-29ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,153 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, and clay.--------------------------------------- 60Sand and gravel _-_--__------_--__--------------------------- 100
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, brown-----.----------------.-------------------------- 40
Pierre shale:Shale, blue__..._-___.-.-..-__.__---.--.--.------------------ 25
7-48-32bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,185 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, and clay---------------------------------------- 160
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green -----.--.--------.----.----------- --------------- 45
50130
200
1060
180
200
160
205
180
200
60160
200
225
160
205
BASIC DATA 221
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-48-33aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,145 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy, brown---_-----------------_--_--_---------._---- 60 60Sand and gravel....__________________________________________ 80 140
Chadron( ?) formation:Clay, sandy.------------------------------------------------- 60 | 200
7-49-7d
[Test hole]
Soil ---------___------__..__.-__---.__-----__------- 5Ogallala formation:
Sand and clay-----..----------------------------------------- 65 70Sand.------------------------------------------------------- 20 90Gravel..--------__------_---------------------------_------- 10 100Clay.------------------------------------------------------- 50 150
Brule(?) formation:Shale--...__-----__-------------__--------------__...--I 30 | 180
7-49-13ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,243 ft]
Ogallala formation:Limestone and clay.------------------------------------------ 40 40Sand and gravel..__..__..__..--____--------- ------ 130 170
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, brown--.-.----.__..____.__..-.__----- --- -| 35 | 205
7-49-25aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,194 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel..__------__.____----------------__.--. 120 | 120
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy, brown.-----------------.------------------------ 40 160Clay, brown and yellow--------------------------------------- 40 200
7-49-28d
[Test hole]
Soil ______________..__.__..---__---------- -- 6Ogallala formation:
Sand and clay.--.-------------------------------------------- 19 25Clay.__._____-.____-----__.. -------- -. - 35 60
White River(?) group:Shale.--.--.------------------------------------------------! 90 1 150
222 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-49-36ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,216 ft]
Ogallala formation: Sand and gravel ______Clay, brown and white
White River(?) group: Clay, brown and green.
9030
85
90120
205
7-50-labb
[Surface altitude, 4,337 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel; contains streaks of clay _______-_-___----_--__ 140
Brule( ? ) formation :Clay, sandy. ________________________________________________ 40Clay, sandy, brown, green clay _ ... _____-------..---_------..--- 20
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green _-_---__..---_-______-___.----..------------------ 65
7 -50 -2 abb
[Surface altitude, 4,351 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel___-___-__.___ _____-____-__-_-----__-_-----_- 100Sand and clay----------_--____-_- _._-_-_--------------_----- 60
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy, brown _.______...._.__..__________--___----___-- 65Sandstone, hard...... ---.-._.._._.___---._--_..-.--.-_-.._-- 5Clay, brown, sandy _____ ___....__-_...___._____-____--_------ 35
7-50-2d
[Test hole]
Soil __..__-_-_-.__._._--____.__..___.__...___--____-_..---_ 5Ogallala formation:
Sand and clay. ------_-----___.---____-_---_-----.----------- 20Gravel ._--_------._..-----____---____---..------------------- 10Clay. ..___. ___ . __ .. __ __ __ ... __ ..... __ -.---.- __ ... 90
White River(?) group:Shale..... __ -------...... __ __ . __ .---. __ ------ __ --_- 60
7-50-3bab
[Surface altitude, 4,361 ft]
^gallala formation:Sand and gravel--------------.-----.------------------------- 180
White River(?) group:Sand and clay-_-_--------------__--------------------------- 20Clay, sandy. -__._-_.._______.____-__-_--_--_---------_------ 65
140
180200
265
100160
225230265
2535
125
185
180
200265
BASIC DATA 223
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-50-4baa
[Surface altitude, 4,406 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel---..---.____________________________________ 110 110
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy-----.-..-------.--------------.----.------------ 140 250
7-50-5baa
[Surface altitude, 4,441 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel...._.._..._.._.___.__.__._.._.__._._.._._.._ 110 110
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown and white _______________________________________ 50 160
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green, and hard sandstone______________________________ 100 260
7-50-6cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,472 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel; contains streaks of clay-______--__---_------- 120 120
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown.____...____________________._____... 155 275
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, brown, and sandy green shale __-_-.-_.---_-..--.--_----- 30 305
7-50-7aba
[Surface altitude, 4,456 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel______--_.--__--.------_--_--__-----_.------- 120 120
White River(?) group:Rock, hard ledges; contains streaks of clay-.---------..-_----- 95 215Clay, brown..--------.-------------.-------.--------------- 45 260
7-50-7cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,462 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.----.--------------------------------------- 80 80
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy.__--------____------------------- __ ___ 170' 250
7-50-8baa
[Surface altitude, 4,421 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel______-___-__-___-______--__-__----------_-_- 60 60Gravel.. ________________...__--------------_____.__--_ 30 90Gravel and clay.-.-'---------.------------------------------- 30 120
White River(?) group:Clay, brown.-.-..--..-..------.----------.----------------- 140 260
224 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY. FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-50-9bab
[Surface altitude, 4,414 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel; contains streaks of clay.--.------------------- 120
White River(?) group:Clay, white and brown.__..__.___._.______.______.._._________ 60Clay, brown _________________________________________________ 70
7-50-10abb
[Surface altitude, 4,392 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel -.___-_-..-___-___..______.____..__________._____.,__ 70Sand and gravel; contains streaks of clay.._____________________ 70
White River(?) group:Clay, brown__-_______..__._____________.__._._.____._.___.__ 110
7-50-llbaa
[Surface altitude, 4,390 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel-_----__--__-______._____._-_-_--__----.--__- 170
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy; contains streaks of green clay. __----..--------_---- 80
7-50-12abb
[Surface altitude, 4,338 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River(?) group, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel; contains streaks of sandy clay _._--____--_--.-- 215 Sand and green clay_-_--_-.-_-_--_-___------_--..----__------- 35
7-50-12daa
[Surface altitude, 4,320 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, and clay. ----_---_--_---__---_--------__----__-- 160
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown----------___-__.__________-__--__-_-__----_--___ 60
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green __.___.____...__________.______-_____--_____--_-_ 45
7-50-13baa
[Surface altitude, 4,355 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel _-------___--_----.------_-----__-__----_---- 140
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown---_._.._--_-_-__-___-__-_--_----__-_---.---------- 50
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, brown and green _____-__________----_-___--_----_------ 70
120
180250
70140
250
170
250
215250
160
220
265
140
190
260
Table 28. Drillers'
BASIC DATA
of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
225
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-50-13daa
[Surface altitude, 4,317 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel-------_---_-___---___________________._______ 110
Brule( ?) formation:Clay, sandy._-_____-_______-..___._...__.__.._.__._..___..._. 90
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green _________________________________________________ 50
7-50-14baa
[Surface altitude, 4,360 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel..____________________________________________ 140
White River(?) group:.Clay, sandy._________________________________________________ 110
7-50-15baa
[Surface altitude, 4,382 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel-_____________________________________________ 130
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy.--.---------------_-----------_--___----------.-- 120
7-50-15cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,380 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, and brown clay_______________._-..___-_____-__- 140
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown __------_--___--_-----_--_----_---------------._- 40
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, brown and green.___________-_____-_____-_____--__--__-_ 25
7-50-16baa
[Surface altitude, 4,414 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel..--_---_---_._----___---__--__------_-----_-- 150
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy._--.-_------_--.----_-----_---------_----------_. 100
7-50-16cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,383 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, and clay _,,----.-___---_-----__-_-.---_-_-------- 120
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown _--..----------._-_-----__--------__-----.------- 60
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, brown and green._________--_____--._--__------__----_-- 25
110
200
250
140
250
130
250
140
180
205
150
250
120
180
205
226 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Driller' loss of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-50-l7baa
[Surface altitude, 4,464 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel; contains some clay_-----_-------__----------- 120
Brule(?) formation:Gravel; contains streaks of clay.._..._._...__-__---___-_--___. 60
Chadron(?) formation:Clay; contains streaks of sandstone ___________________________ 70
7-50-l7cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,415 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel _____________________________________________ 100
White River(?) group:Sandstone, hard ----------------_-____--_---------_---------- 10Clay, sandy______.__________________________________________ 90
7-50-l8cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,428 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, and clay___________.____________________________ 100
White River(?) group:Clay, green_________________________________________________ 105
7-50-23baa
[Surface altitude, 4,341 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_----------------------._------------_------- 130
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy.__________-___._______.__.__----.-___._.__._____ 70
7-50-24baa
[Surface altitude, 4,326 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel---_---------_-_________.-__---------_--_---_ 140
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy_.-__.___-_---_______________----._-__-._____-___ 60
7-50-24daa
[Surface altitude, 4,338 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 30Sand, gravel, and clay..-._-_--_________----__---------_--_---_ 110
White River(?) group:Clay, brown and green -----______________------_---_-----_--_ 65
120
180
250
100
110200
100
205
130
200
140
200
30140
205
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
227
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-50-25abb
[Surface altitude, 4,331 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel______-______________________________________ 140
White River(?) groupClay, sandy.______________________________________________
7-50-2 5daa
[Surface altitude, 4,339 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel-.------------.______________________________ 160
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy...._____________________________________________ 40
7-50-26baa
[Surface altitude, 4,360 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River(?) group, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy_________________________________________________ 30Sand and gravel____------_--_________-.______________----_-- 170
7-50-27baa
[Surface altitude, 4,408 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sandstone --__-____-_----_--_--_____----_------___-__--___-_ 45Sand and gravel_--_---_---_---_--___------------_--__----_-- 115
White River(?) group:Sandstone, hard....-_----_-__._._._.--______.__-__._.-----.- 10Clay, sandy._......----.-_......_....-_._....._......------. 30
7-50-27cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,397 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.__.-_-----_-------__--__---_------_-._------ 100Sand, gravel, and clay -----___----------.----_-------.------- 40
White River(?) group:Clay, brown and green.___.-.___._...--._-_-.__...__.__---._- 65
7-50-28baa
[Surface altitude, 4,407 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sand, and gravel.----_.______..----_-_-_-._______----_- 120
White River(?) group:Clay, brown _______---------_--______------------__._------- 30Rock ______________________________________________________ 5Clay, brown and green__....__......__-____.____._._.._----_. 50
140
200
160
200
30200
45160
170200
100140
205
120
150155205
228 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-50-28cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,407 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, and clay...__..__.____..___._____._..__.________ 120
White River(?) group:Clay, brown_-_-.__-___-.___._._.._...___._______.._..___.... 50Sandstone __.-____.____..._..________________.___..__.___.__. 10Sandstone and clay___________________________________________ 10Clay, brown_________________________________________________ 15
7-50-29baa
[Surface altitude, 4,421 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sand, and graveL..____..__..___.._._.___._..._____..___ 100
White River(?) group:Clay, brown_________________________________________________ 70Clay, brown and green _._-___.._____.____.__.____...___._._._ 35
7-50-29cdd
[Surface altitude, 4, 455 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel ___._.....__.______.__.______.__._.__.___.___ 150
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy __.-____.____.___._____._.___.__._.__..._._._.... 50
7-50-30baa
[Surface altitude, 4,451 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sand, and gravel -._..___.__.____.....______._.__.___.._ 120
White River(?) group:Clay, brown.________________________________________________ 10Rock -_--_-.._..-.....__._.______._______.__________________ 10Clay, brown_________________________________________________ 60
7-50-30bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,464 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay, sand, and gravel _______________________________________ 120
White River(?) group:Clay, brown.________________________________________________ 40Clay, brown and green _______________________________________ 45
7-50-30cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,459 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel _---__----_--___--__-__------___-____.__--___ 105
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy _-___-____--___--______._______--_.._._______---_ 95
120
170180190205
100
170205
150
200
120
130140200
120
160205
105
200
BASIC DATA 229Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-50-31bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,485 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel_--_-._--_____--_---_________________________ 80Gravel and clay...__________________________________________ 60
White River(?) group:Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 65
7-50-31cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,470 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sand, and gravel.....__________________________________ 100Gravel and brown clay -----_------------.--------__-_-_--_.-- 60
White River(?) group:Clay, brown; contains streaks of sand ----------_-_---------.-- 45
7-50-33cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,416 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel--.--..--.-.---.---------_--_-----_.-_----_-- 100Clay, sandy_--_-____________-_-._._-_______-__----__-___--_- 80
White River(?) group:Clay, green ----_--------_----..--_------------_-----.------ 40Clay, green and brown.-------. ._...---_.--_-_---_----_--_---- 70
Pierre shale:Shale, blue ________________________________________.. 75
7-50-34cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,397 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River(?) group, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.------------_-------_--_---.---------------- 70Clay, sandy.-_---_--_--._--_--__-__-._--__-._-._-._-----..-- 150
7-50-35aba
[Surface altitude, 4,360 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River(?) group, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy...__._.-__-_.____-._-__.______-___._-_.-__----.- 70Sand and gravel.--....--..---------.--_--.-_.--.---.-.---_.- 20Clay, sandy.-_-.-..-.--.--_---.-...-.--..----._--..--------- 110
7-50-35cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,388 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River(?) group, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel__-.-.--.--..-_.----.-----.--------.--------- 140Clay, sandy.-.--.---_--_---_-_--------------_----._-_------- 80
80140
205
100160
205
100180
220290
365
70220
7090
200
140220
230 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
___ Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-50-36baa
[Surface altitude, 4,336 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sand, and gravel_._____________________________________ 140
White River(?) group:Clay, brown _-_____-___..___.._____.____._____________._..___ 20Clay, brown and green _______________________________________ 45
7-50-36daa
[Surface altitude, 4,324 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand.______________________________________________________ 20Clay, sandy, brown--_-__----__-_____________________________ 120Clay, soft, and yellow clay __--_______-_-_-___--------_------- 60
7-51-13daa
[Surface altitude, 4,449 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay, sand, and gravel. ________________________--_____---_-_- 100
White River(?) group:Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 80Clay, green ___.__----_-_____-__-__---_------_------_------- 25
7-51-24daa
[Surface altitude, 4,435 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel____-________--________-_---__--------------- 120
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy________________________-_--._____------_.------- 50Clay, green -----_---_--___-__-____------------------------- 30
8-48-3aca
[Surface altitude, 4,110 ft]
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Gravel..----.__------------------__----------- _ ___ 175
White River(?) group:Clay--..--__---_--------.-----.-.---____- -- -- 25
8-48-21abb
[Surface altitude, 4,144 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.-.---.-------------------------------------- 147
White River(?) group:Clay..-.-----__-----___________----- --- 53
140
160205
20140200
100
180205
120
170200
175
200
147
200
BASIC DATA 231
Table 28. Prillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-48-24bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,091 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand________-_____.__________....._________________________ 10Clay, sandy...______________________________________________ 70Gravel_____________________________________________________ 80
White River(?) group:Clay. ___________________._-_______________-----__..- 40
8-49-10bb
[Test hole drilled by Mr. Vance, 1920. Surface altitude, 4,233.8 ft]
Top soil---.--.--------------------------------------------- 4Ogallala formation:
Sand and clay _______________-_________-.___-____-__---___--- 21Clay-...----...__-----------__.-____..--.....----..--- 75Gravel ______________.._..-__._----_-..-.------------------ 10Shale(?)____-----------___-------------------- -- - 65Gravel__----_---------------_-_---------------------------- 10
8-50-16ddd
[Domestic and stock well. Surface altitude, 4,361.3 ft]
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand...._---.---.---_-------------------------------- --- 60
White River(?) group:Clay...-.-------------------------------------------------- 116Sand-..._._-._..---------------_------------------ ------ 4
Pierre shale:Shale, blue ____.___.-_-------_----_------------------------- 90Rock, hard, porous ------------------------------------------ 5Shale, blue __-..__-----_------------------------------------ 25Rock, hard, porous.----------------------------------------- 10
8-50-18dda
[Surface altitude, 4,277 ft]
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and clay; contains streaks of gravel .._------_------------ 60
White River(?) group:Clay, brown _____---------_--.---_-----_-----------_---_---- 115Clay, green -.._-___--.__---_---------__-------------------- 30
8-50-19ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,346 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel_----------_-----__---------------------------------- 50Clay, gray.------.------------------------------------------ 20Sand and sandy brown clay..------.----_---_------------------ 40
White River(?) group:Clay, brown _.._._---._---_---_------------------_---------- 90
1080
160
200
25100110175185
60
176180
270275300310
60
175205
5070
110
200
232 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
Table 28. DriJJers' Jogs of test holes, seismograph sJiotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
8-50-29ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,360 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 90
White River(?) group:Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 90Clay, green_________________________________________________ 70
8-51-12dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,176.5 ft]
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel_______________________.___.______..--__------ 175Clay ________-.__..__..____._____- - ---- 53
Pierre shale:Shale._-----_----__---__-_--___.-----------------------_---- 32
8-51-24acc
[Surface altitude, 4,236.0 ft]
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand...._________-.__..--__---. - -- 40 Clay..--..__--..__-...----.------.------------ ... 175
Pierre shale:Shale ____________.._______ ------- - 35
8-51-24bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,196.2 ft]
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand.__.---._________..---_ - 25Clay, sandy.._--_-..-----_--.-._-----_----__---------------- 130Clay.__..__.__..__-.____..__-__ 51 Rock----.-------...-----.-__..-.....-__--.---. .-._.---_ 3Clay.____..--____-.________-- 11
Pierre shale:Shale __-._____________........ - 30
8-51-24cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,200.1 ft]
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand.________..______----- 23Clay-.-----..-.--.---__.--.......__----- - --------- 210
Pierre shale:Shale ..__.___________-.__--____ ---- 27
8-51-25baa
[Surface altitude, 4,317.1 ft]
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel-.__.-----_----__---------------------------- 50Clay, sandy____........ .. - 240
BASIC DATA 233
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells, Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-51 -25caa
[Surface altitude, 4,373.0 ft]
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.._.__.___...___..__.__...__..________..__..__ 80 80Clay, sandy..'.....____.____..__..__.___......._.____..__..._. 90 170Clay..__...__..____.___...__..................... 150 320
8-51-25cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,391.3 ft]
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand.____.___.____..._____________-_-__._________________--- 80 80Clay.------------.___------------_---__-----------------_--- 220 300
8-51-36caa
[Surface altitude, 4,419.3 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel---.--------------____________________________ 105 105Clay, sandy___________________.____..-.____-----__--- 195 300
8-51-36ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,436.9 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel-......--------------------------------------- 120 120Clay, sandy...______.-..-__-----__----------------- -- 130 250Clay-------------..----------------------------------------- 50 300
9-48-3aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,049 ft]
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand.-----------____-------------...--- .. ------- 15 15Gravel....__...__-----__--__----__----------- .-.- 45 60Clay-------------------------------------------------------- 70 130Gravel-.-.---...-...------------------.--------------------- 64 194Chert.....__........____.__..--__-.____-.__------- 3 197Clay, brown.....__..____.__--..__... .. ---- 53 250
9-48-4aaa
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Clay and caliche--------------------------------------------- 40 40Sand and gravel---------------------------------------------- HO 150Clay----..--...--------------__---------------------------- 10 160Sand and gravel--.---.--------------------------------------- 140 300
Brule(?) formation:Clay---------.------.--------------------------------------- 5 305
655012 O - 63 - 16
234 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK
_____Table 28. Drillers' lotjs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
BASIN
Thickness (feet)
9-48-4ccc
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand.______________________________________________________ 60Clay, sandy, and gravel.____________________.________________ 120Sand and gravel.____________________________________________ 80
Brule( ?) formation:Clay______________________________________________________ 40
9-48-7aba
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand_______________________________________________________ 80Clay_______________________________________________________ 40Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 125
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 95
Chadron(?) formation:Clay, green ________________________________________________ 25
________________ 9-48-8cdd __________
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Clay, and caliche; contains streaks of sand ______.----___-.____ 110Sand and gravel-____________________________________________ 160
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 95
9-48-9ccd
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy, and gravel_-___-_____________--_-__.___---__---- 130Sand and gravel_.--________-_________________--_-__-__-_-_-- 110
Brule(?) formation:Clay.______________________________________________________ 60
9-48-10bcc
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and clay______________________________________-_--_-_._ 100Clay and gravel__--___--______________________-_--__-___-___ 60Sandstone and clay __________________________________________ 110
Brule(?) formationClay._____-_--_-_----._____________-__--_--_-__---------. 30
9-48-12ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,105 ft]
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy.________________________________________________ 15Gravel......__________________________ _.. 115Clay__.________..._____________-._______--. 110Gravel.. _------____-_-------____________-___-__-___-------_ 40
Brule(?) formation:Clay._________________________________________________ 20
BASIC DATA
Toble 28. Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
235
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
9-48-15bbc
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel-----_-------------______-__-______._.--__.-- 90 90Clay, sandy, and gravel______________________________________ 60 150Sand and gravel--.-----..__.---_.-_..______________..____.._ 120 270
Brule(?) formation:Clay....________________._________...____.. 30 300
9-48-15ccc
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy, and gravel._____________________________________ 135 135Sand and gravel.-------------------------------------------- 45 180Clay and gravel---....-------------__-----.--...----_-----. 42 222
Brule(?) formation:Clay........-......---------..------.__......---.._..-.-.- 78 300
9-48-16ccc
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..__.._____..._______.. - 240 240
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown....._________________________-.._.. 75 315
9-48-19bba
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy...______..____..___________ 100 100Clay, sandy, and gravel..----__.-._.__-_----_---------------- 90 190Sand and gravel______.___----______---- --- 50 240
Brule(?) formation:Clay.....__.............. .___.__..__-.-. ---- 60 300
9-48-20bab
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel--..-.--------------------------------------- 220 220
Brule(?) formation:Clay, brown..__... 80 300
9-48-23ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,100 ft]
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Gravel.---............----... .--_-.---.--- ----- --- 54 54Clay and gravel_.-_-__--.-----_----------------------------- 96 150Gravel..............--.--...--.--.------------------------- HO 250
Brule(?) formation:Clay___________________________________ 40 300
9-49-laab
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel--------------------------------------------- 12° 120Clay, brown,._______--- 70 190
White River(?) group:Clay, green ------------------------------------------------ 85 275
236 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
9 -4 9 -laab Continued
White River(?) group ContinuedClay, white..________________________...._____. 25 Clay, green .--_-________.___.____.._____-_.._---...__..____ 35
Pierre shale:Shale, gray_-._._.._.........___._......_-.--_-....-....._.- 30
9-49-lbbc
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel._.._.__..__...___._____._--_--_-_.-_________ 30Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 77
White River(?) group:Clay, green ............_.._..__......_._..----__--__...__-_ 121Clay, white.....___._____.__....--------.__-----__.._ 17Clay, yellow ________________________________________________ 5Clay, green ________________________________________________ 5
9-49-2bca
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel. ____-_----_________________________________ 15Clay, brown _______________________________________________ 80
White River(?) group:Clay, green ______.-._______________ ..-__ .-.__-- 72Clay, white___________________________-_-----___--___--__.__ 18Clay, yellow--_________-_____________--__-_-_--_----_-____-_ 5Clay, green ________________________________________________ 55
Pierre shale:Shale, gray--...--.__-.._______-__---_-----------_-__--. 10
9-49-12aab
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..-.____________________________-----__-_.-_- 105Clay, brown __-________.________-_____--__-----_---_-_----__ 145
White River(?) group:Clay, green ________________________________________________ 5
9-49-12cdc
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Clay; contains streaks of sand.___________--------_-_-----_--_ 150Gravel._____________________________-_--__--___--_----_-__- 55Clay, brown _______________________-----___---------__----__ 50
9-49-12ddd
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 60Gravel and sandy clay _______________________________________ 115Clay, sandy-________--__--_-___----_-------__--------_------ 75
BASIC DATA 237
Tnhle 28. Drillers' Ions of test boles, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
9-49-l4bba
Dune sand:Sand....................................................... 40
Ogallala formation:Gravel.-..............._.......__............_..._..-_.-... 107Clay, brown ._....___.__________.______._._.._..._._._._.... 23
White River(?) group:Clay, green ________.__.__._.___._._..._.__________.____..__ 30Clay, brown ______.-.__.____..._._._...____-___--__-.__._._. 40Clay, green ..-...-_...__.......-..._...-..-.--..__-..__..-. 75
9-49-20caa
Dune sand:Sand.---.--.....................___.......-.----..--.-.-..- 45
Ogallala formation:Clay.__...._______._____...___.__________. 45 Gravel--------------.----.---.----....---..--..--.---.----- 150
White River(?) group:Clay__....._____....__.__.....__..__.....__..__ 60
9-49-23bba
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel; contains streaks of clay __________-_-___---_-_ 205Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 60
White River(?) group:Clay, green ...._..-______..__--.__.___.._._.-____.__-___-.- 5
9-49-23ddc
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel; contains streaks of clay---------------------- 245
White River(?) group:Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 55
9-49-24bba
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.._.............__..-....----__---.-....---.- 200
White River(?) group:Clay__.....__..___...____..____.._______------ 50
9-49-25aba
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel; contains streaks of clay -.----_-------------.- 210
White River(?) group:Clay...._____-.__-.-._____--.___-.____-.______ 30Sandstone _-__.__-..._______..-______.___--------__--_----_- 17Sand and gravel......----------_-.----__-------------_------ 48Clay, brown __--__--_.__________________--_--------.__----_- 10
9-49-25ddc
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand; contains streaks of clay __.----_-_-_-------------------- 60Caliche..______.._____.__-----__-__------ ------ 30Clay-_______-.__..._____-.____________- 225
40
147170
200240315
45
90240
300
205265
270
245
300
200
250
210
240257305315
6090
315
238 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, ana wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
9-49-29dbb
[Surface altitude, 4,225 ft]
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Gravel..................................................... 65Clay......__....__.....____...............---.--__... 75Gravel..---__________............___......._.____-_____..._ 100
White River(?) group:Clay...--- ..__..__..__.............__......___... 60
9-49-33aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,237 ft]
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand_______________________________________________________ 44Clay, sandy.________________________________________________ 54Gravel_____________________________________________________ 72Clay--.--.--.-.............._......._........_.-_.----..... 30
9-49-35aaa
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferantiated:Gravel and sandy clay ___--_-____-______-_.___-____-_-_-____- 100Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 90Clay__...____..__...__.._____..._____.-__-_... 60
9-50-35bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,185 ft]
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand..-----..--.._._......_..._...._.........-.--.-.---.-Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 212
White River(?) group:Clay, green ________________________________________________ 40Clay, yellow.......__.___..____.___-___._._-.------_-------. 40
10-48-30ccc
Dune sand:Sand....___________________________________________________ 40
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 75Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 25
White River(?) group:Clay, green ________________________________________________ 20Clay, white-..--...__.......-_...__-....__.-.-_----__--_---_ 30Clay, pink__._______________________________________________ 50Clay, green ----_____-_______________..______-___--------_-- 30Sandstone, brown ____-._______._.___________-__._----__-._-- 2
Pierre shale:Shale, gray--.--....._______________________________________ 93
BASIC DATA 239
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10-48-31cdd
Dune sand:Sand........_._........_..._...._......_..__......_........ 90
Ogallala formation:Gravel.__--____._.-.____...___._____...____.____.__.....___ 90 Clay, brown __________________________________________________ 80
White River(?) group:Clay, green -_----_-----.-----------_-------._-------------- 70Clay, hard, white.....-__-----.-__.__-.-__--___----_._------- 35
10-48-32cbb
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..------------------------------------------- 100Clay, brown _____._______..____..__.___.._________._._____._ 145
White River(?) group:Clay, green ..........._...___......._................_...._ | 120
10-48-32ddd
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel...____.._._...__.._.---...._..-__.._....-_.- 200 Clay--..--...____..__...____.-__-.________.-. 100
10-49-26cdd
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand.........._...._..........._.._..._._..__._.-.._...--.. 80Sand and gravel------.-.---------------------------.-------- 203
Pierre shale:Shale, gray-..-------.-----..---.-___.--.--.----_.---------- 17
10-49-27dad
Dune sand:Sand......................----_..-.----_..-._---------.---. 140
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel--.----------------------.------------------- 90
White River(?) group:Clay, white-__--_--._..------__-__-__------------------------ 5
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow____.----___-__----.---------.---_-_---___------ 5Shale, gray...-------.---------.-------...-----__--_.------- 15
10-49-35abc
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand--------.---.---.-------------.------------------.----- 110Sand and gravel.-----------_---_-----------._--------------- 193
Pierre shale:Shale, gray.-...-..___....-.._.....-_--.....---.---._.--_-- I 22
10-49-35bbc
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand-.--.------.------------.__------.--.----------------- i 200
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy, green -_-----__-----_------------------_-------- I 50
Pierre(?) shale:Shale, purple .----------.--------_-------------------------- I 50
90
180260
330365
100245
365
200300
80283
300
140
230
235
240255
110303
325
200
250
300
240 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' loss of test holes, seismograph shotnoles, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
10-49-35ccc
Dune sand:Sand..--.---.-..-.--.-........................-.--........ 37
Ogallala formation:Clay, brown ._.._...._...__..__.___...________..________.._ 83
White River(?) group:Clay, green ________________________________________________ 40Clay, white..........._____________________________________ 25Clay, pink.....-.._.__----_........_.._____________________ 15Clay, green _______________________________________________ 40
Pierre shale:Shale, gray________________________________________________ 125
10-49-36aba
Dune sand:Sand____--_-._____________________________________________ 75
Ogallala formation:Clay, brown ---__-_-__-____________._.-___-______-_--______ 85
White River(?) group:Clay, green _______________________________________________ 35Clay, white..._r_- -----_---_----_--------------------_-_._. 30Clay, green _______________________________________________ 55
Pierre shale:Shale, gray ________________________________________________ 85
10-49-36ada
Dune sand:Sand----..____________________-.____.--.-------.---_---- 78
Ogallala formation:Clay, brown _______________________________________________ 92
White River(?) group:Clay, green ----_-__-.-__________________-_______-_-__-_-__ 60Clay, white________________________________________________ 35
Pierre shale:Shale, gray________________________________________________ 100
10-49-36bcc
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand.-..__________________________________________________ 160
White River(?) group:Clay, green and brown._____________________________________ 140
10-49-36ccc
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..._________________________________________ 120Clay, brown __..________-___--__.-__._..___-________-_____-_ 50
White River(?) group:Clay, green -_---------_-__-__-_--__-__.___-----_----___-__ 75Clay, white________________________________________________ 35Clay, pink----.....________________________________________ 10Clay, green _______________________________________________ 35
Pierre shale:Shale, gray-___._-..__..__________.______-__.__-__---_____. 40
BASIC DATA
^~_Dr'"e.rs> 'Ofls °f test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
PHILLIPS COUNTY, COLO.
241
Thicknes (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-46-3bcc
[Surface altitude, 3,915 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 180
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow________________________________________________ 15Clay, blue.____...__....______.....__.__.__.... 15
6-46-4dcc
[Surface altitude, 3,927 ft]
Soil ....................................................... 7Ogallala formation:
Gravel; contains streaks of clay ______________________________ 200Clay; contains ledges of rock.--_----_------_----------.-----_ 21
Pierre shale:Shale.....__..__________.._____..__..____... 12
6-46-l7ccc
[Surface altitude, 3,961 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel and sandstone---...----------------------.-.--------- 300
Pierre shale:Shale--...__----..___..__-----__--------__----------- 35
6-46-26aaa
[Surface altitude, 3,856 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel._.--__--------_-------_------_------_---..-- 300
Pierre shale:Shale __..__.______-__.____.__-._______... 35
6-47-12abb
[Surface altitude, 4,000 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel and clay..-.-__---.---------------------------------- 275
Pierre shale:Shale, blue __-...__.-__..__------ . - 10
7-43-4bcc
[Surface altitude, 3,656 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay and caliche.-_---__---_------.-_----.-.---------------- 20Sand and gravel--.---_---._-----_--------------------------- 65Clay and caliche--___-_-__----------------___--_---_-------- 75
180
195210
207228
240
300
335
300
335
275
285
2085
160
242 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
_____Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shothotes, and wells Continued
Thickness- (feet)
Depth (feet)
7 -43 -4bcc Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand and gravel _____________________________________________ 80 240Conglomerate-_------_---____-________---__..____--_-______-- 4 244
Pier re shale:Clay, yello.w_---___---____-.________.._.____._.._______.._._ 11 255
7-43-13bbc
[Test hole drilled by Ben Hasz. Surface altitude, 3,623 ft]
Topsoil _____________________________________________________ 14 14Ogallala formation:
Sand and gravel____----_-______________-----____-_-----._--_ 17 31Clay, sandy; contains streaks of gravel..------------.--------- 55 86Sand and gravel____-____________________-_______--------.__- 6 92Clay, sandy_________________________________________________ 29 121Sand and gravel.._______________________-_______--_---__._-- 36 157Clay, sandy; contains some chalk _____________________________ 12 169Sand and gravel____--_-_________________---______-------___- 122 291
Pierre shale:Shale, yellow-blue __________________________________________ 9 300
7-43-18abb
[Irrigation well drilled by Arthur Haggard, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,674.5ft]
Soil --.-_-_---____--__________________-_-____-_---------.-- 5 5Ogallala formation:
Sand, silty, and gravel_______________________________________ 50 55Sand, gravel, clay, and caliche _______________________________ 36 91Sand and gravel...._________________________________________ 49 140Clay--.--------_..-__-..__.._-..__-----__---_----_---_--__- 2 142Clay; interbedded with sand and gravel ___---__-____-__--_----- 21 163Sand_______________________________________________________ 2 165Sand and gravel____---______.___________--____-_----_-_----- 18 183Sand and gravel; hard _______________________________________ 9 192Sand, silty, hard ____________________________________________ 10 202Sand,fair_-______________._.__.________-________-_--__--_-- 5 207Sand and gravel...._-__________________---_---_-_----.--.--- 28 235
7-43-33acd
[Irrigation well drilled by L. L. Canfield, 1941. Surface altitude, 3,636.8 ft]
Soil ___________________________________--__--_------_---_- 5 5Ogallala formation:
Clay......__-----_________________---- ----- 12 17Clay and sand .............................................. 13 30Clay----.----..-__------__-----__.____-----____--- 10 40Sand and gravel._--_-_------_--_----___----_-_--_----------- 10 50Caliche and clay--.__-------.---------_---------_----------- 10 60Sandstone and clay ____---___.----__------_------------_-_.-- 15 75Gravel___--.________________-_-._____-_-__---__----------- 11 86Sandstone ---------.--------_.------------_---_------------- 2 88Gravel, fine ________________________________________________ 2 90Sandstone--_---_--_-__-----_---------_-_----_-------------- 7 97
BASIC DATA 243
Table 28. Drillers' loss of test holes, seismograph shothoies, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7 -4 3 -33acd Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSandstone and clay__..._____....____________________________ 10 107Gravel ____________________________________________________ 3 110Caliche, clay, and sandstone _________________________________ 32 142Gravel ____________________________________________________ 10 152Sandstone ---___-----___-__-_____-__________________________ 6 158Gravel ____________________________________________________ 14 172Sandstone _--___-__--__----______________________,______..___ 2 174Gravel ____________________________________________________ 18 192Sandstone, caliche, and clay__________________________________ 10 202Gravel -----.-------__-----_____-__________________________ 3 205Caliche, clay, and soapstone _________________________________ 9 214Gravel ____________________________________________________ 26 240
7-44-2ccd
[Irrigation well drilled by Ellithorpe and Putman, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,711.9 ft]
Topsoil____________________________________________________ 6 6Ogallala formation:
Sand ______________________________________________________ 2 8Sand and clay.------___-_---___----_____-_____---___________ 6 14Clay, sandy; contains caliche___-----______-____ ______________ 10 24Clay, hard to soft._________-____.___________________________ 11 35Sand, fine, to coarse gravel_______.__________________________ 27 62Clay, sandy ________________________________________________ 12 74Clay, sandy, compact...... ___________________________________ 4 78Clay, sandy______....______________________..__....._______ 6 84Sand, fine, to coarse gravel,loose_____________________________ 12 96Clay, sandy; contains gravel -_-------_--___-----------_---__- 15 111Sand, fine,to coarse gravel,loose__ ___________________________ 9 120Clay, sandy________________________________________________ 12 132Sand, fine,to coarse gravel -___--_--______-____-_-_____--____ 20 152Clay, firm, brown _-__--_---__-----_____--____---_____--___. 9 161Gravel and clay.--_-----_-_---___-_---_-_-__------_--_--_--_ 4 165Sand, fine, to coarse gravel__________________________________ 23 188Clay_______________________________________________________ 2 190Sand, fine, to coarse gravel,loose---_____--____-_-___--______ 18 208
7-44-7aca
[Irrigation well drilled by Arthur Haggard, 1953]
Topsoil-___-_--__________-_____-_--______-____--___-_---__- 2 2Ogallala formation:
Clay; contains layers of caliche --__-----_----_--------------_ 24 26Gravel; contains some clay ____--_---_-_---____----_-_-_--___ 3 29Clay......___________.____----.____-.___--.____ 16 45Caliche, hard ______________________________________________ 1 46Clay.___________________________________________ 2 48Caliche, hard ___-_-__-_---___-----_-_----_-----___-----.--_ 1 49Clay______________________________...___________ 3 52Caliche, hard ___-____-----___-_---__--__-___---_-----_---.- 1 53Clay_______________________________.-_-____-.-_- 14 67Caliche, hard ___---___----___---____----___----------__-_-- 7 74Clay_____.____---__.___.______-.____----_-.__-___-. 10 84
244 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
7 -44 -7aca Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedGravel and clay.________________Sand, fine, to coarse gravel,loose. Clay, sandy.____________________Sand, fine, to coarse gravel,loose , Caliche --___-__________-_______
4222
628
2
7_44_7ddd
[Municipal well at Holyoke, dug by Kelly Well Co. Inc., 1921]
Ogallala formation:(No sample) _________________________________________________ 135Clay and gravel__-______._______________-_.___._.______----. 6Sand and gravel------___--_-___-_-_____---_-----_-_-_------- 15Clay________-----______--_-___.._______--.______-.- 12Gravel_--_----_-.._____--_____________-------__---__------. 3Clay.____-.__--._-__-__________________----------- .5Gravel-----------.----.-.------------_-------------_------- 51
7-44-17bcc
[Municipal well at Holyoke, dug by Kelly Well Co. Inc., 1949]
Soil ---------___________________________---------------- 4Ogallala formation:
Sand; contains fragments of caliche--------------------------- 68Clay, sandy; contains fragments of caliche..------------------- 15Clay, sandy, and gravel..____________________________________ 10Sand and gravel._-_..__..__..__...._.____-___-_-__.___--_--- 15Shale and graveK ?) _._..-._.___...______--___._.__._...--..- 10Clay, sandy, and gravel..-------.---------------------------- 15Clay, sandy, and shale(?)___-________-___---_--___--__------- 10Gravel, coarse, and clay----.---------__--------------------- 47Clay, sandy, and gravel.------------------------------------- 18Clay and gravel..------------------------------------------- 51.5
7-44-24a
[Test hole drilled by Ben Hasz, 1953]
TopsoiK?).__--------__-.__----- - ----- --- --- 19Ogallala formation:
Sand and gravel---.--._----.-----.-------------------------- 25Sand... .. ... -- - 12Sand and gravel; contains streaks of brown sand ..---__.-------- 7Sand, brown; contains streaks of gravel.----------------------- 24Sand and gravel-___-__-_-_-_---_----_----------------------- 14Clay, sandy; contains streaks of gravel _..._.---_----_--------- 27Sand and gravel; contains streaks of clay _.-_--_--------------- 11Sand and gravel--------------------------------------------- 1°2Clay; contains gravel...----_.---..---_---------------------- 9Sand and gravel___---__---_--------------------------------- 57
Pier re shale:Shale, yellow and blue...---__--_---.------------------------- 12
BASIC DATA 245
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-45-2ddc
[Test hole drilled in 1952]
Topsail--..........._._..._._............._.._....._..__-.. 8 8Ogallala formation:
Gravel _._..._______._______..___._______.._...____.._____. 4 12Clay, buff....__.__..__..___________..__.....__ 26 38Clay, buff; contains layers of caliche._________________________ 15 53Gravel ____________________________________________________ 7 60Clay; contains thin layers of caliche .--.-.-_---.______---__--. 20 80Gravel -----_---.___---------_.._--_-------_--__-___-__-_-- 6 ' 86Clay; contains layers of caliche ______________________________ 8 94Gravel ___.._____________________________ 4 98Gravel, cemented, hard ----_---_--__-__------_,_-----_-_---- 2 100Clay; contains layers of caliche ._______________________-_---- 51 151Sand, fine,to fine gravel;contains some clay.-_-_____---_._---- 11 162Clay; contains hard layers.____________________________________ 2 164Clay and sandstone; contains hard layers and streaks of gravel _. 30 194Sand, fine, sandstone, and hard clay ___________________________ 10 204Clay, green_----_______--___---_____________________-__._. 23 227
7-46-21bcb
[Surface altitude, 3,934 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy_-__-__________----__________-__--___-__--__-_-- 55 55Sand and gravel -__...__---_.--____________._______-_--_---- 90 145
Pierre shale:Clay, gray--__-___-__------__------_---__--._.__-__-_-.---- 20 165Clay, blue _____________________________________________... 15 180
7-46-22bdd
[Surface altitude, 3,913 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel and sandstone-_-__--.__-____-______.-_-__.-__--___--. 165 165
Pierre shale:Clay... -------_________-----_____________ 35 200Shale, blue_________________________________ 10 210
7-46-25bbd
[Surface altitude, 3,909 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group,undifferentiated:Clay._____________________________________ 35 35Gravel ___.___--________-___-__-_._.____.--._----__---- 35 70Clay; contains ledges of rock _-___-____-_-___-.__-__-____-__- 115 185
Pierre shale:Shale, blue._______________________________.__.......____ 5 190
246 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
______Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-46-29bbc
[Surface altitude, 3,960 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel...._________.__...._____.____.____.__________.._____ 175
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow._______________________________________________ 15Shale, blue _________________________________________________ 5
7-46-29ccc
[Surface altitude, 3,956 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel.......____.__.____.__.____._.._._____._..__.._.__._ 125Gravel; contains streaks of clay -----_---_--------_---._-_---. 65
Pierre shale:Shale, blue ...______________________________________------ 5
7-46-29daa
[Surface altitude, 3,936 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel.....---...,.---------..-_-----__.__....___..__.._._ 157
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow---_-_--.-_--__..-..___-..__.-__-.___---.___---_ 8
7-46-3lddd
Ogallala formation:Clay and gravel--_--__----______.___-_-__-----------_-___-__ 120Gravel_._-___._...__.____.___..__..___.._.___._.__..______. 45
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow, and gravel_____________________________________ 15
7-46-33aaa
[Surface altitude, 3,924 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Clay; contains streaks of gravel ______________________________ 68Gravel.. ___________________________________________________ 57
Pierre shale:Clay. _______tf ___________________________-.-._____ 20Shale ..._._.--......._______________________------__--_. 15
7-46-33dcc
[Surface altitude, 3,922 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay and gravel....-_-_________-______--_-__-_-__-_-____-__- 120
' Gravel.. ___________________________________________________ 45Pierre shale:
Clay, yellow.-..---..._--__._....__.__-..__-_-..--_-..-__-._ 17 Shale, blue _______________________----__--_-.--.---__-.-._ 13
175
190195
125190
195
157
165
120165
180
68125
145160
120165
182195
BASIC DATA 247
Table 28. Drillers' Jofls of test holes, seismoflroph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-46-33ddd
[Surface altitude, 3,912 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated: Gravel ______________________________________________Gravel; contains streaks of clay ______________________
Pierre shale:
Shale
45110
17
45155
172180
7-46-35aac
[Surface altitude, 3,884 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel; contains streaks of clay ______________________________ 60 60Gravel..___________________________________________________ 120 180
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow____....-_------------------_---_----__----------- 10 190Shale, blue..________.._____._____.__________ 5 195
7-47-5
[Test hole]
Loam, black________________________________________________ 1.5 1.5Ogallala formation:
Caliche. __.____-_._________________._____ _._ 70.5 72Sand..-......_._____-----_--------__--_--_----__---_------- 100 172Rock, hard ..._--_--__-----_-_----_-----.-____---._-------- 6 178Clay, red _____._________._________-_-____ _ 12 190
Pierre shale: .Shale, yellow (water-bearing)-..------.-----.-------.--------- 100 290Shale, blue ___________________.._________-- 116 406Mud, black _____-----_______-__..__----- - 70 476Clay, flaky...___.________-----_______----- - 74 550
8-43-4ccc
[Surface altitude, 3,682 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy...___.__.-.-..__...___..__ ----- - 30 30Sand and gravel___-___-_--------_---------_----------------- 130 160Caliche _______________-___ .-__--- - --- 85 245Sand; contains streaks of clay _____--________------_---------- 48 293Bentonite _.____._________.______--- 39 332
Pierre shale:Shale, blue ------____-- --__ 43 375
8-43-l7ccb
[Surface altitude, 3,690 ft]
Soil __________.___--_----__- ------_---------- ---- 10 IPOgallala formation:
Sand and gravel-..--.--------------------------------------- 70Caliche, hard_------------------------------ T --------------- 10 90Clay; contains streaks of clay.--------.---------------------- 150 240Bentonite _______ -- - -- - - 15 255
248 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
8-43-18abd
[Well drilled 1951. Surface altitude, 3,690.8 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel--..-...----__--__--___-___-------_-----_---- 40Sand and clay__-__._.__._-.__.....____________--___--------_ 10Clay, red _--_----_--____..__________._.____.._.._--__--.._ 20Clay and caliche _____________________________________________ 15Sand, red, and rock; contains thin strips of clay .--_-_---------_ 10Gravel; contains thin strips of clay.___________________________ 5Gravel; coarse _____________________________________________ 10Clay; contains strips of gravel _______________________________ 30Gravel, coarse______________________________________________ 10Caliche _---____._____________.___________________--_-_---_- 7Gravel, coarse._____________________________________________ 8Caliche ____________________________________________________ 8Gravel, coarse.__-______--._____________-_____-_-_--_------_ 3Caliche-----_---__-____---__-__-_--_---_---_----------_---- 6Gravel; contains thin strips of caliche.-----------.------------ 15Sandstone, hard_.._______-__._-___.___---_____-_------_----. 3Gravel and soft shale-...-._____ _____________________-_----- 8Clay, red __________________________________________________ 7Caliche, hard, red _--___-_____-________-___-____-_---------_ 5Sandstone, soft, brown_-_-_--__-______-__-__--___--------_-_- 4Gravel, coarse ____-___.-__-_-___-_-____---_---__.--_------- 2Sandstone, brown _______-______-____.___-__-__-_---_--_----- 14Clay; contains thin strips of caliche_______.__-____-_---------_ 20Clay, green ____________ _____________________-___-----_--- 10Sandstone, hard_________--_-__________-__-___--------_----_- 10Sandstone; contains thin strips of gravel_____________---------- 10Gravel, coarse ___________________________-_____-----------_ 10Gumbo, black.___________--_-_____-----__-_____-----__---___ 5Gravel, coarse, cemented-__-_____--___________-------------- 10
Pierre shale:Shale ----------.-.--.__------__-------------------------- ___5_
8-43-19cba
[Surface altitude, 3,704 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay; contains ledges of caliche ___________________----------- 135Gravel.________-_______---___---_---_---------------------_ 55
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow____-__-_--_-_--_-----_--------------------_---- 62Shale, blue .____________-__ - -- --- 3
8-43-20ccd
[Surface altitude, 3,675 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, and clay; contains streaks of caliche.------------- 210
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.----_--------_--------------------------------- 30Shale, blue ____..______ ---- - - 15
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
249
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-43-29daa
[Surface altitude, 3,669 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.-------_---------------_--_-_---_.--__------ 80Clay, sandy, and gravel..--.-....__-_--_________________--__- 70Sand and gravel......------- --____--_----____---_-__-.-___ 95
Pierre shale:Clay......__...____..._..__.....__........_........_ 10Shale .....___..._..._..._.....___...._..._...___._..__... 5
8-43-29dcc
[Surface altitude, 3,653 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay and caliche-_-_--__-----_--------------_--.---_-_------ 120Sand and gravel._______------_-_-_-_---_---___-___-_---_-_-. 97
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow-_----_-_--------------------------------_-_---- 23Shale, blue _____________________________--. 15
8-43-30abc
[Surface altitude, 3,685 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay; contains streaks of gravel--_-_---_-___---__-----_-_---- 145 Gravel..-.__..____--.--.-_--___----.-._..-___-----__.__ 80
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow-----_---_----_---------------_----_----------_- 3Shale, blue _-.-.--_-_----_----_-------__..--_-_-__--__----- 27
8-43-30cdd
[Surface altitude, 3,680 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay; contains ledges of caliche._.____---------.-_-_----_----- 145Gravel.--._..-.-_.-__------__--.._-_-_--_----__-------.--- 45Conglomerate._.__.___-____--_-_--_-_-_---__-_-__----__----- 5Gravel.......__..___--_-_.-..-_.-------_. ___-_- ... 5
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow_--__-----_-----_------------------------------- 5Shale, blue ____________________...__..-. 50
8-43-30ddd
[Surface altitude, 3,672 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay; contains ledges of caliche.------------.-...------------- 120Gravel___..________-__--__-_-__-_------------__------------ 67Conglomerate ______________________________________________ 3Gravel..___________________..-.___ 29Conglomerate .____________________-______________--_------- 3
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow___-___-__--_--_------------------------------Shale, blue __..__.._______----- ----- - 25
80150245
255260
120217
240255
145225
228255
145190195200
205255
120187190219222
230255
655012 O - 63 - 17
250 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
8-43-31ddd
[Surface altitude, 3,664 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay _ __ _________ 10 Gravel..-----____________..-____.___._____.___..__--_..__.. 227
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow-------_-.__._._--_____-_-_--___-_-.-,.__--__--- 11Shale, blue _________________________________________________ 7
8-43-32ddc
[Surface altitude, 3,664 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay and caliche; contains streaks of sand ..--__-________-.-___ 135Gravel-_.-________-________._____.__._.-____--_______-__._- 102Conglomerate-.-..- _______________-__-----__.-__-----__-- 4Gravel..-------------_--__-____-___----_------_-__--------- 9
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow-------- -_-_____-._..__-__----__ -_____. _._ 5
8-44-4cbb
[Surface altitude, 3,754 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel..-. -----_...__._.__.____..._--------- 100Clay, sandy.____-_.._-_._________._.-._-___-_-_-___-__-_____ 40Gravel....__-._-_.._._.._-___-__-._..._......_-_.....-___-- 50Clay, sandy_________ -_____________.____-____-.-__-__- ___ 58
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow------.---...............--._--_--_--_--------_- 34Shale, blue ____________________________________ 18
8-44-4daa
[Surface altitude, 3,754 ft]
Soil _________ _______ ________ ________ ________ 10 Ogallala formation:
Gravel.---------------.__.-.--.-..-__-----_-----__------_-- 80Clay and caliche; contains streaks of sand _____________________ 90Sand and gravel..... -.__..___.._....-.-__-_.---__-_-___-._ 60
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow._._---____.-.._-______________________________ 15
8-44-4dbc
[Surface altitude, 3,751 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel.---__-------------____..__----- -- .-. --- 65Clay and caliche....--___________________--__-_--_--_----_-_ 115Sand and gravel----.--...._._._._.-___-_--------_----------- 70
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.--__----_-..._........._-------------_--------- 5
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismoaraph shotholes, and wells Continued
251
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-44-7bbb
[Surface altitude, 3,782 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel; contains streaks of caliche-
Pier re sha.le:Clay, yellow_---.-_---_-_-----__-._______
250
5
250
255
8-44-8bcc
[Surface altitude, 3,772 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel--.--.----.....__......Clay; contains ledges of caliche.. Sand..........................
Pierre shale: Clay, yellow.
1204580
10
120165245
255
8-44-9bbb
[Surface altitude, 3,753 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel; contains streaks of clay .---..__-.----------_. 150 150Conglomerate.-_-._....................._.-.__-----------_-- 17 167Sand and gravel.._____________-___________.___-------_.-___- 78 245
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow...___.__________________..______ 10 255
8-44-llbbb
[Test hole drilled in 1952]
Topsoil-_---.-----.---._..-------------...---------.------- 4 4Ogallala formation:
Clay---.-.__..___.__..__-..----------.__ ....-- 14 18Gravel..___...__..__.. -- -- 22 40Clay..___________________________ 6 46Gravel__________________________--- - 14 60Clay..__________________------- - 4 64Gravel_________________________--- - 4 68Clay.____-.__..------_.-.---------___.--.__.____-- 15.5 83.5Clay, hard ________________.. - .5 84Clay, caliche, and gravel; firm ______-__-._____--_------------ 90 174Clay, sandy; contains some gravel-_--------.-.--------------- 116 290Sandstone._________________________ 10 300
8-44-13bcc
[Surface altitude, 3,706 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay and caliche ....--...__...-.----_ - ---- - 45 45Gravel " --- 15 60Clay; contains ledges of caliche.____-_--_.---------_---------- 70 130Gravel.-..------.....----.---..-.-------------------------- 95 225
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow...----------__-- . -- ----- --- 30 255
252 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
'Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
8-44-14ccb
[Surface altitude, 3,734 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay and caliche _____________________________________________ 18Gravel _____________________________________________________ 217
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.________________________________________________ 20
8-44-17daa
[Surface altitude, 3,753 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay._____________________________________... 35Gravel-____--.._-_________-____-______________-------___-_-_ 35Clay.______________________________________ 90Gravel _____________________________________________________ 75
Pierre shale:Clay._____________________________.__... 65
8-44-18cdd
[Surface altitude, 3,764 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel _____________________________________________ 70Clay and caliche__-_-_--_--__--_----__--_-------------------- 90Sand and gravel ___-_____-___-___-_______-_----___-----_----_ 60
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow_.___________-_-_______._______-_----_-_-_-__---. 35
8-44-21aad
[Surface altitude, 3,735 ft]
Soil.____________________________-. ------ 10Ogallala formation:
Gravel --------_--_-----------_---_---------_- -.--_-_.--- 50Clay._______.______________.____._________- 40 Gravel ----_--__-_____--_-_-__-_--____-__--__-_--_---.-----_ 55Conglomerate-___-________._________________--_----__-----._ 7Gravel _---__-____________________________-__--_---_---_---- 16Conglomerate _______________________________________________ 2Gravel --------__--__--__---_---__--___--_-_-----__-_----_-- 55
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow_-_____________________________-_--------__--_-. 20
8-44-2Ibdc
[Surface altitude, 3,745 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy, and gravel ____--_-__--___-_-_--__--------------- 120Sand and gravel ________-___-__----____--_---_---_----_--__-- 60Clay and sandstone._-_--__--__--_----______---__--_----__---- 90Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.________________________________________________ 35Shale..__-.__________________-- -- --- 45
BASIC DATA 253
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-44-22add
[Surface altitude, 3,722 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay; contains streaks of sand__-______------___--_-______-_-. 115 115Gravel.-----.-----------....-..-----........----.....-...-. 80 195
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.......------.....__..._........_..._........... 55 250Shale, blue .___.....__.__._.....,__.....__.....___. 5 255
8-44-22cdd
[Surface altitude, 3,717 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy, and gravel..____________________________________ 130 130Sand and gravel.____________________________________________ 55 185
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow..........................______________________ 55 240Shale ______________________________________________________ 10 250
8-44-22ddd
[Surface altitude, 3,710 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy, and gravel___________-___-_______-__-______-___- 100 100Clay......_____-.--._____---.____.__-----__... 70 170
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow..__________________________...____________ 55 225Shale, blue ...__________________________ .... .... 25 250
8-44-23cda
[Surface altitude, 3,710 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy, and gravel.__.____.--...__. --.. ... 120 120 Sand and gravel---.--.-----.-------------.------------------ 40 160Lime _.___--__._-_-_--______----------_----------_-.__----- 5 165Sandstone ____...._.-_-_-..-._-------------._--------.------ 30 195
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow_______.._____.__.____.. -. - 45 240 Shale.....______.-____________--____--_____- 10 250
8-44-24dab
[Surface altitude, 3,707 ft]
Soil --.___________________---_____--- -_- 8 8Ogallala formation:
Gravel. _________________-----__--.___------ . 52 60Clay...__-.----.__-__.-__-----________--------.- 20 80Conglomerate.______--__-_-_-___------____-__--_---__------- 7 87Gravel. ___________________________________________________ 125 212
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.-.-...____.--.____--____ --- 38 250 Shale, blue -____-__-_-.--------------------------_---------- 5 255
954 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
8-44-25abb
[Surface altitude, 3,703 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay; contains streaks of sand.....____._.__.._..._.__._______ 170Conglomerate.----_--__-_-_-___...._......-........-..._..__ 12Gravel--------_----_--___-____..___..___._._.___.___.... -_ 28
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.....__..----------_________________.___-_..__._ 35Shale, blue _________________________________________________ 10
8-44-25bbb
[Surface altitude, 3,697 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay and caliche ----------_.--__________-_---------_---_---- 20Gravel-.-----------.----------_________-_------------------ 50Clay; contains streaks of sand.....................__---___-__ 145
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow-_------_-------_--_-__---___-_--------___._-__ 25Shale, blue __ ___ ____ ___ ._______ _____1________ 15
8-44-25cdd
[Surface altitude, 3,688 ft]
Soil ___-__________________________-.-. - 3Ogallala formation:
Clay; contains streaks of sand.....________._._-.----_-------- 77Gravel............-.-_.-.-.-__....-..._-----------------.-_ 110
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow...---__-_---._----.-.__.-__--.-----_---------.- 35Shale, blue _________________________.. 30
8-44-26bdd
[Surface altitude, 3,701 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay____ .- .. -------___.. 20Gravel..__--------------- -----__._-----.--.-- ------ 25Clay; contains streaks of sand._.____.______.__-__--_-__---__- 90Gravel____-______-_-_____-_____________--____---_---_------ 65
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow..-..-_------.------_----_--------_------------- 25Shale, blue ________ ____________________ 30
8-44-26ccc
[Surface altitude, 3,709 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay and caliche ___---_-_--_-_-_____--__--_-----_----------- 30Gravel____-__-__--____--__-_______-__-___---_-------------- 35Clay____-------- .-- 65Gravel.---------------------------------------------------- 95
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.----------------------------------------------- 20Shale, blue ________-. __ 10
BASIC DATA 255
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-44-27dbc
[Surface altitude, 3,723 ft]
Ogallala formation:
Gravel........ __..___._.___.. ._ _ ......._.......__._ _ ....Pierre shale:
Shale, blue.. __ ...... __ -...--.._..... __ ..... __ .. __ ....
8-44-28acc
[Surface altitude, 3,733 ft]
Ogallala formation: Clay... ......................_..............................Gravel _____________________________________________________Caliche.... _--__-____--------_---_-__---__________-._----___
Pierre shale:
12585
3015
86220
125
40
125210
240255
87090
215
255
8-44-28cbb
[Surface altitude, 3,747 ft]
Ogallala formation:
Pierre shale:
283433
10538
62
286295
200238
300
8-44-29aab
[Surface altitude, 3,757 ft]
Ogallala formation:
Conglomerate. -____-_----__---_--__________________. _ ------
Sandstone, glauconitic _--------_--_-_--___-__--_____--------__Pierre shale:
10055
59<i20
45
1001551601 on210
255
8-44-29dcd
[Surface altitude, 3,749 ft]
Ogallala formation: Clay... ------___-__-----_-_---________-_--.--_--_-______--_-
Pierre shale:
10705555
65
1080
135190
255
256 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
8-44-31dcc
[Surface altitude, 3,752 ft]
Soil. ...........__..-......._........__...........__-.-. 12Ogallala formation:
Clay and caliche.____________________________________________ 58Gravel________.....___._____._.__....._..._.___.._______.._ 120
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow __._____._._.__..._._____.____.._.__._...___.._. 60 Shale, blue------------.--.--.-.---.-.-----.--.--..--.-.-.-.- 55
8-44-32cbb
[Surface altitude, 3,755 ft]
Soil______._______________.______________ 6Ogallala formation:
Sand and gravel___-___-_._____________.____-_-_-----_-___-__ 144Conglomerate _______________________________________________ 3Gravel ___________________________--__--_-------_-_---.---- 17
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow________________________________________________ 60Shale, gray-_---_---__._____.._.____________________________ 25
8-44-32dad
[Surface altitude, 3,740 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay and caliche; contains streaks of gravel____________________ 140Gravel._____--___--_________________-____ -----_--------_- 80
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow______-____________________________--_____-_____ 25Shale, blue--.-----.___._--__--.___------_----_-------_----- 10
8-44-32dcc
[Surface altitude, 3,732 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay _______________________________________________________ 12Gravel----__--_____--_-_____________-_--------_---_----_--- 58Clay; contains ledges of caliche.__--.---__------__------------ 45Gravel..----_---__.--_.--.----..------__----------_-------- 105
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow ________________________________________________ 10Shale, blue._---._._---._-.____.__.._-_-----_---_-_--_-----.- 25
8-44-33cdd
[Surface altitude, 3,722 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel----------..__----------___-.----.-.-_------------- 190Clay...__.__-.___._____.___----.__---- 40
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow -----_-_-_--_--_-----_-------_--------------_--- 30Shale, blue.______________________- - -- - 40
BASIC DATA 257Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-44-34abc
[Surface altitude, 3,725 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy, and gravel______________________________________ 110 110Sand and gravel_----------_---___-----__-_-_----_----_---__- 90 200Clay and gravel__-_------__---_..__-----_-------------------- 25 225
Pierre shale:Clay__..__________________________________ 22 247Shale ___________________________..____- 3 250
8-44-34bbc
[Surface altitude, 3,725ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy, and gravel..--.----__-.--_-__--._--_-_---_------ 120 120Sand and gravel---__--__-----------_----_--_---------------- 75 195
Pierre shale:Clay.______________________________________- 40 235Shale _________________________________-------- 15 250
8-44-35aaa
[Surface altitude, 3,698 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay...-__.-._....__..-._---_-_--------------------------- 15 15Gravel____________-------------- 25 40Clay; contains streaks of sand__-_--__-_.__--------__----.---- 85 125Gravel..---.-----.-------.----------------------------.---- 65 190
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.--------------_---_--.----.-------------------- 35 225Shale, blue.__..___________________-.-.-__--. 30 255
8-44-35dda
[Surface altitude, 3,692 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay._________-----___________________--- 18 18Gravel..______.i...______________------ 62 80Clay and caliche -__..____________.----.--__ 60 140Gravel._.._._.-___-_-_--._----._------._------------------- 105 245
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow_____--_----------__---_-_--_---_------_------- 10 255
8-45-5cbb
[Surface altitude, 3,865 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy...__.._____---__-._-.--.--.-_.---.---------- 10 10Sand and gravel____________...___---- 220 230 Sandstone ________________-__----- - 10 240
White River(?) group:Clay------__.--.-_-__.-__-----____-..---------_------ 60 300
258 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
______Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph sho tholes, and wells Continued______
Thickness (feet)
8-45-12dda
[Surface altitude, 3,794 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel; contains streaks of clay and caliche.__.__.--.-- 240
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow_--_---.--____..__._____-________________________ 15
8-45-13bbb
[Surface altitude, 3,810 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay and caliche; contains streaks of sand_____________________ 248
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow__-_-__-_.._-_______________________________---_- 7
8-45-13daa
[Surface altitude, 3,786 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy._________________________________________________ 10Gravel....___.-.-_-.__._..__.__._.____.._..__.._____. 110Clay..__________________________________ 80Gravel.. _.-....--_--..._.._..__._.....___........__...._._. 40
Pierre shale:Clay. ___........___________._-... 30Shale, blue __._..___ ..........................^.......... 30
8-45-15bcc
[Surface altitude, 3,839 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay-.--.. -. ---.......__...._____...__________ 8Gravel-----_._-----------.._.__._...-..._._._....__.__---.. 82Clay _. -.-._______________________. 40Gravel..............-._-_-.._.---_..._._..___.._.-.__--___- 138Sandstone __________________________________________________ 15
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.._.__-___-_._..__._..._....__.._.._.__._._.__.. 22 Shale, blue ...__-_-_--._____..____..______..._..__..__... 95
8-45-18bcc
[Surface altitude, 3,824 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy.___-______-______.._______-_-_____._.______..___ 4Gravel.._-_.._..._...__-.-_......__-._.--_--.-.___..___ 126Clay-...__________________________________ 39Gravel_____________________________________________________ 51Clay __________________..__ .. 60
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow..._.______._._._._..__...__......_____...._._._ 20
BASIC DATA
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
259
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-45-27cbb
[Surface altitude, 3,818 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel.____________________________________________________ 195Sandstone -----__-_---__-----_________-__________._________. 70
Pierre shale:Clay.---_______-______.___.___.....__..__.............. 35
8-45-30add
[Surface altitude, 3,843 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy....................___._--_..._._.-....._...___. 5Gravel.._..-..-...._-........_-._---......--..--......-.-.. 215Clay..............__.__.........._-.......-.....____.. 40
Pierre shale:Shale, blue._______________.______________.. 40
8-45-33dcc
[Surface altitude, 3,822 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy.--.----------.----------.--.-------------------- 12Clay___-------______.-__.---____...__...___ - 38Gravel.---------------_-----_----------.------------_------ 140Clay____________________________________ 30Gravel--.-.....-.-........---------_----------_---_.------- 80
8-45-36dcc
[Surface altitude, 3,767 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel-._._.-_--_-.____-_-,-------------------------------- 55Clay, sandy...------.----.--....-------..------------------. 185
Pierre shale:Clay...._____...____..--.__-.--....- .... 60
8-46-19daa
[Surface altitude, 3,954 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel..-.-..-.---.-.....--j.__.-_..----_-----.-_.--------. 70Clay__..____________________________________ 50Gravel-.____..__..__--____..__--------------__---- 80Clay.-.______.____..-_______-____------ 50
195265
300
5220260
300
1250
190220300
55240
300
70120200250
260 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST.
Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
8-46-29cdd
[Surface altitude, 3,947 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy___._____.___.___..__.._._._____.________._____ 10Gravel.-___.__-_____..______.__.____..__._------__----- 70Clay--_-----.-_-..___..__..__......_.__....___....___... 110Grave1.-_._._.__.__._____._._.._____.__..___.____________ 20Clay...____..______.___..__...__._______.... 40
8-47-7bcc
[Surface altitude, 3,958 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel..-........._._.._............_..._..._...._...._... 58Clay, sandy................................................ 162
Pierre(?) shale:Clay, sticky ...--_...--._.....__....___._.................. 30
8-47-21ccc
[Municipal well at Haxtun, dug by Kelly Well Co. Inc., 1921]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand, coarse, and gravel; slightly cemented ------_--_----__-. 150Sand, coarse, and gravel..----_---_---____---------.-_------ 3Clay, hard, and gravel....__________________________________ 14Sand, fine _________________________________________________ 4Gravel, cemented __-_____._.._.___..__.__...__..._..__...__ 1Sand,loose, and cobbles -_----__-___________-____-____.-____ 3Sand, fine .______...______.._.____.__._____.___.___.__.__._ 4Gravel, medium. ----__-_-___---_.____-_._-_---_-_--_--_-_-_ 10Gravel, cemented __________________________________________ 2Sand, coarse _____....___._____.______.______.._______.__.. 11.5Clay, hard, and rocks.______________________________________ 3.5Clay, hard ._..__.._...__________._...__..______.___..____. 27
8-47-25dcc
[Surface altitude, 3,981 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel; contains streaks of sandy clay.---._.__-_-_.---.---___ 152 Clay._________._____.__________________.. 98
9-43-22caa
[Surface altitude, 3,641 ft]
Soil --..-.__________...._______....._______. 15Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Gravel..--_.....-....-..._.._......__......_..-.......--.. 115Clay; contains streaks of sand-----..-----------------------. 245Bentonite...----_--._----...---.._.------_--.--.--_----.-._ 22
Pierre shale:Shale, blue...........__....._.......__................... 18
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismoflraph shotholes, and wells- Continued
261
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
9-43-27ddc
[Surface altitude, 3,652 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand; contains streaks of clay._______________________________ 280 280Clay, yellow________________________________________________ 25 305
9-43-31ccc
[Surface altitude, 3,705 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay and caliche ____________________________________________ 25 25Gravel ___________________________________________________ 65 90Caliche-_--__---___-._____________________.-____-___--._ 45 135Clay; contains streaks of sand _______________________________ 95 230Clay, yellow____-_-__--____-__._____________________________ 25 255
9-44-36dbb
[Surface altitude, 3,712 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay._____________________________________ 9 9Sand and gravel -_________--___--___--_________.____-.___--_ 151 160Sandstone _--______----____-___--_-____--_________-_-.___-__ 35 195Clay, yellow___--___--__-_--_-__-_----__-__-__---___-__.---_ 60 255
SEDGWICK COUNTY, COLO.
10-42-6cdd
[Surface altitude, 3,644 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel ___...___.______..._______________-_. 130 130Clay.__-.________________________.___-.-___.__ 60 190Gravel ________..___.____..-____________________ 70 260Clay.--_._______________--_--_--__---_---.___.___ 40 300
10-42-19cdd
[Surface altitude, 3,625 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel _---.-_-.________________________________ _ 48 48Clay, sandy___-_------_---__-------------------_----------_ 104 152Gravel _____________--_____-_-.____.___________ 86 238Clay...._________________.________---____.-__-- . 62 300
10-42-31baa
[Surface altitude, 3,623 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy.._____________________._____.-____ 18 18Gravel _______-----__--____---____-__------- 24 42
262 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shothoies. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10-42-31baa Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedClay, sandy..______________________________________________ 140Gravel._____________...___....______________ 77Clay, sandy________________________________________________ 41
10-43-2daa
[Surface altitude, 3,652 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel.........__...--..._._.....__......__.....__..... 120Clay, sandy....___..._._.._..___......._.....,..___....._.. 70Gravel_---__-__----___-_____-___..________-__-__---_._--_. 65Sand, cemented _-_-_.._.____..___.._.._..___.._.-_--..._-_. 10Sand and gravel.-.----_.-....-_......-_...-_---_.___-_._--- 40
10-43-4daa
[Surface altitude, 3,678 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.--.-..---.._.-.....---...__-_-_._-___-._-_. 70Clay and gravel; sandy.__-___ __-_________-__-___--_____-._ 60Clay__________________..__________________ 80Clay and gravel._---..-__._..-..._..__....--.__.._--.__--__ 90
10-43-6add
[Surface altitude, 3,719 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel____________________________________________ 65Clay and gravel; sandy-----.---.--.-.--....-----.---.------. 95Clay. _-------_.---___.______._...__---.-.:---____..__ 115Sand and gravel-_--____-______________-___--_________._---_ 25
10-43-13bcc
[Surface altitude, 3,637 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay..__................___......__........___..... 25Gravel-___---___-________________________-__--__-_--____-_ 45Clay._..______________________________ 125Gravel...-_........._..............._.............-...__-. 45Clay----_-----.--_-_..---.-..-.__.---.._--..--_----- 60
10-43-16daa
[Surface altitude, 3,667 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy._______________________________________________ 5Clay...... ______............___.-.-..-._.---.....-. 25Gravel.__--..._..............._.............___..__-.-.. 110Clay..._----.--...._.._.--..---..-.-_.__---.. 140Gravel..........__..............._____-.--.-.. . 80Clay...__---.--.-.--..__......_.----._.__ 40
182259300
120190255265305
70130210300
65160275300
2570
195240300
530
140280360400
BASIC DATA 263
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
10-43-17cbb
[Surface altitude, 3,696 ft]
Ogallala formation:
Gravel........ _ .-...._-..............._........_.._....._Clay.......................................................
Clay _-__.-___-____-_-._-_____-____-_-.__--_-_-_
10-43-25cbb
[Surface altitude, 3,651 ft]
Ogallala formation: Clay... ______ ______ ___ ______ ______ __________
Clay __ ____ ___ ________ ______________ __ ______
10-43-27bcc
[Surface altitude, 3,668 ft]
Ogallala formation: Clay.......................................................
Clay......--.......-...-..--...-.-.......-..--...-..-......
Clay..-.-.-............-.-..--.---........-..-----...-..-.
10-43-30add
[Surface altitude, 3,696 ft]
Ogallala formation:
Clay----.. ..._.-...-...-....----.-.-.-............---.--.--Gravel ___ __ _ _ _ ___ . _ _ - -_._Clay ........................... ........._..........._......
10-43-32dcd
[Surface altitude, 3,701 ft]
Ogallala formation:
Clay............... .................................. ......
Clay. .............. ....... ................................ .
Clay......................................................
Thickness (feet)
351251002020
9015060
2537
1483060
125704065
25657025
3325030
Depth (feet)
35160260280300
90240300
2562
210240300
125-
195235300
2590
160185188220270300
264 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
______Table 28. Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismoaraph shotholes, and wells Continued ______
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10-43-34dcc
[Surface altitude, 3,645 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay.________.________..________________... 45 Clay, sandy, and gravel._____-._.__.__________________-_--__- 45Clay...---.-----__----------__-.__.-.-.-__------------- 210
10-44-2bcc
[Surface altitude, 3,757 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay.__------------------------_--.__--_---._-.__------- 55Gravel..------------_----.---..-..-.-_---_---__-.---------- 75Clay_____________-.____________________ 90Gravel.-----------------_---_--------_---_------.--_------- 40Clay.__.-_____________-.____-----__-__------- 40
10-44-12cdd
[Surface altitude, 3,728 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand....---_--------.---__.__----_---_---------..--------- 38Clay__-. -.--____._____.___.____.--__---- -- 44 Gravel..___-__.__-----_____.._____________-- 108 Clay.__.._____________...___.________. 35Sandstone, hard...._________________________________________ 10
10-44-15baa
[Surface altitude, 3,746 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel..--.-.----------_--_-----------_------------.------- 85Clay._____.-__.--._______..____- 85 Gravel...._____..__________---- - 60 Clay._________-.________________.... - 70
10-44-24cdd
[Surface altitude, 3,718 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel____------------------- . ----- 165Clay.__..____--__--__--_________ -- - 135
10-44-27baa
[Surface altitude, 3,733 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel___._________.______._____________--_---_------------ 25Clay._________------------- -- ----- 35Gravel_________________.______________----_---_------------ 35Clay-...------------------------------------- ----------- 205
4590
300
55130220260300
3882
190225235
85170230300
165300
256095
300
BASIC DATA 265
Table 28. Drillers' togs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10-44-34daa
[Surface altitude, 3,723 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel__-_--_----_------_------------_----------.- 42 42Clay, sandy.._-___.___---__---_---_-----.-_---_----_-.__.. 123 165Clay--_--_-----_----------------------------_--------__-. 135 300
10-44-3Scad
[Irrigation well drilled by Ellithorpe and Putman, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,711.9 ft]
Soil.... ---___.._._...-----__----_-_____-___________.____ 12 12Ogallala formation:
Gravel______....___.___-----_-_.-____________.__.__._..._ 21 33Clay.........._......---.._.-..............._.._..__..... 15 48Gravel.__......._._.-.---.._........._...._._.....__..__ 47.5 95.5Cobbles------.--_-.--------------.-_-.-.-.---_--_.__..... .5 96Gravel, cemented _________________________________________ 37 133Gravel, loose.__-.-_.--_-.--..------__-_-.-.__......._..._. 6 139Sand; contains strips of caliche .-._........__..__.__.___._.._ 14 153Gravel; contains strips of caliche ________......__._...___..__ 30 183Clay __..._...._...__.--..___.__._..........___...__.. 15 198Gravel; contains strips of caliche ..-.__...............__._._. 2 200Caliche........................__...._.._.......___..._.... 2 202Gravel, coarse,loose..----------.--.-.--_-_____.________.__ 16 218Clay...__..______________________________ 4 222Gravel, coarse, fairly loose _________________________________ 21 243Gravel, coarse, red, black, and white.____...._._..___.._._._. 22 265Gravel; contains strips of caliche ____________________________ 8 273Gravel; interbedded with caliche ...._....__._._..__-..--_._._ 15 288Gravel, loose_-------_--------------.-_--_------.--.-.-_--. 15 303Gravel, loose; contains some clay....._______________________ 28 331Clay, hard......__.._.--__..............____......___.. 17 348
10-44-35db
[Test hole drilled by Ellithorpe and Putman, 1949]
Soil----....--.-.---.-----------------------.----------.--- 12 12Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Gravel-----.--------.---------------------------------__- 28 40Clay...__...____________.__------__--._____ 15 55Gravel-------.--..__-....________________________---.-. 34 89Cobbles.__------__-----__-----__-.____--- _..- 3 92Rock.__.__._.__...____---.------__-----_---.--___--------- 1 93Clay____-----______-.______-.______-_______- 22 115Clay, very hard....__------------------__---------------- 5 120Caliche ..-...-...--_.-------------_.----_-_-----.--------- 13 133Gravel, cemented ._____-_-___________-____-_______-___._.._ 17 150Clay, pink....__.__.._____________.._______ 17 167Clay, hard, in strips..--------------.----------------_------ 30 197Clay, sandy, firm ..__------- ---_.---.- . . 30 227Clay, sandy, medium firm...----.--_--------_--_---------_-- 24 251Clay...__.______._____.__.-__-__..______- 6 257Gravel, coarse, and medium-firm clay-.-.--------.----------- 15 272Clay...__.___-.__.____-.__ ........................ 15 287Gravel, coarse; contains medium-firm clay __..____-.--_-___-- 36 323
655012 O - 63 - 18
266 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
_____Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued______
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10 -44 -3 5db Continued
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated Con tinued
7 Sand, coarse, to medium gravel... _----_----_----_---_--_--.-- 17Gravel, coarse; contains medium-firm clay ____________________ 30Sand, cemented _____________________________________________ 30
10-44-36bcc
[Surface altitude, 3,715 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay _-------_-. _ --. _ _ .__..._________-__._ _ _________ 20Gravel.... .---._.__________________ __ ._______---.-. 25Clay. ______ ______ __ ...... __ ___ . __ 125Gravel -------.-------__....._..........___.__.._.__________ 50Clay _ _________ ... _________________ 80
10-45-llbbb
[Surface altitude, 3,824 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand _____ ___________ _____________________ ____ 240Clay ______ -._ ___ ___ __ ____ ______ ___ ___ ____ 30Sand _____________ __ ......._______-_-_------._ ___ ._----. 30
10-45-14ccc
[Surface altitude, 3,835 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel _____________________________________________ 120Clay ___ __ ______ __ ...... _____ ____ 45Sand and gravel _____________________________________________ 110Clay... __________ ______ __ _. __________ _________ 25
10-45-27ddd
[Surface altitude, 3,831 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel --__-_-----.__-_________________--__-__-___________-_ 45Clay, sandy-_-_-__. --.-_..._._.__......_-_---......_____..__ 175Clay... -----_. ___ ______ ___ __ __ ____ ____ 80
10-45-35ccc
[Surface altitude, 3,837 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel _____________________________________________________ 90Clay, sandy. -.-_--_-_-_..__.________...___-__-_.__.......__- 30Sand ...--_.--Gravel, sandy _
330347377407
2045
170220300
240270300
120165275300
45220300
90120210300
BASIC DATA 267Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10-45-36add
[Surface altitude, 3,797 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel . ............._________.___ 121Clay, sandy, and gravel_____________________________________ 138Clay, sandy--.-.-.--..---_....._......_........_...__...... 41
10-46-20ddd
[Surface altitude, 3,931 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand.-._..._.__..__----......__.....__-...--__....... 15Gravel, heavy-_________-_--___..____________.__-__..______. 145Clay-........_....._...._...--_--..-._..__._._.....-.__-._ 80Gravel___.__-_..._._..____._...___._.____._..__..___.__._. 40Clay.-_----.....---..-.-._,.._._-......._.....-.------..-- 20
10-46-30bbb
[Surface altitude, 3,993 ft]
Dune sand:Sand..-....--................._..-----_..-_---._---_------ 10
Ogallala formation:Gravel._______..______.....___._..______.___.__.__________ 90Clay.......-...-._..._......--_-__...__..._.-....__..__ 80Gravel-_---___.____--_---_-_______________________________ 60Clay............_........_...__.....__..____.......__ 60
10-46-31ccc
[Surface altitude, 3,965 ft]
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Gravel.._______________..______.....______.. 72Clay.....__-._............__.....__.-_.-----..........-. 108Sand and clay._-_._------_--_.._.__________._.-____-------- 60Clay; contains streaks of gravel__-_-___-_-__---_____________ 60
10-46-32ddd
[Surface altitude, 3,944 ft]
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand......._......-...._...__.._....___....._..._..__..... 15Clay.. __...________._________ 65Gravel....-_----..__-__-.-......._________...-_._.___ 50Clay. _______________________ 110Gravel--__------.__------._...-...._-.-_--.__.....-._-_--- 20Clay....-....._..._..__.__......__..............__.... 40
10-47-4dcb
Dune sand:Sand_______.._.._._...._.._--.-..-.______._______..__._...
121259300
15160240280300
10
100180240300
72180240300
1580
130240260300
268 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
_____Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells -Continued
Thickness (feet)
10 -47 -4dcb Continued
Ogallala formation:Clay_________.._..._..._......._...____.-__.--_ 212Clay, yellow.....__________________________________________ 30
10-47-5add
Dune sand:Sand.__.__.__..____.._____.____.___.____..___..___._._._._ 30
Ogallala formation:Clay..............................__...........__........ 175Clay, yellow_-_____-_____________________._-_--_-_____-_-._ 45
10-47-9aaa
Dune sand:Sand..______._.._____..____.._.._.__._.______...___.__.___ 20
Ogallala formation:Clay.__.______________.._____________.... 260 Bentonite.-..._......__.......__...______________-__.._..__ 20
10-47-17bcc
Dune sand:Sand----------.-------_----_--.........---------.-.-_---.- 100
Ogallala formation:Gravel-___________________________________________________ 35Clay, brown _______________________________________________ 165
White River(?) group:Clay, green --_----___-____-___.______________-__-_______-. 45
Pierre(?) shale:Clay, yellow..___..___...___..._.____._.____..__...__..__._ 20
10-47-20bdc
Dune sand:Sand.. -----__.----......-............-.....-.-__----- 18
Ogallala formation:Clay. -. __.__________.,________.-____ 72Sand and gravel.......__.___.___.___._._____.___.__.._.._._ 60Clay..... .................__.......-.. .-...-__..... 170
White River(?) group:Clay, sandy, green --_------__---____-._.___-__---_-__.___-_ 45
10-47-30aaa
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel-._-_--_-_-___--____._________-----_______-- 80Clay, sandy.....__._..........__..._________..________._... 80Clay__..._____._____________.....__.....___ 165
White River(?) group:Shale, green._..___..________._.__._._.______.._______._.._ 25
BASIC DATA 269
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10-47-30bbb
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Gravel ___________________________________________________ 90 90Clay, sandy _____.__._._._.._.__.._....___..__..._._.__.... 210 300
White River(?) group:Shale...............__--____------____.___--________-__._ 50 350
10-47-31bbb _____________
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel _-_____.-____-___.--.._.__--_....___._-._.. 80 80Clay. ..... ............___....__.......__....... 70 150Sand and sandstone..---.---_............................... 120 270Clay.................................__..---.....--.-.... 90 360
White River(?) group:Shale, green __._-.___-__-__..______..___._._._.__..._.__._ 20 380
11-42-7bbb
[Surface altitude, 3,642 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel ___________________________________...__------_.-. 45 45Clay.-..........._._..__................._..........__... 115 160Gravel ...._....._...__._..__..__-._...._.._._.__..__.. 80 240Clay.---..--..-.-_.............._................._....... 60 300
ll-42-18baa
[Surface altitude, 3,635 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel -_---_----______________.____._______________._____ 65 65Clay.---......._.............-...................___._.... 65 130Gravel .........__-_---.-....-----........--....._-.__.. 140 270Clay............__-------.....-_--.__....-.....__.._.... 30 300
ll-42-31baa
[Surface altitude, 3,640 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay....__..____....._________________.__ 15 15Gravel .---------_-_------.-._._--...._...-.-._._.----._._ 60 75Clay_-..._..._____________________________________________ 55 130Gravel ___________________________________________________ 115 245Clay....__..__-..-_.----...__--_-.......--.___.-_-...-. 55 300
ll-42-31cdd
[Surface altitude, 3,625 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel ___________________________________________________ 45 45Clay..___________________________________.. 45 90Gravel ___________________________________________________ 83 173Clay._________________________________.____ 101 274Gravel ___________________________________________________ 26 300
270 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
_____Table 28. Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
ll-43-8ccb
[Surface altitude, 3,696 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel-_._.-___._.._____________.._.__.___________-_______ 100Shale and gravel(?)________________.,-__-_--_-__---___--_.-__ 105
ll-43-12cc
[Surface altitude, 3,672 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay.......__.__________......_____.__......__.__ 20Gravel.-.._._................__.....__..._._....-_..__ 50Clay____.....___.....____.-____.----....-.-...... 90Gravel....--.._-.-.................._-_._...-..--..-.-.._. 80Clay_____________..______________.._______ 60
ll-43-21ccc
[Surface altitude, 3,718 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel.....__.......__.....__.....__--..-.-_.-___.-.. 158Clay, sandy..._._.._......._.._._._.._.._.._..._.........._ 77Clay.... -..--.________.__..----. ------- 65
ll-43-25abb
[Surface altitude, 3,653 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel_________________________________. 121Clay, sandy..._._._......___......._._..._.-._..----_.----. 117Clay........__--._-...._____.__._____.__._____.. 62
ll-43-34bcc
[Surface altitude, 3,672 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel---_--...--_-......._.._._.-..---.--.....--....-_... 15Clay_________..______________________ 170Gravel_._..-..----_...__..___.__.-__-_____-..--...-_--_-._ 55Clay....___________________________.______-. 60
ll-43-36cbb
[Surface altitude, 3,655 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay--.-..__._----_-...........--.--..-.-....._.__ 20Gravel....--..___..........-...-....-..._.-..-.-.....-_... 45Clay, sandy, and gravel.--__________________________________ 40Clay--.--.--.-______________. 195
100205
2070160240300
158235300
121238300
15185240300
2065105300
BASIC DATA 271Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
11-44-llbbb
[Surface altitude, 3,636 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel..__....___________________________________________ 20Clay...._-.__-.------.--.---..-._-_....._......-__... 120Gravel- . -_---------_-------_-_--_---_--.__.___._._-__--_--_ 30Clay-...--..._-._-----_---.....--_..__......._... 30
11-44-llcdd
[Surface altitude, 3,713 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel-------_------_---_----_--.-..---._.----_.._---._--_- 120Shale(?)______________________________________ 85
ll-44-13aaa
[Surface altitude, 3,735 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel....__-----------__-...___.__..--_-....____.-. 140Shale(?)________..._.-_....__....._______..__.__. 65
ll-44-14dcc
[Surface altitude, 3,774 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel.....__..__...._-.__..-..__-....-......___...... 65Clay....-.-_......_..........._____....____.___ 105Gravel_____________________________________________________ 40Clay. _..--......__..__....._______..__......___... 90
ll-44-18ddd
[Surface altitude, 3,722 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy, and gravel._--_-__----_____.__._._-___.__.._____ 60 Clay__------_-----__.--_...----......_..___.. 220
11-44-26dcc
[Surface altitude, 3,766 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel------___-__---___--_---______-__.__._-______ 65Gravel, sandy-_____________________________-_____..-______._ 55Clay . __ __ ____.____ 25 Sand and gravel-.._-_-_---_---_--______._____________-_____- 40Clay, sandy, and gravel..--_-.----____--______-______________ 115
20140170200
120205
140205
65170210300
60280
65120145185300
272 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells- Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
ll-44-28dcc
[Surface altitude, 3,781 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand___--.---.____________..___.___________ 15Gravel..-----_----._______________--_----_-__-------------- 40Clay.___________...._____.________..______ 105Gravel.. ___.._-..._...__.-.......-.._..-_..__.....---_---.- 80Sandstone _--__---_____.____._________---__________-----_--- 7Clay.______.__________________..__-.__.-- 53
ll-45-22bbb
[Surface altitude, 3,610 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.---___-____-_________----_--___--_---__----- 70Clay..________..____________________----- 180Clay; contains streaks of sandstone.._---_-_.__--_-_--_----__- 50
ll-45-23aaa
[Surface altitude, 3,638 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel..__._..._._----_-.-.-.-...-._..._..__.._._-----_-... 17 Clay..___________..__..._____.---.__..______ 63 Gravel----.-----.-.--_..-._.-_-_---_----_------------------ 40Clay.___________________-----_________-- - 180
ll-45-26ddd
[Surface altitude, 3,794 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel. _..-.--.._......-.-..___.....____..........-----. 50Clay.----.--..-.__..................____.__.__.-.--.. 25Gravel--.--.------...........-..__-...-...-.___ r _._------ 50Clay___.__._____________.-_____________ 175
1555
160240247300
70250300
1780
120300
5075
125300
ll-45-28ddd
[Surface altitude, 3,863 ft]
Ogallala formation: Gravel______.__.Clay-------..-.,Gravel-.--.....Clay............
651550
170
6580
130300
ll-45-32bbb
[Surface altitude, 3,892 ft]
Ogallala formation: Gravel_________Clay .. Gravel__---____Clay. ........
180504030
180230270300
Toble 28. Drillers'
BASIC DATA
of test holes, seismograph shothoies, and wells Continued
273
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
ll-46-17ddc
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel---__-_-__---_-__-_-__-________---__-__-__-_. 70 70Clay.------____-__---_-_-----_-__--_.__..__--.------..._. 140 210Shale(?)---_-_-----------__--___-----__.....__._-_-_--....- 40 250
ll-46-19ada
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel__--_-_-_-__-_--__-_---___________-_-_--____. 35 35Rock .._.._______..__..________..____..__.__. 15 50 Clay____________________.______________.. 135 185Sand and gravel____-___..__....._____.__--_.-.._..._...____. 15 200Shale(?)..______________..____..____________. 50 250
ll-46-23ddd
[Surface altitude, 3,759 ft]
Ogallala formation:Shale(?)--__________.....___________________. 55 55Gravel..______...______._..____..____________ 60 115 Shale(?)_.______________________________ 85 200
ll-46-25aaa
[Surface altitude, 3,837 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel..__.________________________________.. 120 120Shale(?)___.______....._____._____.._________. 75 195Gravel.......__..__..._....-.-._-._--__-_._...._.....-... 40 235Hard(?)__..______.___..._____.__....______ 15 250 Shale(?)_____.____________________..________ 6 256
ll-46-25dbb
[Surface altitude, 3,881 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel.......__..__-.--..-.-.-_---........._.-._-........ 138 138Clay, sandy.-----...............-__-___............-........ 143 281Clay, sticky ____________________-_.__.___.__--_--____.____- 19 300
ll-46-27aab
[Surface altitude, 3,776 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel....__________.________________________ 145 145Shale(?)----__---__--_-_.__________________________________ 60 205
ll-46-27ccd
[Surface altitude, 3,777 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel...--._________.........___..._________.__.._ 85 85Shale(?)_.__________________________________________________ 165 250
274 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells- Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
ll-46-35acc
[Surface altitude, 3,903 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay..__..._______________________________.____ 18 Gravel..._____.__.__.....__.__.....__.__.__.__. 37Clay..__ ....______..__.__________._________ 142Gravel.---..._____---.-_-.....--_-.......___..______ 26Clay________________________________________ 77
ll-47-33dcc
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.__.__._.___.._..._________....______.._._.__ 70Clay.__..___________________________________. 140Clay, yellow....__...__...__.___.._....._..._.............. 40
11-47-34add
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.................._______..__-___.____.._.___ 70Clay. __....___________ _.__ _. 150Clay, yeUow.._...-_-.__.-_...____--._--_.._..-.........._.. 30
12-43-32ddd
[Surface altitude, 3,664 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel..__-.-...__.__.....__.....__._.__..__--.-_. 85 Clay._________________________________________ 215
WASHINGTON COUNTY, COLO.
2-49-lbaa
[Surface altitude, 4,191.2 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy.........___.._.________________________________ 30Sand, gravel, and sandstone __________________________________ 370
Pierre shale:Clay .. ...______________________________ 5Shale -__..--.__.....__.....___.__-____-__..-_----.-.-.. 30
2-49-3ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,232.3 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel; cemented ___________--_--__---------_---__-- 360
Pierre shale:Clay..___-..__.....____....--..____..._____-__... 25 Shale _..---......_.________--._.._...--------.._---_--- 55
1855
197223300
70210250
70220250
85300
30400
405435
360
385440
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and well
275 Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
2-49-10bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,236.0 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_---__--_-__-__-_-___--_-___________________ 140Sand and sandstone....-._-.__.__...__....._..__....__._._._ 120Sand and gravel.....-...-...._-.-._--._....__.._....__..... 60Clay, sandy._______________________________________________ 40
Pierre shale:Shale .______________ __________ __________ ______ 40
2-49-12aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,178.3 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel..__________________________________________ 150Sandstone _____-._..______________________________________ 120Sand and gravel_-.____-_-_-___-_-_-___--____________.______ 80Clay, sandy_______________________________.________________ 50
Pierre shale:Shale______________________.________ 40
2-49-12bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,209.7 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand._______________________________________ 45 Sand, gravel, and streaks of broken sandstone_.____--._-_.__._ 370
Pierre shale:Shale ---------__-----------_-----_......._.._._. 35
2-51-lccb
[Surface altitude, 4,407.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand; contains streaks of clay ._..______._..____________...__ 170
Pierre shale:Shale,.__.....__....______.______........____... 40
2-51-2baa
[Surface altitude, 4,419.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand..______.______________________________ 110
Pierre shale:Clay.________________________________ 40Shale._._..._.__........._..__..____....._ 40
2-51-2cbc
[Surface altitude, 4,425.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentaited:Sand_____.....__..__.__....__..________.__..__ 165
Pierre shale:Shale_______________.._________________ . 35
140260320360
400
150270350400
440
45415
450
170
210
110
150190
165
200
276 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
_____Toble 28. Drillers' locis of test holes, seismoflraph shotholes, and wells- Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
2-51-2cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,401.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Gravel and clay.._.---...___._____.____-------_---_-___._._ 120
Pier re shale:Clay....__..__..____.____..__________.____.. 45 Shale __---_-...-.-----...__......_...-.--.--..-....._... 35
2-51-4add
[Surface altitude, 4,433.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay and gravel...________________________________________ 80
Pierre shale:Clay_______.._....____............__........__. 35Shale .-_---.-._...--..........._.......-...._..........._. 40
2-51-4bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,454.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay and gravel....-_____-__-_________-_____-__-.-__----___ 65
Pierre shale:Clay................_..................._................. 25Shale __.._____._____....__.__.____---.______ 65
2-51-6abb
[Surface altitude, 4,523.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand_...------..-.----..._....._.....---_-------_-------_. 90
Pierre shale:Clay......____________________________.. 55Shale----.......-.-..-_.......__..__-__.---.__..--.-.... 45
2-51-6cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,512.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand........_...-.-.........._.........-.................. 80
Pierre shale:Clay....______________.._________.____. 65Shale___________..____-.______------____. 37
2-51-8abb
[Surface altitude, 4,494.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel_.__________________________________________ 115
Pierre shale:Shale______..._______.___....____-.-.--. __.. 45
120
165200
80
115155
65
90155
90
145190
80
145182
115
160
BASIC DATA 277
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
2-51-9baa
[Surface altitude, 4,459.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand; contains streaks of clay-_-_--__-_-----__--__-_---__--.- 145 145
Pierre shale:Shale____..____________________________... 37 182
2-52-2b
[Test hole]
Soil..__..___________.______..______________ 25 25Ogallala formation:Gravel, cemented, hard ------___-_--_---_--_.____-_----.____ 25 50Rock, hard..._.______..._....__.._._......_.....___.._.___. 20 70Sandstone..----.-----_--_----___------------___--_---_-__._ 8 78Sandstone, soft _____________________________________________ 4 82Rock, hard......_...._---.--.........-_-..__......_....__ 3 85Sandstone and caliche ___--__-_______--__--____________.-____ 15 100Sandstone and brown shale___________________________________ 58 158
Pierre shale:Shale........................__-._.._--.....__-.-----_... 27 185
2-52-8aad
[Test hole drilled for Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co., 1919]
Ogallala formation:Clay, blue....__.__._____..__...___..__________ 25 25 Rock, white ________________________________________________ 4.5 29.5Caliche------........__---..-..---_--_--..._-------_-..--- 61 90.5Sandstone.-..-..._......_..........._.._-.._....-.--_.-..._ 14 104.5
2-52-8bbd
[Test hole drilled for Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co., 1919]
Ogallala formation:Clay.________.______________________.__... 38 38Caliche, hard _______.._____________________ 2 40Sand and gravel ......_.-..--....-.-------..__--.--------... 20 60Gravel, cemented.....---._......_.-_-__.-..___-_.--._--.._. 14 74Clay and sand.........._..........._........_.....-_.._.... 6 80Sand and sandstone.._._----_-____---_-________.__-____-____- 30 110Limestone----.___-_---------__-----__...__...__.--..- 20 130Limestone, brown __________________________________________ 8 138Joint clay and yellow clay..-_-____-_.__.-.._._.--..__..-__-__ 27 165Caliche, yellow.----....._.-...-_____.._--._.._-_-___---_--- 60 225
Pierre shale:Shale, gray...__..____________.._________...__ 115 340Sandstone....__.._---.-..__..__.....____..--.------. 10 350Shale, gray........._._.__..__...___............._._---_.... 110 460Sandstone..-__..._...-._-_--......-___.--.....--___._-_.--. 15 475Sandstone and shale...-_._---_---_--__.__-.--_...-_-_-..---. 25 500Shale, gray, and sand --_-----....__-_---_...__-----.------.. 340 840Sandstone. ........... -.-----...........-__.....---_..___ 4 844
278 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
_____Toble 28. Drillers' loos of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued_______
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
2-52 -8bbd Continued
Pierre shale ContinuedShale---........__......____......._-..__-------------- 101 945Sandstone; contains oil stain _._._._____.__---_--____--_-.._.. 2 947Shale, gray...__._.-......._..__.................____... 583 1,530Shale, granulated _---.-__---____________--_----_--___-_---.- 12 1,542Shale, gray--.....-----........___..-.-___.__-_...____ 141 1,683
2-52-8bcb
[Test hole drilled for Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co., 1919]
Ogallala formation:Clay, blue..__________________________________ 13 13Caliche- ..__-..________________.._________ 52 65 Gravel, pink, and soil _______________________________________ 3 68Sand, white, and shale......__.__._.._..___._._._.._____.____ 33 101
Pierre shale:Shale, blue......__.-__............_.._-_-_.-..-._.....__ 3 104Shale, white......__..___________________________-...---_ 23 127
2-52-8cda
[Test hole drilled for Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co., 1919]
Cinders.__.....__-____.____________.___.-._.____.....__ 2 2Ogallala formation:
Clay, blue............. _________________-_-.--.-_______ 23 25Caliche--._---_..----.__......____..-_.-...-__._____ 49 74Sand -.........-........._........__........__..__... 12 86
2-52-8dba
[Test hole drilled for Chicago Burlington'and Quincy Railroad Co., 1919]
Cinders.-----.....---..........._.-..._.-..._.._... 1 1Ogallala formation:
Clay, blue......__.--.-..._..__.____.____.____... 19.5 20.5Rock, white ----....--__....._____.___..........._____ 4.5 25Caliche-__-----__.__..........._...---...___.....__ 27 52Shale, white(?) ..._-..__---......_._...-.------.--._-.-__ 7 59Clay and gravel _-.----..__._._._._.._..___.._....._......._ 51 110
2-52-8dbc
[Test hole drilled for Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co., 1919]
Cinders..-._.__..__-------_-----_-----______ 3 3Ogallala formation:
Clay, blue...__..........__......__.._.........___.____ 10 13Caliche.-_-_..._..._....._..._......................._..... 68 81Sand, fine (water-bearing) -__-._.__________-_______.--__--.._ 6 87Sand, medium (water-bearing)...__.--_.....---.-_--...._.___ 5 92
Pierre shale:Shale____..____.______......__---._________ ..__. 92
BASIC DATA 279
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
2-52-8dca
[Test hole drilled for Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co., 1919]
Cinders-..--......_______________________________________ 1 1Ogallala formation:
Clay, blue______________________________________ 24 25 Rock, white___________________________________ 4.5 29.5 Caliche..________.__..______._______ 52 81.5Sand, medium(water)________________________________________ 11 92.5
2-52-8dcb
[Test hole drilled for Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co., 1919]
Ogallala formation:Clay, blue__________________________ __________ 24 24 Rock, white_________________________________ 4.5 28.5Caliche_____________________________________ 47.5 76 Shale(?), white......__...__..._____ 30 106Caliche_____________________________________ 14 120
2-52-8dda
[Test hole drilled for Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co., 1919]
Ogallala formation:Clay, blue..__________________________________ 24.5 24.5 Rock, white__.__._______.__..____.....__ 5.5 30 Caliche_____________________________________ 51 81 Shalef?), white_________________________________ 7 88 Clay and gravel...._--..____..-.__-._..._----------_-------. 39 127
2-52-9b
[Test hole]
Ogallala formation:Clay_________._________________________________ 20 20 Caliche, hard......___...____._____._____..__.._..._.._.__._ 20 40Limestone, hard....._.._....__..____._____________-__-._. 20 60Rock, very hard _.____.__.__._-.-._._-...---_--------------. 10 70Sandstone, very hard ____.___-___-___-___.__.__-.--.---___--. 15 85Sand and gravel-----.--.._..-_.____.____._. _____ -_-.._ 4 89Limestone, very hard _.._-_._._..__._.__-__-____--_- ... _ 2 91Clay, white____...__________________-._________ 9 100
Pierre shale:Soapstone and shale _-__-_-_-________-____-_--__----------__- 152 252
2-53-2cdc
[Surface altitude, 4,636.5 ft]
Ogallala formation:Shale, sandy.._______ . 60 60 Clay....__.-__-______-____----________--____--- 180 240
Pierre shale:Shale......______._.___-__---___--_____- 20 260
280 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
______Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-49-labb [Surface altitude, 4,164.5 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand.-._......._..-_...._...__......_...__--_.---_----_-._- 260
Pierre shale:Shale____________________________..______ 20
3-49-2ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,181.4 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand...._....._._.....___...__.......____-_-.--.---__-_-__. 260
Pierre shale:Clay, sandy.......__.__....__...__..------.--_---------. 10Shale _.--_._.-...__..__..............._--__----.-.---_--. 20
3-49-3baa
[Surface altitude, 4,210.0 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel-_-_----__--___-____--_--_---__----_----_---- 110 Sandstone _-_-_--_--_-----_--.-_-.-______---_--------------- 125
Pierre shale:Shale______________. ______....____----___---.. 25
3-49-6dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,295.8 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel -__--__--_-._-__--.--_--_-------------______ 130Sand__.__-.._...----__--_..__..._..._-.__----.--.------ 90Clay, sandy.--_-_-__--___-_-_-.____-___-_----_---_---------- 50
Pierre shale:Shale...___.__-.-.___________ 20
3-49-6dda
[Surface altitude, 4,271.9 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay____..__-_..______.__..____..-_.-__.__-_-. 20 Sand and gravel....---._.-.._.._...___.._-----_----_-------- 200
Pierre shale:Clay_____________________._____-. . -.- 45 Shale __________________________------ 35
3-49-9aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,205.8 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel____________________________-----------_----- 90Sandstone ...-.....-_.-............._..._.--_----_-----.---- 180
Pierre shale:Clay_________________________.. 22 Shale __..______._____._.....___-------____--_.---. 8
260
280
260
270290
110235
260
130220270
290
20220
265300
90270
292300
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
281
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-49-llaaa
[Surface altitude, 4,166.4 ft]
Ogallala formation:
Pier re shale: Clay...... -_______..__.....___._______--__----_-__-..-_---.Shale ______ . _____________ ______ ______ ___ ______
100170
255
100270
295300
3-49-13ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,176.8 ft]
Ogallala formation: Sand.... -____________-_________________----_-_--_--__--_-_-
Pier re shale: Shale __ ..... __ .. __ ....... __ ... ___ ... ____ ..... __ .
31035
25
310345
370
3-49-14ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,184.4 ft]
Ogallala formation:
Pier re shale: Clay _______ ___ ___________ __ __________ ___________Shale ______ ___ ______ __ __ __________ ---.----_-.
26060
4416
260320
364380
3-49-15abb
[Surface altitude, 4,185.4 ft]
Ogallala formation:
Pierre shale: Clay__.___ ___ ____________________-__-_----- - -.Shale ___ ____ __________ __ . _________ __________ .
120140
328
120260
292300
3-49-17abb
[Surface altitude, 4,226.9 ft]
Ogallala formation:
Pierre shale: Clay__... ....___. __._.____....________.-___-__.____-_.-_..-Shale ________________ ____ ____________ ___________
7550
115
2040
75125240
260300
655012 O - 63 - 19
282 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK
______Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
BASEST
Thickness (feet)
3-49-18baa
[Surface altitude, 4,243.2 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand..--.________--__..-_.._-_-.__.._.--_--.__.__ 70Sand and gravel___________________._.._-__.____________-___ 80Sandstone _________________________________________________ 3Sand and gravel____________________________________________ 27Clay, sandy..............____________...______--_-.--- 20
Pierre shale:Clay. ____________________________ 40Shale _____--_..______....-....-_._______--_--.-__----. 45
3-49-19bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,301.7 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_._________.___________________________._.__ 135Clay, sandy ______________________________________ _________ 45Sand and gravel _____________________________________ ______ 95
Pierre shale:Clay, blue...._____________________________.-.---__._ 25
3-49-19cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,285.5 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sandstone _________________________________________________ 90Sand and gravel...__-...._...___________________-___-___--_ 160
Pierre shale:Clay, sandy......-_..-..-....--_.--_....-________.....-_-_- 30Shale .--___.-__-______________.._.________.______ 20
3-49-20bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,274.0 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand __________________________________________________ _ __ 30Chalk rock________________________________________________ 25Sand and gravel..._._..__....__________.___________-_____._ 225
Pierre shale:Clay, blue..__-----------__-__-.--.._---____---------- 20
3-49-21aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,214.4 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy....-._--._.___-.--..---__..--__..._.-..____.... 60Sand.......__..__.......__.._--.---.__-.__-------__-_ 230
Pierre shale:Clay, sandy_-___-_-_-__-_--_...___.__--_-__.__-_.__._----__ 46 Shale_____________________.______________ 24
BASIC DATA
Tobl« a. Drillers* logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
283
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-49-21bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,233.4 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand.______________________________________________________ 50 50Gravel...............-.-._...__..........________________ 20 70Sand and sandy clay --------..._-__------._-_------.-.--..--- 130 200Sand and gravel.....-_-..--..._.-....-_-_.---..-_....__.---. 65 265
Pierre shale:Clay____.____________..____________________ 35 300
3-49-22dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,210.3 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel...._--..-..__....__..------------.--.---- 130 130Sandstone _______________________-- . -- 220 350
Pierre shale:Clay.__..____________.___________...___-. - 45 395 Shale ____.._____________________.- ___.. 25 420
3-49-23dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,202.7 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand-.....-..---------------------------------------------- 355 355
Pierre shale:Shale _________________________-- - 25 380
3-49-24dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,186.9 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_____- __ - 160 160 Sandstone ..___________________ ---- 160 320
Pierre shale:Clay...----.-...__.-__.-__---------__-.----__-.------- 40 360Shale ..--.__.-.._.._-----_.------------------------------- 30 390
3-49-25ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,198.1 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel______ ----- - 170 170 Sandstone _____________.._._ -- - . 210 380
Pierre shale:Clay-.-......---------------------------------------------- 10 390Shale .....--..---.- -- ---- -- ---- --. 30 420
284 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
______Toble 28. Driflers* lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued______
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-49-27ccc
[Surface altitute, 4,243.5 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel---..........._....__________.__..._________ 165 165Sandstone.-_...__ _..._____.__._._____....____.._....._.___ 175 340Clay, sandy...___..___._.._.._...___._._____..__.------_-. 63 403
Pierre shale:Shale __........................__..__.....__._____ 27 430
3-49-32bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,267.1 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel...__....___.._____..._____.___._._______.__ 75 75Clay, sandy-------.--------...------..-----.--.--------.--- 45 120Sand and gravel....__..__.__.____.._____.._________.____--_ 90 210Sandstone-------__---------_..--_--__-_-----------_------_ 60 270
Pierre shale:Clay._-._......_...-_.___.._._.._..____.._...._-.-___--_-- 30 300
3-49-34aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,218.8 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand.---.-----_------------------__----------_------_----- 310 310Shale, sandy---.-.---....--------__----.----_-__-_--__--._ 50 360
Pierre shale:Clay, sandy----_--___--____--_____--___-__._.--__---_.---_- 45 405Shale __________________________________________..._..____ 15 420
3-49-34cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,242.5 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand.----_--------.-_---.---.__---__.....__---------.-._ 170 170Shale, sandy...___.________________...__..... 230 400.
Pierre shale:Clay......_________-----____________-----____ 10 410Shale -------------------.....__--__.._.....-.--_..__-.-. 20 430
3-50-labb
[Surface altitude, 4,263.6 ft]
Ogallala formation:Surface .....__._._____._..___.___..__________.._._________ 10 10Sand and gravel-----.-..-.-....__..-._..._-.-_---_.------.- 150 160Clay...___________-__..____.__-----__.--.__ 70 230
Pierre shale:Shale -.____.____.....__..____.._____--.-.____ 50 280
BASIC DATA
Toble 28. Drillers' loqs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
285
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-50-labb
[Surface altitude, 4,339.1 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_______.__...__._______..___.___________._.___ 200Sandstone ____________________________________________________ 60
Pierre shale:Shale _______________________________________________________ 30
3-50-2baa
[Surface altitude, 4,332.1 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand..............__________________________________________ 160
Pierre shale:Clay._______________________________________________________ 40Shale -_---_----_.._-----____--___-__-______..______._________ 50
3-50-4abb
[Surface altitude, 4,369.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel_______--___-----_----_-_--_._----_-------.--- .220
Pierre shale:Shale ______.-__-.___.____________.-_______--__-- 50
3-50-4bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,383.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel---------------------------------------------- 215
Pierre shale:Shale-.--.-------------------------------------------------- 30
3-50-4bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,371.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel_-__----__--_----_------------_----_---------- 150Rock ___-____---___-----------_----------------------------- 10
Pierre shale:Clay.__________________________-_-___-_-.____-_-___------- 20Shale _---------_-----_--------------.----------------------- 30
3-50-4daa
[Surface altitude, 4,356.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..-___--___-___---___------------------------- 210
Pierre shale:Shale.---.-.__.______-_ --- -- ------- 35
200260
290
160
200250
220
270
215
245
150160
180210
210
245
286 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
______Toble 28. Drillers logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-50-5bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,389.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand; contains streaks of clay.---..._.____.._._____.______.._ 180
Pierre shale:Shale ---------__---___-____________.___--___--.--_--___.._. 45
3-50-5bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,359.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel ____________________________________________ 135
Pierre shale:Shale --________.__..-_-___._______.-_------_--------------_- 30
3-50-5cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,356.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand ._._____..____._.._._._.___._.__.._.._.__.____....._._ 130
Pierre shale:Clay.__......___.__....__.......__...__....____ 25Shale____...._____.______---.-----.-- -.-...-- 35
3-50-6ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,416.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel _.____________________..--_--.-----_--__---_ 100Sandstone.--.--...--_--_---__..-..--_-------_---_-------._. 40
Pierre shale:Clay...._______-.______.....__.____...__....__ 20 Shale_________..__....__...____._______.... 40
3-50-6dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,402.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand rock...........---.-.----..__..__.---------.---.---- 130
Pierre shale:Clay.____..__...__.______-_.. . -- - 30 Shale...__-.__..__.________-____- - -- 30
3-50-7add
[Surface altitude, 4,375.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel ----------_-___-_--------------------------- 125
Pierre shale:15
Shale____....__..__.---.__...--.--.----- -- 30
180
225
135
165
130
155190
100140
160200
130
160190
125
140170
BASIC DATA
Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
287
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-50-7bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,407.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand..._.._..__....__._..._._..___...._____.._.____._.___.. 130
Pierre shale:Clay..__--_.._.-.._....._...__........__..._..____... 15Shale ....._____________.._.....____-...._.._... 35
3-50-7cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,369.9 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel._._....___..__..______......_._..___.-__..__ 130
Pierre shale:Clay____________________________________. 40Shale ______ __________ ___ ______ ______ ________ 40
3-50-8add
[Surface altitude, 4,346.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel...-_..-___-_-_-..-_____-._-___--.-_-___----_ 120
Pierre shale:Clay_______________________________________... 30 Shale ____________________________.___-._ 30
3-50-9baa
[Surface altitude, 4,329.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand..__________________..__________________ 140
Pierre shale:Clay....__________________________._-_ 25 Shale ________.___ .-. __ ... .. 35
3-50-17abb
[Surface altitude, 4,373.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand_____.______________.___________...__ 140
Pierre shale:Clay......__._..--.-........-..__-...-..-__.... .- 20Shale...........__.......__...__..-..-.--..-.._...---. 40
3-50-17dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,363.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel._-.__..---..._____._.--_.__----_.----_------ 130
Pierre shale:Clay._..____---. ... 30 Shale _______ 35
130
145180
130
170210
120
150180
140
165200
140
160200
130
160195
288 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK
______Table 28. Drillers' loqs of test holes, seismoflroph shotholes, and wells Continued
BASIN
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-50-18bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,391.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..___.._____.____.___.._______...__._._..__.. 120
Pierre shale:Shale ________.. ________________ ___ __________________ _ 30
3-50-18cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,378.9 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..._______..__.___.__._..___._____-.___-___._ 130
Pierre shale:Clay....____....________..__.____________... 30Shale __....__._____...__.....__.._______---.. 35
3-50-l9bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,389.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand__..____..__..._________________.--_.--. 110
Pierre shale:Clay.____________.____..__-__.._-- ... 30 Shale _-___-.-____..._..._..._...--.._---_---_--_-----.---- 40
3-50-29cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,347.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand__.___________________.--.- - 160
Pierre shale:Clay.._____________.__----- -- --- 25Shale--..-------------.----.------------------------- --- 40
3-50-30baa
[Surface altitude, 4,424.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand......_____..____._______---. - 170
Pierre shale: ,Clay.______..._______ ........ ----- - 20Shale.--..----.-__________----- - 35
3-50-30cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,383.9 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.-----..-.....--------__-....._-.------.-------------- 130
Pierre shale:Clay...... .. . . . - 20Shale..__.__.-__--._---_-- -- -- 30
120
150
130
160195
110
140180
160
185225
170
190225
130
150180
BASIC DATA
Toble 28. Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismoflraph shotholes, and wells Continued
289
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-50-30ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,375.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand..---.__----------------__----___---___-_--__--__... 90
Pier re shale:Clay...--____---___-_-____---____-______--_____-__......_ 50Shale --------____-__-____---__-________________-.________- 40
3-50-30dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,346.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel--_--_------_---___---_------------------.-_- 130
Pierre shale:Clay.__.______________________..___________. 30 Shale _-..-.________.___________________ 40
3-50-31bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,374.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel-----__---_-----------_------_--------------- 120
Pierre shale:Clay____.____________.---____-____-- - 30 Shale -----_---_-_--_-----------------_--....__._--------- 40
3-50-31daa
[Surface altitude, 4,356.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..__________---____--______-_-_----_---__---- 130
Pierre shale:Clay______________-.________________-__- 30 Shale -------------_.__---___---_---------_-----_-_-_ 40
3-50-31dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,363.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.--.--------------..------------------------- 120
Pierre shale:Clay_________________-__--__--_-.--- - 40 Shale ___________________ __________-__ 40
3-50-32dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,362.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand...___.__...._________-__..__.--- .-..-... 160
Pierre shale:Clay.._____-__------- . --. ------- ------ 45Shale ______________.---__- .- -- 40
90
140180
130
160200
120
150190
130
160200
120
160200
160
205245
290 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK
______Tnble 28. Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
BASEST
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-50-36aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,280.2 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel...._..._____..._.__..-_.___.____.___.------- 200 200Clay, sandy..____________------_____ ----- 30 230Sand and gravel_____.__._____.. .. 50 280
Pierre shale:Clay-----------------------------.--------.---------------- 20 300
3-51-2aaa x
[Surface altitude, 4,401.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel...------.-.-----..---- --------...-- ... 125 125
Pierre shale:Clay..________________._________. 5 130 Shale..........__-.----...___....--.--.-..-.----------.- 30 160
3-51-2baa
[Surface altitude, 4,442.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel._------------_--_--------------------------- 110 110Sandstone .-..____________________ 50 160
Pierre shale:Shale ____________________________ ------- . 50 210
3-51-2ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,439.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel...__---____----_-__-_-.____---_-_----------- 85Sandstone ----.___-_--__-.---_---__-------__---_-.---------- 45
Pierre shale:Shale ..._________________________ 30
3-51-2cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,431.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand---.---.-.--.......-.__.-..______..__-__--------- 135
Pierre shale:Clay_________________________________ 10 Shale _________________________________ 35
3-51-3add
[Surface altitude, 4,416.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel--.--.--___...-__..__..._..---.._-------.- 90 90
85130
160
135
145180
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
291
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-51-3add Continued
Pier re shale:Clay ...__. .___ .. 25 Shale _____________________________________________________ 40
3-51-4add
[Surface altitude, 4,470.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undiff erentiated:Sand..._..._._..._...__................__.......__..... 135
Pierre shale:Clay............ ...............__..........._____... 5Shale...__________________________________________________ 40
3-51-4ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,455.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undiff erentiated:Sand _____________________________________________________ 110
Pierre shale:Clay __________.._______..__.._________ 10Shale.._........___........___.._..___.._..___...._.._._.. 50
3-51-5baa
[Surface altitude, 4,522.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel ___________________________________________ 90Sandstone ___-.-__--_______----_______________-____________ 40
Pierre shale:Shale.._.._........._...__-.-_......__...__........_.... 50
3-51-5ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,504.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand _.-..--.._._....-..._........._._._.._....._..._...._ 125
Pierre shale:Clay....__--_..-.----....-..-__.._......-._.....-.-...... 15Shale............_......_..__.__........_..__.___..__..__. 40
3-51-6ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,537.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel _---.--__-__--_..___..__.._._.___._.._____. 95 Clay. __________.__.___.__-.--_-.--....-___-..--__.. 80
Pierre shale:Shale.._.........._._.._...._......._...___.._._._..__.._. 25
115155
135
140180
110
120170
90130
180
125
140180
95175
200
292 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK
_____Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
BASIN
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-51-7aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,523.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.____________________________________________ 75Sandstone __________________________________________________ 75
Pierre shale:Shale ______________________________________________________ 30
3-51-7cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,512.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel__---_-_____-_____..____________________-.... 70Clay.... .__-__________________ 90
Pierre shale:Shale -------_-----.-......--.-___-_____._..___-___.-___.__- 30
3-51-9bdd
[Surface altitude, 4,493.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand._________---___._.__..__..._..-._.__...._.._-..__.._.. 130
Pierre shale:Clay. ___________________________________________________ 10Shale -----___--__.___________...__...____.___._________.._. 40
3-51-lladd
[Surface altitude, 4,403.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 100
Pierre shale:Clay.-------_---_--_--_-______._______.____......_..-______ 15Shale --------------_-______________________________________ 35
3-51-12abb
[Surface altitude, 4,391.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel__.__________________________________________ 120
Pierre shale:Clay.. _-__ ______________________ 10Shale ----------_-----_.._.._......-..__..___---_-_-__-_____ 30
3-51-12bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,415.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand....--------_--...._.._--.___-_________________________ 120
Pierre shale:Shale ----------------_......__________..-___--_--____-.__.. 50
75150
180
70160
190
130
140180
100
115150
120
130160
120
170
BASIC DATA
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells- Continued
293
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-51-13baa
[Surface altitude, 4,406.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Gravel..___._..._.___.___.__...______.....___..___._._.... 83
Pierre shale:Clay.___.______..__..____....__________...__ 37 Shale .___.____..__._____..........__________ 40
3-51-14abb
[Surface altitude, 4,443.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand....--...........-.--......-..__-.___..__._....--._.. 100
Pierre shale:Clay...__________________..__..____..__.__ 30Shale -----..------.------.-_.__...----..-----..--_---..-- 40
3-51-15baa
[Surface altitude, 4,452.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Gravel..--.------_..----__------__---_-._...--._------_--. 85
Pierre shale:Clay..._____________..____..______.._____ 35Shale _______________---_-----.__________.. 30
3-51-15ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,479.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.-_---._..---____----___--_-__-_--___.-__-_._.___.__-_ 80
Pierre shale: ' Clay.........................................__.......... 50Shale -.-.-...--.--...---...--.._._....-......-__....-..... 50
3-51-16abb
[Surface altitude, 4,469.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.----_-------_-_-----_---_-------_-_---_-----_-------- 90
Pierre shale:Clay.________.___.___._.______________.____._____..--.__.- 10Shale ......__.......__..__-.-......-.._..--....-.-__.. 50
3-51-16cbc
[Surface altitude, 4,513.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.----.__--------__..__------_----.-.-------------.- 90
Pierre shale:Clay.______________..__._________..____.. 90 Shale ........__-...--.-_.-.-_--....---.....--...-__-.__. 45
83
120160
100
130170
85
120150
80
130180
90
100150
90
180225
294 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-51-17baa
[Surface altitude, 4,489.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand__________________________________. 70
Pierre shale:Clay.....________________..__________________ 60 Shale __ ______ __ _____ __ _______ __ __ ___ ____ 50
3-51-17cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,531.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.---._--_...__...--...........__-....--_-..------_--._ 90
Pierre shale:Clay....__-.___.-..-....-._.,......----.----.------__... 100Shale ______________.___.._______.__.-..._ 45
3-51-18ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,513.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.---..-.-._.-......._......._........_......---.---_... 50Clay, sandy.________________________________________________ 50
Pierre shale:Clay.......................__..................--....--.._ 60Shale _______________..________..____.._____. 40
3-51-20abb
[Surface altitude, 4,526.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.....________________________________________ 120
Pierre shale:Clay.______________________________________________________ 60Shale ...__.____________._____.__.______.____ 30
3-51-21bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,519.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Gravel.____________________________________________________ 85
Pierre shale:Clay.______..____.....__.....__.._________... 90 Shale ___________--.-.__--..-_____-_.---__. . 25
3-51-21bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,480.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.._-___._-_.___-___..-.___-__----__----_----- 50
Pierre shale:Clay.__-_..--__----_.--___-_.-.__--_-------------_-------. 75Shale ___ ______ .. ______ ______ ___ __ __ .. __ __ . 30
70
130180
90
190235
50100
160200
120
180210
85
175200
50
125155
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
295
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-51-21cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,449.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.._____________________________________________________ 60
Pierre shale:Clay.__________..____________________________ 40 Shale __ _______ ___ ____ __ ______ ______ __ ___ 50
3-51-22bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,474.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel......________________________________________ 85
Pierre shale:Clay__________________________________.__ 50Shale -........._..._..._....___---_...-.._-._._--_..--.... 35
3-51-23bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,479.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.._____________________________________________________ 130
Pierre shale:Clay..__---...-...__.___...__......._____......... 20Shale______________________________________ 50
3-51-23dbd
[Surface altitude, 4,423.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel........_.._._..___....___.._..._...__--.-.__ 100
Pierre shale:Clay. . __.__.__.._____________________ 35 Shale ......_...-.__..__..__.....__..__---..-....__... 35
3-51-24aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,407.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand ... .......____.__________..__________. 130
Pierre shale:Clay...... .. .. ..-.....-.-__..__.__ 10Shale __..__............__-..----...__......._..__.... 50
3-51-24bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,440.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Gravel and sandstone..______________________________________ 130
Pierre shale:Clay. .. __.___.______________________..__ 10 Shale __--__..___._,__-_____-___.___...._..._-._.-_.___-.___. 50
60
100150
85
135170
130
150200
100
135170
130
140190
130
140190
GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-51-25abb
[Surface altitude, 4,438.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Gravel___---____-____..._._..__..___.._._._____...._.____.| 155
Pierre shale:Clay.............__...................................... 15Shale _______________________.--._______-_-_--_---.-__--. 30
3-51-25bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,409.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel......-___--_--__-__-_____----___---___-___-_| 120
Pierre shale:Shale...-.______-.________________________-__-l 30
3-51-25CCC
[Surface altitude, 4,398.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel-_--_--_-_----_-.-----_------__--------_--_--| 110
Pierre shale:Clay.-__-___._______.-._-.......-_..._.--___--_-_._.-_--.-- 15Shale _..--_-_-_.-.---______..._.-_._-__--_-__.----.__ -. 30
3-51-26abb
[Surface altitude, 4,456.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.-__._________.____.._._.__._________--._.__.__...-I 130
Pierre shale:Clay__.__-___.__._________.-.._.......------....--.-..---- 15Shale __________________________________-___.__..___..--._ 35
3-51-26dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,404.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand..____________.-..__._____------____.---I 80
Pierre shale:Clay.._________________--_.....-._____-___..--_-...--_-. 30Shale _______________________________..-_-- 40
3-51-27baa
[Surface altitude, 4,466.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Gravel. _______________________._-_--. _| 105
Pierre shale:Clay.__-.__-._____-.________________-.___---_ 20 Shale _______________________________._---_--_-----_--.---- 35
155
170200
120
150
110
125155
130
145180
80
110150
105
125160
BASIC DATA
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
297
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-51-27ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,420.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Gravel_____________________________________________________ 85
Pierre shale:Clay.______________________________________________________ 20Shale ____________________________________________________ 45
3-51-28ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,445.4 ft]
Sariborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand._____________________________________ 70
Pierre shale:Clay__-.______________________.-_________ 30Shale ___ __________ ______ ______ ___ __ __ ___ _ 50
3-51-29abb
[Surface altitude, 4,495.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Gravel.-_-_____________________----____--__--________-__--- 55
Pierre shale:Clay.______________________-________________ 50Shale _----________-__-_------_--___-----_---------_-------- 45
3-51-29ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,518.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand_______________________________________________________ 90
Pierre shale:Clay.._______._____-._____________-________- 20 Shale ___________.-___.___.________________ 40
3-51-29ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,506.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel____-____-_--_-----_-------_-------_-------_- 120
Pierre shale:Clay...._-_.____________-_______-_--------.--_-____----_--- 20Shale _____________________________________ 33
3-51-30abb
[Surface altitude, 4,548.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand..--_-___________------_--__-_________________________ 70
Pierre shale:Clay__________________-._______________.--- 40Shale _________-._____.-_- - -_ 40
85
105150
70
100150
55
105150
90
110150
120
140173
70
110150
655012 O - 63 - 20
298 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
______Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seistnoflraph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-51-32bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,519.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undiff erentiated:Clay and gravel__-----________________----___-__-___________ 80
Pierre shale:Clay _____.______________________________. 35 Shale -----__..__---_----._.........__----------__--._.- 40
3-51-32dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,513.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel___--__-_______________________-__-.-__-_-___ 80
Pierre shale:Clay...____.____________________________ 55Shale----_-.-_.---_--.........-.._.-.-.-____.......__... 35
3-51-33cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,469.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand--...-__.__-.._..._._.__-----_._.._..-.--.-._.__._ 80
Pierre shale:Clay..__...........__.....__-_____.._.......__.__. 30Shale..-..__._____________.,_________________ 40
3-51-33ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,483.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand....---_--.._-----.-.._..._......_--------------------- 80
Pierre shale:Clay__________________..________________ 35Shale---__-.....--__......__._.-.-_..--_....-.-........__ 35
3-51-33daa
[Surface altitude, 4,466.9 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.--__---__-____.____.___------_--___-___--_.. 80
Pierre shale:Clay___________________-.__________________ 60 Shale__....__________.-__-,________________ 30
3-51-35add
[Surface altitude, 4,407.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel........._.___.____.____------_--_______---_- 140
Pierre shale:Shale________________________________________ 40
80
115155
80
135170
80
110150
80
115150
80
140170
140
180
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
299
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-51-36cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,396.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel__--_--__________- ____.__ ________ ______. 140
Pier re shale:Clay ... ._______________________ 25Shale _______.________....______________... 35
3-52-3dcc
[Surface altitude. 4,550.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Gravel......._....._--...._..___.....__.._.___._........._- 25Clay.-.-......-.-...--.__...___..--.......---._--------- 173
Pierre shale:Shale -----__-_.---_-.______________________.-.- 22
3-52-4dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,571.5 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand..............__-....__--_--_---.--..-_-------- .___ 30Clay.__.....__...___-..-.-...-........-___.._---.---. 155
Pierre shale:Shale ___.......__..______....-.--__ .---- -- 25
3-52-5add
[Surface altitude, 4,519.0 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay..-..___-_________-...-------- 125
Pierre shale:Shale__.__.___--...__----- -- -- 25
3-52-10bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,572.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel --- . _ --- - - - 40Rock ..____.----------. - -- - 25Clay.._________ ----- - - 135
Pierre shale:Shale--...-----.-.-----.--.--...---------------------------- 30
3-52-24baa
[Surface altitude, 4,527.9 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Gravel---..______________ ±... -- --- 40 Clay, sandy -.-. ----- --- 40
Pierre shale:Clay...-...---..--.-.--.--------------------------------- 80Shale ______.- -- - - 40
140
165200
25198
220
30185
210
125
150
4065
200
230
4080
160200
300 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph sfiotfioles, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
3-52-36aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,545.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel_____..___.__.._.._._.____._.______________.. 80
Pierre shale:Clay____---__________________..._______-_____---___...... 45Shale ____---..___________.__....__..________ 35
3-53-24cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,588.0 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel..-__-_________________-___-_-_-------__----- 15Clay____.___________..........____..____----- 90
Pierre shale:Shale...________...__.......______.. 45
3-53-25abd
[Test hole drilled by the State of Colorado, 1906]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..------------------------------------------- 85
Pierre shale:Shale--.--------.----------------.------------------------- 70Lime-..----__-_.-----____.--------.----------------------- 2Shale __.____..___________- - - -- 148Lime ___________________________________-_---.---w__------- 3Shale -----____--.____________-__-------- --- 192Shale, light -gray._--_.-___._------_-_--_--__---------------- 23Lime..__----------__-------------- ----- ----- 2Shale---.-----..------__.__-------------__-------------- 252Shale, light -gray _.___.-___...__._._-_-_-_-___--------------- 125Lime --.---_-_____-___-____---_-_-------------------------- 2Shale.---------.-------------------------------------- -- 242
4-49-2abb
[Surface altitude, 4,171.4 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel__----_--____-_------------------------------ 165
White River(?) group:Sandstone _____._..-___--_-_---_._-------------------------- 55
Pierre shale:Shale._______-____.________-__ - 30
4-49-4abb
[Surface altitude, 4,197.5 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel___-___-____.-_-___-------------------------- 125
Pierre shale:Clay.---------.-.----------__--------- ----- -- -- 25Shale------------------------------------------------------ 30
BASIC DATA 301
Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-49-5cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,257.5 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.------------------.---.--..--------------.- 150
Pierre shale:Shale ---_--.--_-___-----_---.__.............__..__-_--. 30
4-49-5dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,260.3 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel------------------..--__-___--___--____----- 140Sand rock _----_--_-__--------..-....._.._......-._-__._-.. 40
Pierre shale:Shale __..__________________________________.. 30
4-49-6dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,307.1 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.-.------.-.-------.___-___-----------_-__-- 150
Pierre shale:Clay....____.......__........______.______.. 30Shale _________..__.__.__.._________.____._ 40
4-49-7aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,297.2 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.._._.._______---.-..._..___-__-..-.-.-_-_-. 200
Pierre shale:Shale._____...____________________.___,.---_ 30
4-49-7add
[Surface altitude, 4,318.7 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.--_-_-------------..-___-__---_--__----_--- 150Sand rock ._..-.._____-_.__-_----.._.____._.-__-__.-.._-.- 70
Pierre shale:Shale --............__--_.--_--_--....__._......_.._.--_--. 30
4-49-7bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,293.4 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel__..-_--___---._-_---..__-__--___________--. 165
Pierre shale:Shale._______________________________________ 30
150
180
140180
210
150
180220
200
230
150220
250
165
195
3Q2 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-49-8aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,232.4 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_-__-_____________________.__-__--_-_________ 70Sand......_____-__-______..______________.-_________------- 95
Pierre shale:Shale ----__---_------______-____________-_--.___--.___... 35
4-49-9aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,216.2 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_----_-__-____-___-_________.--__-__-_--_-_-- 110Sandstone......------.._...___...__.-___----_----___------. 70
Pierre shale:Shale ---.._..-_....._._.._....-.-_-__......_----- 30
4-49-9cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,240.7 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_-_--_----_-----__-___-_-_-------_--__------_ 80Sandstone _-_______-_________-___________-__-_---_-------_-. 130
Pierre shale:Shale...________________________________._ 30
4-49-llaaa
[Surface altitude, 4,190.1 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.-------__.._._________-__--._---_____------- 100Sandstone _-_____---_________._.._.-_-._--__---._-----_-_-- 150
Pierre shale:Shale..---.-.__-.__...........__.....__----.. .-.--__--- 30
4-49-llcdd
[Surface altitude, 4,207.7 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.-_-_-____________________--__-__--___---__-- 120Sandstone ......____._.___.____........_.-__-------.__..---- 110
Pierre shale:Shale ..___..______________...-.-_---.__ 10
4-49-13dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,184.1 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel--------.----.---.--..-.-----__------.------- 170Clay, sandy-----.--....---.-._----_-.-------------_--_-.---- 80
Pierre shale:Shale __________________________ .- 30
70165
200
110180
210
80210
240
100250
280
120230
240
170250
280
BASIC DATA 303
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-49-14ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,215.6 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel____---_---_-_-___--_-__-___-_--__-__-__-_--- 100 Sandstone __________________________________________________ 125
Pierre shale:Shale __.__....-.-._-_-_.....---_---..._..._---.-...__.._ 25
4-49-15abb
[Surface altitude, 4,217.0 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel....------__-_--_--------_-_--..-------_------ 120Sandstone.---..---_-_-_--.--_--------.._---_-----____---_.- 90
Pierre shale:Shale---......__.__..__..__.... -.._...__..-..._....... 30
4-49-17ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,279.7 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_.__-_-_---_-__-__-__-_________-_--____-___-_ 100Sandstone -.__-_-__--_---___--_____-_-__.._-_--___-____._-.- 145
Pierre shale:Shale ___________________-.________________ 25
4-49-19dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,283.6 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel--.--------..__-_-------__--._--_-_-_____-Sandstone ---_--.__-_j-_--._----.-.-.--__---__-.-_--__-__--- 130
Pierre shale:Shale -----__.....-.---.-_...__.---._____-.---...-.-.-_ 30
4-49-20bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,273.7 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand.._______________._______________________ 225
Pierre shale:Shale --_-....______---_.-.---._____......__..______- 25
4-49-21aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,239.2 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand.. ___...___.....-.--.____.___..__--_-.---__..__ 220
Pierre shale:Shale ___________1__________________________ __ - 30
100225
250
120210
240
100245
270
90220
250
225
250
220
250
304 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' lo.qs of test holes, seismoflraph shothoJes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-49-22cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,222.4 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand_.______________________________________.__.._-__----_-_ 240
Pierre shale:Shale._-_.___.___...._.._____._..___.__.__.__._.._...___.__ 30
4-49-23dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,200.3 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel..___________________________________________ 120Sandstone _-_.______________._______._-.-__-_-__-___-____._- 120
Pierre shale:Shale____..___....__...____.._______..______ 30
4-49-24aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,174.1 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.------..____________________________________ 120Sandst one._________________________________________________ 125
Pierre shale:Shale__-..._......_________..________________. 25
4-49-24bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,198.6 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy.._______________________________________________ 60Sand____..____._________..______________ 175
Pierre shale:Shale __.....__..__......__..__.___-.-----------.__... 25
4-49-24dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,191.1 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel__________._.______..___.._..________._______ 125Sandstone ----___...._._...____...._._-..-_.__-__-__.-_.._.. 130
Pierre shale:Shale____.______....________._____________ 25
4-49-27ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,219.7 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand.-__.......___...__......_...___.__..___.._..._.______. 250
Pierre shale:Shale.-------._-.-__......__.__.._.....____-...-___-.-._- 30
240
270
120240
270
120245
270
60235
260
125255
280
250
280
BASIC DATA 305
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-49-28baa
[Surface altitude, 4,259.1 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_-____--____-_----_-_________________________ 120Sandstone .__._.____.________.__._...._._..___._...___.__... 120
Pierre shale:Shale . .. .__......____....__________ 30
4-49-31aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,285.4 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel...._.-.._..._.....__._..___.__...._.._._.__. 110Sandstone __________________________________________________ 70Gravel--__..._._..__.___.___.._....._._..._________..______ 50
Pierre shale:Shale _..__..._._.._______.__.__...........__..........__. 30
4-49-32aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,266.6 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel-...--_....._.-..._.___.___.._.......__...... 160Sand.._____________________________________________________ 80
Pierre shale:Shale .--------...--..__------------.-----...-_-..-.-._.... 30
4-49-32cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,274.0 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.................__..___.___.____.__..__..___ 120Sandstone __________________________________________________ 110
Pierre shale:Shale ______________________________________________________ 40
4-49-33aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,258.7 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel..___________________________________________ 100Sandstone__________________________________________________ 155
Pierre shale:Shale ------__---__--.__._.__________..__._..__...___.__.___ 15
4-49-33cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,230.9 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand....___________________________________________________ 250
Pierre shale:Shale ______________________________________________________ 20
120240
270
110180230
260
160240
270
120230
270
100255
270
250
270
306 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued __
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-49-35aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,190.4 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand....__.___.__.................__........__........ 240
Pierre shale:Shale-.-.-__------..-.-..-..__-----__------.-----------. 30
4-49-35dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,186.3 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel-__---__--.___-_____---____-_-__------__----- 110Sandstone-_..__.. ______________ _____-____-__--_--___---__-- 140
Pierre shale:Clay_________________________________________ __-____-. 20Shale ..._______________________________________ 20
4-50-lcdd
[Surface altitude, 4,291.3 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_--____-___------___------------------_------ 120
Pierre shale:Clay_____________________________.- 10Shale____________________. _ - 35
4-50-ldaa
[Surface altitude, 4,279.5 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel___-___-_-__-___----------_--_-_------_------ 100
Pierre shale:Clay________________________ __ . _ 20Shale ________________________-. . - 30
4-5G-2dcc
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undiff erentiated;Gravel and sand -___________________--___-----__------_----- 60
Pierre shale:Clay_____________________________-. - 60Shale__________________________- 30
I_____________________
4-50-3ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,349.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel--_-_-_----_-_-___----_---------------------- 120
Pierre shale:Clay......___________________-.__- __ - 10Shale ___.___ __ __. _- 50
240
270
110250
270290
120
130165
100
120150
60
120150
120
130180
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
307
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-50-3daa
[Surface altitude, 4,314.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 70Sandstone ..--___-.-.--------__.._....______._..._..___.__ 20
Pierre shale:Clay..............__...__......__.....-.---......_.-.---- 15Shale ...__.._____________________.__________... 45
4-50-5cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,380.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay...____........________________________ 110
Pierre shale:Shale __..__.__..________________________... 40
4-50-5ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,380.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand..._._.___..._..__.___._.__.._____..__..._._....______- 60Clay._____.___-.__._____---.._______..______. 40
Pierre shale:Shale _____________..___---._...____ - 50
4-50-6ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,375.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.................__..__.......-..-..---..-_.--.-.-..- 30Clay......____..____..____._________...___ 30
Pierre shale:Shale --.-._---_-------.---.-------._-.----__-._-------. 90
4-50-6cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,387.9 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel-----.-------.--.---------------------------- 100
Pierre shale:Shale _______.__________-._______.______ .-- 50
4-50-7add
[Surface altitude, 4,376.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel--------------------------------------------- 120
Pierre shale:Clay.___________-__-.____ .- .- - 30 Shale _-.__.-______________--___ 30
7090
105150
110
150
60100
150
3060
150
100
150
120
150180
308 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' Jogs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-50-7cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,381.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand._.._._.._______..___._..___.___._._...........__.._._. 30Clay-...__________________________________________________ 60
Pierre shale:Shale ______.__._________________________.____ 60
4-50-7ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,387.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel--...---_-__--___---_-______-_-____---------_ 90
Pierre shale:Clay____..____________.________________. 30Shale ______________________________________________________ 30
4-50-7dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,393.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..-.-__...._.__....___._..._...-.___--.__._.- 120
Pierre shale:Clay____..____..____...__..--_____..--__... 55 Shale ______________________________________________________ 25
4-50-7ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,382.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel---_-___.--_-__-_._.___---____-____-_----_--- 160
Pierre shale:Clay______________..____.._________.______. 20Shale _____.________________________._____ 30
4-50-8add
[Surface altitude, 4,397.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel__--___________________-__-_-_______---._____ 160
Pierre shale:Clay._________________________________.______ 20Shale ________-----__________________--__._______-___._____ 30
4-50-9bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,397.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..___________________________________________ 100Sandstone and streaks of clay----__-_____-_--__-----_--_---.-- 60
Pierre shale:Shale ---______--._________________________________________ 20
3090
150
90
120150
120
175200
160
180210
160
180210
100160
180
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
309
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-50-10aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,324.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel-.-__________________________________________ 90
Pierre shale:Clay..........__.......______i-_........__......______-- 30Shale __..____..__..._______.._____....__.__. 50
4-50-10cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,398.9 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand__....__---._______.______..___________ 210
Pier re shale:Shale __..__..__.________.__________--._____ 50
4-50-10daa
i [Surface altitude, 4,332.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel_.------__---_-----_--_--_---.-------------_- 150
Pierre shale:Clay..____..____________________..__-__----- 20 Shale ._________________-----__------ -._ 30
4-50-llccc
[Surface altitude, 4,317.9 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel......__--__----_----_-_-----_.---_----_----- 145
Pierre shale:Clay.____..__-.______.__-_-----.__.__---.-.-.---. 20 Shale -------------____--_---------_--------.-------_------ 30
4-50-lldaa
[Surface altitude, 4,300.6 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel-.-.-.--------------------------------------- 185
Pierre shale:Shale ____________.-_______________.__.--.__--.. 25
4-50-lldcc
[Surface altitude, 4,314.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.--.-------_.._-________..._-_-_-_._--___-_-- 110Sandstone..-.--___-_...-.--.-___-_--__----_---------_------ 50
Pierre shale:Clay.__________________--.____------ 20Shale .----------------.-----.___.____-..- -------- 20
90
120170
210
260
150
170200
145
165195
185
210
110160
180200
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___ Table 28. Drillers' lofjs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-50-12aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,292.4 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.......___.______-______-_______-_-___--___-- 130
Pierre shale:Clay.._...._..____..__._____..___._.___----------__------ 10Shale _--_----_-..-.----..._..__-.__-----__-------------- 40
4-50-12bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,304.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..____________..-.______---____-----_------_- 110Sandstone; contains streaks of clay.--------------------------- 45
Pierre shale:Shale _________________.._____________-__-- 25
4-50-12dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,302.9 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel---__--__-_--_-___--_--_--_-_----_----------- 100Sand and sandstone.---__---_--___----_---_-_-_-------------- 80
Pierre shale:Shale __--------------__.-_--._--____-__------__----- 20
4-50-14ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,369.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and sandstone..--_____--____-_---_--_--------__--_----- 255
Pierre shale:Shale ---------__.------_.----_------_--__-- ----- ._- 35
4-50-15baa
[Surface altitude, 4,391.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Shale, sandy._______________.__._____ . 90 Sand________________________ - --- 120
Pierre shale:Clay__-__-----___________-.._----- -.-- - 10 Shale _________________-- 30
4-50-15bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,398.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..__________-_____---_----_---_----_--------- 160Clay------------------------------------------------------- 60
Pierre shale:Shale __________________----- 30
130
140180
110155
180
100180
200
255
290
90210
220250
160220
250
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
311
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-50-15bcc
[Surface altitude, 4.408.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..---.----------.--..----.-.-..-.--...---..-.- 220
Pierre shale:Clay.--...__...__.__.__.__.._______________... 35
4-50-15ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,376.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand..._-_-________--_---_----___-._.--_.__._---_.--___---. 200
Pierre shale:Clay..-.._-...--.._--._.-...--.__.__._..___--__.-___... 30Shale ..____________________._____________ 20
4-50-15daa
[Surface altitude, 4,356.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel------..----..-.----__--_--__-_---------_--.- 230
Pierre shale:Shale -----------------_----_----_---_-----------._---__--. 30
4-50-16bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,402.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.-...-.-..-.---__--_---___-_-_.-___--_.___.-- 210 Rock _-___-_--___---_----_-_----_-----,-__--___-__---___--_ 20
Pierre shale:Shale ______ ____ ___ ______________ __ __ __ ___ 30
4-50-16cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,392.9 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..--.---.-_----_.__-_.-_-.._----_.----------- 220
Pierre shale:Clay......__.......__....._____...____..-..--.----.. 10Shale __ . __ ____ ___ __ ______ __ ___ __________ 30
4-50-l7abb
[Surface altitude, 4,390.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand....---.......-___.-__.-_.._-...___...-..--..__-____..- 180
Pierre shale:Clay__..__________._______________..__... ... 10 Shale -._..-..__..-_..-_....__-...___..._..-._..._..._..- 40
220
255
200
230250
230
260
210230
260
220
230260
180
190230
312 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' 10<?s of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-50-17cbb
(Surface altitude, 4,392.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel...--_-...._..._.._.._...._--___--__--___.__. 160 160 Clay.--------.__..-_.-.._..___.....___...._._..._._.._.____ 40 200
Pierre shale:Shale ------.-------.-----.-......_.....----------------..-_ 40 240
4-50-18ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,388.9 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel...--_-__-____________________-_--__----_-_-_ 100 100Sandstone.__..__..__.....__._..____....___..__._.__..__..__ 70 170
Pierre shale:Shale ..----_...._.----...__.._._.__.._..-.-.-___...__._._. 40 210
4-50-19aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,374.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel--__-__-__________________-----------____-_-_ 120 120Sandstone........__________________________________________ 70 190
Pierre shale:Shale___________ ....................................... 50 240
4-50-19abb
[Surface altitude, 4,380.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.._.-_.____.._._...._______._.._._..___._.___ 120 120Sand rock._.___..____.__...._.__._._..___..__.___.___._.__. 60 180
Pierre shale:Shale ______________________________________________________ 30 210
4-50-19cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,400.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel_____-_--_-_______________.-_-_-____-_______- 110 110Sandstone _-_______-______________________--------_----_--._ 80 190
Pierre shale:Shale -_-__________-_______________________-._----_--_-_--__ 20 210
4-50-19daa
[Surface altitude, 4,390.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel____-..__.___________________________________ 190 190
Pierre shale:Shale -.-__________-_.___________________-----_------_-_---. 30 220
BASIC DATA 313
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-50-20abb
[Surface altitude, 4,399.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel---.-------.------.-----------------.-----.- 230
Pierre shale:Shale ____________.._-.________.___.. 35
4-50-21ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,372.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel...---_---------_---------_--------_-----_-- 180
Pierre shale:Clay.__.._____.___________________________ 40Shale ___.________..._______..___.____. 30
4-50-22cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,370.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel._._________________________________________ 250
Pierre shale:Shale ___..._......__.__...._._._.....____._....._..._._._ 50
4-50-22ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,370.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.------------------------.--------_---.----- 260
Pierre shale:Shale _._......_._........_..._._._._.._.__._.__._...._.._. 30
4-50-22ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,369.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel-------------------------------------------- 280
Pierre shale:Shale __-.-..__.^^^^.______-.____________-. 20
4-50-23aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,308.8 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel...----------------------------------------- 110Sand and sandstone----------------------------------------- HO
Pierre shale:Shale ______________.-__---_______-___________ 20
230
265
180
220250
250
300
260
290
280
300
110220
240
655012 0-63-21
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Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-50-23cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,368.1 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay.____________.___..____________________ 60 60 Sand and gravel_--____-_--______-_-__-----_-_-------_.__--- 210 270
Pierre shale:Shale__________________..___________..___... 45 315
4-50-24aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,286.7 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.-......._........--..___......-.-.--...._._ 80 80Shale, sandy-.-.-.__------__-.._-___...-__----..-.---_ 130 210
Pierre shale:Shale __.._________________..____________ 20 230
4-50-24dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,302.9 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel---........-...........-.---.-.-----..------ 140 140Sand______________...._______________________ 80 220
Pierre shale:Shale __ _______ __ __________ __________ _______ 30 250
4-50-25ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,293.9 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.-..__._.__.__._.__....__..._........__._... 80 80Sand.................____..__...__...__.-._-._____ 120 200
Pierre shale:Clay..-.-.__.-__.---..-....-.--....__._-....---____.. 10 210 Shale ______________ ___ ______ __ ______ _______ 50 260
4-50-26cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,357.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.................._._____.____.____-__--__._ | 230 | 230
Pierre shale:Clay._______________________________________ 15 245 Shale __________________..._________.....______ 30 275
4-50-26ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,356.2 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand....__.._.-__..__..__.----..-.__..__..--.------_ 180 I 180Shale, sandy...-....------...._.._-.._-_-------_-----_--_-- 75 | 255
Pierre shale:Shale__________________________________________| 45 | 300
BASIC DATA 315Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-50-27ddc
[Surface altitude, 4,360.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand_................._............._.................. 230
Pierre shale:Shale --.-._-_--...._-.-.--...........__.....____. 50
4-50-28bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,379.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..--.._----------..-....--__----...._.------- 200
Pierre shale:Shale ___ _ . ____ _____. _ ___ ______ _________ 30
4-50-29bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,381.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel-..._...______.---------.-...-.-._--_-- 200
Pierre shale:Shale ..........................____._-.---...____.__- 30
4-50-29cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,388.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.....___.._..______________________ 190
Pierre shale:Shale ___ __________ __. _ ___ _ ___ _____ ___ . 50
4-50-29ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,376.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand_________________________._..______ 180
Pierre shale:Clay..._.....__.._____..____.........________ 10Shale ___ ____ _____ ___________ .. _. __ _____ . 50
4-50-30ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,390.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..._-_--_-_-_--_-_...__._--_-.-___._--__----- 110Sandstone-------.-----_-------------_..-------.----.------- 30
Pierre shale:Shale _ _ ____ __________________________ 50
230
280
200
230
200
230
190
240
180
190240
110140
190
GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-50-31cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,411.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel___________________________-__--_-_-_-_-_--_ 160
Pierre shale:Shale --.............._................__.-.-----.---...-. 30
4-50-31cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,406.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel____________________________________________ 150
Pierre shale:Clay--....__---_________________________------_--_-___-__ 15Shale _..........______.._._....._._......_.__..__--.______ 30
4-50-32cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,389.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel___________________________--__-___---_--___ 170
Pierre shale:Shale ...-___--__..._._..._.._..____._..__......._..._._.__ 30
4-50-32cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,384.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel____________________________________________ 150
Pierre shale:Clay-.--....._________.________________ 10Shale _________.._._.__.__.____________________________ 50
4-50-34cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,350.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel____________________________________________ 190
Pierre shale:Shale ___.____-.__________________________ 30
4-50-34ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,360.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.--------_---_________________________---_----___---. 170Clay, sandy.----_--_..__._..__.....___..._--_---.----...... 70
Pierre shale:Shale ____________________________-__._--___----.__--. 60
160
190
150
165195
170
200
150
160210
190
220
170240
300
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
317
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-50-34cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,357.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand_..._.._....___.........___......_.______._..__.._._... 210
Pierre shale:Shale ________________________________________________________ 50
4-50-35bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,365.1 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel....._....._-___..___.____.___._____._.__.___ 190 Clay_.__.__..____._____........___________.. 15
Pierre shale:_ Shale __..__.____.____...___.._._...^^^.^^__. 95
4-51-lcbb
[Surface altitude, 4,388.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 30Clay.__.___.....__.......__--..-______________._ 50
Pierre shpTe:Shale -_--.___._-----.----_----_-_--_----..-----------_----. 70
4-51-lccc
[Surface altitude, 4,396.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.--_-.___._---_-._.-------__----_--..._------__--_------ 40Clay....______..____.._____.____.____---..--.-.-. 35
Pierre shale:Shale ........__.-_-.-__--------------.------..------------ 75
4-51-ldaa
[Surface altitude, 4,397.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.......__...____-.----..--_ ..__. .. 30Clay.__..__...______-..---..__..____..__...___... 65
Pierre shale:Shale ______________.....__. ..__-.-.-..--- ... 55
4-51-3add
[Surface altitude, 4,408.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Gravel............-......-----.-------------.------.-.----- 65
Pierre shale:Shale __-......_--__-----__-..-----.------------------._- 55
210
260
190205
300
3080
150
4075
150
3095
150
65
120
GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-51-3cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,400.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay....______________________________..____________________ 50
Pierre shale:Shale -_.--_-.-..._.___..._.__.____._....._...__.__.__._._._ 70
4-51-3cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,411.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay ._________________________________ 105
Pierre shale:Shale .........__-_.._._________._..______--.___.. 45
4-51-4ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,426.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.-__........._...._.......__.___.___........_.._.__..._ 25Clay. ..__________...__________________ 115
Pierre shale:Shale _________________________ _____ _______ 20
4-51-4cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,405.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.-_-_____-_-_-__-_--.______--_____---_----_---__------. 10Clay..........__.__.___...________._________... 50
Pierre shale:Shale -_-.._.___.......____._.....____...... 90
4-51-4ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,415.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand......___._._..___._.._....._____-_.....-.-._-..--_._-. 25Clay_________________________________________. 75
Pierre shale:Shale ......_..__.....___.._......__......._._..__ 50
4-51-6daa
[Surface altitude, 4,445.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel._-___-_._.-_...__.___-_.__----.------_----_. 30Clay......________________________________. 120
Pierre shale:Shale _____ ___ ______ __________ ____________ . 30
50
120
105
150
25140
160
1060
150
25100
150
30150
180
BASIC DATA
Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
319
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-51-7baa
[Surface altitude, 4,393.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay.___________________._________________ 50
Pierre shale:Shale ______________..________....____________ 35Limestone,___--____--____-___---____--____-___--_____-____- 2Shale _.-..-.---.---.._---.._-.--..-...._.....--...__... 31Lime stone._---___--__-_-_--__---__---__________-____-____-_ 2Shale ...____1..._.____---._----.--_._--__-.--_.--- 25Lime stone,._-___-____-____-._-_-__----__--___-------------- 2Shale -----_--.._---_-----.-------------_--------------- 3
4-51-9cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,412.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand....__.....__-...-.......------__------- 20Clay.................__.....__..____..------..--.- .. 95
Pierre shale:Shale __________________-----__ - 35
4-51-10cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,424.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.-----.-------------_----_---,--------------- 30Clay__..__-__... -.-- - 90
Pierre shale:Shale _________________---__---. -- - 30
4-51-10cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,422.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand._________--... . 30 Clay.____.___.________-....---..------.- .- 70
Pierre shale:Shale ____________----- . - 50
4-51-10ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,407.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand....-..._-..-._.--.-------------I---.-._--------------- 30Clay__________________----i -. 30
Pierre shale:Shale _____--.__ ---. __------ - - --- 60
50
8587
118120145147150
20115
150
30120
150
30100
150
3060
120
320 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
_____Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued_______
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-51-llabb
[Surface altitude, 4,419.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay...__.__..__.._.__...._.___.._____.__...._._.__.___.._. 100
Pier re shale:Shale ...._________________________________ 50
4-51-12baa
[Surface altitude, 4,377.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay and gravel_____________________________________________ 40
Pierre shale:Shale --------_---__-___________________-_______--_________. 80
4-51-13abb
[Surface altitude, 4,394.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand____----_-.-________________________-___--_-_____-_-_-. 70
Pierre shale:Clay_____________________________________ 20Shale__...____________________________________ 60
4-51-13bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,408.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 60
Pierre shale:Clay. _________________________________ 30Shale _________________________________ 60
4-51-14abb
[Surface altitude, 4,417.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand______________________________________________________ 60
Pierre shale:Clay____________________________________________________ 30Shale ____________________________________ 60
4-51-14ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,414.9 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..___________________________________________ 50Rock _____________________________________________________ 10
Pierre shale:Clay________._____________________________ 30Shale-_-..__..___________________________________________ 60
100
150
40
120
70
90150
60
90150
60
90150
5060
90150
BASIC DATA
Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
321
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-51-14ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,413.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.......________________________________________________ 130
Pierre shale:Clay......________.--___________----_____-_-_______-____ 10Shale --_--_-------___-.__-____-------______--_____-._-__- 40
4-51-15bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,435.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand_______________________________________________________ 20Clay..__-__-....---_-..___.________...._.__.__--.._- 120
Pierre shale:Shale __ __________ ______ ___________ __ _____ . __ 30
4-51-15ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,431.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.......______________________________________ 40Clay___________________________._____-.___ . 90
Pierre shale:Shale ________________...____________________. 20
4-51-16cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,423.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and clay.___.-___--__-_-_-___-__-____-_.__-___-_-_-_.-- 120
Pierre shale:Shale _______._______________________________ 30
4-51-17cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,456.6 ft]
Dune sand:Sand and gravel.____________________________________________ 30
Ogallala formation:Clay__________..._______________________-__._-- 70
Pierre shale:Shale ___ ____________ __ __ ___ ______ ______ _ __ _ 50
4-51-18ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,471.7 ft]
Dune sand:Sand_______________________________________________________ 22
Ogallala formation:Clay....____________ __ __. 56
Pierre shale:Shale __._____...___.______________--._____--_ 52
130
140180
20140
170
40130
150
120
150
30
100
150
22
78
130
322 " GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
_____Table 28. Drillers' loas of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued ____
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-51-19cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,478.1 ft]
Dune sand:Sand.... __.......__.__.__.__.....----.......__..... 40
Pierre shale:Clay __....______..._____________ 35 Shale __._...__.......__._..........._................... 75
4-51-20bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,454.7 ft]
Dune sand:Sand and gravel............... ______________________________ 25
Ogallala formation:Clay. ___...________________________________ 95
Pierre shale:Shale .._______-..-__________._._____-_--._________--. 30
4-51-23baa
[Surface altitude, 4,408.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 90
Pierre shale:Shale __________________________________________________ 30
4-51-24abb
[Surface altitude, 4,400.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, indifferentiated:Sand and gravel________.____________________________________ 135
Pierre shale:Clay.______________________________ _.__ 30 Shale -__--__-_____-__.___._-_........-..._.-..._.-.__-_____ 35
4-51-24ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,420.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.--_______._-___--_.-._-----___-----_-----_-_ 140
Pierre shale:Shale ...______________________________.-.-.._.__ 30
4-51-24daa
[Surface altitude, 4,409.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.____________________________-.___..--_--.___ 180
Pierre shale:Clay.____________________________. 15 Shale _________________________________ -. 30
40
75150
25
120
150
90
120
135
165200
140
170
180
195225
BASIC DATA
Toble 28. Drillers' loos of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
323
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-51-25baa
[Surface altitude, 4,425.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel__-._________-____.______.__________________ 160
Pierre shale:Clay____________ __________________________________________ 20Shale _____________________________________________________ 30
4-51-25cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,406.3 ft] ( , Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:
Sand ._ ________________________________ 130Pierre shale:
Clay_________________________________________ 25Shale ______________________________________ 25
4-51-26dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,423.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel------_--_----___---_---____-__----_---_---._ 110
Pierre shale:Clay_____________________________.______ 20Shale _____________________________________ 30
4-51-27abb
[Surface altitude, 4,447.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.---_-_----_-_-__._----__-_.-_--.-__--__._ 90
Pierre shale:Clay_________________________________.______ 40 Shale _ ___________ ___ _ _______ _ _ ________ 40
4-51-27dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,445.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel--.------. ___-__._________.__--.__-_-_--_. 120
Pierre shale:Clay___.._____.______.____-____-___.--__--_-_ 30 Shale ________.___._____________._ .-.--_- 30
4-51-27ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,434.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.________________-__-_____----_--.__--.--_-- 100Sandstone ___.__-__________-_____-__---_----_--_----------- 20
Pierre shale:Shale _______--.- . 50
160
180210
130
155180
110
130160
90
130170
120
150180
100120
170
324 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
______Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismoflraph shothoks. and iftils-Contin^ed
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-51-28abb
[Surface altitude, 4,470.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand..----_----_--_____-________________________._____.___. 100
Pierre shale:Clay. .....______.__.____._____________... 20 Shale -----__--__--._-_-_-______________-_____-_____________ 50
4-51-28ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,492.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..__-..__-___________________________________ 90
Pierre shale:Clay .. ....__...__....... _. .. 30Shale .....___________________________... 40
4-51-29abb
[Surface altitude, 4,473.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.._._._...__...._._...._.._.._._....._.._..._ 70
Pierre shale:Clay.._________._____________._____________. 30 Shale -.-------..___.....__.._........._._._._....___....__. 50
4-51-29bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,497.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.______________________________________________________ 40
Pierre shale:Clay....______________....__________________ 40 Shale __ ___ __ .. __ ___ ____ ____ __ ____ __ ______ 70
4-51-29ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,505.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand..--...__-.._-......_..._.....-.-.._.-.----.-. ... 50
Pierre shale:Clay..._...-.....-_...._..__.___.-_....-.__-..---_-...--- 30Shale __.._______--._____.._______ -. .. 70
4-51-30bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,479.9 ft]
Dune sand:Sand..--.__._......._..-_...--_...---.--__..----_--------. 20
Pierre shale:Clay.____________________________ 50Shale ----..__..___.__-----__-----__---.-----------..-- 80
100
120170
90
120160
70
100150
40
80150
50
80150
20
70150
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
325
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-51-31dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,533.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand__......__..___------_-____---..___________.._..____ 20Clay . . ..... .....__..____..... 60
Pierre shale:Shale ........__........__..____________________. 70
4-51-33dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,496.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.................__.-_._..-.....__..._..._...._...... 140
Pierre shale:Clay________.________...____.______..______ 15 Shale ______........__.__.............__-....-....-... 45
4-51-35cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,441.8 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand_______.____________.______-.-...__.... 135
Pierre shale:Clay..____...___________-._______-___-....-.. 20 Shale __.._....-....-.-------_--------._---------.---.---.- 35
4-51-35ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,451.4 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel..___---_-__--------_--__---._--------------- 150
Pierre shale:Clay________________.___________-...-..-- 20 Shale _______.._______----.-------. - 30
4-51-36bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,410.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand........______... ... ... - 100
Pierre shale:Shale __________.____--..---__-._. . 50
4-51-36dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,421.9 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand........__.....___.-.-.-.----..-..-.--. ...... 130
Pierre shale:Clay, sandy.________________________________________________ 45Shale __..______.... ---. 45
2080
150
140
155200
135
155190
150
170200
100
150
130
175220
326 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
______Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued______
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-52-lccc
[Surface altitude, 4,407.5 ft]
Dune sand:Sand . . __-._...___________...________ 35
Pierre shale:Clay...........__--......_..__........................... 20Shale _ ....__________.________.____.__ 95
4-52-2baa
[Surface altitude, 4,338.5 ft]
Dune sand:Sand.......__..._.................._.__.._.......-._..... 30
Pierre shale:Clay.......................__............__-----...__... 10Shale .....__.__..__.......__.....-.---..------.-.--.... 110
4-52-2ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,435.9 ft]
Dune sand:Sand......................_...__.........___--......_-..... 25
Pierre shale:Clay________________________...______ 35Shale_________________-..--____________. 90
4-52-2daa
[Surface altitude, 4,381.9 ft]
Dune sand:Sand___________.._________________________ 40
Pierre shale:Clay..__....__.___.__........______.............. 20Shale _---...--._---._.-.-...--.-..._--..-_.._------ 60
4-52-3ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,458.5 ft]
Dune sand:Sand..........___.......__..._....._....... ----- 10
Pierre shale:Clay-----.-.--.---___---_.-...--.-.-.___...._----.- . 45 Shale_____________________.______------ 95
4-52-4abb
[Surface altitude, 4,405.7 ft]
Dune sand:Sand..__............__........__......__.._--..-......- 40
Pierre shale:Clay--....-._._.____________----------- . 35Shale .____________________ --- 75
35
55150
30
40150
25
60150
40
60120
10
55150
40
75150
BASIC DATA
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
327
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-52-4ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,411.1 ft]
Dune sand:Sand......_________________________________________________ 20
Pierre shale:Clay......__._________.____ ________..______.__. 20Shale .........__..........._........__........._... 110
4-52-5aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,416.1 ft]
Dune sand:Sand_.-........_..-....-_.__........_...._...__._.._......_ 35
Pierre shale:Clay_____________________________________ 23Shale ..........._......._....._---..._-....-...---... 92
4-52-5abb
[Surface altitude, 4,411.2 ft]
Dune sand:Sand.._....._................__..............._..._...._... 18
Pierre shale:Clay_____________________________________ 22Shale ______..__________.._________________ 110
4-52-5bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,376.0 ft]
Dune sand:Sand and clay.______________________________________________ 50
Pierre shale:Shale ___ ____ ___ _________ __________._______ 100
4-52-6ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,308.5 ft]
Dune sand:Sand and clay_..._..__._.__._.____..___._.___._.__._.__.___. 50
Pierre shale:Shale ____ _______ _____ _____________ _______ 100
4-52-7aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,357.2 ft]
Dune sand:Sand____________________.__________..__..__. 40
Pierre shale:Clay______.__.______...__.__.______..... .... 30Shale ______________ ___________________________ 80
20
40150
35
58150
18
40150
50
150
50
150
40
70150
328 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued______
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-52-7ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,338.6 ft]
Dune sand:Sand.--_-_----___-_-__________-_______-_____--_________-__- 20
Pierre shale:Clay..__-_-....___...____..__________________. 20 Shale ..--_-.-_-..--.........._.._._..-......-_.-...-._..._- 110
4-52-7cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,367.8 ft]
Dune sand:Sand._------.-_--_----__--_____-.._____--_._---_-_.---____- 50
Pierre shale:Clay......__.__--.-..-__-....--..------._..---_---.--.._- 35Shale ..____...._____......__...____..__..____ 65
4-52-7daa
[Surface altitude, 4,381.8 ft]
Dune sand:Sand-.-...---_...__-..__......__.._..__-.._.--.-...._-_..._ 50
Pierre shale:Clay._______.._____...____________..__----- 20 Shale ___ __ __ .. __ ___ .. __ _ __ ..... ___ __ ______ . 80
4-52-8cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,414.5 ft]
Dune sand:Sand.-----------.-.-.__--_......_...__....-.---..---.-... 60
Pierre shale:Clay.-....--..._..-._....._._.....---....___...._......._.- 15Shale -._......._........_..---....-........-....__-._...._. 75
4-52-9cdd
[Surface altitude,'4,471.4 ft]
Dune sand:Sand....------_-------..----..._..---.---.--.------.------. 30
Pierre shale:Clay-.-.-.--__.-________________________-..- 30Shale ---------..----...._-__.--...._.-_...._---_..------.- 90
4-52-lOccc
[Surface altitude, 4,498.5 ft]
Dune sand:Sand.---_-_----.-----_..--....-........-.....----...--_--._ 25
Pierre shale:Clay_. .--..- ..._______________________..__. 60Shale ___________________._________________. 65
20
40150
50
85150
50
70150
60
75150
30
60150
25
85150
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
329
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-52-llcdd
[Surface altitude, 4,487.5 ft]
Dune sand:Sand__..___._..__._________...____..___....._.__....._____- 28
Pierre shale:Clay...__.....__...-...--..--..-___...--....-.__.... 42 Shale .-----.-----.-------.-.-.----._.-__._....._--_.-----. 80
4-52-12ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,455.0 ft]
Dune sand:Sand..............__....._____-.___________-_-__-_------- 20
Ogallala formation:Clay._________________...._______________.. 50Sandstone _-__________--___--_-_-_____-_--_------__-_-___-_- 5
Pierre shale:Shale __.....______________..______.__________ 75
4-52-13ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,508.1 ft]
Dune sand:Sand and gravel....______._..____.__....._._.______________. 25
Pierre shale:Clay..__.__--.-.___...-....--_.....-.--.-__-----.--.. 40Shale ________________.____________________ 85
4-52-14bbc
[Surface altitude, 4,508.8 ft]
Dune sand:Sand and gravel--_-_-----__.--___-.---__-_-_-____-_----.---_ 30
Pierre shale:Clay_____________-__..._____...-.________ 60 Shale __ ___ ___ .__ .__ __ __ _____ __ ___ ___ __ .. 60
4-52-15ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,498.4 ft]
Dune sand:Sand.-__--...-.-_.------__--____-_-.-_--.-_--._---.-_--...- 30
Pierre shale:Clay._______________-.__________-.__________ 65 Shale .....__...__..........____......_______-.__-. 55
4-52-16bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,436.9 ft]
Dune sand:Sand-__._______________________--...- . 40
Pierre shale:Clay________________..._________ - 25 Shale __._______________________..--.- 85
28
70150
20
7075
150
25
65150
30
90150
30
95150
40
65150
655012 O - 63 - 22
330 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
______Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismoarapfi shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-52-19cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,461.2 ft]
Dune sand:Sand...._.............._____________________________________ 45
Pierre shale:Clay. ..____ ...______.. 30 Shale .......___----..._____._._......._..._.. 75
4-52-20aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,464.4 ft]
Dune sand:Sand.......-...._-......_...._.__........__.........._...._ 40
Pierre shale:Clay......__.._____.__..................__.....__... 40Shale ......._........_....._....._.---._---........ 70
4-52-24cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,498.4 ft]
Dune sand:Sand and gravel...__________________________________________ 50
Pierre shale:Clay_________________________________________ 50 Shale -.-.-.._-.-..--.--......._..._.....__..._-...- 50
4-52-27aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,522.6 ft]
Dune sand:Sand.________________________________________ 37
Pierre shale:Clay...__....__...__....__.__._____....__.__.. 58 Shale ------__________________________________ 55
4-52-28baa
[Surface altitude, 4,504.3 ft]
Dune sand:Sand._______________________________.....___- 40
Pierre shale:Clay._________________________.---. 35 Shale _____________________ . - 75
4-52-28ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,481.6 ft]
Dune sand:Sand...______..__..__._____.__.... . .- 12
Pierre shale:Clay____________.____________..... ...... . - 53Shale _____________________. 85
45
75150
40
80150
50
100150
37
95150
40
75150
12
65150
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' has of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
331
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-52-29ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,407.8 ft]
Dune sand:Sand............___________________________________________ 40
Pierre shale:Clay._________________________________________-.__-__... 10Shale _-----_-___..__-----.--------_.______.______________ 100
4-52-32daa
[Surface altitude, 4,479.4 ft]
Dune sand:Sand......_________________________________________________ 45
Pierre shale:Clay._________________________________.___________ 45Shale __.._______............._____________. 60
4-52-33ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,549.6 ft]
Dune sand:Sand and gravel.....____-___-____----__-.--______-__--___--- 30Clay....___----------_____________________-__ 140
Pierre shale:Shale __....._________________________________ 30
4-52-36cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,521.6 ft]
Sanborn formation:Sand----.-----.----._---.-._---------------.---------__... 30
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy..-._----_-_.-.-----_-----_----_---___-__--_.---- 40
Pierre shale:Clay..__.__............__...-._.--.-._-__..___...... 80
5-49-2cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,208 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel-.---.--------.___.__....___.-----------. _.... 162
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.___-___-_-__--___-_--___-_-_-.-.--_---------_-- 14Shale, blue ____..-__-__..__.__..________._----__-_.--- 124
5-49-3add
[Surface altitude, 4,245 ft]
Surface..----------.---------------------------.----.-_--.- 4Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Gravel and sand..--_--___--___--_--___--_-.-..-___-__- ----- 192Pierre shale:
Clay-.--..--.... ._..__--..__.....___------- ________ 14Shale ___________._____--_-.----. . 10
40
50150
45
90150
30170
200
30
70
150
162
176300
196
210220
332 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
______Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued______
Thickness (feet)
5-49-4cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,283 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel_____________________________________________________ 154
Pierre shale:Clay, blue-yellow ________________--__----_---_--------__-.._ 14Shale, blue ..._.......___.._._.._----------_----_--------. 12
5-49-5baa
[Surface altitude, 4,313 ft]
Surface ____________________________________________________ 4Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Gravel _____________________________________________________ 145Pierre shale:
Clay.___._______________._____..___________ 11Shale-.-......_............_..-_--.----_-..-----__---__ 10
5-49-5bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,301 ft]
Surface............._..._--._-.__._....._...-.-_.._-.--_--- 4Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Gravel -.___.._......._....._.-__-.-----.__.--_-... 109Pierre shale:
Clay.___________.___.___________.__.__________ 14Shale___________.___.____.__________ 11
5-49-6baa
[Surface altitude, 4,307 ft]
Surface.__._._.__...........:...__..._..........-.-....._.- 4Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Sand and gravel __.__________________-___--_-_-_---___--_--- 89Pierre shale:
Clay. .............................___...__...-.-.--.._.. 13Shale._____..__.____..______--..____.....__ 10
5-49-8baa
[Surface altitude, 4,275 ft]
Surface-___________________._____.___----__-_____-_--_---_- 4Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Sand and gravel _--_-_.-._._._..-.-_---_--__-------.---.--_. 76Clay__.._____________._______________-.--_-... 15 Sand and gravel _---__--__-____--_-__------_--_-_-__------__ 32
Pierre shale:Clay..__.__.__.___________..--__._ .... 5 Shale .....__.............____.....__-.----.------.._. 174
BASIC DATA 333
Table .28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-49-8bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,283 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel____________________________________________________ 97
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow---_----_----_------__-________._______________ 28Shale, blue--.-...._...__..---_.-..-........_....__________ 10
5-49-10abb
[Surface altitude, 4,224 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel___-_--------__-_________________________-__ 157
Pierre shale: 'Clay, yellow-_-_--__-_--__-_----________-___--_---------.__ 13Shale, blue.__________________...____________ 10
5-49-10daa
[Surface altitude, 4,235 ft]
Surface ___________________________________________________ 4Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Sand and sandy clay ..______.____._.......__.__._____..___._ 191Pierre shale:
Clay.--.-..........._........-.-_...._.._....__.....__... 15Shale ......__........__..__-.._............__-_._-__._ 10
5-49-12cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,213 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy, and gravel.____________________________________ 162
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow and blue..-_.---__-_.___-_____-----_--_---__-__ 33
5-49-13abb
[Surface altitude, 4;220 ft]
Surface ...._..._...............,..__.......-..--_--.----.. 4Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Sand and gravel.-...---------..-----------._._------------- 81Sand and sandy clay _____________....._____________-__---___ 110
Pierre shale:Clay...__________ .._____.. - 25
5-49-13ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,171.0 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel-____-___---._-_______-____--__------_--_--- 110Sandstone..___________--___---_-_-__---___-----_---------- 40
97
125135
157
170180
4
195
210220
162
195
85195
220
110150
334 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
______Tnble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued______
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-49-13ddd Continued
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated ContinuedSand and gravel................_____________________________ 40
Pierre shale:Clay__.........__._____..___......._________.... 20Shale -.--------.-_...__.....__.....__.....__..__.__.. 60
5-49-14abb
[Surface altitude, 4,243 ft]
Surface--_-_-_--________-___._______-__________.__________- 4Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Sand and gravel.-.--...__..__.._....__.__..___._.__......-__ 196Pierre shale:
Clay.......____________________________---... 20
5-49-14dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,216 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel...-........--..__..._.-..--....._..._......__ .. 192
Pierre shale:Clay... ......-_-___..____.....______ .... .. 13Shale ___ __ _______ _________ __________________ 5
5-49-18daa
[Surface altitude, 4,273 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel....-__.----.-..-._----..__.__....... ... 108Sand and clay.-.---......__--.-___-__.-_._-___--._-------._. 26
Pierre shale:Clay.__......__..__....__...--.._______-..--.-.__ 17Shale __ ______ _________________ __________ ____.
5-49-18dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,296 ft]
Surface-...--.__._-_______...__._....-.._...---._...._----- 4Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Sand and gravel.._-_____.--_.________.-_._._____-__-__.__--_ 141Pierre shale:
Clay.________.___.....__..____.__.__.________ 15 Shale.-..._________________________ .... 10
5-49-20baa
[Surface altitude, 4,241 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel and sandy clay _._..._.._____._...__. . .. 118
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.----.--.-.--_-----_-----_-----..----.-.-------- 22Shale, blue __._..____.__.__.__..----.--------.-_- ... 10
190
210270
4
200
220
192
205210
108134
151160
4
145
160170
118
140150
BASIC DATA 335
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-49-21abb
[Surface altitude, 4,236 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel and sandy clay ------.__-----_-----.-_.-.___---- ____ 147
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow and blue ____-_-.-___-__-___...._..._.___...__.. 18
5-49-22baa
[Surface altitude, 4,213 ft]
Surface _-__.-___.._.._____.__.__..____.__._ _ ______..___... 4Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Gravel .--_-.-.._..________........._....._._....._.____._. 146Pierre shale:
Clay......__________...____.____..___. __.____ 20Shale ___ ..________._____________ 10
5-49-24baa
[Surface altitude, 4,189 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel and sandy clay _____________________________________ 190
Pierre shale:Clay__.______._____.__._____.__.__.________. 25 Shale, blue ..___.._..__..__.._-....__... 10
5-49-25baa
[Surface altitude, 4,147 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel and sandy clay _------_.._--.-_-----____-.._-----..__- 176
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow-__________________________________________ _.Shale, blue ...____._--..________________.___ 10
\ x 5-49-25ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,098.8 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel........_.__._..__.._......_._..__.._..._.... 80Sandstone _.--..____.-----.-___.___.._______--___--______.- 80Rock, hard ____..._____-....._____...__..____....____ 20
Pierre shale:Shale ___________________________________________ 50
5-49-31bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,244.2 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel___________--____._--____-_____-____-_--_--__ 70
Pierre shale:Clay.______________________________ 25 Shale .__.____._.-.--..._... _ 55
147
165
4
150
170180
190
215225
176
185195
80160180
230
70
95150
336 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
_____Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued________
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-49-31cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,249.0 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel..__.________________________-_---_--._______ 100
Pierre shale:Clay______._.__.____._......._.._._._________------- 30Shale ----_-_-___-._-......._.._....._..-_---_-------.-....- 40
5-49-32bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,211 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy, and gravel____________-__-__--_--__-----_--__--- 97
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow__.-.______._.._.._.._...____-_--___-__-__-___._ 13Shale, blue....__..__..__.____.._....-..---__..__... 10
5-49-32cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,225 ft]
Surface____________________________________________________ 4Ogallala formation:
Sand____________________._______________. 24 Sand and clay _________________________________________ . . _ _ 92
Pierre shale:Clay_______________________________.______ 30Shale __.....__------__-_-.......-__....____.-__..... 10
5-49-33bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,181 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel. -_____._..______.._____._.______..__._..._______.___ 104
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.-...--------..--.----..-_.---------_-----.----- 16Shale, blue __.__.......__..__..__.....___....____..-.. 15
5-49-33dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,191 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay.....................................................Sand and clay_______.-___.__..___.____________._-_--_-______ 92
Pierre shale:Clay.____________________________________ 52Shale .-.........__..___.._____..__----------.---__....
5-50-lcbb
[Surface altitude, 4,328 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy._.____..__......__._..._____-__-__---_----_.-._- 45
100
130170
97
110120
28120
150160
104
120135
100
152160
45
BASIC DATA 337
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5 - 50 - Icbb Continued
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow....____________________________________________ 35Shale, blue __--_--_-----_----___---___--__---___-.____ 25
5-50-ldaa
[Surface altitude, 4,321 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand and graveli..________________-__-____-____--___--___---_ 56Rock and rock ledges..---..-._-_____-____-..__--______.____-_ 16
Pierre shale:Clay..__________________________.______. 43Shale __________.-______._..____....____. 23
5-50-2abb
[Surface altitude, 4,353 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and clay.______________________________________________ 20
White River(?) group:Clay, yellow and brown -_--__---_---_-____-____-___----___--- 70
Pierre shale:Shale, blue ._._---_--.__--------------------_------------- 115
5-50-2bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,348 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy-.-...---..---.--.-__---.__---_-.-__._--.__... 20
White River(?) group:Clay, sticky..__.________________________-.... 78
Pierre shale:Shale, blue --_------_----.-_---_----.--__-_-_--_---_-.------ 22
5-50-3abb
[Surface altitude, 4,388 ft]
Sanborn formation:Clay, sandy, brown.-._.--_.----._.--..._---..--.-._---_-.--- 40
White River(?) group:Clay, white...___..___...._...__...__...._.__._..___.._-.. 40Clay, brown and yellow -----_----_-.----_--_-__------_-----_- 40
Pierre shale:Shale, blue-...-----------__----------------------__------ 85
5-50-3bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,394 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand, sandy clay, and gravel--------------------------------- 52
White River(?) group:Clay, yellow..-_._.___..-__.----__--.-----.-------_--------- 55
Pierre shale:Shale _________________----------- - - 20
80105
5672
115138
20
90
205
20
98
120
40
80120
205
52
107
127
GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-50-4abb
[Surface altitude, 4,430 ft]
Sanborn formation:Clay, brown----_____-_-_--________________--____-.-________ 40
White River(?) group:Clay, brown and yellow_____________.________________________ 50Clay, green-.... ________________________________________ 30
Pierre shale:Shale, blue..._._.--......._.._..--_......_._... 80
5-50-4bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,440 ft]
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy, and ledges of gravel..._-.-_.._.-._----.---_-_-._ 130
Pierre shale:Clay.__..--......__........_.......................... 25Shale, blue....._..._..-..__.__..--...__..__..._......._..._ 25
5-50-5baa
[Surface altitude, 4,449 ft]
Sanborn formation:Clay, brown.....--..-.___._.-...__.._....--._------_-___-. 95
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow...-_-.._-..--..._...___.....-.----.--_-_._-_..- 35 Shale, blue..........._...._..__.._._..__...._._.._....._-.. 50
5-50-5bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,459 ft]
Sanborn formation:Clay, sandy __------.-___-..____....__.--_.-_.-.-.-___..___. 35
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, and ledges of sandstone ....-..--__-_-----..-____ 75
Pierre shale:Clay............ .......__.__.....__..................__ 20Shale, blue....._..__-....._............._..._._--._.._._... 20
5-50-5dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,469 ft]
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Surface--.---..-._-.--..-._...._...._.......__--..--._-.... 8Gravel and streaks of clay.._.-._.-..._..._...____--.-___-_-_ 108 Clay, sandy .-.--.._.-....-._............_-.------_-------.- 16
Pierre shale:Clay_________________________________________ 28 Shale_____________________________________ 146
40
90120
200
130
155180
95
130180
35
110.
130150
8116132
160306
BASIC DATA 339Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-50-6baa
[Surface altitude, 4,430 ft]
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Clay, brown and yellow__--.-__-____._________,._______.___.__ 80
Pierre shale:Clay, green ................................................ 10Shale, blue_________....____._________________________________ 95
5-50-7abb
[Surface altitude, 4,455 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undiffentiated:Surface-___________________________________________________ 4Gravel and clay.-__---.--_.-_-________--___--___--_______-__ 121
Pierre shale:Clay...__.___-.._-_,----.--__.._-.__._..__.__.._.___..___ 11 Shale _________________________________ 24
5-50-7dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,394 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy, and sandstone.._________________________________ 50Clay and ledges of rock _.-...--__-.__.._.._-____-...---_-... 35
Pierre shale:Shale, blue.________________________________________________ 20
5-50-8cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,417 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Surface ____________________________________________________ 4Sand and gravel; contains strips of clay _______________________ 61
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow--_-___--_-_--_----__-___-___----____-___--__-__ 39 Shale...__.___..._...._.__.............__............. 23
5-50-8cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,406 ft]
Sanborn and Ogsllala formations, undifferentiated:Sand, sandstone, and sandy clay __--_--_-.__..._._--.--_.--___ 55 Clay, sticky_______..........._............. 45
Pierre shale:Shale, blue____________________________.__ 20
5-50-9abb
[Surface altitude, 4,482 ft]
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Surface.-..________.____._--_.__.-__-.__----_.-_-_-__..-__- 4Clay, sandy, and gravel ___________._________.___-___-___---- 161
80
90185
4125
136160
5085
105
465
104127
55100
120
4165
340 j GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
_____Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shothoies, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-50 -9abb Continued
Pierre shale:Clay...._____..________.._________________ 27 Shale _--._-.._--....___--_--._-.--__--_---__..-.....---_-. 28
5-50-9cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,463 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy, sandstone, and gravel.._.__..._._.._..____._.__._ 150
Pierre shale:Clay.-. . . .__-.___________--.______-_ 20 Shale, blue -__---------_______-_._-____________._.__._______ 25
5-50-10baa
[Surface altitude, 4,405 ft]
Oligocene to Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy, sand, and ledges of gravel-_--_.--_------_.------- 110
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow..-__---__-..__.__-----....__-..__..._---._.._.. 15 Shale, blue _...__-..___.______..._.___.._._.._...____.__.... 25
5-50-llabb
[Surface altitude, 4,355 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel-.-_-_-_._____-_..___-______._______.__-_--_- 55
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow._..-_-----.___-.------_._-___-_.__.__-_-_______ 40Shale, blue ______________________________________________- 205
5-50-12cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,335 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel _---__-______.__-..__________.___________-___ 25Clay, sandy, and sandstone ___________________________________ 55
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow -__----__---________._____________._______-_____ 12Shale, blue..--_---.__.__-._.__._____-._.-___----._.-__--- 28
5-50-12daa
[Surface altitude, 4,326 ft]
Surface. -..........................^........................ 4Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Sand and gravel_---_----__--______..-_-_----__--____-__------ 98Pierre shale:
Clay ________________._____________________ _ 13Shale____ _________________________-_-_-_-________.______ 23
192220
150
170195
110
125150
55
95300
2580
92120
4
102
115138
BASIC DATA 341
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-50-13abb
[Surface altitude, 4,340 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel----.-----..-_--_-___---______.______________ 112
Pierre shale:Clay._.____.___.___.__.___.........__.......__.__..... 20Shale ------.------_.----.---.-_--._-_.___...___._........_. 16
5-50-13cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,315 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel-_-__-_-_-_-__--__________-_--_----______-___ 45
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow_____________.__________..._.__...........___.._ 30Shale, blue ..-_.-..--__._-_..._.-.--__...._-.._.__-...__--._ 30
5-50-14cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,369 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and sandy clay .__---._-_-_-_-_--._-__----_--_---__---_ 125
Pierre shale:Shale...______________________________________ 23
5-50-16abb
[Surface altitude, 4,433 ft]
Sanborn formation:Surface__--___-_-__-_-__--__----__-_---_------.-_--_----_-- 4Clay, sandy._____-___-_-__.._--______-__._-__--_-.-___-_-_-_ 61
Ogallala formation:Gravel-----..---------------------------------------------- 26Rock --_--_-.-_-_--_-_--_--_---_--------_----------_----_-- 6Gravel..----------------------_-----------_---_-_---------- 19
Pierre shale:Clay.................___....___...-._...--__----...-__- 19Shale ___________________________________- 25
5-50-19abb
[Surface altitude, 4,407 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and sandy clay-.---___----.---_-_-__----------- ------ 56
Pierre shale:Clay_______.__-----__------- __- . 40Shale ______________________________--_ -- 20
5-50-19daa
[Surface altitude, 4,390 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Surface..-._..._-..-_------_----------_---_-------.-------- 40
112
132148
45
75105
125
148
465
9197
116
135160
56
96116
40
342 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
______Toble 28. Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued______
Thickness (feet)
5-50-19daa Continued
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated ContinuedSand and gravel_____________________________________________ 15Clay, sandy................................._............... 15
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.--.------................_....-._.--..._....... 53Shale, blue ...__._---.--................---.__-.-..__... 27
5-50-20baa
[Surface altitude, 4,352 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and clay..........__.___._._.______._...._.._......... 25
Pierre shale:Clay ____________________..... ... 21 Shale_____________________L................... 28
5-50-20cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,326 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Surface -._._.............................._.-..-.---------- 4Clay, sandy.........................__.......-..-.--........ 10Clay.._________________________ - 28
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow....-_----.._-..-._.._-_.-....------------._-..- 21Shale..____..__._.._____....___________...__ 57Clay_________________________________________ 16Shale___________..________________ 170
5-50-21daa
[Surface altitude, 4,329 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Surface...-.-..-...---....-__._-.-.._-..--..-----.--------- 4Sand________________________ - 14Rock and strips of clay -____.__________.__.-_-----__--------- 31
Pierre shale:Shale ________________________.. 25
5-50-22add
[Surface altitude, 4,353 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Surface _..__.-.-..--.---._..-_..-.-_---.-.--------- ------ 4Clay, sandy, and gravel-______________________-_------------- 68Rock ledges and clay -_.-....._._--...-_---.----------------- 21
Pierre shale:Shale___________________________- . 23
BASIC DATA 343
Table 28. Drillers' loss of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-50-23baa
[Surface altitude, 4,355 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy........... -..-.---.__._.-___.-.--..___...__.. 80
Pier re shale:Clay, yellow......._________________________________________ 32Shale, blue. . .... _________.____.__ 23
5-50-23cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,313 ft]
Sahborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Surface -____-_.-__-____-__-___--__-___________________-.._ 4Clay, sandy, and sand..___________________________________ 87
Pierre shale:Clay . _ __________ ____ __ 12Shale _______________________________________ 203
5-50-24add
[Surface altitude, 4,276 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel___________________________________________ | 87
Pierre shale:Clay..--_____...____________________-.______... 15 Shale____-...-.__.......____.__.__.__....__--.-. 25
5-50-24bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,283 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel____________________________________________ | 20
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow--.-----------------.--.----_---------_-----.-- 28Shale, blue________________________________ 27
5-50-25abb
[Surface altitude, 4,248 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel_-______.__._____._._..____._____..-.--_._ | 28
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow .-.._-_._---._._______...--_._._____-_-__---_._ 16Shale, blue__ __. ___..________________..__ 31
5-50-25cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,283 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy...-__--__----_--_----__-__--___--_---__-------.I 50Gravel......-._-.....-.-._..-_--....--..-._-----...-----.. I 15
80
112135
491
103306
87
102127
20
4875
28
4475
5065
344 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' loss of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-50 -25cbb Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedPierre shale:
Clay_________________________________. 19 84Shale, blue--..-.---__--------....-..---______-_^^^^_. 6 90
5-50-31baa
[Surface altitude, 4,340 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Surface _________________-__-________--__--___-------------- 4 4Sand and sandy clay ________________________-_-__----------_- 82 86
Pierre shale:Clay, blue.__.....__..___.-..__..-_.._..._____....-__ 10Shale .____.....__.__.--....__-.-.__.__...-.--..---- 10 106
5-50-31cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,362 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and sandy clay _---.-_-----.._---.-.-------------------- 100
Pierre shale:Clay, sticky._--__-________--__-____-__--__------------------ 25Shale, blue ___... _ __. 25
5-50-31daa
[Surface altitude, 4,288 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy..______ .____--_.______ _______-__------__---- 20
Pierre shale:Clay__________________________ 15 Shale, blue... 40
5-50-31dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,339 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Surface....-------- - ----- ----- - - --------- 4 4Sand, sandy clay, and clay __________--___-------------------- 80 84
Pierre shale:Shale ..-_----------__---.----.----------------------------- 22 106
5-50-32ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,351.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay__.__.__.____-----__. -- - - 70 70
Pierre shale:Shale________________________ 80 150
100
125150
20
3575
BASIC DATA
Toble 23. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
345
Thickness (feet)
Depth (fee
5-50-33cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,316 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Surface _-_-_______________________._____..__....._........_ 4Sand ...____.--__.___-__.--______________....____. 31
Pierre shale:Clay....______________________________________ 25 Shale...........__._-.....-...___.............__..____ 14
5-50-33daa
[Surface altitude, 4,280 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy, and sandstone..___---_____-_--__-__-____--______ 35
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow._.--___.________________-_____.____..____-__._. 15Shale, blue__......__________.....____..._....___ 25
5-50-34cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,297.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel -___----___-----_-_-_--___---------__-_---_- 60
Pierre shale:Clay, sandy ___--___-_-----_--------_--.------_-----------_- 18Shale______.___.__________.__.__--_-_.-____.. 72
5-50-35baa
[Surface altitude, 4,277 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy__________---_____----___-----__---_-----_------ 42Sand _________________ . _____________ . ______ 21
Pierre shale:Clay.__._______________.______......____.______ 43Shale________________________.__________.____. 10
5-50-35cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,287.3 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel -_-___---__-__- ___.--_-.__------__ . ._. 45
Pierre shale:Clay._______________________-____.. .- 25Shale____________ __ 50
5-50-35cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,287.0 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand __________________.. - 60
Pierre shale:Clay-----------.-----.-----.------------------------------- 30Shale..^__________________. 60
435
6074
35
5075
60
78150
4263
106116
45
70120
60
90150
655012 O - 63 - 23
346 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
______Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued______
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-50-36bab
[Surface altitude, 4,247 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy..__________----____-_-_--.____-------_--_--_ 35 35Sand_._____ --_-_____-________________-__---__---__-__--.__ 26 61
Pierre shale:Clay...__________--____.___________--___.______.__ 37Shale-_-----_.___--___-_____--_---__-_----_----_----_---_ 8 106
5-50-36cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,270.5 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel ______________-__-___--___-._-_-__---__--_ 100 100
Pierre shale:Clay_______________________-.__ _ _ 15 115Shale _______________...___---.__-___-__ 35 150
5-50-36cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,290.0 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel___--___---______-____-------__------------- 115 115
Pierre shale:Clay.---..__-___-_-_-----___--_----_-_----_-__.__----- 15 130Shale ____________________________---- 40 170
5-51-labb
[Surface altitude, 4,472 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Surface---.-----...--.-...--....-----.--.----..------------ 4 4Sand,sandy clay, and clay___-_____-_--______-____-_____-__-_- 124 128
Pierre shale:Shale...___..---..---__...-.--_.--.-.._____...... . 20___ 148
5-51-19dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,390.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand....__....-...._-._..-__..____.___.._--._-._._..-. 25 25Clay__________________________... -. 70 95 Rock, hard_________..____________ .. 2 97
Pierre shale:Shale .....__...__...__.......___.__.-_._--.. .. 43 140
5-51-20cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,353.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy......______.___._ -- 35 35
Pierre shale:Shale_________________..__---.----.-- 115 150
BASIC DATA
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
347
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-51-21dcd
[Surface altitude, 4,407.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand......_________________________________________________ 30 30
Pier re shale:Clay-.______.___________________________..__ 35 65Shale __..__________________________________ 85 150
5-51-29cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,358.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay--.-..__-.-._-___-----__-...........--__.__------ 50 50
Pierre shale:Shale __.....................__.....____..__....-__.-- 100 150
5-51-29ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,410.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand__________.______..___________________ 105 105
Pierre shale:Shale...__...__...__....___.........___...__...__ 45 150
5-51-31dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,416.5 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay....__________________________________. 110 110
Pierre shale:Shale ........__...._........__.-........-.-__.__.__... 40 150
5-51-32bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,367.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay___...___..____--.-........._____...______.. 70 70
Pierre shale:Shale __ ______________ __ ___ ______ ____ _______ - 80 150
5-51-32cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,384.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand______________----- _______ 15 15 Clay..________________________________________ 75 90
Pierre shale:Shale _____________________________________.... 60 150
348 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
______Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismoflraph shotholes, and wells Continued_______
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-51-33abb
[Surface altitude, 4,404.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.......--___.-___--____.____.____________-_.__.Clay..----..-..--._-.---____._.__-.____._-._--.___.
Pierre shale:Shale ----- ___________.___________.
5-51-33cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,397.9 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.._____________________________________________Clay...............................................
Pierre shale:Shale ______...____.__.____________...
5-51-34baa
[Surface altitude, 4,385.1 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.....___-.-_......_...._____........-----...__.Clay__..____________.....__________...
Pierre shale:Shale _.....-......_........_.......--......__-.....
5-5l-34cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,408.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand.._...._.._......_...._.._......_.._......._...Clay...............................................
Pierre shale:Shale ______.___.._____________..____...
5-51-34daa
[Surface altitude, 4,410.0 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand....__--------..---..-_--._.-----------------. .Clay...................... .--..-_...------ --.
Pierre shale:Shale ____________________.._______-..-.-.
5-51-35abb
[Surface altitude, 4,414.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand ________________-___________.--___--------_----
Pierre shale:Clay. __ . ... -._---------.-----_-------..Shale_ ----- ..-...._._..--......- .. .
4050
60
4090
150
3060
60
3090
150
3025
65
3055
120
4045
65
4085
150
3060
60
3090
150
70
2555
70
95150
BASIC DATA
Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
349
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-51-35ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,386.7 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay......__._.._...__..__---------._-..._.__.......... 65
Pierre shale:Shale .._______________________---_______ 55
5-51-36baa
[Surface altitude, 4,373.9 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay--.--.......__.......__............______.......__ 70
Pierre shale:Shale..____________.___....__..____________ 50
5-52-26abb
[Surface altitude, 4,416.2 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Clay....................................................__ 40
Pierre shale:Shale....___.....___.__..--________..____. 110
5-52-34cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,392.3 ft]
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and clay.-----------------------------------------. - 30
Pierre shale:Shale ________..____.__________________.- 90
5-52-36aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,432.3 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand._...._...__...__________-____-___.____________._-_--_- 20Clay.-..._...____..-----.__.__.__....----...-....----- 100
Pierre shale:Shale...______....__..__-.-..__.....____________. 30
5-52-36dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,405.6 ft]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:Sand-----.........-...-....-...-.-.---__-.....----------.- 10Clay..--..............--__-._____.__.........__...... 75
Pierre shale:Shale_............____.__....____.__.....____ 65
65
120
70
120
40
150
30
120
20120
150
1085
150
350 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismoflraph shotholes, and wells Continued
YUMA COUNTY, COLO.
Thickness (feet)
2-42-34cc
[Well drilled by L. L. Canfield, 1949]
Dune sand:Sand ----_--__---_----_____.______....___..._.___________-. 11
Ogallala formation:Hardpan ---_----___.-__-__-______..____..___...___________ 7Clay. ._...___._____________ 16 Sand, fine -_.--_------..________.___..___._.___.___.___.____ 7Clay . ._._..__....._..___._......._.. 6Gravel and sand ___________________________________________ 9Gravel and clay_._._-_..__..__.__..__...__...___.__..._..__ 4 Gravel, hard, thinly bedded --_----...._..._..__..--_..._._._ 5
Pierre shale:Shale, yellow _._-.._._._....__._._..__...._.._...._._....._ 4 Shale, black ---.-----..-........_........_....._..__......_ 11
2-44-4cd
[Test hole]
Dune sand:Soil ----------__--__-____._______.___________._..____._.._ 3
Ogallala formation:Caliche ..........__.._.__.__.__..._.____.__.......__.. 8Clay.. ... _...._._____....___.. 20Gravel______________________________________________..... 20Rock ------------..-.-_...__......_._.__................._ 23Gravel._---_---_____..______.___..._______._______._._..__ 18Rock -----.---.-__-.--._---....._..........._...._..._..._ 12Gravel.___.____.._.._____________._._.___...___.______.___ 26
2-47-6bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,055 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, brown; contains a little sand ..__.___...___._.__.__._.._ 100 Sand and gravel............_._____.___._._.___._.__..._._._ 70Clay, brown _______________________________________________ 50
2-48-9bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,190 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand..........................__....._._..__._...._._.._.. 410
Pierre shale: 'Shale --------.--........_............_..__._......_...._.. 50
2-48-15dd
[Well drilled by William Schocke, 1950]
Ogallala formation:Soil and sandy caliche-------------------------------------- 60
BASIC DATA 351
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
2-48-15dd Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedGravel.-_-______---_-..________-________.._.__________.___ 10 70Sand...___.......______.._._....._...__._......._....___.. 10 80Silt and gravel; red -_------_--_--_------.____--_.-_-_______ 40 120Sand.........__..__...................__......__..... 30 150Gravel.......__..._...._......__............__.......... 10 160"Formation," white _-.-_-......---_--...._.__--_......._._. 20 180Sand.........__.............__..................__..... 10 190Gravel (water-bearing) ---......_--__........_........_..._. 10 200Silt, red, and gravel...........__--.....__..._........_._._. 30 230Gravel(water-bearing) _-___-___-_------_________-__--___.__ 10 240
2-48-22ac
[Test hole]
Ogallala formation:(No samples)--..---.-____.......---__...._-----........ 200 200Sand and caliche (water-bearing)__._._..______-......._...__ 3 203Caliche, soft ______________________________________________ .5 203.5Caliche, clay, and gravel -_______------._______--__--_______ ------- ______Caliche, soft__...-----_________-_-.-_________----__________ ------- ______Clay and gravel____________________________________________ _.____- ------Caliche, soft.....--_-----__-_-_----_.__....._----__-.._.... -.-.___ 213Clay, very compact....__.__.__._...__......_..._.___..____. 9.5 222.5Caliche ---______----_---______----_--________---___-______ .5 223Clay and sand ...----.---___-..---_---_.-.--..-.----.._-... 4 227Sand, fine, and caliche......._______________________________ 13 240Clay and sand --_---------_--___------_--.....-----..--._-_ 10 250Caliche and gravel_-------------_.--_--------_-_____-____-- 4 254Caliche and sandstone --_--_-_____--_-_________--_-___--____ 1 255Clay, very compact.------------------------...------_-.--._ 12 267Clay, heavy, yeUow....-..--_---------.---.--__---.-__----- 10 277Clay, compact, and sand;contains chipsof shale __--.---..-..-_ 19 296Caliche, hard.__.--_---_-......-.-_-..........---__......._ 1 297Clay, sandy........__---......--.--.........----__..____ 13 310Gravel_---_....._-____-____...-__-..__......________._.__ 2 312Caliche, hard.__._--_-_.___-_-_-__-____._.___.______-_..___ 8 320
2-48-32ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,173 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel..--------_----------------_-----------_---. 140 140Sandstone -------------------------------__.--.------.--.. 80 220Sand and gravel..-.-.-.-..-....---------.__. ----- .. 30 250Sandstone.._.--._-------..--..-_----._------_-----------_- 30 280
Pierre shale:Shale ....______________._________..____ 20 300
352 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
______Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismoaraph shotholes. and wells Continued________
Thickness (feet)
3-46-4bd
[Test hole]
Soil______________________...._____________.. 2Ogallala formation:
Clay, yellow ._-.--.-.----..........-.._._...._......-..__.. 18Rock, hard _______.....___.._..__.._.._.___..________-___._ 4Clay ______......__.__._____.._______..__.. 20Clay and gravel_-_----_--__________-_____-_--___.__--_____- 20Caliche._....____.........__...._......___..... 28Gravel (water-bearing)--__-._...__._.-.-_____.________...__ 10Gravel............._....._.______...._........__......_._. 39
3-47-6ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,054 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel......____-.________________________________ 160Sandstone _..._._.______-__._____.__..____.__________..___._ 130
Pierre shale:Shale ......__-.............._._..______.__........... 40
3-48-3ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,072 ft]
Sand and gravel--__..__-.__._-___.._-___------_-------.___-. 120Sand and sandstone._..._.._____..._..__...__...._____.___... 200
Pierre shale:Clay__._______________________________________ 15 Shale ..__..____......__..__........_____.....__... 35
3-48-7cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,133 ft]
Sand and sandstone.._.__.._______.._._______.__.__._._._____ 280Pierre shale:
Clay. ____ ____________________.___ 10 Shale .-._.-__-.-....._..............._..._....____ 50
3-48-llaaa
[Surface altitude, 4,067 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy._--____..-.__--._....__-._...__-___.-_______..__ 20Sand, gravel, and sandstone __________________________________ 300
Pierre shale:Shale....___.________________________.___ 40
3-48-13abb
[Surface altitude, 4,061 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay...__......__-_---......__-..----.----.._.__..__ 30Sand and gravel---__--____-----_--__-___---_------_-_-----_ 40
BASIC DATA 353Table 2&-^Driners' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells .Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-48-13abb Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand and sandstone----- _____________________________________ 190
Pierre shale:Clay ___________________________________ 15 Shale....__..............___.......__.___..__..__. 35
3-48-14abb
[Surface altitude, 4,088 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and sandstone.._.........._..-......-...........-.-.__ 280
Pierre shale:Clay . .. ...._________..... ___ 15 Shale ..__________......___..__.__.__.....__-.._.. 35
3-48-15abb
[Surface altitude, 4,098 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel....._____________________-.-__----____-_____ 110Clay..________________________________________ 170
Pierre shale:Shale___________________________.._____________ 50
3-48-16baa
[Surface altitude, 4,120 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, and sandstone _________-_____--_--______----._-- 350
Pierre shale:Shale________________________________________ 40
3-48-17baa
[Surface altitude, 4,124 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.____________________________________________ 160Sandstone ___________________._...____._.--__-___..----___ 85Rock, hard _________________________________________________ 5Sandstone ____-__________________________.__---_-__-__--__-_ 30
Pierre shale:Clay_________________________________________ 20 Shale __.____.._._..______.....__.____--__-.____. 40
3-48-20bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,138 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy.________________________________________________ 35Sand, gravel, and sandstone ________-__-__---__--------__-____ 280
Pierre shale:Clay_________________________________________ 20 Shale_______________________________----- -.__ 30
260
275310
280
295330
110280
330
350
390
160245250280
300340
35315
335365
354 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEX BASIN
______Tofale 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
3-48-30abb
[Surface altitude, 4,163 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand....___..___..__._____.____...__.___..____._____.______ 330Clay, sandy_________________________________________________ 20
Pierre shale:Shale........__..__..........__....._....__......___... 40
3-48-30ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,183 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand______________........__..._...-._.___.._..__..... 340
Pier re shale:Clay......__._..-......_.____..........__.....__...... 25Shale __.....__.___................._..__._.........._. 25
3-48-31aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,168 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand.-_._._._.._...___.._._..._......._.._......_______.... 360
Pierre shale:Clay, sandy_._.._________.._........._.____..__.___.._._._.. 30Shale __..__.....____..._._.._.__.....__.....___... 10Rock(?)_......_____...__........__.........________ 2Shale ______ ______ _______________ _____________ 8
4-44-18db
[Test hole]
Dune sand:Soil __ __________ __ __________________ ______ . 2 Sand.-__.....__.._...._..___.._...._...___.__..._._._.._... 18
Ogallala formation:Caliche....__._..____.__...._..._..._.._...._.__._._.__.... 15Gravel..____._..__..____..__.._ ___________________________ 6Rock ...........__...__.._..___.__.....__.....____.._ 8Sand and gravel....._______._____.___._-___.-.._.___.__._._ 11Clay_____..__.__._________.___________________ 12 Rock ----___.___-.-.__..-.._...__.._.-_--.-_--..._--.___.-_ 5Clay_________________________________________. 8Gravel...._..___._.._.__________..______.__.__.__...___._.. 25
4-44-36cba
[Irrigation well drilled by L. L. Canfield, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,712.0 ft]
Dune sand:Sand_______________.____.__..-..--.-.._ . 11
Ogallala formation:Clay_______________________.. ... . 2 Sand._...._...__._-_..__._____._..__--._____------_-------. 5
BASIC DATA 355Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells-Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-44-36cba Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedClay and sand________________________._____________________ 3 21Sand...........___..........._...__.__......____.._._ 3 24Clay __...__.__..______.._______.._______ 4 28Sand...__........__..__..-_................._.......__ 5 33Clay.___...__._________________....__...___ 5 38Sand and gravel; loose--.---.---.-_--._-_-_-_.-_--__--._.-.- 6 44Gravel and sand........_-_.._--__....__.._...__.__....._.._ 10 54Clay.....__..............__..................__........ 1 55Gravel, cemented __________________________________________ 3 58Clay __..._____._____..__.....______.._____ 12 70Clay, sand, and gravel; cemented ..__.._._____.__..._._..._.. 5 75Gravel.._....._...._..._._.............._.._.__.._.......- 3 78Sand and gravel-_------_----__--_1._._.__.______.___.___.__ 3 81Clay...........__..........................___..__.... 3 84Sand, dirty,loose..-----.._.----.----.....-...-....-__...-_. 8 92Sand, gravel, and clay.........._..._........_......._...__.. 8 100
4-45-l4cc
[Test hole]
Dune sand:Soil..-..........-...--.-..--.....-....__.....__......... 2 2Sand, white ._._.._.__....__.__._..._...__..__.-------.-.-- 20 22
Ogallala formation:Gumbo, black.._...___.........________._____-.____--.__-._ 5 27Sand, white (water-bearing)...--____--___-____-_--__---_---_- 15 42Shale(?), blue...__..._______________.__-......- 10 52Rock.________.______....__..._________.__- 20 72Gravel._________..________.--_.....______... 20 92Gravel (water) ..._____.......__._____. .--. .. 28 120
4-46-31cdd
[Surface altitude, 3,943 ft]
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.._____._______.__-----__ -- 290 290
Pierre shale:Shale, black _________________________----- 10 300
4-47-26abd
[Irrigation well drilled by L. L. Canfield, 1951. Surface altitude, 3,984.5 ft]
Soil.__.----..--..__.__...__..-.....-.----_---.-.----- 4 4Ogallala formation:
Clay.____....__..........__...... . -. -- 6 10Caliche, clayey, hard, white-__--_.---------------_-----.---- 7 17Gravel and rocks.--_------.----.--------------------------- 19 36Clay...._-..._---.------.--.-.------..--------..- ----- 8 44Clay and sand._____----- 13 57Sandstone and clay..____.__._-_.---.-____--.--.--.-.--_----- 4 61Sand.....__-.._--------------------._--------------------- 5 66
356 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
Table 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shothoies. and wells- Continv.d
Thickness (feet)
4-47-26abd Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSandstone, sand, and clay______-____________.__.___.___-__-_- 7Clay and sand.-..-.._______------_-_-__---___-___,.__._-_--- 8Sand to fine gravel, loose _---_---_-_-_-_-_---_-__--_.- ------ 13Clay; interbedded with sandstone _-__________-_____-.___-.-_-- 7Sand and clay; interbedded with thin strips of sandstone.-------- 12Gravel and sand; loose._________________________________ -___ 15Clay and sand; interbedded with thin strips of sandstone.-------- 20Sand, gravel, and clay; contains some sandstone..-------------- 17Gravel and sand_.__-_-____.___._.__.._.___.._....__.___-.._ 5Sandstone, sand, and clay.__________________________ _________ 11Sand and clay_______._._____________________ ________--..-- 5Gravel and sand _____________________________________________ 4Sandstone ___________________________________________________ 6Gravel _----_.__-.._..._._ ._..___.__..._-_.._....___------ 3Gravel and clay.--_______________________-_--___-___-__-_-__ 2Clay and sand ______________________________________________ 4Sand --_-----------_______.-----_-_---.---__-_-----__--.--- 5Sandstone __________________________________________________ 2.5Gravel and sand (water)_____________________________________ 10Clay; interbedded with thin strips of gravel and sand .--.__----- 6.5Sandstone, hard ____________-_______________--_------.------ 2Clay; interbedded with thin strips of gravel and sand ___-_.--_._ 3Sandstone, soft _____________________________-____----_--_-_- 6Sand, loose --._____ .____________-___-__-___--__-_-_-__--__- 9Sandstone, hard -__-__-_____-_---___-----_----___-__-_------ 2Sandstone, hard to soft__-_-_---_--_--_---__--_---__--------- 6Sandstone, soft, and sand; contains pebbles..---..-- _.-__.----- 6Clay, soft..-..__.......____.._____._-_--------------- .. 10.5Clay; contains some gravel and sand ...___-_.--_----_------ 1.5Gravel, coarse, loose.________-_______------__.--_-_-------- 4Sandstone; contains a little gravel and sand____________________ 2Clay and sandstone ___.-_.___-------___---_----------------- 4Gravel and sand; fairly loose.----------------..---------- - 10
Pier re shale:Clay, yellow...__._.__.....____.____.__--_----_-___-_-----.. 5
4-48-4baa
[Surface altitude, 4,051 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel .___---_-____---_----_-__-_--------_-------- 75Clay, sandy _______________________ - 30 Sand and gravel _._______________-.______--______----------- 185
Pierre shale:Clay, chalky._________ 10
4-48-5ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,088 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel ____________-______------------------------- 285
Pierre shale:Clay, green ___.___-_____-__------_-.-_--------------------- 15
BASIC DATA 357Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and if ells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-48-6ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,118 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel----..--.-.....____-_.-__________...........__... 20 20Clay, sandy.............______,_______..._____..___.________ 20 40Sand and gravel...._________________________________________ 210 250
Pierre shale:Shale .....__ __....___...________._____.____ 50 300
4-48-7bbb
[Surface altitude, 4,166 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel._.._.___.._--__..._---._-___.._.-__..._.-.__ 150 150 Clay, sandy.......__________________________________________ 105 255
Pierre shale:Shale ________________________._______... 25 280
4-48-7cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,160 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and clay.....---_---__-_---_------..-----_-----.-----.- 50 50Sand and gravel.....---..---_----._---...---.--------------- 80 130Sandstone........_.___-..---------_-----.--------..-------- 55 185Sand and gravel.......---.._-.---_-.-.--------.----.------ 85 270
Pierre shale:Clay._-._.-__....--__._....---_---.-.-.--------------.---.- 10 280Shale.-...____________-.--____------ 20 300
4-48-l4ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,036 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy...__________.._____________--__ - 30 30 Sandstone and gravel..___._--.-_____.._-.__--.---.-_-_-_-.._ 240 270
Pierre shale:Clay....---..-.-.__.---.-----.--- . -.----...... . 20 290Shale _____.__________..._.__----- - 10 300
4-48-16ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,096 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.-__--_.-._---------------------------------- 145 145Sandstone _________..__________--- -- 100 245Rock, hard ..---._------_---.----.--------- ----- --- 5 250
Pierre shale:Shale ._._...____._.__-_.-.------ - 50 300
358 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28.-" Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-48-17abb
[Surface altitude, 4,126 ft]
Ogallala formation:Gravel_____________________________________________________ 30'Clay, sandy._-__-__,____________.__________-_______._..--____ 35Sand and gravel........_________...____.______________-.__.._ 200
Pierre shale:Shale _._._______...__._______..____________ 35
4-48-19aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,145 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.........._.......__..._.--_--_--.--_-------_ 270
Pierre shale:Shale ................................-.----_---.-..-----__ 30
4-48-19cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,162 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel..__......._.___.._...._...-____.____.__.--__ 140Sandstone -_-__-__----_----__---___--_-----_-----_-------..-- 70Gravel....-------....__..--.__.-__-----__-------------- 30
Pierre shale:Shale .--......._..-.._.......-_..-.......---.._.-_-------.- 60
4-48-24dcc
[Surface altitude, 4,041 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy..-.----......-----__...._------------.--------- 70Gravel and clay...-__----__.---_--...--_-.------------------ 50Sand and gravel----_______--_-.-___---_-___----------------_ 165
Pierre shale:Clay......________.____.________-- 12Shale __..__-------____.__.__-------- ___3_
4-48-25ddd
[Surface altitude, 4,036 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel...__...____--_--.__--_---.------------------ 280
Pierre shale:Shale......____....._________. -.. 20
4-48-28abb
[Surface altitude, 4,083 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel..--_____._--_______--_--_-_._-_------------- 225Clay, sandy.____---_--_-___--------------------------------- 60
3065
265
300
270
300
140210240
300
70120285
297300
280
300
225285
BASIC DATA 359
Table 28. * Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-48 -2 8abb Continued
Pierre shale:Shale ....__...__.__.....____-.-.........._
4-48-29abb
[Surface altitude, 4,122 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.._.-__...__..-_-.._____-.______._
Pierre shale:Shale .-.-..-.---.__.__....__..__..__^^...
4-48-30ccc
[Surface altitude, 4,154 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, and sandy clay____..._._--_..-_.-_...Clay..........-..--.-....--.---....-.-.....----.
Pierre shale:Shale __..-.--_.--.---....---.-..- ----------
4-48-31aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,118 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel-__-----_-_-__--_-__-_--__----_---,Rock, hard __-_--------__--.---_-_---------------Sand and gravel___-_-.___-__---___-__-_______-.__
Pierre shale:Clay......._--------._._._...........----.---...Shale __ ___ ___ __________ ____________
4-48-31cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,138 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel; contains broken sandstone ______.._,
Pierre shale:Shale _____________--_____--___-.-------__-------
4-48-32cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,107 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel..---__-_---__-__--------__-------
Pierre shale:Shale.....____.____...__ . ........
15 300
255
45
255
300
30220
30
30250
280
805
190
520
8085
275
280300
285
30
285
315
265
35
265
300
360 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
4-48-34cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,073 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel____-_________-___________________-_-------- 280 280
Pierre shale:Shale__________________...._______..__.-----. 20 300
4-48-36cdd
[Surface altitude, 4,058 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.....__.......__....-.-._--_---.----.----- 285 285
Pierre shale:Shale __-____---_-_-_---_-----_--_------------------------- 15 300
5-43-24abb
[Irrigation well drilled by L. L. Canfield, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,605.6 ft]
Dune sand:Sand..___________......___...___.......... 32 32
Ogallala formation:Sand, coarse, gravelly.____--.-_--_--_---------------------- 5 37Sand, fine, cemented with calcium carbonate; contains
solution cavities--------.-.---------------------------- 20 57Clay....-.....--..-.....--.__.._.....---_-.---.----- 27 84(No sample)__-_____.--____---___--_--_-------------------- 3 87Sand, coarse; contains pieces of calcium carbonate with
embedded sand grains ___.____-_-_-----__---_----------- 6 93Rock, calcareous; contains embedded sand grains .-_--__-----. 14 107Clay, calcareous; contains fine sand ___.-_-__-__------__----- 10 117Gravel; particles coated by calcium carbonate----------------- 8 125Caliche, sandy...--- -- 52 177Gravel.-__.__-----______.... --------- ------- 7 184Clay, brown, with stringer of caliche.-.----..---------------- 13 197Gravel..-..-__------__--------___-____--..------------- 20 217Caliche, sandy.-.....-__ __.- --- -- 7 224Gravel..-.______--__________----- 11 235Clay,tan; contains fossil seeds..---------------------------- 5 240Gravel and coarse sand .._____________-__----_-----_------- 9 249Gravel__--------_________.----.---.-..-------- ---- 11 260
5-46-1 \ [Test hole]
Ogallala formation:Clay, red, and gravel..------------------------------------- 15° 15°Clay, soft, red______________----- 50 200Gravel, coarse.._________________.___---------------------- 10 210Clay........---- - -- - - -- -- --- 21 231Gravel, coarse (water-bearing)._______-----_---------------- 18 249
BASIC DATA
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
361
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-48-4daa
[Surface altitude, 4,130 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel..___________________________....___......____.___ 60Clay, sandy, and gravel_____________________________________ 132
Pierre shale:Clay ___________________________ 18
5-48-5aaa
[Surface altitude, 4,172 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand, gravel, and sandy clay _-____._-_-__-___--_--_______-.__ 172
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow________________-____--_.___________________.._ 18Shale --_________-______._________________ 20
5-48-6cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,189 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undiffentiated:Gravel and sand.____________________________________________ 152
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow..-.._-------__-_---.-.--------__-__._-. 21Shale, blue _______________________________
5-48-6daa
[Surface altitude, 4,182 ft]
Soil...__-__-___-___--._______-__---__.__---_.___- 4Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Sand and gravel__.-_._----_--_--__--__-__-.__--__-_----_---- 171 Rock________________________________---. _ 26
Pierre shale:Shale _____ __---. __- 19
5-48-7bcc
[Surface altitude, 4,199 ft]
Soil..._____---.___-..-__________--_-__.--___--- 4Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Gravel______________________________________ 183Pierre shale:
Clay_______ ________________-______.---_._-- 23 Shale _______ -_ -. 10
5-48-8cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,150 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel__.___------- 60Sand sandy clay, and _____ ___.-__-_____-___-------___-_---- 112Sand and sandstone _______ _ . ______.-.___--_-------_--_- 24
60192
210
172
190210
152
173180
175201
220
4
187
210220
60172196
655012 O - 63 - 24
362 GROUND-
______Toble 28. ^Drillers' loas
WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK
of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
BASIN
Thickness (feet)
5-48-9baa
[Surface altitude, 4,134 ft]
Soil...............__..---....._..._...........__._...__ 4Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Sand and gravel____________________________________________ 156Clay..............................__.........__.__.... 15Sand _----_...-.-.._..-....-.......__.._......._---.-...... 25
Pierre shale:Clay, chalky..-........_......._......._..._.......__-..... 10Clay, blue _-_-._.._........_......___..._..__.____.--....__ 10Shale...._...._.._.......____.._..._.._......-.._. . .__... 20
5-48-10baa
[Surface altitude, 4,107 ft]
Soil____.__..___..._____.._____________..__ 4Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Sand and gravel__________________________-_--__---_---___-- 192Pierre shale:
Chalk(?)__.______---._..--..__--.- ---. 8 Clay__________-.--.______..____.__- ----- 26
5-48-15abb
[Surface altitude, 4,101 ft]
Soil__---.---.______-.--.-..___... . - -- 4Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:
Gravel_____.____.___.___________-.____.___---_------------ 26Clay, sandy......_.-..-.-------_------_------------------.- 12Sand and sandy clay ---------------------------------------- 178
Pierre shale:Chalk(?) and blue clay...____..____. -- 40 Shale __--------____.__.... -. -- 23
5-48-16abb
[Surface altitude, 4,133 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel_._..._.__..._....__..._...__...___---__-----_._---. 40Gravel and sandy clay..-..-.-...-.--.---------.-----------.- 160Sandstone .___-__._--_-_-__--_----_---__--__--------------- 10
Pierre shale:Clay, sandy_.....__.._._..-_._-__-____--_-.-_-------------. 70Shale .____..__----..-_____..__----- ----- 20
5-48-19cbb
[Surface altitude, 4,181 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Gravel and sandy clay..________-____-_-..__-_--------------- 220
Pierre shale:Clay------------------------------------------------------ 15Shale, blue .---...----------.------------------------------ 5
BASIC DATA 363
Table 28. Drillers' loos of test holes, seismoaraph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-48-2lbbb
[Surface altitude, 4,117 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel.......-___-__-____.___-___-___--___-____-__. 90 90Clay, sandy....-.__--__--____-___-..________________________ 20 110Sand and gravel...........__________________________________ 65 175
Pierre shale:Clay..............................__.....__--...-_...-... 63 238Shale __...........__.......__-...--.--_..--_...-..-_...- 52 290
5-48-2lcdd
[Surface altitude, 4,085 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand and gravel......___-_-._.______...____.__....___.__.._. 90 90Sandstone __________________________________________________ 60 150Sand and gravel..______--___-___--____________..___-__._.___ 105 255Rock, hard...........__.................__.....__--.-.. 5 260
Pierre shale:Clay, blue..........,..........................._........... 20 280Shale, black._.-..-...__.....__..__.............__...... 20 300
5-48-30add
[Surface altitude, 4,127 ft]
Ogallala formation and White River group, undifferentiated:Sand, gravel, and sandy clay......._..-_......._-..._-..--.._. 226 226Rock..-_--.._.....-..__..........._....................... 11 237
Pierre shale:Shale, blue _____________....________...______ 18 255
CHASE COUNTY, NEBR.
5-37-4b
[Test hole]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:(No sample).-.---.-.----_---.--.-..------------.-------.--- 20 20Silt--..----.__---...------.--..---...--.------_------.--_ 3 23Shale, black; contains leaves and shells(?)_-.-....._---_.-._-.- 10 33Gravel, very fine to very coarse.---__-._-.____.-__----_------ 32 65Clay, red _______..____.._____...______________ 10 75
Ogallala(?) formation:Rock, medium hard(?)._..__.................--..-_.-.--..-- 20 95Gravel, very fine, clean, red..._...-_-_.----_--__--..-._--.-._ 22 117
5-38-3bba
[Test hole drilled by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1942. Surface altitude, 3,182.4 ft]
Dune sand:Sand--.--....-..................-_.......-....._..-........ 10 10Sand, fine ...--......---...-.._.-.--_...._..._..---..--.---. 24 34
364 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-38-3bba Continued
Dune sand ContinuedSand..__._____--____-_.__...___---_..__--_-_-__.- 4 38
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel..__..........__.....__.....__.-.--.__. 20 58Lime---.-..--..-_--.__-----__-.__.__-------- --- 38 96
5-38-3bdbl
[Test hole drilled by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1942. Surface altitude, 3,193.5ft]
Tertiary to Recent ueposits, undifferentiated:Sand......__...-..._.--...-..-_..-_.............-__...- 58 58
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel.___________._.._________-___---._._--_---- 3.6 61.6Lime, sandy, soft ..-.._____.__..__.._.----____--__- 12.4 74Sand and gravel..__-__________________-___-_----__-------- 15.5 89.5Lime, soft __-....-._......_.........-____.__-------- 0.5 90Lime, sandy, soft ..-_......._...__.....--.-_--_---------- 20 110Lime, soft ..___._.--_..-__-_.........-_.__-__--__-------- 5 115
5-38-3bdb2
[teat hole drilled by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1942. Surface altitude, 3,136.6 ft]
Alluviuxn(?):Sand, fine _..--....--........_...__.....-.._-----_-------_ 6 6Sand and large gravel ...----..-.....--....-__._-...._..._. 2 8No sample...-__.___.._._.__.._._..__._....._...._...._._. 2.5 10.5Mud, black...__..__.__..._______....._______. 7.5 18Sand, fine..._-_..._....__..__...._.__.._..__-..___-..-._- 9 27
Ogallala(?) formation:Sandstone, soft ____--_-____-______._____-___-__-_-___.___- 33 60Clay, brown......__..__._._.........__.....__..-----_. 13 73Sandstone, soft __________________.___________--._--_-_-__- 7 80Clay, sandy, light _______________________________ 3 83Limestone, soft......._..._....__.__._...__.....__..___... 6 89Sand and gravel.._.._..__._._..._........._..___.__....... 44.4 133.4Sandstone, soft._._.._._.__.._..........__.........._._.. 16.6 150
5-38-3bdc
[Test hole drilled by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1942. Surface altitude, 3,191.9 ft]
Soil.._______________________.______________ 2 2 Ogallala formation:
Lime, soft....._...__......__......_....___.-_.....-..._ 3 5Clay, brown._...__.._____...._......__.._...._.._.__.__.. 7 12Lime, soft ..._-...___..._._._.._.__..._..........._...._. 3.3 15.3Clay, brown ______________________________________________ 10.3 25.6Lime, soft ...__..__........._..........._.__....__.... 4.4 30Limestone________________________________________________ 10 40Lime, very soft____..___.___...__._......_____..._._....._ 10 50Lime, soft _______________________________________________ 20 70Conglomerate.-..__.--____._...______.___-___-___..---____ 8 78Clay, brown .__ _....._....__._.____-.__...--...._--__.. 2 80Lime, soft .._.--...--_______._____.._...._...____.______. 7 87
BASIC DATA 365Table 28. > Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-38-3bdc Continued
Ogallala formation Continued Clay, brown._____..__._.__, Lime, soft _________________Clay, brown________________
9197
100
5-38-4dba
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1953]
Ogallala formation:Soil, sandy.___--__-_--__-___---_______--_--__--_---__------ 5 5Sand, fine.._________..____________________- 25 30Caliche, soft.._____________________._ 11 41Sand, fine..__________________.________.- 6 47Rock and sand..-_..-_-.___-__.__.__._______-...-_-__-_--__. 3 50Rock, brown .-.-_.--_----____.._-_._-_.----------------.--- 7 57Sand, fine----......_.._...-.-....--._..----_--- 8 65Gravel ._______________________________----- 5 70Rock, brown ______.- ______....-- 24 94Sandstone, hard -------___-___-_.-------__-__-..__..____ 2 96Rock-____________________..___.__________- 3 99Sand....__________________.______._______ 61 160
5-38-19c
[Test hole. Surface altitude, 3,313 ft]
Soil___________---------__--------- 3 3Ogallala formation:
Caliche and clay; hard ..__-________--_-_______---_----___--- 5 8Sandstone.------.-----------_-.-_-_-_-----_---------------- 4 12Caliche, hard _______-_______ - 16 28Sandstone, red -.--__--___--_.--___.---_-___----------_----- 7 35Sandstone, soft, red_--__-_-___-_-__---_-_-_-_-____---------- 4 39Caliche, hard _______._____________-______- 11 50Sand, fine, red__------------.-__--------------_---.-------- 9 59Caliche, soft.-__-.__.-_:-...__--...-______.--------. 3 62Sand, fine, red .._--_----..-..-_------__-.-__----._ 4 66Clay, brown...__.__.__..-.___-__--_.-------- -- 1 67Gravel, very fine to medium -..____--_.__--__._---_---___---- 3 70Caliche, hard ._____________________ 8 78Sand, fine, red .-_--_--_-._-__.__--..___------------ 2 80Clay and caliche..____-...______________._ 27 107Sandstone, hard, white.-.-.--.______-_____._-_--__--__------- 7 114Sandstone, medium-hard, white__-_---_-.----___--_----------- 1 115Sandstone, hard, white._---.--.____----____..._.-.___ 2 117Sandstone, medium-hard, white__-__---._ ..................... 15 132Sandstone, soft, white.-----...._.._____----- .. 4 136Gravel, fine to medium, loose _______________________________ 3 139Clay, gray------__-__------__-.-__--.__.__.__.__.--. 9 148Sand, fine___________...________________*_ 4 152Gravel, fine..----------------.....-..___._._.-_.-__-._----- 5 157Clay, light-colored __________ ________ _______ ____ 1 158Clay, brown, and fine sand___..___-__.__.__.____...._.-_____- 3 161Sandstone, medium-hard -____.__...___-__.-__-__-----.-- . 1 162Caliche and clay; light-colored__________. .- 10 172
366 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' loss of test holes, seismoflraph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-38-19c Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, fine, red______________________________________________ 7 179Sand, fine..._______________________________________________ 4 183Sandstone ----------__-_____________________________________ 2 185Sand, fine, red----__________________________________________ 12 197Gravel, very fine.___________________________________________ 2 199Sand, fine, red...___________________________________________ 4 203Sandstone, medium-hard.. ___________________________________ 2 205Sand, fine, red______________________________________________ 5 210Sandstone, medium-hard_____________________________________ 5 215Sandstone, very hard________________________________________ 2 217
5-38-27bbb
[Oil-test well drilled by Stanolind Oil and Gas Co. Surface altitude, 3,390 ft]
(No sample)__--_.__________________________________________ 470 470Pier re shale:
Shale....__________________________________________________ ______ 470
5-39-llc
[Test hole. Surface altitude, 3,342 ft]
Soil and clay _______________________________________________ 3 8Ogallala formation:
Rock, fine-grained, white_.________._________________________ 3 16Rock, soft, brown.__________________________________________ 3 24Rock, hard, white.__________________________________________ i 25Rock, fine-grained, and fine sand --_----.--_-.____.__________ 4 29Rock, hard__._--___________._______________________________ i 30Limestone, clay, and sand --__---.--_________________________ 5 35Limestone, clay, and sand; red_______________________________ 10 45Limestone, clay, and sand; light-colored______________________ 12 57Sand,loose__.________________________________________ 3 60Sand, clay, and limestone........____________________________ 3 g3Rock, soft, chalky, white..____.________...___._..____________ 5 68Rock, hard_____.___________________________________________ 3 7}Rock, soft, chalky, white_________________..._____..__________ n 32Gravel, fine to medium...........___________________________ 4 sgGravel, very fine--.------_._____________________________... 10 96Sand, fine, red...___.____________..._.__._..._______________ 3 99Gravel, fine______________________._________________________ 7 IQQRock, chalky, white _________________________________________ _i 117Sand, fine, red _____________________________________________ 2 119Rock, white ------.._______________________________________ 7 126Rock, hard, white...________________________________________ i 127Rock, soft, white --__-_-._____..______.._...________________ 2 129Rock, hard, white...________________________________________ 9 133Sandstone, very hard..______________________________________ 2 140Gravel, very fine ---_---.-__.._____.____....._______________ 3 143Sandstone, very hard.....___________________________________ 4 147Rock, soft ---------_-__--._.___________..____...___________ 2 149Gravel, very fine ___________________________________________ 6 155Gravel, fme to medium______________._______________________ 7 ig2Sandstone, hard ____________________________________________ 2 164
BASIC DATA 367
Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismoflraph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-39-lie Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSandstone, medium-hard._._-______.__..___..____._.___...__ 8 172Sand, fine..__.....__ ...__.....____.__._.......__. 10 182Gravel, fine.---..........-.-........_.......-__._...._._. 1 183Sandstone, medium-hard.__-_...........__.._..._..._...___. 4 187Sandstone, hard_______________.____________________________ 3 190Sandstone, soft ____.__.___..._._________._._________.______ 10 200
5-39-12c
[Test hole]
Soil....__.____...._._______.___._....._...___._._._._... 6 6Ogallala formation:
Sand_.____.._____..._______.___._____________._._______.__ 2 8Caliche, hard ______________________________________________ 12 20Sand; contains a little white rock; loose _______________________ 4 24Sandstone, hard_...__________.__.._._.____..___.___.__.____ 4 28Caliche and sand; hard__-_._-_______._______ ________________ 3 31Sand and caliche; loose._____________________________________ 34 65Sand ..__......__________..__.....____.__..__ 2 67Sandstone._________________________________________________ 15 82Rock, hard ________________________________________________ 3 85Sandstone and caliche--------_-__.---.-_______-_____________ 15 100Sandstone, hard ____________________________________________ 2 102Caliche, hard ______________________________________________ 4 106Sandstone, hard....__._____._______________________________ 7 113Rock, white.._--._.________________________________________ 22 135Rock, hard, white...________________________________________ 2 137Sandstone, soft_____________________________________________ 12 149Gravel, fine._______________________________________________ 1 150Sandstone._________________________________________________ 10 160Sandstone, white......._____________________________________ 17 177Sand, very coarse, loose ____________________________________ 3 180Sandstone, soft, red ________________________________________ 7 187Rock, hard, red ____________________________________________ 3 190Rock, soft, red_____________________________________________ 1 191Rock, hard, red ____________________________________________ 2 193Rock, soft, red.....________________________________________ 1 194Rock, soft, white ___________________________________________ 12 206Sandstone. _________________________________________________ l 207Clay, red, and fine sand; soft ________________________________ 12 219Sandstone._________________________________________________ l 220Sandstone, soft _____________________________________________ l 221Sandstone, white.....__..___..._.__..______________.___.___. 17 238Gravel, very fine,loose_._-.-___.______.........___.._____. 7 245Gravel, fine,loose._________________________________________ 6 251Rock, chalky, white..._._____.______________________________ 7 258Gravel, very fine, loose....______......_._.___..______._._.. 8 266Rock, chalky, white.________________________________________ 4 270
5-39-35b
[Test hole drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1952]
Soil, dark_______.__________________________________________ 2 2Ogallala formation:
Clay ... __________________,__..._____._..____ 6 8
368 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness, (feet)
5-39-35b Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, fine__________________________________________________ 2Clay, green ______-________-_____--_--____---___-__--------- 5Sand, very fine, compacted __________________________________ 2Clay, sandy ________________________________________________ 2Clay, yellow_-_--________-_________________--_-_-_-------__- 7Sand, fine_________________________________-_______-_--__-__ 6Caliche, medium-soft .--___-___._____.___..-_____.__------_- 3Clay, sandy ________________________________________________ 3Gravel -_.._.-_..._._._.___._.._._.._._...._......-.-._._.. 1Sand; contains streaks of clay ________________________________ 6Clay, sand3______________________________---__-_----------- 5Caliche, medium-soft ..___-________--________._____---_---__ 21Clay, sandy ________________________________________________ 4Clay. .... . 1Caliche, hard ______________________________________________ 2Gravel; contains a little hard rock-_____.___--------_------__- 1Caliche, hard _____________________________________________ 2Sand, fine__________________________________ .. 4Clay, sandy._____ ______ ______ ____________.-_--_-_____ 11Caliche, medium-soft ______________________________________ 14Caliche, medium-hard; contains traces of sand ________________ 19Sandstone _____________________ _ ___________________________ 7Gravel, medium to coarse ___________________________________ 18Clay ___ ____________________________ 1Sand, medium, and gravel ___________________________________ 2.5Caliche, very hard______________________________ __________ 1.5Sandstone and gravel______._______________________________ 6Clay, sandy ________________________________________________ 6Caliche, very hard__________________________________________ 4Clay, sandy __________________________________________ ___ 6Sandstone _____________________________________________ _ __. 11Caliche, hard ______________________________________________ .5Rock and gravel __________________________ ________________ 2.5Caliche, hard ______________________________________________ 7Sand. ______ _____ ___________--._____-. ... 5Sand, coarse, and gravel ___________________________________ 2Gravel, medium; contains traces of sandy clay.________.--_.___ 7Sand, fine; contains traces of hard caliche____________________ 8Caliche, soft _._______________________________ 17Sand, fine, and clay.______________________________________ 9Caliche, hard -----____---__-___--________-_____-_____._____ 16Sand, fine_______________________.______________________ ____ 7Caliche, hard ____...___________________...____ _____ 2Clay, sandy, hard.__________________________________________ 19Gravel, coarse_____________________________________________ 15
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow._______________________________________________ 1Shale _ _________________________________ 6
5-40-10b
[Test hole]
Soil.. ________________________ _ 5Ogallala formation:
Clay, sandy, red_______________________________ ________ 5Caliche and white clay --_-_______-______-____-_.__----_-_- 7
BASIC DATA 369
Table 28. j Drillers' loas of test holes, seismoaraph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-40 -lOb Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSandstone, brown___________________________________________ 1Caliche and clay; white_-_______-____________________________ 12Clay, sandy, white._________________________________________ 2Caliche... ___.________..________________ 1Sandstone._________________________________________________ 1Caliche, hard --__--------____----_____________-____________ 1Clay, sandy, hard, white..--.________________________________ 16Sandstone, porous, brown ___________________________________ 6Caliche, hard _.____--____._______________________________ 1Clay, sandy, brown _________________________________________ 3Caliche and clay; white._____________________________________ 5Clay, sandy, brown _________________________ _______________ 4CalicheL-_.--______________-__-.____..____________ 13Clay, sandy, brown _________________________________________ 1Clay, brown _______________________________________________ 13Caliche.. ________-.._-__--_----____-_____._____ 2
5-40-32d
[Test hole]
Dune sand:Soil, sandy_-_-___-_-_______________________________________ 8Quicksand _________________________________________________ 7Clay and fine sand --_-------_-_-__-___--_-____.___________ 13
Ogallala formation:Caliche, white_______________.______________________________ 3Clay, gray, and sand ________________________________________ 6Quicksand --_------__._______-___________________________._ 5Sand to very coarse gravel __________________________________ 13Caliche, white__.___________________________________________ 6Sandstone __----_----________----_-_________________________ 1Clay, white, and sand _______________________________________ 10Clay, red, and sand _________________________________________ 3Sand to fine gravel-_-__----_---___--________________________ 3Clay, white ----_---.-___--_________-_______________________ 6Rock._______ ______________________________________________ 3Sand, compacted, brown _____________________________________ 1Rock ______________________________________________________ 1.5Sand and gravel _----_-____---..___--_______________________ 1.5Rock ______________________________________________________ 4Clay, brown, and sand__-_.__________________________________ 5Gravel, very fine to medium ________________________________ 2Caliche, white______________________________________________ 6Rock..._____.________-_____.________________ 2Rock, white, and fine red , sand ______________________________ 8Rock __________________________________________ 2Sand, red, and clay _________________________________________ 5Rock, porous-----_-_-_---___-__.___________________________ 2Sand, red, and clay__________________________________________ 10Gravel, fine to coarse, loose.________________________________ 20Sand, red, and clay._________________________________________ 3
183032333435515758616670838497
81528
31374255616272757884878889.59195
100102108110118120125127137157160
370 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' lo«s of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells -Continued
Thickness (feet)
5-41-14cbc
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1944. Surface altitude, 3,492.0 ft ]
Dune sand:Soil, sandy..._-__-__--___--____------------------.--------- 2Sand, fine........_.--____--__...____.-_-.--- -..---.. 20Gravel --_-_.--__..---___--______........._-.-_-----..--- 2
Ogallala formation:Clay, gray..... ........_..............___. ----- ..- 4Sand, coarse .---_.----_..---....---_-.-----.--------------- 4Clay, gray_________-___________._____.--------_--_--.------ 1Sand, fine..___________------...-....--------___---_._-_. 2Gravel, very fine to medium __.-._________-__---___---_--___- 5Clay, gray ____________________________-----__---_-------_-- 1.5Rock...____ ____________..____-__-. 1.5Clay, gray .............. __... ----- ---------- --- 4Sandstone.-._--....--_..._-.......--._-_---_------_--.--_-- 6Chalk, soft, white...--...._-.....---.._----_------__-__--- 3Sandstone and clay; soft _._______________--___--___---__--_-- 13Chalk, soft, white...-..................--.----.----------.-- 18Rock, chalky, soft; contains some hard streaks.---------------- 3Sandstone _-___.__________________.____-___----_---___-_---- 2Rock, white -__--____---__----_-.-----------_--_-_ -....__- 1Rock, chalky, white, and sand; contains hard streaks _---.--__-. 13Chalk, white, and sand -___--__..._-_.__--------------------- 17Clay, red, and sand ___--__.-_-...--------_---------_-----_-- 6Sand..__------__-----__...-...-...-----.--------------- 1Gravel, fine; contains very fine gravel_____-_-_-----___-_---_- 9Sand and clay; red __---_-.__--___-----------_--_----_--_ -- 8Rock.__.___________________-.___ -- 1Sand ------__----.----...---...----.---------.------ ... .5Rock, chalky, white, and sand ___.________-_-__-_-___-_--_---- 14.5Rock, hard_.-_..._-.___-.-..--_....__-___...--__-_--------- 1Sandstone______________________________--___-,__-.--_---_-- 8Sandstone, hard _-_____-_.______.______--_____-_-_-_-_-_-_-- 8Sandstone, red ----.---___.--_...--------_------------------ 14Sandstone, porous ________________--___--_-_----------_--_-- 2Gravel, fine; contains very fine gravel ___---_--_--------_-__-- 7Rock, hard, red ___.____-.____-.__-_-__-_-___-__-_----___--- 1Sandstone ________..______.____..____________----____------- 6Rock, chalky, white, and sand _______-__-_----_--_---_-_----_- 16Gravel, fine; contains very fine gravel .__---.--------__----_-- 14
6-37-20ccc
[Surface altitude, 3,174 ft]
Soil, sandy... ......___.__.. ... 10Ogallala formation:
Caliche--...---...---.-.---.-.__..._..._.-.-----..----_--- 2Gravel -._-_.._-__._--_.__--__.._.--_-------_-------------- 28Caliche; contains streaks of clay ._--__-.--_---__--.-_-------- 125Gravel ....____..______________-__ 125
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow._----__.-____.--____---_-_-----_-_------------- 5Shale, blue.________________.-.______ 110
BASIC DATA 371
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-37-36ddd
[Surface altitude, 3,133 ft]
Sariborn formation:Sand...--_-----_.-.-..--_--_____-_________._____-__________ 14 14Loess --...._.-.._-_._._--....__.._.._.._..__.....__.__. 113 127
Ogallala formation:Clay; contains stringers of caliche.._________________________ 73 200Gravel..--_-_-____--___---.__--____-_____-__-_-_.__--____ 90 290
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow-------__--_--__---____-___-___-__-._____--____ 8 298Shale,blue ._ . -_.-___. ._..-.__ 7 305
6-38-4bca
[Municipal well for town of Imperial drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1945]
Soil, sandy________________________________________________ 5 5Ogallala formation:
Caliche __..__.____.____...___._______------- 21 26Sandstone _____-____-___---___--__________-___---_____-_-__ 4 30(No sample) __--.-----____________________________________ 3 33Sand and clay; brown-___--___----_----_-----___-___-_-__--- 13 46Sandstone, hard-___--_____-____-_____-_____-___-_-___-___-- 2 48Clay, brown, and sand ___-_-__---.____-__.._--___--.__---_--- 28 76Sand, cemented ___---_-----___--___---__----_--_____--_---- 2 78Caliche, sandy..__---___---__--______-____--___--_--____--_ 3 81Sand, very coarse_----_------_--------_---_-_---_---------- 8 89Clay, brown, and fine sand ---.--____--______-_----__---___._ 22 111Caliche and sand___--__----__-__-__---__________-___--_____ 7 118Rock--.-..__.._________.-______________._ 1 119(No sample)__________-.-..__.________________. 2 121Caliche __________________________________..-_.__-------- 14 135Sandstone _________________________________________________ 3 138Caliche ------..---_.__----_-.____________________________ 18 156Caliche, medium-hard __ ___________________________________ 8 164Caliche, soft _______________________________________________ 4 168Clay, brown, and fine sand __________________________________ 2 170Sandstone, hard..._________________________________________ 6 176Clay, brown, and fine sand_-___-______-._-_______-______.__- 4 180Caliche and sand..__-__.--___--________._______________,.__ 10 190Sandstone _________________________________________________ 5 195Clay, brown, and sand ______________________________________ 10 205Sand, coarse...._-.._-.____________________________________ 3 208Rock___--____--_____---____--______-________________.____ 2 210Clay, brown, and sand ______________________________________ 7 217Rock.. ------__._---_-----__.--_.__.....___-._______.___. 1 218Rock, porous----__---------_-___.--____.._..___--....-_..- 4 222Clay, brown _______________________________________________ 10 232Sand, fine _________________________________________________ 3 235Sandstone _________________________________________________ 3 238Sand, very coarse..-.._-__-.----___..._-_._..____-.___.--._ 7 245Gravel, very fine to medium _--_--_----.____.___--__._-____- 5 250Sand, very fine to very coarse.-----.-.--.---.._---__---__.-_ 5 255Sand, very coarse_.__...___________________________________ 15 270Clay, brown, and sand _____.___-_..._..-__._-._.....__-___-_ 9 279Sand, fine _________________________________________________ 13 292Sand and gravel___v------------------_-_--__--------_----_- 19 311Clay,,____________________________________________________ 1 312
372 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-38-5dab
[Municipal well for town of Imperial drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1945]
Dune sand:Soil, sandy, and caliche.--_----_--__-_---_--.-.-------.-----_ 26 26
Ogallala formation:Sandstone-.--...........__.____.___--___---__--_---------. 7 33Clay, sandy, brown __.-______.._______________----_--___- _ 13 46Sandstone, hard ___________________________________________ 2 48Clay, sandy, brown.-__.____________________________________ 28 76Sandstone, medium-hard..___._.__.___________.___-_._-_--__ 2 78Gravel, very fine __________________________________________ 11 89Clay, brown; contains fine sand._____________________________ 22 111Caliche and fine sand ______________________________________ 7 i!8Sandstone, hard.'......_____________________________________ 1 119Sandstone, medium.....____.___---_-.__-.____.--___-_..--__ 3 122Caliche..--_--_.---...__________________-____--____-_--_-. 13 135Sandstone _________________________________________________ 3 138Caliche, medium-hard.-_.__-...._....--..-.-..-_--_-----._- 18 156Caliche, soft ______________________________________________ 8 164Clay, sandy, brown___.______ _______________________________ 4 168Sandstone, hard.,..._______________________________________ 3 171Clay, sandy, brown___.-__-__--___.-___.___._-.____.._--_..- 5 176Clay, sandy, brown-____.._...___-._____._._-__-.._.___._-_. 4 180Caliche and fine sand -----_-----------------_.----_-------- 12 192Sandstone--.--...-_..-.._-.._..___________________________ 3 195Clay, sandy, brown.________________________________________ 10 205Sand, coarse__._.__._______________________________________ 3 208Rock........___-_._-...--.--......_..._.__--._..-.__.-__ 2 210Clay, sandy, brown...._-..._--....._.._-.__-..___--_.._.... 7 217Rock..-__...-.__...........__.......-......__..._.._...... 1 218Rock, loose ________________________________________________ 4 222Clay, brown.....__________________________________________ 10 232Sand, fine_._____________________________________________.. 3 235Sandstone.__________________________________________ ...... 3 238Gravel, very fine.._'_____________________________________. 7 245Gravel, very fine to medium ________________________________ 5 2 50Gravel, very fine___________._______________________________ 20 270Clay, sandy, brown....... __________________________________ 10 280Sand______________________________________________________ 12 292Sand, very fine, to medium gravel ._.___.._..._..___.._.__... 19 311Clay _ ......_..._..._._.__ ..... 3 314Sand........_---.-.-.-..._.............._._.._..._....._._ 4 318Clay ... _...-....______________________ 2 320
6-38-10ddc
[Oil-test well drilled by National Associated Petroleum Co. Surface altitude, 3,267 ft]
Ogallala formation:(No sample) __....-_...._.___.._...___..________..__-_-___-.. 303 303
Pierre shale:Shale, weathered........................................... 34 337Shale ..._...._.___.._......._..__.._..._...._..__.__.. ....._ 337
BASIC DATA 373
Table 28. * Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued______
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-38-24a
[Oil-test drilled by Chase Petroleum Co., Surface altitude, 3,214 ft]
Ogallala formation:(No sample).___----_--------_-_.__-___--_--_-_--_----.---- 365 365
Pierre shale:Shale____________.___________________________ _____ 365
6-38-30aaa
[Surface altitude, 3,277 ft]
Dune sand:Sand.......______--_--_-__----_______________-_----_.__. 25 25
Ogallala formation:Caliche ___________________________________________________ 5 30Clay..._____________________________....___ 55 85Caliche____..____________________________ 18 103Caliche; contains streaks of sand._.__.._._.__..___..---____. 54 157Sand ...__________________________________.. 26 183Clay ...__...........__..__.._......._._....___....... 22 205Gravel .________________.__._____________... 11 216Clay; contains ledges of caliche-.._.._.___._.._-__-----..__. 39 255Gravel, clay, and caliche ----_-_.__.-.__._.--_-.------_-..__ 55 310
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow..----.-----.__..-.--.---__-_-.-----.----.--. 8 318 Shale, blue_________________________________ 87 405
6-38-33ada
[Test hole drilled by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1942. Surface altitude, 3,194.5 ft]
Dune sand:Sand.____....__.............__.__........__........ 7 7Clay, sandy.----.--.---.-.--.._...-....--__---------_.---- 8 15Sand and clay_-_.....---_----_-_...-..-._.-----.--._.-.-.-_ 10 25Sand -.__._____------__......____..--.__.-__..- 24 49
Ogallala formation:Sand and gravel ..__------__.--.-....-.___.--..-..-.----_.. 13.3 62.3Lime.__..__..__..__....__.........__.__......... 15.7 78Sand, coarse _.----------------___-.--___-__.-----_--.._._ 8.7 86.7Lime...........__..__-.--..._.....__..__-...-_-.___ 25.3 112
6-39-15aac
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1953. Surface altitude, 3,339.0 ft]
Soilblack__________________________________.. 5 5Ogallala formation:
Caliche.____________________________________.. 37 42Sand, coarse, compact --____________._._._.-_____-_-_--__-- 7 49Gravel ___________________________________________________ 2 51Clay, brown....._....._........._...._._......-..-__....._ 10 61Clay, sandy, brown .__-_-_.___-_..____.___...._-_---._.-_.. 14 75Rock, hard.......____......____.________......__ 3 78Clay, soft, brown _..._.----_-.-.._.-_._-___-.._..-.---...-- 5 83Rock________________________________________ 1 84
374 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' loas of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
6-39-15aac Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedClay, brown________________________________________________ 5Gravel, medium ---_---_-----_----_--_______---__-_-__--_--- 27Caliche...-________________________________________________ 1Caliche, hard ___-__.______.._.....__.___..__._.__.__.___.._ 3Clay, brown__--__-_______-_._._._______-_._______-______-__ 7Caliche.__________________________________._____________ 11Caliche, soft_______________________________________________ 2Caliche, hard -_.___......._____...__________._.____________ 1Caliche, very hard..________________________________________ 2Caliche, soft _._____________.__._....____________._______.._ 5Caliche, soft to hard ________________________________________ 3Caliche, very hard__________________________________________ 3Caliche, medium-soft __-___-__-----_________--_---___-_-___- 7.5Caliche, very hard__________________________________________ 1Caliche, soft to medium-hard ________________________________ 13.5Clay and gravel ____________________________________________ 10Caliche, medium-hard to very hard______--_______________--__ 1Caliche.___________________________________________________ 11Sand and clay.______________________________________________ 12Clay, sandy ________________________________________________ 7Rock, coarse_______________________________________________ 1Sand and gravel _-----_-___________-_----____________---_-__ 2Clay ____________----._____________-__. 5Gravel------_-._______________________-_________________ 7Clay ______________________________________________________ 10Sand and clay_______________________________________________ 3Sand ______________________________________________________ 2Clay ______________________________________________________ 3Sandstone__________________________________________________ 6Sand to medium gravel_--____-_-__-_-__--_______--_-___--___ 4Gravel ____________________________________________________ 4Clay _____________________________ 3Rock ______________________________________________________ 3Sand; contains streak of clay_-______---___________-______-_-_ 4Sand and gravel ____________________________________________ 4Clay____ ----.-_______________________--.__-.____-._ 6Sand and clay___.___________________________________________ 15Gravel, medium ____________________________________________ 11Sand to medium gravel ______________________________________ 9Clay, sandy ________________________________________________ 25Gravel _____________________________________________________ 4
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow________________________________________________ _______
6-39-22c
[Test hole drilled in 1943. Surface altitude, 3,249 ft]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Soil--------_._-_-_________________________________________ 2Sand ______________________________________________________ 6Sand to fine gravel..._______________________________________ 7
Ogallala formation:Caliche ___________________________________________________Sandstone, red ----..________.____.____.____________________ 4Caliche, hard ______________________________________________ 4
BASIC DATA 375Toble 28. Drillers' loas of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-39-22c Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand, fine, cemented, brown_______Caliche, hard____________________Sand, cemented, brown .-___-_-___ Rock, brown and white____________Gravel, very fine to medium, loose- Sand, fine, cemented, red _________Gravel, very fine __-____--_-__-__Sandstone _______________________Sand, fine, red___________________Gravel, very fine ---_--_______-__Sand, fine__________.____________Gravel, very fine....-_-__-_____._
2053
12133527
815101010
5257607285
120147155170180190200
6-39-29acc
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1953]
Ogallala formation:Loam, sandy._________________________Sand, fine to medium (caves easily) _.__. Clay; contains trace of caliche.-------..Caliche, soft _________________________Sandstone ----____-_-___-_.__.____....Caliche, soft --..__-_...._.._..._._._.Caliche, hard__-__-________.______.Caliche, very hard ____________________Sandstone ____________________________Caliche, very hard _.-___.___.________.Rock, soft, water-bearing. __ _____.___..Caliche, white ________________________Clay, brown __________________________Rock, very hard ______________________Rock, soft, porous----_-----_--_-____.,Rock, hard __-____-_-_-_-_.___-______Rock, soft, brown _-___-__-____.______.Clay, hard, brown____________________Clay, sandy._.-..__________..________.Rock, soft___________________________Caliche, very hard ____________________Clay, brown __________________________Sand.--.....__________________Gravel, very fine__-__-_-_-___---_____Caliche, soft ________________________Caliche, hard._._--_-___-.___________Gravel, fine ________________________.Rock _-.._____-_-_.__-____-._____.Sand and gravel.______________________Gravel, fine to medium _._____-.______.Caliche, soft _________________________Sand and gravel; contains traces of clay . Sand, fine, and sandstone. _______ ______Gravel_ ______________________________Sand, fine to medium ________--._____.Gravel_______________________________Sand, fine ____________________________
3189
15738639231923734435
212
1635432
1654
32130455255636972818386879698
101108111115119122127148150166169174178181183199204208216225228230
376 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
_____Toble 28.---Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
6-39-29acc Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand and gravel; contains traces of hard caliche________________ 8Gravel..__---____________--______-___-_--__----------_----- 6Sand, fine, and sandstone..._-___-.-_-_.--.---------. -- --- 4Caliche, hard._._.______._.._____.__.---__-_-----__---_----- 14Gravel, fine to medium ______________________________________ 3
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow _______________________________________________ 15Shale ________________________..___ -____8
6-39-30bbc
[Irrigation well drilled in 1948. Surface altitude, 3,349.2 ft]
Soil, black ._-.__.._..._-_____..________________-- 2Ogallala formation:
Caliche, soft; contains some gravel ___________________________ 6Caliche, soft to hard ..______._..._.__._.__--__._ _ - 10Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 4Gravel, fine to medium ___________--__________--_----__-_-_-- 15Caliche, medium-hard, and gravel __---_-_--__---------------- 7Caliche, hard.._____________________________________________ 1Clay, brown ______________________________ _______________ 4Gravel, medium ___________________________________________ 2Caliche, hard.._____.__--_______________ .. -._--_ 2Gravel, very fine to fine _--____________-._____--______--__--- 4Gravel, tightly cemented..___________________________________ 1Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 2Gravel, tightly cemented__.__-_________-_-____--_-__--____--_ 1Gravel and brown clay ______________________________________ 6Caliche, hard_______________________________________________ 4Caliche, hard to soft _____________-_______-.__-______-_-___-- 22Sand, medium ______________________________________________ 5Gravel, very fine to fine --_______-_____-_--____--_--_---___-- 11Sand, cemented _____________________________________________ 4Rock, hard _______________________________________________ 5Sand, red _________________________________________ _ ... 5Rock, hard ________________________________________________ 3Sand and gravel; cemented ___________________________________ 6Caliche, medium-hard.______________________________________ 8Sandstone, hard__._._______________________________________ 7Sand, lightly cemented, red __________________________________ 13Sand, coarse,to gravel ______________________________________ 5Gravel, very fine.___________________________________________ 5Gravel, very fine to fine _____________________________________ 8Sand, fine __________________________________________________ 12Sand, coarse _______________________________________________ 2Gravel, very fine to fine _____________________________________ 9Sand, fine __________________________________________________ 2Gravel_____________________________________________________ 5Sandstone, hard_____________________________________________ 3
BASIC DATA 377
Table 28. Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued______
Thickness
(feet)
Depth
(feet)
6-39-31a
[Test hole]
Soil...---.--------_-___-__-_-_--____________.._.._____.____ 6 6Ogallala formation:
Caliche, sandy_____________________________________________ 2 8Caliche; contains cemented sand ______________________________ 5 13Caliche, sandy ______________________________________________ 3 16Caliche; contains cemented sand ______----___________--_-_____ 3 19Caliche, very hard __________________________________________ 1 20Caliche, sandy______________________________________________ 5 25Caliche, soft---__--------__-_-_--______-____________________ 5 30Caliche, medium-hard _______________________________________ 5 35Caliche, soft..._._.__...__..___.___....___..___.__..___._.._ 4 39Caliche, sandy______________________________________________ 13 52Caliche, soft; contains sand __________________________________ 7 59Sand, medium, and gravel; contains clay _______________________ 8 67Sand, medium, and gravel; clean ______________________________ 3 70Sand, coarse, and gravel_____________________________________ 2.5 72.5Clay, caliche, and sand; hard _________________________________ 2.5 75Sand, fine, caliche, and clay; soft -.--__-_-___-_________-______ 9 84Sand, coarse, and caliche; hard _______________________________ 2 86Sand, fine, and caliche _____._____.__._.__.___.____________.._ 7 93Sand, fine, and clay._------__----____________________________ 7 100Sand, coarse, and caliche-_--------__________-_______________ 7 107Sand, cemented, and caliche; hard..___________________________ 7 114Sand,fine __________________________________________________ 6 120Sand and gravel; angular-grained; clean __-_--_________-_-_.___ 9 129Gravel, coarse, and clay _____________________________________ 4 133Sand, coarse, and clay _______________________________________ 27 160Sand, medium to coarse and clay _____________________________ 20 180Sand, coarse, and gravel _____________________________________ 23 203
6-40-lddd
[Irrigation well drilled in 1941. Surface altitude, 3,375.7 ft]
Ogallala formation:Soil and caliche _____________________________________________ 34 34Sand, clay, and caliche _______________________________________ 18 52Sand, tightly cemented _______________________________________ 3 55Clay, sandy, red, and caliche -----------.-._-_..........__.... 4.6 59.6Sandstone, very coarse grained, hard.._----.........__--_-_.__ 5 64.6Sand and clay; medium-hard--_--_____________________________ 6.4 71Sand and clay _______________________________________________ 10 81Gravel, good________________________________________________ 34 115Gravel and clay _-_--_-_____-----____________.__._______...._ 4 119Caliche, hard to soft, and clay ----____-___-__________-________ 47 166Gravel, good________________________________________________ 16 182Caliche, hard _______________________________________________ 4 186
6 -40 -6b
[Test hole drilled in 1943. Surface altitude, 3,458 ft]
Soil.._____.__________________________________ 2 2 Ogallala formation:
Gravel_--_-.....___________________________________________ 3 5
655012 O - 63 - 25
378 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
6-40 -6b Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand,fine__-__-__-__--__________________-_-_-___-__-__-__- 5Caliche-___-___-___-_-__________________-____-_----____--_ 7Sand ----_---_-_-_-_--___________________---_-__-__-_---_- 2Gravel and sand __________________________________________ 17Sand, fine, red _---__--_-__-________-____---_-___---____--- 2Sand, fine, tightly cemented, red ____________________________ 10Gravel, very fine __________________________________________ 1Gravel and sand ___________________________________________ 4Rock, white _--_--_-_-_________________-___-______ .._.___ 1Sand and gravel ___________________________________________ 3Sandstone ----_-__--_________________-_-__-_-____-__.______ 2Sand, red, and gravel ______________________________________ 7Rock, white, and sand ______________________________________ 1Sand, fine, red __________________________________________ _ 6Caliche, hard ---_-----_______________-_--___-_____-__-____ 2Sand, coarse ______________________________________________ 1Sand, fine, red ------_-__-_______________-_-_______--__-___ 9Sand, medium to very coarse._______________________________ 4Caliche, hard _____________________________________________ 1Sandstone, cemented with calcium carbonate__.---__-____-_.__ 4Sand and gravel ___________________________________________ 1Sand, red _________________________________________________ 3Sandstone __--------_-____________________ _ _______________ 5Sand and caliche; loose._______ _____________________________ 8Sandstone, cemented with calcium carbonate__--_-___-_-___-__ 10Caliche and sand __________________________________________ 3Sandstone, cemented with calcium carbonate...--.___-__-__.. 5Gravel, very fine __________________________________________ 1Sandstone, cemented with calcium carbonate__________________ 8Sandstone, hard ___________________________________________ 1Gravel, very fine __________________________________________ 1Sandstone, cemented with calcium carbonate-.-__-____________ 5Sandstone, hard _-_--_-_________l_______--_._______________ 2Rock, very hard _________________________________________ 2Caliche and sand; loose ____________________________________ 9Sandstone, cemented with calcium carbonate_.--______._______ 18Sand, 'fine..________ _______________________________________ 2Caliche--_-___-___._______________________________________ 2Sandstone _________________________________________________ 12Gravel, very fine __________________________________________ 2Sandstone, cemented with calcium carbonate __________________ 3Caliche-__--------_--__-___.________.__._._.-____________ 3
6-40-7c
[Test hole drilled in 1943. Surface altitude, 3,448 ft]
Soil____ ---____.________________-__.__.__________ 2Ogallala formation:
Caliche and sand __________________________________________ 7Sand, fine, red ____________________________________________ 5Sand, coarse ______________________________________________ 1Caliche, hard _____________________________________________ 7Sand, coarse, red________________________________________ 2Sand, coarse, cemented, red _______________________________ 2
BASIC DATA 379
Toble 2%. > Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6 -40 -7c Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand and gravel; red________________________________________ 4 30Sand, to very coarse gravel; loose._--___----_______----______ 11 41Clay, white and red_________________________________________ 8 49Caliche, hard..___......._.._________..____ 2 51Clay, red........ ..____._........__..___.____. 2 53Sand._....._....._-_.__._________....__..._..._..._.______ 2 55Clay, brown ____-_--___.___.___._..__.._..._.___________.__ 3 58Caliche, hard..__-__-..___..___..._._..___..___.__._. 1 59Sand, fine, red _-_-----.__......__...._..__.._____.. 2 61Sand......__...__..__..__..._________________...__. 2 63Caliche_______._............__.____...._.__.--. 2 65Sand, fine, red __..--__-...._._...____.__..._____.__.._._.__ 6 71Caliche _.. _ _.____________... 14 85Gravel, very fine...._-_-__...___-__.__..______________._.._ 2 87Caliche and sand...._...__._._._____...__..________________ 3 90Caliche, sandy, hard___________._.._.____.___________._..._ 3 93Caliche, soft.._.__.____________._______ 2 95Caliche, hard ..__..__________._-_-_..._..._-._-__ 1 96Gravel, very fine-------____-_____--._...___________....___. 2 98Caliche, sandy, hard..._____________________________________ 7 105Sandstone, medium-hard _______...._......__._.________._... 9 114Gravel, very fine_--___-.______....._._.......__....._..._.. 3 117Sandstone.....-_----.-_-_--_--__--_____-__-__..._._-__--__. 1 118Sandstone, hard-_-_-_____________________________________ 4 122Sand, fine _________________________________________________ 7 129Sand and caliche; hard ______________________________________ 5 134Caliche-_--._--_--._.-___..________._....._......__ 2 136Gravel, very fine.----------..-__-___._._.._________________ 3 139Sand, fine, red.._-..-.___________________________ 9 148Sand, fine.. __________..__ 13 161Sand, to medium gravel _____________________________________ 6 167Sand, fine, red_____.....____._._._____.._._._..____________ 17 184Gravel, medium; contains fine gravel.________________________ 16 200Gravel, fine,loose_-____-_._________________________________ 7 207
6-40-10d [Test hole]
Soil, black...-----_-_._______________________.._..__.______ 1 1Ogallala formation:
Caliche._...__.-_.____......__....__ ............. 9 10Sand, fine____.___.___..__.....__....._.____ 1 11Caliche . _._________________________ 11 22Sand and clay_____.-__..________________________.._._...___ 7 29Sand and gravel--_-___ __________________________________ 5 34Sand..________.._____.____________________ 3 37Sand and gravel--_-__----________-____-___________.._..-_. 10 47Clay, brown .... .----____.-._. ____ ________.._._.__ 13 60Clay, light-brown __________________________________________ 7 67Clay, brown __...__-.._.___....________..__________________ 18 85Caliche...-_---__-._________________...._____ 8 93Caliche, hard-....____-._____________________.... 27 120Sandstone, medium -hard____________________________________ 15 135Caliche, hard ___________________________._ 6 141Sandstone, brown._________..__.___.___.__.___._..__________ 9 150
380 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
______Table 28. Drillers' loas of test holes, seismograph shothoies. and wells Continued______
Thickness (feet)
6 -40 -lOd Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedRock, brown________________________________________________ 2Sandstone __________________________________________________ 4Caliche, hard.______________________________________________ 5Sandstone __________________________________________________ 4Sandstone, hard_____________________________________________ 2Sandstone, very hard.....___________________________________ 7Sand and gravel___________________._________________________ 16
6-40-13b
[Test hole]
Dune sand:Soil, sandy, dark-colored ____________________________________ 7Sand, fine __________________________________________________ 9
Ogallala formation:Caliche, sandy._____________________________________________ 2Clay, gray _________________________________________________ 1Sandstone, brown, medium-hard ______________________________ 6Sandstone, hard_____________________________________________ 2Sandstone, soft, red _________________________________________ 10Caliche, soft _______________________________________________ 3Caliche, hard_______________________________________________ 4Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 2Clay, sandy, brown..________________________________________ 4Sand--_-___-_-----_-_____________________.____.____________ 5Sand, cemented, hard to soft ----_______--_.----_-____________ 4Sandstone, hard_____________________________________________ 8Caliche, medium-soft, and gravel_____________________________ 8Sandstone, very hard, brown _________________________________ 10Caliche, medium-soft _______________________________________ 3Caliche, hard.______________________________________________ 6Caliche, very hard __________________________________________ 14Caliche, soft _____________________________________________ 2Caliche, hard___________________.____..._______.___________ 16Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 3Gravel, very fine to fine ____..______________________________ 1Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 13Gravel, very fine to fine _____________________________________ 2Gravel and clay; cemented ___________________________________ 5Gravel and sand; cemented; hard to soft _______________________ 10Gravel, cemented, hard to soft _______________________________ 16Caliche, hard to soft _______________________________________ 14Gravel and clay.____________________________________________ 7Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 13Sandstone, brown ___________________________________________ 10Sandstone, very hard ________________________________________ 9Sand, medium, and gravel..__________________________________ 6Sandstone, very hard ________________________________________ 3Sand, very coarse, to fine gravel -_----_--___-___.____________ 11
BASIC DATA 381
Toble 28. Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismoflroph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-40-13caa
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1952. Surface altitude, 3,343.1 ft ]
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy__--_-__--________-_______________-_______-______ 9 9
Ogallala formation:Caliche, hard..______.._____.___.___..___._._._._..__._...._ 6 15Clay, sandy---_---_-__..-___---__---__-_______-_____--______- 3 18Gravel, coarse______________________________________________ 1 19Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 5 24Sand, coarse....____________________________________________ 3 27Gravel, coarse._._.._..__._...__.__......____._...__._....__ 2 29Clay, brown _-_____--_.____---_________.___________-_,._____ 3 32Caliche.-.-...._._----------_------------------------- 1 33Clay, brown ---._-----..----.-.._.----.-...-._.--.--._...-.- 3 36Rock, hard --_..-.-_--..---.--......-_._.....-.._......__.. 1 37Rock._...._______________________________________________ 3 40Clay, sandy._--._....-..__..-_._...__.._._..._._._...-_.__.- 8 48Gravel__.____..____._-_._._.._.._...______._..._____......_ 2 50Gravel and clay; sandy.._-_----_____._-__--___________-______ 7 57Gravel_____________________________________________________ 3 60Gravel, coarse..._._______.___..____._-___.._____.___._.____ 8 68Clay-......---......-........--.-.....---.---.---..-..---.. 5 73Caliche, hard.-...--._...________________________________... 7 80Clay, brown .-..---__-_...._._---.....--.--_..-_--.__-----.. 4 84Caliche, hard _______________________________________________ 4 88Rock, very hard---_---..-__---___-_-___.-__.--_-_..--_--..-- 4 92Caliche, hard _______________________________________________ 6 98Caliche, very hard __________________________________________ 14 112Caliche, sand, and gravel ----_--_-_-----_-_---______________- 5 117Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 9 126Clay, sandy.________________________________________________ 7 133Sandstone, hard --------_------_-------______--______________ 22 155Sandstone, very hard --__-_--.-_______-_______....____.____._ 11 166Gravel _____________________________________________________ 5 171Clay, sandy, brown--_-_---------------..._..-.____.-.._-..__ 5 176Sandstone and clay___________________________________________ 14 190Sandstone __________________________________________________ 8 198Clay, sandy.._______________________________________________ 8 206Sand..------ _______________________________________________ 9 215Caliche, hard _______________________________________________ 15 230Sandstone and clay._-------------------_-____-._____-_._.____ 8 238Rock.______________________________________________________ 28 266Gravel _____________________________________________________ 9 275Sand, medium---.___.__----_---_-____--_-.__-________-__--__ 5 280Gravel, very fine to fine._____-_._____________________________ 29 309Sand, tightly compacted ______________________________________ 11 320
6-40-14dcb
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1948. Surface altitude, 3,344.1 ft
Soil, black__--_...---_._____.---__-___..-..-._-._-..----.... 1 1Ogallala formation:
Sand.,, . -_-__._______.____________ 21 22Sand and gravel _____________________________________________ 8 30Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 1 31Caliche, medium-hard _________-___---...--__.____.______.-_ 10 41
382 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28.^ Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6 -40 -14dcb Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedCaliche, hard________ ________ 30 71Clay, brown ________________ __ 19 90Caliche, hard to soft .._______.__-.... 30 120Caliche, very hard___-_--_--_-------_------ -- - - 10 130Caliche, medium-hard. _._.._......__ ._ . - 59 189Sand and very fine to coarse gravel ________-_----__---------_- 21 210Clay, brown..______________________ . 9 219Sand and very fine to medium gravel ___----_.---.-.----------- 13 232Clay, brown.......__________.__. 4 236Sand and gravel.-.....__....--__..._-.---------------.-----. 4 240
6-40-17a
[Test hole]
Soil, dark-colored _..._._..._...._..........-_-..-.--------- 2 2Ogallala formation:
Sandstone, red, and red and white clay..__.----_-_-_-----_---.- 53 55Clay, red, and sand; compacted.__.._._..___._--__..______-_-_ 6 61Chalk, white__________________________-__ 6 67Rock, hard, white .._..._.._....._.-.--.-..-.-. ... 1 68Sand, compacted, red......_.....__..._._._..-----.----.----- 7 75Rock, gray, soft ...._.........___.___..--.-....._.------_--- 40 115Rock, hard......__..__.....____..__.._..__...-------. 8 123Sand and clay.---...--.--.-........_._......---.-----------. 4 127Rock, hard....__._.____...._._..._.....__....._..._._....._ 6 133Clay, soft, red, and sand..........__._..-._..__..._--.--.--._ 13 146Sand________________________________________ 1 147Sandstone.___........-...._............-......-..._.._.--__ 3 150Sand...____.____.___..___________.._________ 1 151Rock ....._____...____.....__..__________-.__... 1 152Sand and clay...___.-.__.._-.._._._..__.__..--___...-____--. 3 155Sand to fine gravel _______.._.___.__._._____.__.__.__.___--. 5 160Sand, fine _._......_._._..._...__.....___......_..-......_.- 5 165Sand, coarse; contains very fine to medium gravel..__-___._--_. 6 171Sandstone, porous..._--.-.---.-.-.-.-.-_.-.--..__--_--.---. 9 180Sand_______________________________________ 1 181Sandstone....-...._.._._........_.._.....___....._--...--.. 11 192Sand, very fine to very coarse________________________________ 6 198Sandstone.__.....___._._..____..--------. 7 205Rock, porous ----_-_---...--.-._-.....__...__._..-__._.._. 9 214Rock, porous, and gravel ____________________________________ 6 220
______________________________________________ ______________i
6-40-18cbc
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1942. Surface altitude, 3,408.4 ft]
Soil, sandy _.._........_.......__.._.__._.__.____._.___._._ 4 4Ogallala formation:
Sand and gravel..-...._...._._..._.....__....__..__..__.-_. 14 18Clay, limestone,and gravel______._..._______________..____._ 10 28Limestone and sand ________________________________________ 3 31Limestone, hard __________________________________________ 10 41Limestone, very hard ______________________________________ 16 57Limestone and gravel; hard ----___________-__--___--_-___-__ 10 67Sandstone, hard ________________________________________ 43 110
BASIC DATA 383
Toble 28. Drillers' loflS of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-40-18cbc Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand; contains some gravel____________________________________ 22 132Sand and gravel; loose _______________________________________ 11 143Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 17 160Sand, very dirty.____________________________________________ 4 164Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 21 185Sand, dirty--......_____.-____--.____.________.____ 14 199Limestone, very hard________________________________________ 3 202Sand and gravel; very dirty_________-_____--______.___________ 24 226
6-41-lbbb
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1944. Surface altitude, 3,470.3 ft]
Soil _ ___________ _________________ 5 5Ogallala formation:
Gravel_____________________________________________________ 5 10Sand and clay; red___________._______________________________ 3 13Sand______________________________________________ 4 17Caliche-____________________________________________________ 2 19Rock, white-_-_-_-----_--_-_-_____-___________________._____ 6 25Gravel, medium to coarse__-_-_---_______-___________________ 17 42Sand, fine, and clay______-__--_-_____________________________ 5 47Gravel, very fine____________________________________________ 1 48Caliche. _________________-__-.-_______._________-_--___-- 1 49Sand and clay; red___________________________________________ 3 52Sand and gravel ____________________________________________ 13 65Clay, brown _______________________________________________ 2 67Caliche. ____________________________._______ 2 69Sand, fine, red, and clay_____________________________________ 3 72Caliche..___________________________________________________ 13 85Clay, red, and fine sand______________________________________ 2 87Sandstone, medium-hard ____________________________________ 8 95Gravel, very fine____________________________________________ 1 96Gravel __________________________________________________ 3 99Clay, red, and fine sand_____________________________________ 2 101Sandstone, hard _____________________________________________ 14 115Clay, red, and fine sand______________________________________ 6 121Sandstone, hard _____________________________________________ 14 135Sandstone, medium-hard _____________________________________ 5 140Sandstone, hard ____________________________________________ 28 168Gravel, fine__--___--_-_____.________________________________ 7 175Sand, red___________________________________________________ ll 186Rock, medium-hard ________________________________.-_____. 3 189Gravel, very fine____._______________________________________ 6 195Gravel, fine._____________________________________._-. 15 210Gravel, very fine-____-__-_-_-___---_____._____________,_____ 10 220
6-41-llc
[Test hole driUed in 1942. Surface altitude, 3,454 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay and sand_.____________________________________________ 13 13Sand, gravel, and clay____.___________________________________ 13 26Limestone._________________________________________________ 2 28Sand and gravel; clean _______________________________________ 24 52
384 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' loas of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-41 -lie Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedClay and sand_______________________________________________ 5 57Limestone, sand, and clay......_________--__--_--_-_-.______- 19 76Limestone, hard ____________________________________________ 9 85Clay, red, and limestone ____._______________-____-__--_-_---. 13 98Limestone and clay_______________________________________-._ 15 113Clay and sand.....__________________________________________ 17 130Clay, sand, and gravel_______________________________________ 10 140Gravel and sand__________________________.__________________ 38 178Sand and clay; silty_______________________.__.___.________-_. 7 1S5Sand, fine, and clay_---____-___________________---__-._-_---_ 3 188Limestone and clay; hard ____________________________________ 1.5 183.5Clay, hard to soft ___________________________________________ 2.5 192Clay, sandy, hard to soft _____________________________________ 23 215Gravel and sand.____________________________________________ 20 235Sand and clay; silty_-_______________________________________- 8 243Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 2.75 245.75
6-41-22cbb
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1944. Surface altitude 3,486.6 ft]
Dune sand:Soil and fine sand _-----__--__-__---_---_-------_----__-_---_ 10 10
Ogallala formation:Clay, red_____-_---_---______________________________-___--_ 5 15Caliche.-----.----_-.----_-_.-._._-_-___.--__--_--_-..------ 3 18Clay, red, and sand-----.-.._..__..._........-__...._._-_---_ 4 22Caliche _--.---_---____________._______________________- 6 28Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel..____________________________ 2 30Clay, red--_---_----.-_._.._._-.....-_..__-_..._..__..--_--- 2 32Caliche..._.--__-_........._________________________------ 3 35Sand, coarse.....-___..._.._-_-_--------_--._-.._...__.._... 2 37Caliche. _--__-.-_...---.-._.__.-_-...._.__.._...__-.-__.---- 3 40Clay, red.--...._____________________________________--_-.. 25 65Rock, hard, white...-_---_____________________________----_-- 1 66Rock, medium-hard, white..__________________________________ 4 70Caliche ____________________________________________________ 8 78Caliche, sandy, medium-hard.. _______________________________ 3 81Caliche, sandy, hard...______..._._._....____..__....._.___._ 9 90Caliche, sandy, medium-hard......_._._....._...___.__--_---. 8 98Sand, very fine, to medium gravel...__.______..___.__..____._ 2 100Sandstone, medium-hard __.._..______..___.._____..___.._____ 13 113Sandstone, hard _____________________u _______________________ 4 117Sandstone, medium -hard _____________________________________ 3 120Sand......-_...._....__.___________________________________ 2 122Sand,, very fine, to medium gravel.___..._...._..._........_... 5 127Rock, hard......................__________________________ 1 128Sand and gravel..._-___....._._____._.______..___.._________ 4 132Clay, red, and fine sand ...........___ ........_..__..._.._-.. 10 142Sandstone, porous___________________________________________ 3 145Caliche and sand ___________________________________________ 5 150Sandstone, hard _____________________________________________ 6 156Clay and sand; medium hard _._.._______________.____.___-__- 34 190Sand, fine...._.._------.._.._.._._._.._..._._._._.__._-_---. 8.5 198.5Sand and gravel, very fine to medium...................._-_... 41.5 240
BASIC DATA 385
Toble 28. " Drillers' lofls of test holes, seismoflroph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-37-17ccc
[Oil-test well drilled by Ryan Oil Co]
(No sample)....-.._.___._.____.__________.___._______.__ 370 370Pierre shale:
Shale ._..__.___.__.__.._______._.___._________._____.. ......_ 370
7-37-28cbc
[Surface altitude, 3,130 ft]
Ogallala formation:Silt, sandy.___________________________________ 45 45Caliche.......-...-.-..._._.....__...._-...-...._.__.... 29 74Clay; contains stringers of caliche......_____________________ 36 110Sand, gravel, and clay; contains stringers of caliche_-.-._...-_. 95 205 Sand and gravel _.__---__--.___...___.____..__.______..._..- 38 243
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.........._...____._..._.....__..._..___........ 11 254Shale, gray.................___..........._....._..__..... 191 445
7-38-5ada
[Irrigation well drilled in 1942. Surface altitude, 3,254.5 ft]
Ogallala formation:(No sample)..______________________________________________ 35 35Sand, fine to medium...._-_.__.-..._.__._...__.__._.__.___.. 10 45Gravel, very fine to medium, clean -----__--__--__-.-__.-_.__- 13 58Caliche, hard ----___-._-____--______.___________.______.___ 7 65Gravel, very fine to medium ...__..___._.__._._..____.__.____ 35 100Rock, hard.......____________________________________.... 50 150Gravel, very fine, clean -_--.___...._._.._._.__.........___.. 15 165Rock, soft .__________________________________.. 7 172
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow-green _________________________________________ 3 175
7-38-8b
[Test hole]
Soil, sandy, dark .---_--__---____-__-____-__________.___-___ 2 2Ogallala formation:
Rock, sandy, soft _..__._..._._...._______..._____.___._.__. 3 5Clay, sandy, hard-packed, brown __..._.__....__.__.__..___.__ 17 22Clay, sandy, and gravel; contains traces of caliche ..______.____ 6 28Clay, sandy, hard-packed, brown _.___..__.-._.___.._____.___. 14 42Rock, hard, brown._-________.__.__-__._.____.._____________ 13 55Clay, gray _________________________________________________ 2 57Clay, sandy, brown -_--_-__.__.__.._..____.___.._..___..__.. 17 74Sandstone and caliche (hard-drilling)...._._-..__.__.___.___.__ 4 78Clay, sandy.__-.__._.__.____.._____.._..__...___..________. 3 81Caliche, soft, and sandstone....___.__._._.__.____._._..__..__ 9 90Caliche, very hard.._.._.__.._..__._.__._._.._..._...._._.__ 2 92Sand, medium to coarse .__-___..._..______...______________. 6 98Gravel..___________________________________________________ 6 104Caliche, soft..________________________. .....__.....__... 5 109Clay, gray......... ..... ____________________..__ 5 114
386 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
Toble 28. Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
7-38 -8b Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedCaliche, soft.....__..__--______--__--___ __... - . 3Caliche, very hard __________________________________________ 21Sand, fine, and hard sandstone _______________________________ 16Caliche, hard__----_____-__________-_______---_-__-_-------- 4Sand and clay -_--_-__---__-___-___---_-_-_-_-_-_--_--------- 7Caliche, medium -hard _______________________________________ 1Clay, sandy, brown __________________________________________ 11Sand, coarse; contains traces of caliche.__-__-___________--___- 13Clay and gravel-___--_-__-________-__--_--_-_--__--_-------- 6Clay __ .. ____ ___ ___ __ __ .. ______ ______ . 12Gravel--.....-...__.__......_..- -----__.-_.-__--------- 1Caliche....-_----.--_-_-.-_-_-_....---.--__---.--..--------. 5Sand and gravel-_-__--_________.___.___-__-________-_-----_- 20Clay, sandy_____..___...___-------_..______..__._.__-_______ 10Caliche....-__------_.-.--_-.-____-._---._..._---__--------. 1Gravel; contains traces of caliche.___-_._-.__..._.___._-_---_. 15Clay, soft, brown.....-.--._..._..__--___--_--_-----_-------- 5Clay and gravel ___..-__-__._._._.--_----__-____--_.-------- 2Gravel________-___----___________-__-__-__---_---_---__-_-- 4Clay, brown.___.__-__._____________________-_______-__-----_ 5Sand, medium to coarse, and gravel ___________________________ 3Caliche, hard _______________________________________________ 1Clay, brown __.____-_-__._._..__-__--___..-_____..__---.---_ -__.
7-38-16abb
[Surface altitude, 3,247 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand and clay ___-_-___.______-___-____-.__-___________-___-_ 50Gravel__---------__----_---__.__.---__-_--_-__------.----_- 20Clay and sand.______________________________________________ 20Caliche; contains streaks of sand __________-___-_--___---_____ 55Sand and clay _______________________________________________ 65Caliche. _.___..--_-__-.__________.-__-_____-.___________ 5
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow -___-_______-_______________-___--_--_______--__ 40Shale, gray_________________________________________________ 30
7-38-19aac
[Irrigation well drilled in 1948. Surface altitude, 3,315.1 ft]
Soil.. ___ _____________________________ 2 Ogallala formation:
Caliche....-__-..-.__.__.__..._____..___.___....._.__.____._ 1Caliche, very hard __________________________________________ 1Caliche. ____________________________________________________ 7Limestone, hard ____________________________________________ 3Sandstone, soft______________________________________________ 7Sandstone and limestone. _ ____________________________________ 11Sandstone, limestone, and gravel_______--_-____________-_----_ 6Sand and gravel; hard; contains layers of limestone .__--_--__-._ 14Sandstone, hard _____________________________________________ 12Sand, coarse, and gravel _____________________________________ 10Clay, red__________________________________________ 10
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-38-19aac Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedGravel...._________________________________________________ 11Limestone and sandstone.____________________________________ 10Rock, hard_________________________________________________ 1Sand, gravel, and clay _______________________________________ 5Sandstone .__-.__-_--._-.__---___.__..__..________._..____._ 3Sand, coarse, and gravel_____._-___._________________________ 15Rock _______.-.-..__._..___________________________________ 6Sand, coarse, and gravel.-.--..______________________________ 19Limestone, caliche, and gravel _______________________________ 13
7-38-28c
[Test hole]
Ogallala formation:(No sample)____-__--_________-_____________________________ 100Caliche; contains small layers of gravel..__..___--_____.____-. 5Caliche and rock ___________________________________________ 95Gravel--_--______--_-___---_-______-____-____-_____________ 53(No sample)________________________________________________ 5
7-39-13
[South half of section. Test hole]
Dune sand:Soil ____________________.._________________ 4
Ogallala formation:Caliche ____________________________________________________ 24Caliche, red sand, and fine gravel; hard ______________________ 14Sandstone __________________________________________________ 3Rock, soft__________________________________________________ 3Sandstone, hard_____________________________________________ 6Caliche-__________________________________ 4Gravel, medium ____________________________________________ 4Clay, soft, red-_-_.______________________________________ 8Caliche, hard..___-___-_--_________________________________ 5Sand and clay_______________________________________________ 5Clay, sandy, soft______ ______________________________________ 4Sand..._____._____----_._._.._________.-_.______ 2Sand, coarse, to medium gravel ______________________________ 4Caliche _______.--.____.______________________.--__.____. 7Clay__ _ --_-_________--_--.______ 8Sand, coarse, to fine gravel __________________________________ 10Sand, coarse, to medium gravel _.___-_-_-__.____-____________ 5Clay, sandy.________________________________________________ 5Sandstone, hard_____________._______________________________ 4Caliche, hard_______________________________________________ 3Caliche, soft _________________________ 6Clay, sandy______.__________________________________________ 3Caliche, soft _______________________________________________ 4Caliche, medium-hard___-_______________.___________________ 6Clay, sandy, red ____________________________________________ 6Caliche, medium-hard____--________-________________________ 4Caliche, hard__________________________.____________________ 18Sand, firm __.___________________________________________ 1
95105106111114129135154167
100150200253258
2842454854586270758084869097
105115120125129132138141145151157161179180
388 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28.---Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells- Continued
Thickness (feet)
7-39-13 Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSandstone __________________________________________________ 22Sand to fine gravel-___----____-____---_-____-___--_----_--_- 16Sandstone ----___-___._________________._-_--_----__--___--- 12
7-39-27dac
[Test hole drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1952]
Dune sand:Soil, sandy._..___.......___....__._.._...__..____.____..... 4
Ogallala formation:Caliche, hard ___-_--_________.__________-_--__---_---_____- 9Sandstone _---___---.___....__...___._..._....-.--...-__.-__ 12Caliche, hard ._..--.-_.__._.__....._.-.._.-..-.--_--_--..-_ 2Sandstone __________________________________________________ 5Caliche, hard ___------_-___________....._.-..-_-___-_.-..__ 11Clay, sandy .....______...._.________..___._.__..____..___._ 11Sandstone; contains traces of hard caliche_----__--_-______--_- 13Gravel, medium ____._._____._...____...____._______________ 12Clay, sandy.---_..___...____________._______________._.__.__ 5Clay, brown_.._...____.._..___________________...___.._.___ 20Clay; contains traces of caliche _---____-_-___-__---__.-___--_ 6Sandstone __________________________________________________ 3Caliche, very hard.___._____________________________________ 1Gravel, compact ____________________________________________ 4Caliche, hard ______________________________________________ 10Caliche, very hard.-__._____________________________________ 1Sandstone __________________________________________________ 3Caliche, hard ______________________________________________ 3Caliche, medium-hard ______________________________________ 7Sandstone, hard, green ---_____________-____-____--_______-__ 8Caliche, very hard._________________________________________ 6Sand......_____________________-_--.____-_--__-___-.__ 9Sandstone, soft _____________________________________________ 5Sandstone, hard; contains streaks of hard caliche..__-___--_-.__ 11Clay, sandy.__________________________________...______.__ 4Rock, very hard ____________________________________________ .2Clay, sandy ________________________________________________ 3.8Caliche, very hard.._______________________ _________________ 6Sandstone, medium-hard ____________________________________ 3Clay, sandy ________________________________________________ 21Rock, very hard ____________________________________________ 1Clay, sandy ________________________________________________ 4Rock, sandy________________________________________________ 12Clay, sandy ________________________________________________ 10Caliche, hard ______________________________________________ 2Gravel__________ _________________________________________ 8Gravel and soft caliche _____________________________________ 3Gravel, fine ________________________________________________ 6Sandstone and sandy clay ____________________________________ 7Gravel, fine to coarse.._____________________________________ 15Clay and gravel ____________________________________________ 2Gravel; contains streaks of clay______________________________ 5Rock______________________________________________________ lClay and gravel ____________________________________________ 6Sand, fine to medium________________________________________ 4
BASIC DATA 389
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-39-2 7dac Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand and gravel..___________________________________________ 14 319Caliche, very hard _--_-_-_-_-_--___-________________________ 2 321
7-39-27ddb
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1952. Surface altitude, 3,339.7 ft]
Dune sand:Soil __________------_---_-----__..___--______.__________- 2 2
Ogallala formation:Caliche, hard_______________________________-_-___-_______ 15 17Clay, sandy, brown_-____-_________._____________.___________ 5 22Caliche, hard______.________________________________________ 6 28Clay, sandy-.-______________________________________________ 12 40Caliche, hard_______________________________________________ 5 45Sandstone, soft _____________________________________________ 4 49Clay, sandy, brown_-_____.__________________________________ 3 52Sandstone, brown ___________________________________________ 12 64Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 5 69Sand___.___________-__------__----_________.____________ 5 74Caliche, hard_______________________________________________ 2 76Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 5 81Sandstone __________________________________________________ l 82Clay, sandy, brown__________________________________________ 19 101Caliche, hard_____________________________________________ 6 107Sandstone ---_-_---_.--__-__-_-_____________________________ 2 109Caliche, hard_______________________________________________ 1 110Caliche, very hard _--_----_----_-__--____-___-_______-______ 2 112Caliche, soft________________________________________________ 4 116Clay, sandy, brown_________________________________________. 10 126Sandstone, medium-hard_____________________________________ 4 130Caliche ____________________________________________________ .6 136Caliche, hard_______________________________________________ 20 156Sand, fine, brown ___________________________________________ 7 163Sandstone __-_----_-___---__--______________________________ 6 169Gravel_____________________________________________________ 4 173Sandstone __________________________________________________ 1 174Sand ________________________ 2 176Clay, sandy, brown__________________________________________ 40 216Sand and gravel.____________________________________________ 41 257Sand and light colored clay __________________________________ 10 267Rock, porous _______________________________________________ 3 270Clay, sandy_________________________________________________ 7 277Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 9 286Clay, sandy_________________________________________________ 9 295Sand__________________________________________________ 1 296Rock, porous _--_---_--_----________________________________ 1 297Sand, very coarse, to medium gravel..____--____-_____________ 14 311Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 10 321Clay _. ___..._________________ 1 322Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 4 326Sandstone -____-_---____-_---___-__-________________________ .5 326.5
390 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
7-39-27ddd
[Test hole drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1945]
Dune sand:Soil...............__..____.__.....__-.--._.-------.. 3
Ogallala formation:Caliche. _..-_...._._..._......._.......__..._.....-__.._... 43Clay, sandy, brown .---__-.____._._-.__..__-_.---.___..--_.. 6Rock, medium-hard ________________________________________ 2Rock, very hard.___________________________________________ 2Sandstone, medium-hard ____________________________________ 9Gravel, very fine to medium_________________________________ 1Sandstone._________________________________________________ 6Caliche.___________________________________________________ 8Clay, brown, and fine sand _-_-___---__---____-_-_-_-------__ 7Sand, very fine, to medium gravel____________________________ 3.5Clay, brown _-_--__---__-________________-____-_--____--_-_ 7.5Rock, hard ------_-_-___-___-________-___-____-___-_-__-___ 3Caliche, medium -hard ___-_________________--__---___.__.-__ 2Caliche. ___________________________________________________ 8Rock, hard ________________________________________________ 6Gravel, coarse_____________________________________________ 1Clay, brown, and fine sand ___-_-__-____----__-_--_--__._--_- 4Caliche, hard..__-.--______________-___---__--._----_-__ 19Caliche, soft_______________________________________________ 25Clay, brown --__---_--__-_________________--__-.___-___--__ 10Caliche, soft______________.....__...___________.--__.__ 10Clay, brown, and sand ______________________________________ 10Caliche and sandstone.._____________________________________ 25Gravel, medium to coarse, clean____.______-________-________ 19.5Sandstone._________________________________________________ 6.5Gravel, medium to coarse, clean _____________________________ 7Caliche. ____________________________ 6
7-39-33
[North half of section]
Ogallala formation:Rock, white________________________.__________________ 59Sand, red, and clay _________________________________________ 7Gravel, very fine____________________________..______________ 2Gravel____________________________________________________ 2Clay, red _________________________________________________ 5Clay, gray_________________________________________________ 6Clay, brown _______________________________________________ 11Sandstone, brown_._________________________________________ 6Clay, brown, and sand ______________________________________ 14Sandstone ________________________________________________ 2Rock, hard, white _________________________________________ 5Sandstone, medium -hard ____________________________________ 13Sandstone, hard ____________________________________________ 5Rock, white__--_"-___-._____________________________________ 19Gravel, medium____________________________________________ 12Caliche___________________________________________________ 13Sandstone, porous-_-__-___--_--________________--__-.___-__ 7Sandstone._________________________________________________ 4Sand and gravel ___________________________________________ 7
BASIC DATA 391
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-39-3 3 Continue d
Ogallala formation ContinuedSandstone, brown-__________-________________________________ 11 210Sandstone.______________________________ _..____.______._____ 10 220Sand and brown clay ---_----___--_-_-____-___----____-______ 18 238Gravel, fine_____-____-_________________________.____________ 6 244Gravel, very fine___-_-___________..____.____..__.___._______ 3 247Sandstone.____---____-___________....___....________________ 3 250
7-39-34
Soil.________________________________.....__.....__..__. 6 6Ogallala formation:
Caliche; contains strips of gravel _____________________________ 83 89Gravel and sand.-___-..__--..____.__.___.____._..____._.____ 9 98Sandstone, cemented in places with calcium carbonate; contains
some gravel---.-...--...-._---_----_.-__-.._--__._-._.__. 62 160Gravel, clean.-.___._-.._.-..____.._._.__._._._._.___..--__. 21 181Caliche, soft to hard.--....._________________________________ 23 204Gravel, coarse.....----_--___----________________._____.____ 16 220
7-39-35b
Soil.--------_---__---.----_..-___....._-__.-..___.--._--.-- 3 3Ogallala formation:
Caliche..-.______.__....__.__.__.....__......... 43 46Sand and clay; brown ----__-.--_--_----____-_________________ 6 52Rock, medium-hard _________________________________________ 2 54Rock, very hard..___________________________________________ 2 56Sandstone, medium-hard __--____-.___._--._._-_--._--_-----_- 9 65Gravel, very fine to medium..-----..____.....-_._.--.._-----_ 1 66Sandstone.__________________________________________________ 6 72Caliche.-...-__-.-_____.______________._.._... 8 80Clay, brown, and fine sand ___________________________________ 7 87Sand to medium gravel...___________________________________ 3.5 90.5Clay, brown ________________________________________________ 7.5 98Rock, hard _________________________________________________ 3 101Caliche, medium-hard_______________________________________ 2 103Caliche.____________________________________________________ 8 111Rock, hard _________________________________________________ 6 117Gravel, coarse______________________________________________ 1 118Clay, brown, and fine sand ___________________________________ 4 122Caliche, hard _______________________________________________ 19 141Caliche, soft________________________________________________ 25 166Clay, brown _______ ._ _ __________________.._ 10 176Caliche, soft-.--____________________________________________ 10 186Clay, brown, and sand -_________-__.___.___-.._._____--._____ 10 196Caliche and sandstone.... ____________________________________ 25 221Gravel, fine to medium, clean ________________________________ 19.5 240.5Sandstone-----_-------_---___--______.__.___...____________ 6.5 247Gravel, fine to medium, clean..____.._.______________________ 7 254Caliche. _--_-_--__--_--_-_____________________.._____________ 6 260
392 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-40-2bca
[Irrigation well drilled by Arthur Haggard, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,416.8 ft]
Ogallala formation:(No sample).....__----__--____.-___.--.-__-_----------- 16 16Gravel --.--.----._._-_-.----_____._____--_------.._--_- 19 35Sand, clay, and caliche; hard-..-___--_----_-------------_---- 25 60Clay, brown; contains strips of fine sand --_---_--__------_---- 27 87Gravel ____._________...____________________ 33 120Sandstone, fine sand, limestone, and rock --_-_--.--__--____--- 47 167Gravel ____..______________________- 28 195
7-40-5bbb
[Irrigation well drilled by Ellithorpe and Putman. Surface altitude, 3,464.6 ft]
Soil..___....._______._________.__.. . 3 3Ogallala formation:
Clay...-.........-_........_--_....--____..__.--..-..--. 4 7Caliche; contains hard streaks ___--_-___----.-___-----_-_---- 8 15Sandstone; contains layers of hard caliche.....__.-____-_----.. 8 23Sandstone, cemented in layers......___________---_-----_---_ 26 49Clay.__......__........__._____.----__...-.---.._---.- 5 54Sandstone ._..-__..___.._-....._...__--_.-.---.__-___--.. 12 66Gravel, medium to coarse ___________________________________ 10 76Clay...______.._____....____.._______.-..-__ 9 85Clay and sandstone; hard-___--..-___-_---_----_--_---_----.- 2 87Clay and sandstone.__--___--._________-_____--_.---_--__-__- 6 93Clay and sandstone; hard__---___--_...___--_-.---..__--.--.. /I 94Gravel, medium to coarse-_-_--._---_.-._-_---__-------_---. 2 96Clay; contains hard layers...-_-_-----____-----_-_-__---_--_- 10 106Clay; contains layers of limestone and gravel._______-.-___-_-_ 10 116Clay; contains layers of limestone and sandstone_._....-__.--_. 30 146Clay; contains gravel -__________________-___--______--__---- 10 156Clay; contains layers of limestone and sandstone _____ .-_____-__ 20 176Clay and gravel _..._........_.........._..__.....-._...-__- 10 186Clay______..____________._________________ 3 189Clay, hard....__________________..__..__..____ 1 190Clay _________ ___ . _____ __ . __ . __ . __________ __ 6 196Sandstone, clay, and gravel._--_._----.------.._--------_-..- 6 202
7-40-6bcc
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1943. Surface altitude, 3,463.9 ft]
Soil,black..._____._______.__________.____.. 2 2 Ogallala formation:
Caliche.--.._.-._.......__......................._.....__ 18 20Clay, brown, and sand-----__---.._--------._---_------_---._ 10 30Clay, brown, and fine sand-_---__--_--_----__-_-__------__-_- 21 51Sand and gravel _..._.-_______..__._._.______..__.--_..____. 7 58Clay, brown, and sand..--__---___---___-----__-_-----_-.--_- 17 75Sand, fine.-___.._........._....._........_...._......_._... 3 78Gravel, very fine_...-_...__..___.__......._.._...---.___... 2 80Sand and gravel; silty; loose ---._.-.._.-__---_-___----_-__-__ 4 84Sand, very fine to medium gravel; loose______________________ 3 87Clay and gravel _-...___...__._..............-.....--..._-__ 2 89
BASIC DATA 393Table 28. Drillers' loss of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-40 -6bcc Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedCaliche_---__----_---__---_-_----_--_---___--__-___--__-_- 3 92Caliche, soft______________________________________________ 2 94Caliche and sand ---_----__------_------_-_--____---_-_-__- 6 100Caliche....__..__-..____-..____.___.__...._._.___...____ 3 103Sand, red, and caliche__---__________-________-___--_____-_- 2 105Sandstone, cemented with calcium carbonate, hard _-__---_____ 4 109Sand......__._.__.____._____._._...__._.__.._.._._..__ 2 111Sandstone, cemented with calcium carbonate, hard_____________ 4 115Sand......__..__....._________________________________ 2 117Sandstone, hard.____.__.___.._______.._.___..______..___._ 2 119Sandstone _..___.._.__...___._______.___.______..__._.__.._ 6 125Sandstone, hard .._..-..--__.--__.-_-._..._..-._.-........- 2 127Sand, very fine, to medium gravel ___ _..._._.__...__..._..._ 5 132Caliche..__...__...__.._______..__.__.__..___..___.___.___ 3 135Sand, fine...______________________________________________ 2 137Clay, brown, and sand; loose __ ---_._-..___._._________-._.-_ 7 144Sandstone, cemented with calcium carbonate.__-.___-.______._ 5 149Sand ---_....-....-......._.__.__.....__..._...._...._.. 1 150Gravel, very fine to coarse, loose-_.-._._____._._._..._.___. 12 162Rock....__....._.....__--.---...-.......__...-.._.._... 1 163Gravel ___________________________________________________ 1 164Sandstone, lightly cemented with calcium carbonate _.____.._._ 4 168Sand, fine.________________________________________________ 7 175Caliche, soft ______________________________________________ 3 178Rock, hard________________________________________________ 7 185Sandstone -___-..__..._...._.._..__...__.___.__.___..._.... 5 190
7-40-10acc
[Irrigation well drilled in 1946. Surface altitude, 3,427.3 ft]
Soil, black......________________________________________ 2 2Ogallala formation:
Caliche, soft ______________________________________________ 24 26Clay, sandy, red.__________________________________________ 5 31Caliche, soft ______________________________________________ 9 40Clay, sandy, and red clay __________________________________ 26 66Sand and gravel ___._._____._.________...__..__.______...__ 10 76Clay, sandy, brown ________________________________________ 6 82Caliche, soft ______________________________________________ 10 92Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel ____________________________ 16 108Caliche, medium-hard ----____-_._-_-______________________ 62 170Caliche, hard ---__---------_--___-_.___-________________._ 6 176
7-40-10bc
[Test hole drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co.]
Soil, black ________________________________________________ 2Ogallala formation:
Sand and soft caliche -__--_-_------_-_---__-____________ 11 13Caliche, soft ______________________________________________ 2 15Clay, sandy _______________________________________________ 7 22Caliche, hard --_--__----____---__.-_______________________ 3 25Caliche, soft _____________________________________________ 2 27Caliche, hard _____________________________________________ 1 28
655012 O - 63 - 26
394 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells- Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-40-10bc Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedClay, sandy, and red clay....-___--_--_---_-_-__---.-------_- 18 46Rock, hard...__.-...---.......--------.----___...-_----_. 3 49Clay, sandy.........._....._...._........--._---_._---_--_- 6 55Gravel, very fine to medium ____..-___-_--__-_-__-____--_----_ 10 65Rock and clay--_----_----______-_-------_------_----------. 5 70Clay.__.______._________________________... 4 74Rock__....____________________________ 2 76Gravel, very fine to medium ._______-_.....---_-_--_---_..--. 12 88Sandstone and sandy clay_-___.___---_.-__---_----.-_------__ 8 96Rock, hard.....__..__.....__.-_.-._.---------.-------. 1 97Caliche, soft ______________________________ 5 102Sandstone, hard ......._...._.._....__..._..........----.-_. 8 110Caliche-_____.____....____________________ 6 116Rock, hard..---.-..._._.._.....--..._....-------.__---_---. 3 119Sandstone, soft to hard .----._...--_------_--------._-------- 5 124Caliche, soft._____________....___________.. 10 134Sand and clay; hard.__.--_._._._.-__--_-._..---_---_--_-_-.. 6 140Clay and sand ________________._____________-.-______---_.-- 38 178Caliche.........__...-----....-----.__.--.---_...----.-.- 14 192Gravel and sand..........._...............-_--____--_-----. 6 198Caliche-_...--.......__......__---.._.---_------.---.---. 15 213Caliche, very hard..._______________________________________ 1 214Caliche, soft--------..-...-....-----_-_-_.--------.------.. 6 220Caliche.-_..--..........__.......__.......-......__--__.-.. 2 222Sandstone...--............_.....__..._._....._.....-.._.... 8 230Sand and gravel ._...._..._........_......._-.......---__... 6 236Sandstone_._........._......._._.._........_................ 1 237Sand and gravel ...._.._......._._..__.._..........._....... .5 237.5
7-40-l3bbb
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1951. Surface altitude, 3,377.0 ft ]
Soil, black..-..__..............._.............__........._. 3 3Ogallala formation:
Sand and gravel __---__--.-_____._-________----__-____--___. 8 11Clay, sandy, red......_..._...____....._..._...__......._._. 61 72Rock................__.....__.._-..-..-----..-.__--.-.. 2 74Rock, very hard......__......__._._..___..._..........._... 1 75Clay, sandy, red..........._..__..........__._.._........... 16 91Caliche--._.-_-......._........................_.._...._... 5 96Rock, hard..._......_...................................... 1 97Clay, sandy, brown ........_._...._......_.._.._..._.._...__ 8 105Clay, gray..-.__...__...._........_......_................. 5 110Clay, sandy, brown _________________________________________ 32 142Rock, soft -------._................_..........._........... 18 160Clay, sandy, brown .._......_..................__........... 22 182Sand and gravel ..._.._._....._......__..._......__..__..... 7 189Sand and clay.........._..._..___._._........_..._..._._..._ 2 191Sand and gravel ....___....._....._.._......._...._.._...... 19 210
BASIC DATA 395
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-40-16caa
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1953]
Ogallala formation:Rock ___--..__-.-...___............._....._.._... 11 11Clay, hard, brown .---._...__._...._.._.._....__.___.._._._. 6 17Caliche--.-.._....--.._........._.........._._......__._._. 4 21Clay, brown..--.----......_________________________________ 2 23Gravel ._......_...-_.-..........................__ 9 32Clay . .._____________..______ 17 49Gravel ....__----.__.-..__._.------......._.......... 14 63Clay.... ...... ..........__....______..__.__..... 8 71Rock........................__.....__.....____..__.- 8 79Caliche, white........_______--.--_.-...-.._......._........ 11 90Clay. -_-.,.. ___________________. 5 95Caliche..__________________________________________________ l 96Rock, hard.............-.-......--...---....._.._._.._._... 6 102Rock, slightly hard .-.-..--_--...__.............__.__... 6 108Rock ______________________________________________________ 5 113Gravel __________________________________________........ 4 117Rock............._____________________.......__.....__ 4 121Clay . __.....______________________ 9 130Gravel .....______________________________._......_ 3 133Rock ..... ._____...__._________ 5 138Clay, brown...............__________________________________ 11 149Gravel -----.----.-...-.-..--...._.........___..._......._. 14 163Sandstone __________________________________________________ 11 174Gravel ____________________________________________________ 2 176Clay, sandy ________________________________________________ 19 195Clay, sandy, soft ___________________________________________ 5 200Gravel ____________________________________________________ 18 218Clay and gravel -.__-.__---.._-..__...............________.. 2 220Sandstone __________________________________________________ 8 228Gravel ____________________________________________________ 20 248Gravel and clay ____________________________________________ 10 258Gravel ____________________________________________________ 7 265Caliche, hard, white.............. ___________________________ 17 282
7-40-18b
Ogallala formation:Soil and white caliche _______________________________________ 30 30Gravel ____________________________________________________ 21 51Caliche, white, and sand.---..-..._.._..____.._..._.._____... 10 61Clay, sandy, red..__________________________________________ 22 83Caliche, white, sand, and gravel..................__._._._._.. 49 132Gravel ____________________________________________________ 7 139Caliche, sandy.--..--.._.._.__._....._.._..__._..._.._._.... 10 149Limestone, white ___________________________________________ 6 155Gravel,loose ______________________________________________ 15 170Limestone, white ___________________________________________ 9 179Sand, loose; contains streaks of clay_____..___________________ 19 198
396 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' Ic-fls of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
7-40-20cbd
[Irrigation well drilled by Ellithorpe and Putman, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,447.4 ft]
Soil...._---------______________,_______-----___--------_. 1Ogallala formation:
Clay and caliche ___________________________________________ 8.5Clay and caliche; hard ______________________________________ 1Clay and caliche.--______._________________-__-___-_____-_-- 3.5Caliche; contains some sand_-_--_-_---___--_----_--------_-- 6.5Caliche, hard; contains some sand _____-_--__---_-----_------ 1Caliche; contains some sand_________________---_____--___-__ 8.5Gravel____________________________________________________ 4Clay, hard, brown __________________________________________ 10Clay, firm, brown ______.______-_-_____-______-_____-__---__ 10Clay, brown; contains some grpvel _____---_-_-_---___-------- 30Clay, hard, brown and white ____-______-_-------__-__------_- 12Caliche.______________^____..____._____-__-.__ 7Clay,..__.__._________.....______________ 3Caliche, hard; contains some gravel.__-__-_-----_-_-_--_-____ 4Sand, cemented ____________________________________________ 4(No sample)._______._.____._..._._____._____.___.__________ 3Gravel, fine_------______________,__________-_-_____-_---_-_ 12Clay, sandy________________________________________________ 34Sandstone, firm ____________________________________________ 1Clay, sandy.___.______.._...____..__.______________.___.__. 1Sand, coarse, to medium gravel____________--_--____--__-___- 2Clay, soft ----_----______________________-___-________----- 9Sand to medium gravel; contains some clay---_--___-_-------- 1Clay______________..__._______________ 5Sand and clay---____--__-___-______________-_-________-__-- .5Clay... .. .____..___________________ 3.5Sand and clay ______________________________________________ 3Clay.. .___..._________...__.......__ 10Sandstone, firm ____________________________________________ 4Sand and clay ______________________________________________ 1Clay. __.._______....___________... 5Clay, gravel, and stone...__-___---_--_-----__---_-__---____- 5Clay. ......__.________ .... 1Gravel, medium, and stone __-___-___-_---_____-__--_-_-__-_- 5Mixture ___________________________________________________ 4Sandstone, firm ___-___-_____________.______--_______-__--_- 2Clay.._..._..._....__,._...._..__........^............... 2Sand, fine, to coarse gravel; contains some clay----.__-_------ 5Sand and gravel_._____._.__.____._____._____._._________.__ 15Sand to fine gravel.... _____________________________________ 4Sand to medium gravel_____________________________________ 8Clay ______________________________________________________ 4Sand to coarse gravel______________________________________ 21Clay... ._________________________ 1Gravel; contains clay ._________.____..______.___..__..______ 2Sand to coarse gravel.__.___.________...________.___..______ 1Clay.__-_----__---.._..______.._____.___...._..___._______ .5
7-40-28bbb
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1942. Surface altitude, 3,431.1 ft]
Soil, black._--.---.........._____________......__._---. 1.5
BASIC DATA 397Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7 -40 -28bbb Continued
Ogallala formation:Caliche-........__..__......____________________________ 18.5 20Caliche and coarse sand --------_----____----__-___--___-___ 10 30Sand, coarse; contains some gravel.._______.,<__________________ 5 35Sand, coarse, and gravel ____________________________________ 25 60Gravel, coarse _____________________________________________ 2 62Gravel and rock -_--_--------__-____________.________.______' 3 65Caliche; contains some sand ____.______....___.._____________ 2 67Rock, medium-hard... ______________________________________ 2 69Clay, red_____________________________..___________.__.___ 9 78Rock, hard......______.___....-__--....___..._______.______ 2.5 80.5Caliche; contains streaks of red clay---_-_--_...-...._.____.__ 7.5 88Gravel, coarse, and caliche.._____________ ___________________ 2 90Caliche, hard -------_-_-_--_-_-_-_-_..-.___.._._________.__ 1 91Caliche..........__________________________________________ 7 98Rock, soft ---_----.----_--____.__._________________________ 1 99Caliche.----_.....__.__.__________________._______________. 21 120Gravel _-.----_-_______________________._.____.____.____.._ 10 130Sand, coarse, to very fine gravel and rock.-..___--_-_-___--.__ 10 140Caliche and clay; contains some sand _________________________ 20 160Gravel, very fine, loose _____________________________________ 12 172
7-40-30baa
[Irrigation well drilled by C. A. Wilcox, 1951. Surface altitude, 3,457.5 ft]
Topsoil__________________._________________________________ 2 2Ogallala formation:
Clay, brown.-___.______________.___________________________ 8 10Caliche, soft _______________________________________________ 22 32Shale(?) red .-_-----.--__-----._________...___....________ 30 62Clay, red, and fine sand _____________________________________ 9 71Caliche____________________________________________________ i 72Clay, red, and fine sand _____________________________________ 3 75Caliche and gravel._._..___.________________________________ 1 76Gravel and fine sand -_------__----__________________________ 2 78Gravel ______ .-__-.___________________________________ 17 95Clay and caliche,' soft _______________________________________ 5 100Caliche, hard ______________________________________________ 11 111Caliche, hard to soft ________________________________________ 2 113Caliche, hard ______________________________________________ 8 121Gravel _ __ . __________....____ 17 133Clay, red __________________________________________________ 22 160Gravel and sand; loose ______________________________________ 7 167Limestone __________________________________________________ i 168Gravel _ ___ ________________________.___.._____ 11 179Limestone __________________________________________________ 2 181Clay, yellow.-.---------______-_____________________.._______ 20 201Gravel _____________________________________________________ 46 247
7-41-9c
[Test hole]
Ogallala formation:(No sample) ------.----------_-___--___.____________________ 61 61Gravel____________________________________________________ 9 70
398 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-41 -9c Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedCaliche, sand, and gravelly clay_-__-_-_-__---__------.------- 104 174Gravel; contains a few layers of caliche.-------------..------- 64 238
7-41-9cca
[Irrigation well. Surface altitude, 3,520.2 ft]
Soil..._---------_---_----.-.-----._------__------__. 1 1Ogallala formation:
Caliche, soft _________________ ..__ 4 5Sandstone, soft __-___________.__.______-----__--_---.------. 11 16Caliche, hard ._-.___.._.-.......--_----------_... 7 23Sand, fine______._____________________________ 2 25Caliche-__________________________________ 10 35Gravel ________..._______________.____ 12 47Gravel and clay.._---._..-.-...__---._.__----_----_-.------_ 12 59Gravel ......_.____....-........--_....---_.-.-._ 9 68Clay, brown____.________________.___.____..._.____._-_-_-__ 11 79Caliche, hard to soft ........__.........---....------.__--.. 78 157Gravel, heavy______________________________________________ 15 172Clay, brown...__..__...___...........__.____..-...__ 8 180Caliche-__________________.....____.._____-___ 7 187Gravel _____________..._______________ 25 212Caliche-______________._____________-___ 2 214Gravel ._.._.--_-...-......__.....----...-----------_ 8 222Gravel and clay............._______.___-----._-..-_--------_- 2 224Gravel ......_......_.._...__...-._..-.._....._ 14 238
7-41-17aaa
[Irrigation well drilled by Ellithorpe and Putman, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,537.4 ft]
Soil, clayey.....-_--..._-_............-_-.-..------..-..... 3 3Ogallala formation:
Caliche, soft, white, and clay...-.-----_-------.------------_- 2 5Caliche...-.-.._......_.._..-.._....._....-__ 15 20Gravel, cemented, firm .-------------_-----_------_-.---_--- 12 32Sand, fine, to coarse gravel..._.__-.....__----_-_-_-_---_._-- 9 41Caliche; contains some clay -_--.--_-_-----_-----_---_------. 13 54Clay; contains thin layers of gravel....____-.-..---.---_----.. 10 64Clay.________________________________________ 14 78Rock, hard....__--.-.-.__-..........--__..----...--____ 5 83Clay..__.________________.____________________ 4 87Sandstone, hard .__._.._._.--..._...__......_.....___....__. 2 89Clay. 6 95Sandstone, hard --_-__.___.._____...___.__..___._._._..___._ 2 97Clay---......._..---.._..__._.__.._........ 15 112Sand, fine, to coarse gravel _____._______-..__._______._.._.. 8 120Clay, calcareous, hard; contains some gravel___..__.___.-____. 14 134Clay; contains sand and gravel __..-.....__--..___-_..-___... 18 152Sand to coarse gravel; loose...._.-.-...-__-.._---_...__--... 10 162Clay, sandy-..__..-___.._..._.._______...___.....__._...___ 2 164Sand and gravel; loose -_.__._....______._______..____....___ 3 167Clay, sandy....__........__..___,___......_.....____..._... 6 173Sand, fine, to coarse gravel....._'J.......................... 14 187
BASIC DATA 399
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-41-17aaa Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedClay, sandy________________________________________________ 7 194Sand, to coarse gravel; loose________________________________ 8 202Clay, sandy... ..........__..__.....__.....____. 10 212Sand, fine, to coarse gravel -.-_.---__-._.....__.__________ 12 224Clay, sandy....___._.......N.......__._.__.____._.____.___._ 2 226Sand, fine, to coarse gravel ._-.__..-_.________________._.__. 29 255
7-41-18ddb
[Irrigation well drilled by Ellithorpe and Putman, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,543.3 ft]
Topsoil ......___........___--.._...__..._.___.___ 1 1Ogallala formation:
Clay ________________________ 11 12Caliche, soft, and gravel ____________________________________ 3 15Caliche, soft.................._......_................_.... 6 21Caliche, hard.....__.....__.....__.....__.__.....__ 0.4 21.4Sand and caliche..._________________________________________ 8.6 30Sand ......__.....____..__..__.........__.__.____ 30 60Sandstone, soft, and limestone _______________________________ 22 82Limestone......-_-._--_.___._.___.__.....____.___..___.__. 15 97Limestone, soft -----_----_____-__.____---__________________ 4 101Limestone, hard .-._..._...._._._..__.....____._..__.-_.-. 1 102Gravel; contains hard to soft streaks of sandstone and limestone. 18 120Sand....____..___....__..______..__.._______ 15 135Sand; contains streaks of sandstone.------_______________.___. 35 170Sandstone and gravel _______________________________________ 35 205Sand....._________________________________________________ 6 211Boulders __________________________________________________ 19 230Sand ..__________________________ 5 235
7-41-19a
[Drilled in 1944]
Soil......-_..-_..--..._...._..._..........._._.._....____. 8 8Ogallala formation:
Caliche. ___._._.__._.___.____.______.__._____.___.____._ 11 19Sand and caliche._-_-___._._.__._____..________.____________ 6 25Sand and gravel ._._-.____.._..__...__...__._.__.__...___ 3 28Rock, white.._............__..._...___._.._.._..__.._._.__. 4 32Sandstone, hard ____________________________________________ 8 40Sandstone, soft, red _____________________________________ 5 45Clay, red, and sand______________________________________ 13 58Sandstone, soft, red ________________________________________ 2 60Sand, fine, to gravel ________________________________________ 3 63Clay, red, and sand_______________________________________ 4 67Sand to medium gravel ____________________________________ 5 72Sandstone, soft_____________________________________________ 7 79Sandstone, hard __________________________________________ 2 81Sandstone, soft_____________________________._______________ 19 100Clay, red, and sand_______________________________________ 5 105Sandstone, soft_____________________________________________ 5 110Sand and gravel____________________________________________ 10 120Clay, red, and sand______________________________________ 22 142
400 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-41-19a Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSandstone, red, medium-hard_---__---___-_--___--___________ 3 145Clay, red, and sand_____________________.___________________ 5 150Sand and caliche; medium-hard ___-_--_---_---__--___________ 14 164Sandstone, hard ____________________________________________ 11 175Clay, red, and sand________________________________.________ 10 185Sandstone, medium _________________________________________ 10 195Rock, soft, and coarse sand ____________._______.___._______"_ 5 200Rock, medium-hard ________________________________________ 5 205Sandstone, porous __________________________________________ 3 208Sand, very coarse, to fine gravel-_-__--_-_-_--__-__._,_______ 2 210Gravel, fine to medium; contains sand and pebbles _____________ 30 240
7-41-21abb
[Irrigation well drilled by Arthur Haggard, 1949. Surface altitude, 3,511.7 ft]
Soil ________________________________________ 5 5Ogallala formation:
Caliche and clay____________________________________________ 16 21Caliche, clay, and sand _____________________________________ 32 53Caliche, clay, and sand; hard __--_---___-_______-___.-_______ 17 70Caliche, clay, and sand _____________________________________ 8 78Caliche, clay, and sand; hard ________________________________ 1 79Caliche, clay, and sand _____________________________________ 33 112Sand and gravel ____________________________________________ 11 123Caliche and clay.___________________________________________ 31 154Sand, hard_________________________________________________ 1 155Caliche and clay____._______________________________________ 36 191Sand and gravel; dirty_______________________________________ 11 202Sand and gravel ____________________________________________ 24 226Clay ....______________1__________ 6 232
7-41-21
[West half of section]
Soil________________________________________________.___._ 2 2Ogallala formation:
Caliche____________ ______________________________ 23 25Gravel, heavy._____________________________________________ 21 46Caliche.________________________________ __________________ 4 50Clay, sandy, soft ___________________________________________ 8 58Caliche.___________________________________________________ 4 62Clay, sandy, soft ___________________________________________ 16 78Caliche.___________________________________________________ 30 108Gravel _____ _ ______________________._-_-_.______ 25 133Caliche.___________________________________________________ 43 176Clay, sandy, soft (water-bearing)_____________________________ 37 213Clay and gravel____________________________________________ 5 218Gravel____________________________________________________ 23 241Caliche.____________________________________________ _ _____ 7 248
BASIC DATA 401
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
7-41-21c
[Test hole]
Ogallala formation:(No sample)__----__-__-_--_-______--__________-_____-______ 25Gravel ____________________________________________________ 20(No sample)__-_----_..__-_--__--__---_____-___-____-____---_ 15Gravel ......__.__.___-.--..-.--....--...-_.__._....-. 12Sand, clay, and caliche ______________________________________ 36Gravel _----___-----_--_-----_-__---____-____-_____--______ 25Sand, clay, and caliche ______________________________________ 43Sand and clay.______________________________________________ 24Clay and coarse gravel..--.. ________________________________ 18Gravel, coarse __..___......_...__._______._____._.____.___. 23Caliche, hard _----_---___--_____--__.______________________ 7
7-41-25adb
[Irrigation well drilled in 1948. Surface altitude, 3,465.5 ft]
Soil.._____________________________..__.. 2Soil, sandy, gray _________________________________________ __ 4
Ogallala formation:Caliche, hard -___---__-._____--___-_____--____-___--___--._ 13Sand, coarse -_____-__________--___-__________-_______-----_ 2Caliche, hard ___-_______-___--____--____________--_-___---. 1Gravel ____________________________________________ ________ 5Clay, gray, and gravel ______________________________________ 2Sandstone, hard ____________________________________________ 3Clay, brown.-.-____-____--___--___.__________-______-___--_ 7Clay, sandy, gray__-___-_----_-__--__------_----____--__.--_ 12Gravel, fine to medium -__---__-____-___-___-__-___-______-_ 3Sandstone, hard ____________________________________________ 2Clay, sandy, brown _________________________________________ 4Clay, brown _______________________________________________ 3Sandstone, hard ____________________________________________ 4Clay, brown _______________________________________________ 3Clay, brown, and gravel-____-_--__________-____.____-_____-_ 9Caliche....________________________________________________ 3Caliche, hard to soft________________________________________ 7Caliche, hard --_.--__.__-.._.._________________._____._____ 5Caliche, soft__-____-____-_____-______-____.--.__._________. 5Caliche, hard __---------____--_____-___________________.___ 6Sandstone, hard -_____-_____-__-.-_____.__..________________ 5Rock, hard ----__--___-_-____.-____-_______________________ 10Clay, sandy, brown ----_--_---__-_---____-________________-_ 5Sandstone, cemented, hard __________________________________ 5Sandstone, hard ____________________________________________ 9Sandstone, cemented, hard to soft _-__-_----____-_____-_______ 16Gravel, very fine to fine ____________________________________ 5Gravel, fine _______________________________________________ 9Gravel, very fine to medium_--_--______.___.__-___._____-._ 16Clay, red________________,_________________________________ 31Gravel____________________________________________________ 4Clay_____ ____--...... .___ __--___--_-____._______ .5
25456072
108133176200218241248
26
19212227293239515456606367707982899499
105110120125130139155160169185216220220.5
402 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' loas of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
7-41-28acb
[Irrigation well drilled by Arthur Haggard, 1950. Surface altitude, 3,514.2 ft]
Ogallala formation:Soil, hard caliche, clay, and sand ___.._______-.--_._.-___-_-_ 21Sand to medium gravel; dirty.________--___-___----__-_-_---- 22Clay and caliche; contains some sand__.-._-.___-______._.__.- 56Sand and gravel..--.-.-.-.---__-_.--__-----__-----_----.--- 7Caliche, hard ... _._..___._.__..-_-._.--___._-_-_ --_-_-. 1Caliche and clay; medium-hard; contains some sand ____--._.__ 14Caliche and clay; very hard; contains some sand___-_._._____.- 2Caliche and clay; hard; contains some sand .--._-__.___--__.-- 23Caliche and clay; contains strips of sand and gravel___._-______ 35Sand and gravel; contains strips of fine sand and some clay _____ 45Gravel_-_---__--___-_-__-._______-___-_-_------------- ._-_ ____.
7-41-30ccc
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1944. Surface altitude, 3,518.3 ft]
Soil______________________. -. 2Ogallala formation:
Sand and gravel___-_____-_____-__-----_--_----------------- 14Sandstone, red to brown...___-___.-----_-----_-------------- 11Caliche...---...--.-..-----.----------------------.-------- 5Sandstone, red ___________________---_---.-__.--_------__--- 3Sand_____________.. ______________ --.. 1Sandstone, red_.___-_.--_._.--_-__----__-------.--_-------- 4Sand, fine, brown.-.--....___-.--_----__---_-.-----.-------- 12Caliche.-.--.-_____________ . 5Sandstone, hard .---__.__-___-...____-_------_-_--------_--- 3Sandstone __---_----_._-_--___--__--_---------------------- 1Sandstone, hard_----._-.__..___.__--__-_--___--_.___-_----- 10Sand.._---_---. ----..--_-..--.____---------_-----------_-- 1Sandstone. _---_.----..--_._._-__._-_-__--____-__-----_-_--- 4Sand-...---.-__.____..____._.____._-----_-- 1Sandstone, soft..-_._..._._.__._-..-_....-.--_--__----.__--_ 5Sand.-_-.--..._---___.._._.__..-.--.-.._-___-------__--_-- 2Sand to fine gravel __.--______-.___-__----_-_-------------- 4Gravel, medium_--____.--__._--._.--____-.___-----_---__--- 1Sandst one.---___----_-----__.-____----__------_---_-_------ 1Sand, very fine, to medium gravel.__----_---_-_----_----__--- 12Caliche. _._-___.---.._._.._____.___.______-__--___--____.-- 2Sand, fine, red ___.__._._____...._..__.__-_._.----__-__-_--. 6Caliche_____.__________________________ 7Sand, fine, red, and clay.._-__---.__-------_----------------- 5Sandstone.--__________--____-_________-____-__--___----__-_ 14Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel ___.___-__--_----_-----_-- 25
8-36-5cab
[Irrigation well drilled by Arthur Haggard, 1953]
Ogallala formation:Topsoil and fine dirty sand ___._..__.__._---______.._-._ 58Caliche, clay, and gravel--.------.---_.__-_-__--__-----__-_ 5Sand and gravel__--.-.---.__-_----- _..-_-_.._____-_-__--- 16
BASIC DATA 403
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-36-Scab Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedClay....__...______.__.__..__-__.___________. 35 114Sand and gravel........__.._.___..-......_.-.----_-...._... 17 131Clay.________________________________________ 2 133Sandstone and clay ________-_______-_______--_-___-__-___--. 9 142Rock _________________________________ ____ 142
8-36-27cab
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1941. Surface altitude, 3,110.3 ft]
Soil, black ...........__.....__.............__..____.. 12 12Ogallala formation:
Clay, sandy..............__________________________________ 8 20Sandstone and molding sand _________________________________ 10 30Caliche.....____._.................................... 2 32Sand, molding .__._.._...._.__..._..._...._._........._..__ 17 49Rock ........__......__.................__............ 6 55Sand, molding _____________________________________________ 15 70Rock _______________________._____________...__.... 1 71Sand, molding ........._...__....____......_........__..._. 9 80Rock ____________ ______ __ ___ __________ ______ 1 81Sand, molding .....___--.--.-.-_-....-__.-..-.-..---.._._.. 11 92Sand and gravel..__._____.__....____..___.._._.._.__.._._.. 15 107Sand, molding ___.__.___.____.__.___..._____.____.________. 5 112Gravel, medium ___________________________________________ 2 114Sand, molding ...._..._.___...___.._..__..__.__...__..__._. 7 121Rock, chalky.___________________________________ 4 125Gravel, coarse..___________________________________________ 10 135Sand, molding, red _.___.-__-_._.__________________________ 9 144Rock. _____________________________________ 1 145
8-38-14cba
[Surface altitude, 3,314 ft]
Dune sand:Sand______________________________________________________ 20 20Gravel..__________________________________________________ 30 50
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy__._________________.___________________________ 75 125Sand and gravel____________________________________._______ 60 185Clay, sand, and gravel; contains stringers of caliche.__....__. 40 225
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.._....____.....__.......__.------_.....-_. 18 243Shale, gray.....___________________________________________ 62 305
8-38-32bbb
[Surface altitude, 3,280 ft]
Dune sand:Sand____________________________________ 32 32
Ogallala formation:Caliche._________________________________ 8 40Sand and gravel_.._..._.___________._.__.____-__._________ 70 110Clay, sandy, red--__-_____-_____..-...-__-__.-_------____.. 50 160Gravel. _____...._ __._..._._-.__-----__________ 13 173
404 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 28. Drillers' lops of test holes, seismoflraph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet) .
8-38-32bbb Continued
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow-.----.-.........._.-_.._---.---.-.--....-- 15Shale, gray........_..___--_._-_.._--._--__..-.---___-__. 37
8-38-33aab
[Surface altitude, 3,256 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand.-__-._._......-__..----_.---......_...-_...._.-_-.... 16Caliche ___________________________________________________ 9Sand and gravel_--.-___._...__-.-_-_._--__--_--_-_-___-_--- 80 Caliche, hard--........____________________________________ 22Bentonite._________________________________________________ 8Clay, sandy.__------__________-____-__---__-__---__--_---_. 16
Pierre shale:Shale, gray_____.__________________________________________ 4
8-39-8bbb
[Surface altitude, 3,398 ft]
Dune sand:Sand....__________________________________________________ 10
Ogallala formation:Clay. ..__.._..___----------__............_____.....__ 33Gravel...._..._...._...__.._...._-_._..--.......__-.--..._ 17Clay and caliche _-_-__-.__..__-.-_-_.___--..__..._..._...__ 45 Gravel____________________________________________________ 75Caliche... .........___________________.__ 15Sand..........---.-.._._._.._._.__._.___________._...__.__ 19Clay; contains streaks of bentonite..........__......_______._ 81Sand....-...-.-_.....__...__.____._...._._......._._..._.. 15
Pierre shale:Shale, gray...__....._._...__._...._.___._.________________ 15
8-39-llbbb
[Surface altitude, 3,485 ft]
Dune sand:Sand, fine .._....______________._.______.__..._..._......__ 120
Ogallala formation:Gravel, fine _______________________________________________ 64Clay. ...________________________________.. 36Caliche ___________________________________________________ 30Sand and gravel._______.._._._.._.._...._._______.._._._._. 60Clay _ ________________________ 40Limestone.________________________________________________ 3Bentonite...__.._._...._.__._...______...__....._.______ . . 47
8-39-20b
Pleistocene and Recent deposits, undifferentiated:Clay, sandy-_______________________________________________ 2
Ogallala formation:Caliche...__.._.-.......________________________________ 17
BASIC DATA 405
Table 28. Drillers' loas of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-39-20b Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSand__..__________________________________ 2 21Caliche....________________________________________________ 6 27Caliche, sand, and gravel ___-_-_____---_-_-__--_--__...___.. 3 30Clay, sandy, brown __---_------_---_--------------._-------- 3 33Caliche....-__..._...._.._.....____.........-......-...._._ 5 38Clay, sandy, hard, brown._..__._..__.__.___...__--_-_.._..._ 14 52Clay, brown --_....................-......._.._............ 13 65Sand and gravel; brown .__.--____-__-.-___._.-__-___._.._... 6 71Clay, brown _______________________________________________ 9 80Clay, brown, hard to soft____-_--____-__-_----___-_-_________ 15 95Clay and caliche; soft; brown _---__-_---__--------_-_________ 8 103Sand and gravel.___________________________________________ 3 106Caliche and sand ___________________________________________ 5 111Clay, sandy, brown _-___-_---_--_-----___-_-__--_-_.________ 18 129Clay, brown _______________________________________________ 11 140Caliche._______________________________ 4 144Caliche, hard ______________________________________________ 5 149Caliche-...________________________________________________ 2 151Caliche, medium-hard ______________________________________ 9 160Caliche---.--______________________________________________ 9 169Gravel and sand____________-__._________________-_.________ 3 172Rock, hard to soft __________________________________________ 8 180Caliche, hard to soft_-_---__----__-----_____-_--_-_.________ 10 190Rock, porous, hard to soft___-------_--._______.-_-__________ 10 200Sand --------._______-__.__________________________________ 5 205Sand, loose ________________________________________________ 5 210Sand ----__--_________._____________._________.___________ 10 220Rock...........___________________________________________ 5 225Sand, fine _________________________________________________ 10 235Caliche, soft, white______-_________________.________________ 9 244Clay, bright-red _______________________________ 22 266Sand, coarse......_________________________________________ 12 278Caliche. ______________._______________________________ 4 282Sand, coarse_._________________.___________________________ 3 285
Pierre shale:Shale, gray________________________________________________ 2 287
8-39-35ccc
[Surface altitude, 3,346 ft]
Dune sand:Sand, gravel, and clay __.-__-_--__---__-_--_-__----____.____ 110 110
Ogallala formation:Caliche. _____________________________________________ 40 150Sand, gravel, and clay._--__------__--_-__--------_--__-.__-_ Ill 261Chert____________________________________ 1 262
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow _______________________________________________ 3 265Shale, gray ___.______....___....___________________ 70 335
406 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and we Us Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-40-22dcc
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1944. Surface altitude, 3,423.2 ft]
Ogallala formation:Soil and caliche....---_.----..__.__-._-..----__.--------._ 14 14Sand; contains streaks of clay ______--_______--_______---__-_. 21 35Sand, brown, and clay._______________---__-_-_---___-___-_-._ 10 45Rock, hard ____________________________.._____ 2 47Gravel, sandy, red____.______________________-__--_-----.__- 8 55Gravel,loose...----__-...-.--..-_-.-_--._-------_---------- 10 65Caliche and sand......-.-.---._.-.-.-----.------------_----. 12 77Rock, hard._......__....__......._......_.......__..._._... 2 79Caliche, sandy, medium-hard, brown-------------------------- 7 86Caliche, sandy, hard to medium-hard, brown..._-.__-_---_----_ 9 95Gravel,loose.__--______________________.__.---------------- 11 106Gravel, coarse; contains streaks of caliche-------------------- 9 115(No sample) _______ __ __ _____ _____ _____ ___ - 1 116Caliche, soft ________________________..__ .. 13 129Limestone and sand ___._______...__-_______.___-__.__---.___ 7 136Sand and gravel; contains some white rock.-__-_-----_-__---_.- 19 155Caliche; contains fine sand --_-....-__----.-----_----------_- 10 165Sand, fine, and red clay.____________..__..__--_--_____--__--- 5 170Sand, very fine to very coarse___..___-______------__--_------ 5 175Sand to medium gravel--.-_---_--.-------------------------- 15 190Sandstone, calcium carbonate cement, soft_._.--____-----___--- 20 210
8-40-26bcd
[Irrigation well drilled by Ellithorpe and Putman. Surface altitude, 3,430.1 ft]
Soil.-....-__.__.__-.--.-_...____.____.__.______. 3 3Ogallala formation:
Caliche, soft .....-._....-_..._...-.....--._----.-..------.- 2 5Sandstone, soft __-._.____-__._...___---_-_.--__---_.--_____. 3 8Caliche _________ ___ __________________ __ ______ 11 19Sand, fine, to medium gravel.____-_-.._--_..--_-__-__---_____ 10 29Clay, sandy.....-_-._.---__._----..__.._..___.-.___._.-...._ 11 40Sand, fine, to medium gravel; contains some clay..-_-._-_--_.._ 17 57Clay, sandy....--._._._......_......__............_._....... 2 59Sand, fine, to medium gravel; contains some clay....__..__..___ 6 65Sandstone, soft, clay, caliche, and gravel._-_.--_---._.___---.- 5 70Sand, fine, to medium gravel; contains some clay and sandstone.. 10 80Clay, sandy.........__..____._._.._.__....._.._....._.___.. 10 90Caliche, soft --..-....__.....____..____..__.____... 1 91Clay, sandy..._.-_____._._.__._...__._.._.._._._....._.___.. 4 95Sandstone, soft ......._.....__A......._....._.._. 16 111Caliche, soft __.._.___....._.___-__..--.--._ 2 113Sand, fine, to coarse gravel -____--.--__---...__.-________--_- 2 115Gravel, fine to coarse, very good ..__----......-..-...._...... 10 125Sandstone, caliche, sandy clay, and gravel -__---__-__.__-_-__. 45 170Gravel, fine to coarse; contains some clay....-_--____.---_--.. 7 177Clay, sandy...........__.__.__....__..__.__.__.__.. 16 193Clay, sandy, hard __---.___.__..._._..__.____._....___.__._ 2 195Clay, sandy...__.__.__._______.__.__........___. 10 205Clay, sandy; contains some gravel ._-___.___-_---_--_.--__-.._ 30 235Sand, fine to coarse, and clay......_.......__-_....__._.-_.__. 23 258
Pierre shale:Shale _-.-.....____....___________...____..______ .5 258.5
BASIC DATA 407
Toble 28. Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
8-41-28abc
[Irrigation well drilled by Ellithorpe and Putman, 1951. Surface altitude, 3,532.5 ft]
Soil_________.___.____.___.........__....__. 2 2C^allala formation:
Caliche.._______________.____________________ 3 5Gravel .. -_----_-------_-----.-_.-__.-__--.-_.._____ 6 11Clay; contains layers of caliche and some gravel._-_----_.-.--_ 26 37Clay, firm; contains layers of caliche and some gravel .____.__. 2 39Clay; contains layers of caliche and some gravel.._____________ 5 44Clay, firm; contains layers of caliche and some gravel _________ 1 45Clay, sandy; contains some gravel.__.__._._________._.__.____ 10 55Gravel and clay; sandy ______-_----_---____--___-_---________ 1 56Clay, sandy; contains some caliche___________________________ 26 82Gravel _______________________.___._---___.____..__ 8 90Clay, sandy---_--____________-._.__________________________ 16 106Caliche-.--...__...______.____..__________________ 1 107Clay and caliche; hard _--__-.-----_-___---_-_______-___---._ 10 117Clay, sandy...__...____-_.-___.___________.---_..__ 16 133Clay, sandy, hard---._-_-_______________..____._._--__-.____ 3 136Clay, sandy ...____________________________________ 14 150Sand, fine, to coarse gravel; contains some clay _______________ 7 157Sand, fine, to coarse gravel...-__-__--_____-_.._..-__-__-____ 27 184Clay....___________________._______________... 3 187Clay, sandy; contains some gravel.....____..._._._._.._.__.__ 10 197Sandstone.__......_....._..______.....________._____.___.__ 3 200Sand, fine, to coarse gravel................___.___-_____._.__ 6 206Clay, sandy; contains some gravel...__.._____.______..____.__ 10 216
8-41-28ada
[Domestic and stock well drilled by Ellithorpe and Putman. Surface altitude, 3,527.2 ft]
Soil__________________________________________ 2 2<""fallala formation:
Clay.__._____________________________________ 4 6Caliche.-----__._____________._____________.__ 4 10Clay__--.-___.._______________________________ 8 18Gravel _-_-_-____.__..__...___.-_..._.___.._...._..________ 42 60Clay.___________________________________________ 3 63Gravel -------__-______.-_____--__.-...___._..___.___._____ 9 72Clay; contains layers of caliche ______________________________ 9 81Clay; contains layers of caliche; hard ________________________ .5 81.5Clay; contains layers of caliche ___________________________ 3.5 85Clay; contains layers of caliche; hard._____________-..___._ .5 85.5Clay; contains layers of caliche _______-___._______-.______ 9.5 95Sand, fine, to coarse gravel.____---.-__________________.. 16 111Clay; contains layers of caliche ______________________________ 24 135Clay; contains layers of caliche; hard ________________________ 1 136Clay; contains layers of caliche ______________________________ 4 140Clay, sandy; contains some gravel.___________________________ 6 146Clay, sandy, hard; contains some gravel .__________-_--___.___ 2 148Clay, sandy; contains some gravel__________________________ 26 174Sand, fine, to coarse gravel._________________________________ 16 190Clay, sandy ________________________________________________ 16 206
Tierre shale:Clay, buff _______________________________________ 24 230Shale________________________________________ 4 234
408 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
_____ Toble 28. J Drillers' loas of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
8-41-34abc
[Irrigation well drilled by Arthur Haggard, 1951. Surface altitude, 3,514.4 ft]
Topsoil and clay...._________________________Ogallala formation:
Sand and gravel _____________________________Clay, sandy, and caliche (slow drilling). ________Sand and gravel _____________________________Clay, sand, and caliche_______________________Sand and gravel _____________________________Clay, sand, and caliche_______________________Sand and gravel _____________________________Caliche, sand, and clay (slow-drilling) _________Caliche, sand, and clay; hard ___-----__-__-___.Caliche, sand, and clay._______________________Sand and gravel ______________________________Clay, sandy, and caliche; contains strips of sand Sand and gravel _____________________________Sand, fine, dirty, and caliche._________________
11
43610151113
9132
3113221852
DUNDY COUNTY, NEBR.
2-39-28bbb
[Surface altitude, 3,307 ft]
Ogallala formation:Clay and sand; contains streaks of sandstone__-__-____-___-__ 120
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow______._________________________________________ 10Shale, blue___-_______________._____________________________ 20
2-40-17abd
[Irrigation well drilled by Ellithorpe and Putman, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,413.5 ft]
Topsoil.___________________________________________________ 3Ogallala formation:
Caliche, soft _______________________________________________ 1Sand, contains some clay ____________________________________ 16Clay, hard, white ___________________________________________ 4Caliche and clay; hard ______________________________________ 1Caliche and clay____________________________________________ 2Caliche and clay; hard ______________________________________ 3Caliche and clay____________________________________________ 4Caliche, soft, and coarse sand ______________________________ 12Caliche, soft, and coarse sand; contains hard layers.-.--------, 4Caliche, soft, and coarse sand _______________________________ 28Sandstone, fine-grained, soft_________________________________ 8Caliche-______________________________________ __________ 4Sand, fine to medium________________________________________ 10Caliche.___-_-__._._..._______________________...._____. 1Clay; contains some caliche and a trace of gravel _____________ 15Sand, fine, to coarse gravel; contains some clay_-_.______-__-__ 7Clay; contains a trace of gravel ______________________________ 14Sand, fine, to coarse gravel; contains some clay.____..-_--_-___ 5Clay, sandy.. _______...___..________________________ 10Sand, fine, to coarse gravel; loose. ___________________________ 20
BASIC DATA
Toble 28. Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
409
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
2-39-2 8bbb C ontinued
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow-------_--_--_--_----__------__-_--.-____------ 8 180
'Shale----------------__.-------..-------.-----.-..------- 4 184
2-40-17cdd
[Surface altitude, 3,391 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, sandstone, clay, and caliche.___-_----_---_____._.--__-- 100 100
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow.._________.____________________ 45 145 Shale, blue-___.___-______--_______-_.______.__..._----.. 55 200
2-41-15cdd
[Surface altitude, 3,440 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand.._______________________________________ 15 15 Clay, sand, and caliche ---.--------_--.-__.__------------- 100 115
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow---.._----__-.-------------------.------------- 15 130Clay, blue.__________.-_.___._______.___----... 5 135
2-42-35dda
[Surface altitude, 3,490 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand.___________________________________ 10 10Sand; contains streaks of clay-_-__-._..___..__-_.__..-_-____ 50 60Clay....___________..__________.________ 10 70
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow--------..__----------__---__--_.-.___---.--- 5 75
3-39-15aaa
[Surface altitude, 3,356 ft]
Dune sand:Sand..-_------___--__-____----____---_____-_--_____-_-___- 95 95
Ogallala formation:Clay____________________________________ 35 130Sand and gravel__------------____-.-....----.-_._--__.. 160 290
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow---..__----------__-._-.--..-__-----__----- 10 300Shale, blue _______________________________.----___-.___ 5 305Limestone, gray ___________________________________________ 4 309Shale, blue .__________________________________ 96 405
3-39-36bbb
[Surface altitude, 3,349 ft]
Dune sand:Sand__-__._____________..._____________________ 30 30
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TofaUr28;^Pffflers^tofls of tesrfioles, seis othotes, and wells Continued
PERKINS COUNTY Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
3-39-36bbb Continued
Ogallala formation:Clay, sandy___________________________-__---__-___-__---__- 30Caliche ___-_-_.-.-_.__-_--___.--_.--__-----__----_-_-----_ 5Gravel_-_-----_--____-__--___--_-_--_--_----------------__ 5Caliche -_-_-_-_--.___--__-___________-___-__---_-_--_-_--- 140Clay, red......__..___..___.___._._________-___.____._._.__ 25Sand and gravel__-____-_--_____________-_----___-_------___ 24
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow ____________-_____________----_-_-_---__-_--___ 18Shale, gray________________________________________________ 128
3-40-6bba
[Surface altitude, 3,458 ft]
Dune sand:Sand..-....-__...__-....-__..-.....--__----------_---__ 12
Ogallala formation:Clay ..-----....._----__..----__.....__.._...__....-__.. 28Sand.. .........__...........__..____..__.-......---_.. 45Gravel-.---...............__.....__..-.--.--._--__--... 7Caliche --_------_-...._-.__...._..._.----.-__-._....---___ 28Sand; contains hard ledges.__._______._____-_-_-___.--_---___ 40Sand--.......-_----_._.__.....__.....__---_.__--_---.. 130
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow _______________________________________________ 15Shale, blue......__....-_.........._._._..............__... 45
606570
210235259
277405
12
408592
120160290
305350
HAYES COUNTY, NEBR.
5-33-22dbd
[Irrigation well drilled by Arthur Haggard, 1946. Surface altitude, 2,983.5 ft]
Sanborn formation:Clay; contains strips of gravel.____.._.
Ogallala formation:Clay, hard..__.______.___....._._.__.Sand and gravel; cemented; hard .......Sand and lime; hard __.__.._._.__._... Sandstone.____..___...___.______._._.Clay................................Clay, hard___________________________Sand and gravel; hard.._______________Clay, compact _______________________Sandstone, soft, and lime__-__----_-__-Shale, green _________________________Lime _______________________________Clay_____.___________.......________Gravel_--_--__----_-__-_-_-__-_--___Sand and gravel; contains strips of clay. Clay, sandy__________________________Sand ____________-___--_-__._______Clay--__....._________._____________
121
238211115
2131539
64
1211171341
121
123161182193208210223238277283287299310327340344345
BASIC DATA 411
Toble 28. Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-33-30cba
[Irrigation well drilled by Mr. Troutman, 1943. Surface altitude, 2,764.2 ft]
Alluvium and Ogallala(?) formation, undifferentiated:(No sample)......__________________________________________ 36 36Gravel _________________________________ 65 101
Pierre shale:Shale______________________________________ _____ 101
5-34-28bca
[Irrigation well drilled by Norton Manufacturing Co., 1944. Surface altitude, 2,841.5 ft]
Soilblack.____---__-_-__.-____-______________________ 3 3Ogallala formation:
Clay, yellow.....___._-.__.___--__.____________________ 49 52Sand to medium gravel _____________________________________ 10 62Sand, coarse _______________________________________________ 35 97Gravel, fine to medium, and white rock _______________________ 18 115Gravel to pebbles.-------.--..___._---.-__.--_.____----- 10 125Mud, black..._________________________________________ 1 126Sand, fine, red ..-__-___----____--__----__________--_--___--_ 3 129
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow....________--_--_______.._______._....___..____ 6 135Shale_________________________________________ ____ 135
5-34-34aac
[Irrigation well drilled in 1942. Surface altitude, 2,793.0 ft]
Soil-.___-_---_-_--_._-._.-__.-.._____________________.._. 24 24Alluvium:
Sand ___________________._-..-.____.,__________....- 5 29Gravel ---.__-_._________.__________________________ 2 31Sand, coarse __.----__-____--____.____..._____._______..____ 1 32Sand, medium to very fine ___________________________________ 13 45Sand, coarse_______________________________________________ 3 48Sand and gravel ____________________________________________ 3 51Sand, coarse _______________________________________________ 5 56Sand, coarse, and gravel ____________________________________ 4 60Gravel, coarse ___--__--___-.______________________________ 3 63Sand, coarse _______________________________________________ 7 70Sand, very coarse __________________________________________ 6 76
Pierre shale:Clay, yellow..______________________________________________ 3 79
5-34-36db
[Test hole drilled in 1938]
Soil______________________________________Alluvium:
Clay, blue..___________________________________ 13 19Sand, coarse, and gravel ____________________________________ 4 23Sand, fine to coarse_________________________________________ 11 34Gravel, coarse, cemented ___________________________________ 1 35Sand,medium ______________________________________________ 3 38Sand, coarse, and gravel ____________________________________ 9 47
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412 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. » Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
5-34-36db Continued
Alluvium ContinuedSand, fine___-__--_--__._____.___-__-___-__-_--_-_---_--..---- 1Sand,fine, to gravel __________________________________________ 12Sand, fine to coarse__-___________________---_--_---_---_--_- 4Clay, sandy.!_-_-___-____________-_-__--_-----___-_------- 8Sand, fine, to gravel ____________.____-__-__-__-_--------- 6Sand, medium, clayey _________-_______-__-__-_-----_-__---_- 2Sand, fine, to gravel ___________________._______-__--__-_--_- 5
Pierre shale:Shale_____________________________________
5-34-36ddb
[Irrigation well drilled in 1938. Surface altitude, 2,748.9 ft]
Soil, silty..___...___________.......................Alluvium:
Sand, fine.......-...._.._...._._.....-_..----.-.-.-..-..--. 4Gravel and sand __________________________________________Sand, coarse; contains some large white pebbles __-----__--_-._ 13Gravel, coarse___._.._._.___._.____..___.___.___-.__...___- 12Sand, coarse__._-___-__.__._.__.__-._-_.-.-__._.-_--_--_.__ 7 Sand, very coarse. --_____-.__.._.-._-.--.-_-----_-._._...- 3Sand, medium ______________________________________________ 5Sand, fine.._____..__.______...__.___.-_.-..__ 2 Sand, fine to very coarse -_-__--____-__--__-----_--_--_-__-Sand; contains streaks of clay_._____.___-___-__________--__-_ 1Sand, medium, to coarse gravel __--__.-.-_.--_--__------_--._ 6Sand, coarse_____.__.._.__.______._.._..______._----_-._-.- 2Sand and gravel _.________________________________________ 3Gravel, coarse _. _______________________________________
Pierre shale:Shale______________________......................
5-34-36ddd
[Irrigation well drilled in 1939. Surface altitude, 2,773.2 ft]
Soil.________._______________________________ 26 Alluvium:
Sand,fine._______________________________________.____-.. 4Sand, fine, to coarse gravel__._.________.-_--._.__._____._ 4Sand, very fine to coarse ____________________________________ 3Gravel, coarse; contains some sand __________________________ 4Sand, coarse ___.________.____.__.__._____.___.____._.___.__ 2Sand, fine to coarse.._.___.._._..______._____________.______ 4Sand, very fine to fine _..._._.______..___.____._..._.-____ 1Sand, coarse; contains some gravel._-______-_---__----_-__--_ 2Gravel, coarse; contains some sand __________________________ 2Sand, coarse; contains some gravel___.__.._.-_--.--._---_-.-. 3Sand, fine..____________________________________________ 4Sand, coarse _______________________________________________ 3Sand, fine..__.__._.._.___.._._____________.____..._... 6Sand, fine to coarse__________..._____________....__.-.-. 1Sand, fine, to coarse gravel....._________________._.__._ 6Sand, coarse, to gravel_____________________________________ 10
Pierre shale:Shale________________________________________ ___
BASIC DATA 413Toble 28. Drillers' Iocs of test holes, seismograph shot holes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
5-35-2laaa
[Irrigation well drilled by Ellithorpe and Putman, 1950. Surface altitude, 2,887.9 ft]
Alluvium:Clay, yellow.--------._------.----.----.-_-----_------ 20 20Sand, fine, to medium gravel; calcareous --..---___-_-___---_-- 8 28Clay, blue________________________________ 5 33Sand, fine, to medium gravel; calcareous _.-.-__-_ ---.-.--_-_ 16 49Gravel, medium, to fine sand; calcareous... _-__-__---__-----__ 4 53Sand, fine, to medium gravel; calcareous _.__-___-_-_-.-_-___.- 24 77Sandstone, hard...__---___-____--____-___._________________- .25 77.25Sand, fine, to medium gravel; calcareous -___--_-__-___.-__-__ 5.75 83
5-35-22bda
[Test hole drilled in 1939]
Soil __________ _______________ _____________ 17 17Alluvium:
Sand, clayey.-..._.._---------...._.-.....---_--.... 6 23Clay._______________..___.__________ 8 31Clay, sandy.........................._........._...........- 3 34Gravel, coarse, sandy _.-..--...___._._.___...._.-._._._.__.. 3 37'Sand, very fine to fine ..___......___._..._.__...._._...__.... 1 38Sand, fine to coarse _---_-_---._-__._.__..._...._..._...._... 7 45Sand, fine............_.._....._..._..._...._... 5 50Sand, very fine.----_-_-_.__.__._-__.___...-.._....__..-..._- 7 57Sand, coarse, to fine gravel--_._---....-_._.......___....__._ 3 60Sand, very coarse to fine _._._____._._.__._.._.___.____.._... 2 62Gravel, coarse, and sand ____________________________________ 2 64Pebbles to fine sand _-____.________________________________ 1 65Sand, coarse, well-sorted..._._._._...__..___..._..________.. 2 67Gravel, coarse, and sand -_----_--___.--__._-.._._._._._._.__ 8 75Gravel, very coarse; contains some pebbles..__________________ 5 80Gravel, coarse to very coarse, sandy__________________________ 5 85
Ogallala(?) formation:Sandstone_______________________._--__--_______.__________ 3 88Sandstone; contains some shale._______.______________________ 12 100
6-35-17bda
[Test hole drilled by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1942. Surface altitude, 2,989.3 ft]
Soil ______________________________________ 5 5Ogallala formation:
Clay, yellow.. _._____________________ 49 54Sand and gravel.____________________________________________ 5 59Lime, decomposed __________________________________________ 61 120Clay, yellow____________________________________ 12 132Lime, decomposed _________________________________________ 3 135Sand, fine....__..__.__.___.-___._________________ 5 140Sand and gravel__-____-____.________________________________ 20 160Lime, decomposed _________________________________________ 4.2 164.2Sand and gravel_.___________________________________________ 11.8 176Lime, decomposed __________________________________________ 8 184Sand.. _ _____________________ 6 190
414 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-35-17caa
[Test hole drilled by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1942]
Alluvium:Soil.... .....__.__.__...._________________.. 4 4Clay, brown _______________________________________________ 52 56Mud, black ________________________________________________ 3 59Sand, fine.---___----__..____._____._._._______._______.____ 6 65Sand and gravel_--..__.._..___..___.__.__..______..._____.. 18 83Clay, yellow _________________________.....___.._.__._.__. 4 87Sand and gravel ____________________________________________ 16 103Clay, yellow __.___.__----____--______----_-------.------ 3 106Sand and gravel_-_---_-_-__-____----.-----___--_--_---_--.- 6 112
Ogallala formation:Limestone, decomposed..___________________________________ 5 117Clay, sandy________________...____..____..__ 13 130Sand, coarse.......__.______.__.__-.-_.______-____-__- 30 160
Pierre shale:Shale, brown._______________________--_---__--.--__.__. 25 185
6-35-l7cadl
[Test hole drilled by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1942. Surface altitude, 2,909.3 ft]
Soil_______________________... 6 6Ogallala formation:
Silt, sandy--______--_______-_____-______-___-_-___-----_-_- 3 9Sand and gravel_-._-----_-_---_-.----_----------.--_--__-.- 12 21Silt, black ____.._____.__.....___._______.-_..-__--_-_-_--_. 6 27Sand and gravel ____________________________________________ 18 45Limestone _________________________________________________ 11 56Sand and gravel-_-.__.--..__.-_--------.-_--------------. 27 83
6-35-l7cad2
[Test hole drilled by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1942. Surface altitude, 2,988.3 ft]
Soil...---_---_...-___----....__._______.--_---_---.--- 5 5Ogallala formation:
Clay, yellow _.__---_____--._________-----__.__-___.-__. 26 31Sand and gravel_-__-____-___.._____-.____--___-_---___-_--_ 15 46Limestone-_____-_______________________-____-__-___---_--- 10 56Lime.---_---_---------.__-__---_-------------------_----- 19 75Sand, fine--_____--_....___--_...._--__----_-.--------_.---- 6 81Lime. ________________________________--_,_--_ .-__---_ 18 99Sand, fine, and clay________-____________-_-_-__-__---_--_-__ 12 111Sand and gravel____________________________________________ 4 115Lime, soft_________________________________________________ 19 134Sand_____________________________________ 12 146Lime, soft_____.-_-________-____________---__---_--___----_ 13 159Sand and gravel__-----_-_---_____---_-__------__-----_-_.-- 11 170Sand__________________________________._ 8 178Lime, soft._______________________________________________ 6.3 184.3Sand and gravel____________________________________________ 9.7 194
Pierre shale:Shale, brown_____________________________________________._ 10 204
BASIC DATA 415
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
6-35-17cda
[Test hole drilled by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1942. Surface altitude, 3,010.5ft]
Soil.. ------------- ....-..._...._...-.._......._...._...-_.Ogallala formation:
5
47 3
18 24 25
5
52 55 73 97
122
6-35-17dcc
[Test hole drilled by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1942. Surface altitude, 2,997.1 ft]
Soil.. ___ .. ____ _ .. _ ___ ________ __ __ __ ...Ogallala formation:
5
43 3
25
5
4851 76
HITCHCOCK COUNTY, NEBR.
3-34-12bdd
[Irrigation well drilled by Kerst Drilling Co., 1953]
Sanborn and Ogallala formations, undifferentiated:
Clay...... ----__.-.---.-------.----.-.----------------_---.
Pierre shale: Shale..-.---.- __ .......------- __ .....__..-... __ .-....-.
2252010102523
7
225245255265290313
320
4-33-5ccd
[Test hole]
Tertiary and Quaternary deposits, undifferentiated: (No sample) ________________________________________________
Sand, coarse, to coarse gravel ..___._..__.__._____.._...___..
Pierre shale: Shale _ _ . _______ _________________ _________
35923252323
19
3544464951565861636685
85
416 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY. FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
4-33-15b
[Test hole drilled by Mr. Troutman, 1943]
TopsoiK?)_______________________________________ 28Tertiary and Quaternary deposits, undiff erentiated:
Clay and silt.______________________________________________ 5Sand _-_-.-___--.________-_-__.____---_.____.___ 3Gravel____________________________________________________ 14Sand, coarse_______________________________________________ 6Gravel, coarse _____________________________________________ 18Limestone and clay_________________________________________ 2Gravel, coarse____.________________________________________ 16
Pierre shale:Shale.___________________________________
4-34-laaa
[Irrigation well drilled in 1942]
Soil(?)_ ______ ______________________________ 26Alluvium:
Silt, sandy____-____-_-__-__._______________________________ 4Clay, sandy__---___----_.__________________________________ 2Sand, coarse_______________________________________________ 2Sand, very coarse, well-sorted ______________________________ 1Sand and gravel---_---__-_-_-_____.________________________ 3Sand, fine__________________________________________________ 2Sand, fine to coarse.________________________________________ 2Sand, fine, to coarse gravel _________________________________ 4Sand, fine to coarse.________________________________________ 7Sand, fine, to gravel ________________________________________ 1Sand, fine to very fine.______________________________________ 6Sand, very fine to coarse____________________________________ 8Sand, coarse, to very coarse gravel __.--___-__-__--__----_.__ 6Sand, fine, to coarse gravel _________________________________ 5Sand, fine, to very coarse gravel___--___--_____-_____________ 28.5
Pierre shale:Shale. _________________________--_-_-_.______________
4-34-lbbc
[Test hole drilled in 1939]
SoiK?)---_.----__-_____.______________________.___________ 32Alluvium :
Sand, black________________________________________________ 2Sand, fine, white____________________________________________ llSand, fine to coarse.________________________________________ 2Sand, fine_____.____________________________________________ 3Sand, fine, to coarse gravel _________________________________ 1Sand, very fine to fine_______________________________________ 10Sand, very fine, to coarse gravel_____________________________ 15Sand, fine, to gravel ________________________________________ 5Sand, fine, to coarse gravel _________________________________ 3Sand, coarse.______________________________________________ 2
Ogallala formation:Sandstone and sand _________________________________________ lSandstone, clay balls, and fine sand __________________________ 4
BASIC DATA 417
Table 28.-* Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued______
PERKINS COUNTY, NEBR.
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
9-36-7cbc
[Irrigation well drilled by Arthur Haggard, 1950. Surface altitude, 3,193.3 ft]
Ogallala formation:Sand, gravel, caliche, and clay________________________________ 34 34Clay . .... 5 39Gravel________________________________________________.... 6 45Clay; contains sand and caliche ______________________________ 20 65Sand and gravel _____________________________________________ 5 70Clay; interbedded with sand __________________________________ 23 93Gravel_____________________________________________________ 4 97Clay. ________________ 34 131Gravel------___----_-_-_-___-_._______________________.____ 12 143Clay... . ._ __________________________ 7 150
9-36-19dbd
[Irrigation well drilled by Arthur Haggard, 1951. Surface altitude, 3,174.8 ft]
Ogallala formation:(No sample)_--_____-_______________________________________ 8 8Gravel____________________________________________________ 12 20Gravel, dirty.-_-_________________________________________ 10 30Caliche..___________________________________________________ 5 35Gravel_____________________________________________________ 25 60(No sample)_________________________________________________ 2 62Clay, silty, and gravel_______________________________________ 28 90Gravel-__-_---_---._________..__.._________________________ 80 170
9-41-6dca
[Irrigation well drilled in 1952. Surface altitude, 3,588.3 ft]
Topsoil and clay.___________________________________________ 8 8Ogallala formation:
Caliche and sand ____________________________________________ 18 26Sand _________________ 17 43Sand and clay ________--_-_-----_-_.________________________ 17 60Sand, medium to fine_______________________________________ 8 68Sand___ __ -_-_----_-.__________________________ 5 73Gravel, medium to fine._-----___.__-________.________________ 10 83Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 3 86Sand, fine___.-______________________________________________ 4 90Gravel-------_-__-_---_.________________________.__________ 15 105Caliche and clay_____________________________________________ 6 111Sand, fine, and caliche _______________________________________ 14 125Sand, fine___________________________________________________ 6 131Sand, coarse_______________________________________________ 3 134Caliche and clay_____________________________________________ 8 142Caliche, clay, and gravel______._____________._______________ 4 146Caliche and clay_____________________________________________ 7 153Caliche, clay, and sand _--.------___--____-__________________ 2 155Caliche, clay, and gravel____________________________________ 6 161Caliche and clay; contains some sand_________________________ 5 166Caliche, clay, and sand ____________________________________ 3 169
418 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
Toble 28. < Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
9-41 -6dca Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedCaliche, hard________________________ - - 0.5 169.5Clay.____---------___----________--_-_---______.-__.. 10.5 180Sand_____________..____..__________________ 7 187Caliche and clay...-_-__---___--____-----__--__------------ 3 190Sand, coarse, cemented...-_____--______-__-_-_-_--_-------_ 11 201Sand,loose ________________________ ...................^. 13 214Sand and gravel; loose.______________---____-_____-___-_--_- 50 264
9-41-35aad
[Irrigation well drilled by Ellithorpe and Putman, 1951. Surface altitude, 3,519.7ft]
Topsoil_--_----___----___-___-_____---___--_-__--------__- 1 1Ogallala formation:
Caliche-_______________________._______ 14 15Sand, fine, to coarse gravel--__---_-___---_---_---__----_--_ 8 23Clay, sandy__._________________-_-__--------_----------_ 2 25Sand, fine, to coarse gravel-___-______---_---_-__--_-_--_--_ 19 44Clay______________________________________ 5 49Gravel..-___--____-.______________-__._--_-.------------ 20 69Clay-.---...--.-..__..-..._.......-....-----.----__---.- 14 83Clay; contains some gravel ___.---_____-___---_-_-_--.---__- 11 94Clay....__..--.__....................__.....---.-.... 12 106Gravel--....--.._.-.___.___._________.___-____---_----.-- 8 114Gravel; contains layers of hard limestone.._____________..__-_ 11 125Clay, sandy......._______________________________--_.----. 16 141Clay, sandy, and gravel..___________________________________ 2 143Clay, sandy..-.-..__...__.._.._.._........_--...-_-._-__.-. 13 156Clay, sandy; contains hard layers---_____---_---__---__------ 10 166Clay, sandy.._.__.._..._...__..__..___.__.._....-..__.-_... 8 174Gravel___________________________________ 2 176Clay, sandy.........._._.__.._....._........_...._..._._.._ 3 179Caliche, hard; contains some gravel and clay..-___-__--__--__ 7 186Clay, sandy, soft; contains some graveL--.-------------.-.--. 10 196Clay, sandy, soft to hard; contains some gravel ____-__-__-__._ 9 205Sandstone, soft, green _____..._.._...._._._..______..__.____ 11 216Clay, sandy; contains hard layers---------------------------- 10 226Sandstone, soft; contains some clay and gravel ----______-_---_ 10 236Clay, sandy...__---.._..--..--.___.__.__.___..______..... 3 239Sandstone; contains some gravel---_.___.-_--__--_---._.---._ 7 246Sandstone, soft ____________________________________________ 19 265Clay, soft, green.........___....____.___________-_____.___. 12 277Sandstone --_-_-_-__---__-______-____--____---__---____---- 7 284Clay.-...__-_--_.-..____________...__________ 39 323Clay, hard _________.._________....__________-..____. 2 325Clay__..._______________________________ 1 326
10-39-7cca
[Irrigation well drilled by Arthur Haggard, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,460.4 ft]
Topsoil and clay...________________________________________ 27 27Ogallala formation:
Sand and clay.----_----__-.-_______________________________ 9 36Rock ________________________.--._______ 1 37
BASIC DATA 419
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismoaravh shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10-39 -7cca Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedSandstone, hard______-_____-________________________________ 3Sandstone, medium-hard, and clay ____________________________ 3Clay......__-_-_-----_--_----____--________-_-____-___... 29Sand._____________________________________________________ 9Caliche ____________________________________________________ 1Sandstone __________________________________________________ 8Sand_______________________________________________________ 10Sand, coarse________________________________________________ 13Clay, sandy, brown..________________________________________ 7Sandstone, coarse-grained ___________________________________ 2Sand_______________________________________________________ 6Sandstone, coarse-grained ___________________________________ 3Sand and gravel; loose.._____________________________________ 4Clay and sand _-___-._-.._-.._____________________.__....__. 6Sandstone, coarse-grained ___________________________________ 8Clay, sandy, brown, and caliche.______________________________ 14Sand and gravel______-___--_________________________________ 17Clay and caliche; hard; contains traces of sand_----___-__-._-__ 13Sand and gravel_.____.______________________________________ 16Caliche, hard, and clay; contains a few pebbles-----_----_---___ 14Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 7Clay and caliche ---_-____---_--____--____-__________________ 42Sand and gravel_____________________________________________ 21Caliche and clay ____________________________________________ 4Sand and caliche ____________________________________________ 8Caliche, hard, and clay ______________________________________ 10
404372818290
100113120122128131135141149163180193209223230272293297305315
10-39-16cbb
[Oil-test hole drilled by Ohio Oil Co. Surface altitude, 3,456 ft]
Dune sand:Soil, sandy _________________________________________
Ogallala formation:Sand, coarse, subangular.____________________________Gravel, quartzitic, medium-rounded, dark-colored _____ Clay, brown -red ____________________________________Sand, coarse, medium-rounded, pink_---___--___-_-___ Clay, brown-red; contains streaks of sand _.-___.______Sand, coarse, quartzitic, angular______________________Clay, calcareous, white; contains streaks of coarse sand Sand, coarse, angular, varicolored____________________
Brule(?) formation:Clay, silty, calcareous, white to buff _ ________ _________Shale, bentonitic, greenish-white. _____________________
Pierre shale:Shale, calcareous, soft, black __---_____-_-__--_______
25
55701520153030
130
5033
25
80150165185200230260390
440473
473
10-39-17abd
[Irrigation well drilled by Arthur Haggard, 1953]
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated: Soil and clay; calcareous.______________________Sand and gravel; contains some boulders _____._.Clay, brown_____---_--___-__________________.
3132
3
316366
420 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASDT
Toble 28. ^-Drillers' Ions of test holes, seismograph shotholes, and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10-39-l7abd Continued
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated ContinuedSandstone __----_-_--_---__-__-___---__--__-__-__----_-__-- 5 71Rock---_---------__--_________________-___-____-__.-- 1 72Clay, and gravel.__..__.-_..-..__----------------- .. 1 73Clay.______________________________________ 17 90Sand to fine gravel ________________________________________ 7 97Sand to coarse gravel---__-___-.._.--__-____-_-.--_----.___ 13 110Clay, calcareous, and sand ---.__-__-__----_--_----------__- 13 123Sand and gravel; contains balls of clay __.___-_--_-_-_----__-- 37 160Sand; contains small amount of clay._--_--_._-_--_----_---_-- 6 166Clay; contains thin strips of gravel __________________________ 5 171Clay.__.__--...-__.-___...-_____.__.....__...--._.-- 7 178Sand and gravel; slightly cemented __________________________ 19 197Clay.____..__.........._.-.__....-...._...-_.....__-. 16 213Sand and gravel; cemented_.-__-___.-__.--___._._-___.--__.. 12 225Caliche-______________________________________ 7 232Rock, hard..-..____.._......._._._..---____.--_.__.. 6 238Sand, fine; contains strips of caliche_________________________ 8 246Caliche and fine sand ______________________________________ 9 255Sand to medium gravel.__._.._..--.-_.-._._.__._..____.__-_ 20 275Clay, brown, and sand; contains strips of caliche___-._-_____-_ 18 293Rock; contains layers of sand _______________________________ 1 294Rock, hard__________._______________________._-_-. __.__ 294
10-39-23dbb
[Oil-test well drilled by Ohio Oil Co. Surface altitude, 3,407 ft]
Dune sand and Ogallala formation, undifferentiated:Sand, quartzitic, felspathic, subangular, varicolored.__________ 100 100Gravel and sand; quartzitic; medium rounded; varicolored _____ 70 170Sand, quartzitic, felspathic, subangular, and calcareous rose-
colored silt_______________________________.______________ 30 200Sand, quartzitic, subrounded, rose-colored; contains stringers
of gravel and calcareous silt __________,__---_--_--__--____ 40 240Sand, coarse to fine, quartzitic, felspathic, calcareous cement,
white to varicolored _-____-________________--___---_--__._ 150 390White River group:
Silt, light-tan __________________________________ 30 420 Sand, quartzitic, angular, white__--___-___________.-_-_._____ 24 444
Pier re shale:Shale... ____________________________________ ____ 444
10-40-lcdb
[Irrigation well drilled by Arthur Haggard, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,473.0 ft]
Soil and clay ______________________________________________ 8 8Ogallala formation:
Sand and gravel ___________________________________________ 15 23Gravel, cemented, hard ___________________________________ 3 26Caliche, clay, and sand; cemented; hard___-_________.._-_____ 93 119Sand and gravel ___________________________________________ 5 124Clay--__---_.___--__.______________________--.__- 14 138Sand and gravel _________________________________________ 28 166Caliche, clay, and sand_____.--_____-___._________._--___. 24 190Clay; contains some gravel _.__________________________ 17 207
BASIC DATA
Table 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
421
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
10-40-lcdb Continued
Ogallala formation ContinuedGravel..____________________________________ 11 218Clay; contains a trace of gravel -_------._---------_---__---- 29 247Gravel..____________________________________ 11 258Caliche, very hard--------_-..--------......_--_---..._.--- 7 265
10-40-Seed
[Oil-test well]
Ogallala formation:Clay_______________________________________ 11 11 Sand and gravel............_____________________.___._.__ 51 62Shale(?)________________________..____________ 131 193Sand._____________________________________ 22 215Lime, brown ._....._.-..............__.........._...__.... 132 347Shale(?), sandy __________________________________ 53 400
White River group:Clay, silty, slightly calcareous, white; contains abundant caliche
and a little quartzitic coarse sand__________________________ 90 490Pier re shale:
Shale, clayey, silty, micaceous, slightly calcareous, slightly stained with soft. dark-gray limonite. _-____---_-----__-.____ 30 520
10-41-lldab2
[Irrigation well drilled by Arthur Haggard, 1953. Surface altitude, 3,564.3 ft]
Ogallala formation:Soil and clay.______________________________________________ 20 20Sand and gravel______-__-_._______________________________ 58 78Clay _______________________ 15 93Sand and gravel_-___-_----_-..___-___..._.__._.__.._.____.. 41 134Clay. .-_________________ 9 143Sand and gravel; contains a few strips of clay-------_-------- 36 179Clay.------.__........_____.----.....__.____..... 16 195Sand and gravel-_-_-_--____._.__-.__._.-----_-.._..-------- 14 209Clay. ...-._ __________.____________ 14 223Clay and caliche _.-._.---..._____._....--.-.--.--__..__._. 19 242Sand and gravel...--._.-_._...._.._._..------------_.---_-. 6 248Clay .......___________________ 15 263Clay, caliche, and sand __.__._._____.._-...___.._.__.___..._ 10 273Clay . . ......._______________ 25 298Sand and gravel..._-_---_...__._._...._._...._....___.__.. 6 304Clay.-...-. ........__..___..__,____------__.. 32 336Sand and gravel._._._-...._-_--__._________.____-_-________ 12 348Clay . . _______________ 14 362Sand and gravel_------.---___________-_____.__.__.__....___ 2 364Clay.. _ .....___.....____..__._______ 6 370Sand and gravel..__________________________________________ 2 372Clay . ___________________ 3 375
11-39-21bcd
[Irrigation well drilled by Arthur Haggard, 1952. Surface altitude, 3,456.6 ft]
Topsoil and clay ..._..______________...._.___._........._ 5 5
422 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Toble 28. Drillers' logs of test holes, seismograph shotholes. and wells Continued
Thickness (feet)
Depth (feet)
11 -39-2 Ibcd Continued
Ogallala formation:Clay, hard________.....______________________.. 19 24Gravel, cemented, hard _-__-----____---------_-_----_------- 1 25Sand and gravel ____________________________________________ 19 44Clay_____...-_._--.._...____...-._.-.._..________--. 4 48Caliche____________...________________________ 1 49Clay.._________________.____..___________ 16 65Sand and gravel-___--_-_-.-___._.---__------_.----_.------_ 31 96Clay and gravel_--.---____--_-.__----_-.--_--.-.--.-_----_- 10 106Rock, hard ----_----._-___________________________________ 1 107Clay, hard, brown; contains some gravel._____________________ 28 135Gravel, cemented, hard -----______--_---___---_-_-__------__ 3 138Clay _._.______-..___________-._..--___--_-.__________ 9 147Gravel-----_-_-_--_____________________________.___-__-__- 9 156Clay________.______________________________ 12 168Caliche, hard ________.-----_-.___---_-_---___--.__----_-- 1 169Clayandgravel; hard _----__________---_-___----_-__-------- 2 171Rock, hard _______________________________ 1 172Gravel, cemented, hard _____________________________________ 2 174Clay. _____ ..._____________.__________ 39 213Sand and gravel-____--______.________________________-_---. 10 223Clay _._..____---.-_____________________________________ 20 243Sand and gravel--_---_--_________--___-___--__--___-_--_-__ 10 253Clay, caliche, and sand _-_--______--___---_-_._______------_ 67 320Sand and gravel; loose--___________-__________--____,--_-_-. 8 328
Tabl
e 29.
Reco
rds
of w
ells
in
the
Fren
chm
an C
reek
bas
in, C
olor
ado
and
Nebr
aska
Wel
l num
ber
: S
ee t
ext
for
des
crip
tio
n o
f w
ell
nu
mb
erin
g s
yst
em.
Typ
e of
wel
l:
B,
bore
d w
ell;
D
D,
dug
and
dri
lled
wel
l;
Dn,
dri
ven
wel
l;
Dr,
dri
lled
wel
l; D
u, d
ug w
ell.
Dep
th o
f w
ell:
M
easu
red
dep
ths
are
giv
en i
n fe
et a
nd t
enth
s be
low
m
easu
ring p
oint
; re
port
ed d
epth
s are
giv
en i
n fe
et b
elow
lan
d-
surf
ace
dat
um
.T
ype
of c
asin
g:
C,
concr
ete
(bri
ck,
tile
, ro
ck,
or
pipe
); N
, no
ne;
P,
iro
n o
r st
eel
pipe
; W
, w
ood.
Char
acte
r of
mat
eria
l: G
, g
rav
el;
S. s
and.
Geo
logi
c so
urc
e: A
, al
luviu
m;
D,
dune
san
d; O
, O
gal
lala
fo
rmat
ion
.M
etho
d of
lif
t an
d ty
pe o
f pow
er (
firs
t le
tter
): C
, cy
linder
; C
f, c
entr
i
fuga
l;
F,
nat
ura
l fl
ow;
J, j
et;
N,
none
; T
, tu
rbin
e, (
seco
nd a
nd t
hir
d
lett
ers)
; B
, buta
ne
engi
n«;
D,
die
sel
engi
ne;
E,
elec
tric
moto
r; G
, g
aso
lin
e en
gine
; H
, ha
nd o
per
ated
; N
, no
ne;
P,
pro
pan
e en
gine
; T
r,
trac
tor;
W
, w
ind
mil
l.U
se o
f w
ater
: C
, ce
met
ery
; D
, d
om
esti
c; I
, ir
rigat
ion;
N,
none
; O
, obse
rvat
ion;
P,
publ
ic s
uppl
y; R
R,
rail
road
; S,
sto
ck.
Mea
suri
ng p
oint
: B
cop,
bot
tom
of
cuto
ut i
n pu
mp
hous
ing;
Bhc
, bo
ttom
of
hol
e in
cas
ing
; B
pb,
bott
om
of
pum
p b
ase;
Hp,
hole
in
pum
p; H
pb,
hole
in
pum
p b
ase;
L
s, l
and s
urf
ace;
T
ah,
top
of a
ir h
ole;
Tc,
top
of
casi
ng
; T
dp,
top
of d
isch
arg
e pi
pe;
Tpb
, to
p of
pum
p b
ase.
Dep
th t
o w
ater
: M
easu
red
dep
ths
to w
ater
lev
el a
re g
iven
in
feet
and
h
un
dre
dth
s; r
eport
ed d
epth
s are
giv
en i
n fe
et.
Yie
ld:
M,
mea
sure
d;
R,
rep
ort
ed.
Dra
wdo
wn:
M
, m
easu
red
; R
, re
po
rted
.R
emar
ks:
A 6
0,
60 a
cre
s ir
rig
ate
d (
or
nu
mb
er s
how
n);
Ari
, au
tom
atic
re
co
rder
inst
alle
d;
Bw
2,
bat
tery
of
2 w
ells
(or
nu
mb
er s
how
n);
Cow
, co
nst
ruct
ed a
s an
obse
rvat
ion w
ell;
L
, lo
g of
wel
l gi
ven
in
table
27
or
28;
Ps-
246,
Pie
rre s
hal
e at
246
ft
(or
dep
th s
how
n);
Ta,
aq
uif
er t
est
mad
e at
wel
l; C
a, s
ample
coll
ecte
d f
or
anal
ysi
s; S
su,
spri
nk
lin
g s
yst
em u
sed;
U 2
, u
nu
sed
2 y
ears
(or
nu
mb
er s
how
n).
Wel
lO
wne
r o
r te
nan
t
ear drilled >i
ype
of
well E-"
"8 Q
to 3 e iameter
of
well
(ii Q
I a 0 8 E"
Pri
nci
pal
wat
er -
bea
ring
bed
haracter
of materia
l
U
eologic source O
ethod
of
lift g
se of
water £>
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ng p
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a,,
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water
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Q
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of measureme Q
ci a 1 2 IV
rawdown
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3,50
7.9
3,53
7.7
3,48
2.9
3,58
6.5
3,53
5.2
3,62
3.0
3,58
2.5
3,59
1.4
3,45
6.5
3,40
1.8
3,46
0.1
3,54
4.8
173.
4117
8.58
95.0
713
5.18
119.
07
133.
12
173.
0617
8.32
16
8.99
155.
6519
3.34
197.
7920
2.28
173.
0922
0.99
178.
5721
8.59
204.
7618
6.46
226.
0418
7.11
176.
3421
4.97
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458 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 30. Measurements of water levels in observation wells
[In feet below land-surface datum]
LOGAN COUNTY, COLO.
Date Water level
Date Water level
!
Date Water level
&-48-13ddd
Sept. 25, 1950Nov. 1Dec. 1Jan. 9, 1951Feb. 14Mar. 12Apr. 19May 22June 1 1Aug. 6Aug. 22Oct. 18
157.18157.13156.46156.74157.03156.94156.12156.37156.17156.66156.03156.11
Jan. 22, 1952Feb. 23Mar. 28Apr. 30May 27June 30July 28Aug. 25Sept. 26Oct. 30Nov. 28Dec 20"
155.22155.17155.12155.01155.04155.34155.25155.33154.98154.49154.57154.58
Jan. 29, 1953Mar. 25Apr. 27May 29June 30July 27Aug. 31Sept. 30Oct. 16Jan. 27, 1954Apr. 20Well destroyed
154.36154.38153.90154.56154.80155.06154.75154.47154.19154.21153.65
&-49-9daa
Sept. 29, 1950Nov. 2Dec. 2Jan. 9, 1951Feb. 14Mar. 12Apr. 19May 22June 1 1Aug. 6Oct. 18Dec. 26
108.91107.65108.40109.14109.79109.79109.25109.63109.54110.18110.23110.49
Jan. 22, 1952Feb. 23Mar. 28Apr. 30May 27June 30July 28Aug. 25Sept. 26Oct. 30Nov. 28Dec. 20
109.73109.85109.85109.99108.91110.22109.60110.61110.59110.43110.49110.67
Jan. 29, 1953Mar. 25Apr. 27May 29June 30July 27Aug. 31Sept. 30Oct. 16Apr. 20, 1954Jan. 13, 1955
110.43110.65110.35110.26110.70109.13108.28108.56108.45108.48109.34
PHILLIPS COUNTY, COLO.
6-13-3 6 ddd
Aug. 14, 1952Aug. 27Sept. 26Oct. 31Nov. 24Dec. 19Jan. 27, 1953
14.3214.4514.6714.7914.8914.9815.19
Feb. 26, 1953Mar. 31Apr. 24May 22June 23July 29Aug. 31
15.1315.2415.2515.2915.2515.4115.43
Sept. 23, 1953Oct. 23Nov. 23Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 18Jan. 11, 1955Mar. 22
15.5115.6515.6315.8115.8216.4816.57
7-42-17ddd
Sept. 5, 1950Aug. 14, 1952Aug. 27Sept. 26Oct. 3Nov. 24Dec. 19
65.9665.9665.6965.6765.6365.5565.58
Jan. 27, 1953Feb. 26Mar. 27Apr. 23May 21June 18July 24
65.6365.5865.4865.4465.4865.4865.44
Aug. 21, 1953Sept. 28Oct. 23Nov. 23Jan. 28, 1954Jan. 11, 1955Mar. 22
65.4265.3065.4465.3865.4267.0867.03
BASIC DATA 459Table 30. Measurements of water levels in observation wells Continued
Date Water level
Date Water level
Date Water level
7 43-9bcc
Oct. 5, 1950Nov. 2Dec. 4Jan. 9, 1951Feb. 14Mar. 12Apr. 19May 22June 1 1Aug. 6Aug. 16Oct. 18Dec. 26
95.0995.3795.0794.9895.3195.1595.0595.1294.9795.0495.0295.0494.50
Jan. 22, 1952Feb. 23Mar. 29Apr. 30May 27July 2July 28Aug. 25Sept. 26Oct. 31Nov. 27Dec. 19Jan. 27, 1953
94.9594.8094.8094.7594.6494.7794.8494.6794.5495.0695.0394.8294.98
Feb. 26, 1953Mar. 30Apr. 23May 21June 25July 24Aug. 21Sept. 28Oct. 27Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 20Jan. 13, 1955Mar. 24
94.3994.7494.7094.7894.9294.6594.7594.6094.6894.4594.4794.2594.26
7-43-3 5abb
Sept. 28, 1950Nov. 2Dec. 4Jan. 9, 1951Feb. 14Mar. 12Apr. 19May 22June 1 1Aug. 6Aug. 16Oct. 18
39.9240.7839.7339.7039.9239.8140.2039.8439.6339.4739.4839.16
Mar. 29, 1952Apr. 30May 27July 28Aug. 25Sept. 26Oct. 31Nov. 24Dec. 19Jan. 27, 1953Mar.
38.8638.9038.8140.0039.6938.8939.5738.8138.6938.7538.59
Apr. 23, 1953May 21June 25July 24Aug. 21Sept. 28Oct. 27Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 20Jan. 11, 1955Mar. 22
38.5938.6539.4439.6039.5038.9538.8938.5238.8238.5838.53
7 44 20cbc
Oct. 2, 1950Nov. 1Dec. 4Jan. 9, 1951Feb. 14Mar. 12Apr. 19May 22June 1 1Aug. 16Oct. 18Dec. 26Jan. 22, 1952
122.00121.85121.55121.51121.88121.44121.34121.44121.32121.24121.60121.56121.04
Feb. 23, 1952May 27June 30July 28Aug. 25Sept. 26Oct. 31Nov. 26Dec. 20Jan. 14, 1953Feb. 24Mar. 25
121.10120.94120.96121.15120.90120.90121.20120.97120.84120.73120.71120.74
Apr. 23, 1953May 21June 23July 29Aug. 21Sept. 28Oct. 27Nov. 23Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 20Jan. 13, 1955Mar. 24
120.57120.70120.55120.63120.43120.38120.49120.32120.29120.24119.89119.90
9-42-32ccd
Aug. 12. 1952Aug. 27Sept. 2.5Oct. 31Nov. 28Dec. 19Jan. 27, 1953
127.48127.34127.38127.29127.23127.12127.33
Feb. 26, 1953Mar. 30Apr. 23May 21June 25July 29Aug. 25
126.92126.94126.76126.96127.15126.98126.78
Sept. 28, 1953Oct. 27Nov. 23Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 20Mar. 23. 1955
126.52126.74126.48126.60126.53126.22
460 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
Table 30. Measurements of water levels in observation wells Continued
DateWater level Date
Water level Date
Water level
SEDGWICK COUNTY, COLO.
10-42-8ccd
July 31, 1952Aug. 27Oct. 31Nov. 28Dec. 19Jan. 27, 1953Feb. 26
224.48218.10219.64220.80221.05220.92221.87
Mar. 30, 1953Apr. 23May 21.June 25July 29Aug. 25Sept. 28
222.50217.75217.73218.11218.68218.60217.90
Oct. 27, 1953Nov. 23Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 20Jan. 12, 1955Mar. 23
217.97217.45217.80217.65217.90217.54
10h-42-32ccd
July 31, 1952Aug. 27Sept. 25Oct. 31Nov. 28Dec. 19Jan. 27, 19^53
180.33180.83180.41180.27180.25180.09180.14
Feb. 26, 1953Mar. 30Apr. 23May 21June 25July 29Aug. 25
179.74179.90179.81179.80180.15180.14180.02
Sept. 28, 1953Oct. 27Nov. 23Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 20Jan. 12, 1955Mar. 23
179.86180.09179.54179.89179.75179.73179.44
WASHINGTON COUNTY, COLO.
3-49-16ddd
Oct. 8, 1952Nov. 24Dec. 19Jan. 19, 1953Jan. 27
229.70229.45229.50229.56229.76
Mar. 9, 1953Mar. 25Apr. 27May 29June 29
229.52229.56229.45230.40229.05
Oct. 16,' 1953Nov. 25Jan. 27, 1954Jan. 13, 1955Mar. 22
229.18229.47229.55228.75228.72
YUMA COUNTY, COLO.
3-42-4ccc
Aug. 14, 1952Aug. 27Sept. 26.Oct. 31Nov. 24Dec. 19Jan. 27, 1953
1.982.252.322.131.861.701.38
Feb. 26, 1953Mar. 31Apr. 24May 22June 23July 29Aug. 31
1.221.27.77
1.112.082.993.72
Sept. 23, 1953
Oct. 23Nov. 23Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 18Jan. 11, 1955Mar. 22
4.073.422.522.242.172.942.61
3-42-3 Ibdd
Aug. 14, 1952Aug. 27Sept. 26Oct. 31Nov. 24Dec. 19Jan. 27, 1953
21.2521.4021.6821.7021.7021.7021.71
Feb. 26, 1953Mar. 31Apr. 24May 22June 23July 29Aug. 31
21.7021.6821.5221.2821.7622.1322.24
Sept. 23, 1953Oct. 23Nov. 23Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 18Jan. 11, 1955Mar. 22
22.3622.5622.5222.6522.7524.0724.24
BASIC DATA 461
Table ZQ.J Measurements of water levels in observation wells Continued
Date Water level
Date Water level
Date Water level
4-44r-36cba
Oct. 2, 1950Nov. 2Dec. 4Jan. 9, 1951Feb. 14Mar. 12Apr. 19May 22June 1 1Oct. 18Dec. 26Jan. 22, 1952Feb. 23
30.6"830.2329.8229.7930.2430.2230.0530.3430.2930.5130.3629.7929.92
Mar. 29, 1952Apr. 30May 28June 30July 28Aug. 25Sept. 26Oct. 28Nov. 21Dec. 19Jan. 27, 1953Feb. 24Mar. 31
29.8429.9630.40
1 37.161 34.0930.2029.7529.7329.6029.3929.6529.5829.45
Apr. 29, 1953May 22June 23July 29Aug. 31Sept. 21Oct. 22Nov. 23Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 18Jan. 13, 1955Mar. 24
29.2029.6329.6429.7530.2330.2830.2229.6230.0129.9830.9031.19
4-46 26acc
Nov. 7, 1952Jan. 28, 1953 Mar. 4 Mar. 25Apr. 27
134.37U4.17 134.09 134.18133.61
June 29, 1953July 31 Aug. 31 Oct. 16
135.05135,02 135.56 134.39
Nov. 25, 1953Jan. 27, 1954 Apr. 25 Mar. 24
133.89134.04 133.56 133.07
5-43-36ddd
Aug. 14, 1952Aug. 27Sept. 26Oct. 31Nov. 24Dec. 19Jan. 27, 1953
13.8214.1014.4514.5114.5014.5314.59
Feb. 26, 1953Mar. 31Apr. 24May 22June 23July 29Aug. 31
14.4514.4714.3314.2214.5415.0915.38
Sept. 23, 1953Oct. 23Nov 23Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 18Jan. 11, 1955Mar. 22
15.5715.7915.6215.6815.5916.6816.64
CHASE COUNTY, NEBR.
5-36-7bab
May 29, 1946 Aug. 15 Oct. 24 Dec. 16Feb. 27, 1947June 7 July 30 Oct. 8Dec. 5 Feb. 4, 1948 Apr. 12 June 1 1 Aug. 5 Oct. 6 -Dec. 10 Feb. 8, 1949
16.05 16.39 15.80 15.8015.7216.02 16.02 15.9815.92 15.70 15.98 16.25 16.28 16.2415.78 15.69
June 9, 1949 July 19 Aug. 4 Oct. 6Nov. 17Dec. 20 Jan. 19, 1950 Mar. 1Apr. 4 June 1 July 11 Aug. 1 1 Sept. 19 Oct. 16Dec. 7 May 9, 1951
14.93 15.87 16.20 16.0015.9515.95 15.80 15.8115.85 15.91 16.29 16.18 16.11 16.1616.86 16.28
June 7, 1951 July 5 Aug. 21 Oct. 8Dec. 27Apr. 7, 1952 May 5 June 2July 16 Aug. 11 Sept. 8 Dec. 8 Mar. 17, 1953 Mar. 25Apr. 24 May 11
16.64 16.80 16.39 16.7016.5415.17 15.30 15.7015.90 15.81 15.95 16.19 15.98 15.9715.91 15.90
^lad been pumping.
655012 O - 63 - 31
462 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASIN
Table 30. Measurements of water levels in observations wells Continued
DateWater level Date
Water level Date
Water level
5-36 7bab Continued
May 22, 1953June 16June 23July 15July 17Aug. 10Aug. 28Sept. 15Sept. 29
15.9015.9915.9515.8615.8415.8715.8515.9815.94
Oct. 27, 1953Nov. 24Jan. 5, 1954Jan. 29Mar. 16Apr. 19May 7June 1 1
16.3216.5516.6416.5816.5716.6316.0316.14
July 17, 1954Sept. 13Nov. 12Jan. 12, 1955Jan. 19Mar. 18Mar. 23May 10
15.9415.4816.5316.5516.5815.8415.9315.83
' 5-36-1 Idbbl
July 29, 1952Aug. 28Sept. 25Oct. 30Nov. 27Dec. 20Jan. 28, 1953
20.0819.7220.0919.8319.70J.9-.S7--19.48
Mar. 26, 1953Apr. 24May 22June 25July 17Aug. 28Sept. 29
19.5719.5019.5119.9219.8520.0220.20
Oct. 27, 1953Nov. 24Jan. 29, 1954Apr. 19Jan. 12, 1955Mar. 23
19.9619.9420.0120.0619.8519.43
5-39-5ddd
July 28, 1952Aug. 28Sept. 25Oct. 31Nov. 27Dec. 20Jan. 28, 1953
59.1159.1359.0459.0059.0959.0359.02
Mar. 27, 1953Apr. 23May 21June 1 8July 17Aug. 21Sept. 25
59.0758.9858.9559.1259.1359.0959.08
Oct. 28, 1953Nov. 23Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 19Jan. 11. 1955Mar. 23
59.2059.1659.3659.3860.0.660.23
6-36-24dcc
July 30, 1952Aug. 28Sept. 25Oct. 3Nov. 27Dec. 20Jan. 28, 1953
288.80288.65288.76288.83288.82288.74288.84
Mar. 26, 1953Apr. 24May 22June 25July 17Aug. 28
288.84288.69288.72288.72288.68288.68
Sept. 29, 1953Oct. 27Jan. 29, 1954Apr. 19Jan. 12, 1955Mar. 23
288.63288.71288.77288.75288.91288.83
6-39-22bcc
July 28, 1952Aug. 28Sept. 25Oct. 31Nov. 27Dec. 20Jan. 28, 1953
12.7412.7512.6912.4012.3212.2012.09
Mar. 27, 1953Apr. 23May 21June 1 8July 17Aug. 21Sept. 25
12.0611.8911.9812.3812.5412.6112.78
Oct. 27, 1953Nov. 23Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 19Jan. 11, 1955Mar. 23
12.4912.2912.1712.1112.3012.20
6-40-20cdc
Sept.Nov.Dec.Jan.
4,28,2022,
1952 26.
3.3.
1953 3.
71957023 I Mar.
Apr.MayJune
27, 19532321
3
%.4.
2 10.
3.
40281661 I june
JulyAug.Sept.
18, 1953172928,
4.954.85
85.003 5.60
2 Well pumping^Well pumped recently.
BASIC DATA 463
Table 30. Measurements of water levels in observation wells Continued
Date Water level
Date Water level
Date Water level
6-40-20cdc Continued
Oct. Jan.
23. 28,
1953 1954
4.79 4.82 IApr. Jan.
20, 13,
1954 1955
5.90 4.38
Mar. 23, 1955 3.97
6-41-4dda
Sept. 17, 1952Oct. 31Dec. 20Jan. 28, 1953Mar. 26Apr. 23
Date
30.7830.7430.6030.6030.6230.55
1949
May 21, 1953June 1 8July 17Aug. 21Sept. 28Oct. 23
1950
3030
.61
.7030.8730.7531 .0730.98
1951
Nov.Jan.Apr.Jan.Mar.
1952
23, 195328, 19542013, 195522
1953
30.8730.9030.8931.0231.45
1954
7-38-28-ccc
[Water-stage recorder installed Dec. 23, 1948. Depth to water. 76.85 ft on Dec. 9, 1944. Following tabulation gives lowest daily stage taken from recorder charts for the 1st and 15th of each month)
Feb. 1-. _____Feb. 15 Mar. 1---------Mar. 15---------
Am- 1 RMay l_--_ __ .-May 15 -
July 1---------July 15- .__-_
Aug. 15 ------Sept. 1--- __ ...Sept. 15-- Oct. 1--- ......Oct. 15 -. ....Nov. 1------ __Nov. 15------ ...Dec 1Dec. 15 _________
Date
75.60 75.80 75.76 75.70
75.52
75.58 75.59 75.57 75.57 75.56 75.55 75.53 75.46 75.47
Water level
75.32 75.40 75.34 75.31 75.38 75.35 75.39 75.28 75.25 75.22 75.22 75.26 75.17 75.13 75.20 75.12 75.14 75.12 75.17 75.09 75.18 75.24
75.15
75.14 75.01
75.00
74.85 75.03 74.90 74.82 74.92 74.84 74.88
74.99 74.92 74.95 74.98 75.03 74.87 74.84
74.70
74.63 74.60 74.60 74.64 74.61 74.53 74.56 74.68 74.58 74.63 74.57 74.62 74.57 74.52 74.57
74.57 74.65 74.50 74.50 74.42 74.55 74.53 74.57 74.67 74.62 74.73 74.71 74.82 74.72 74.74 74.90 74.84 74.89 74.89 74.95 74.95 74.85 74.82 74.90
Date Wate,r 1 Date level II
74.73 .74.83 74.82 74.83 74.81 74.83 75.08 75.05 74.90 74.91 74.91 74.91 74.98 75.07 75.19 7$*24 75.28 75.30 75.28 75.32 75.34 75,14 75.34 75.18
Water level
7-39-33cca
July 28, 1952Aug. 28Sept. 25Oct. 31Nov. 27Dec. 20Jan. 28, 1953
7.167.237.226.726.566.396.21
Mar. 26, 1953Apr. 23May 21June 18July 17Aug. 21Sept. 25
6.035.825.826.496.455.256.44
Oct. 27, 1953Nov. 23Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 19Jan. 11, 1955Mar. 22
6.506.156.086.046.276.15
464 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASEST
Toble 30. Measurements of water levels in observation wells Continued
Date Water level
Date Water level
Date Water level
7-41-2 Seed
July 28, 1952Aug. 28Sept. 25Oct. 31Nov. 28Dec. 20Jan. 28, 1953
46.6646.7246.6046.5446.6046.3346.29
Mar. 26, 1953Apr. 23May 21June 1 8July 17Aug. 21Sept. 28
46.2746.1546.1746.3246.5846.6846.75
Oct. 23, 1953Nov. 23Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 19Jan. 11, 1955Mar. 22
46.8246.5046.5946.4546.7846.65
7-41-3 2 abb
Nov. 14, 1952Nov. 28Dec. 20Jan. 28, 1953Mar. 26
4.274.183.993.723.28
Apr. 23, 1953May 21June 1 8Aug. 21Sept. 28
3.033.224.174.935.45
Oct. 23, 1953Nov. 24Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 18Mar. 22, 1955
5.104.554.103.954.16
7-42-35dca
Aug. 13, 1952Aug. 27Sept. 26Oct. 31Nov. 24Dec. 19Jan. 27, 1953
31.1631.0731.2031.1231.1031.0831.13
Feb. 26, 1953Mar. 26Apr. 23May 21June 1 8July 24Aug. 21
31.0431.1031.0731.0731.0631.2031.24
Sept. 28, 1953Oct. 23Nov. 23Jan. 28, 1954Apr. 18Jan. 11, 1955Mar. 22
31.1931.3431.2031.2831.2531.5531.59
HAYES COUNTY, NEBR.
5-33-30cba
Mar. 19, 1946May 29 Aug. 15Oct. 24Dec. 16Feb. 27, 1947June 7July 30Oct. 8Dec. 5Feb. 4, 1948Apr. 12June 9Aug. 4Oct. 6Dec. 9Apr. 6, 1949June 9July 19Aug. 2.6Oct. 6Nov. 17Dec. 20
18.8819.1120.0018.8418.7119.1619.5119.4819.6519.2119.2619.3419.5719.7119.7819.2318.8317.8619.3219.7219.4019.1419.13
Jan. 19, 1950Mar. 6Apr. 14July 1 1Sept. 20Oct. 16Dec. 6May 9, 1951June 7July 5Oct. 8Dec. 27Apr. 7, 1952May 5June 2July 16Aug. 1 1Sept. 8Nov. 27Dec. 8Dec. 20Jan. 28, 1953
18.9818.9118.9819.3819.2319.2819.1319.0518.4518.8019.3319.2118.8318.8619.1719.6820.1219.4620.3219.0118.8118.71
Mar. 17, 1953Mar. 27Apr. 24May 11May 22June 16July 15Sept. 1 5Sept. 29Oct. 28Nov. 24Jan. 5, 1954Jan. 29Mar. 16Apr. 19May 7Sept. 13Nov. 12Jan. 12, 1955Jan. 19Mkr. 18Mar. 23
18.8918.8018.8819.27
242.2519.2819.5719.9619.3819.6418.9019.2518.7319.2318.9619.0920.3219.4718.6919.4119.0418.67
' Well pumping.
BASIC DATA 465Table 30. Measurements of water levels in observation wells Continued
.Date Water level
Date Water .level
Date Water level
5-3 3-31 deb
[For measurements prior to 1951, see U.S. Geol. Survey Water-Supply Papers 817,840, 845, 886, 908, 938, 946, 988, 1018,1073, 1098, 1128, 1158, and 1167]
Jan. 25, 1951May 9June 7July 5Aug. 21Oct. 8Dec. 27Apr. 7, 1952May 5June 2July 16July 31Aug. 11Aug. 25Sept. 8Oct. 30Nov. 27
14.2714.1013.3613.2314.0813.3513.3412.7012.7013.0913.6414.1014.0014.1013.4213.2313.24
Dec. 8, 1952Dec. 20Jan. 28, 1953Mar. 17Mar. 27Apr. 24May 11May 22June 16June 26July 15July 16Aug. 10Aug. 28Sept. 1 5Sept. 29
13.0513.1512.9513.0113.1613.2412.9112.8113.0313.6613.9114.0614.0314.3314.7615.15
Oct. 28, 1953Nov. 24Jan. 5, 1954Jan. 29Mar. 16Apr. 19May 7June 1 1July 17Sept. 13Nov. 12Jan. 12, 1955Jan. 19Mar. 18Mar. 23May 10
14.7714.2413.9813.8213.8112.8213.0013.3314.4214.0313.2013.3113.2813.0313.1013.23
5-33-31dec
July 31, 1952Aug. 25Oct. 30Nov. 27Dec. 20Jan. 28, 1953Mar. 27
25.3124.9923.6723.4223.3523.1323.44
Apr. 24, 1953May 22June 25July 16Aug. 28Sept. 29
23.5223.1624.2224.9726.0226.38
Oct. 28, 1953Nov. 24Jan. 29, 1954Apr. 19Jan. 12, 1955Mar. 23
25.8924.8224.1423.0823.4523.32
5-34-15ccd
July 30, 1952Aug. 28Sept. 25Oct. 30Nov. 27Dec. 20Jan. 28, 1953
32.6132.3332.4332.1431.3531.7431.54
Mar. 27, 1953Apr. 24May 22June 26July 16Aug. 28Sept. 29
31.6231.4931.6232.2532.5432.9032.97
Oct. 28, 1953Nov. 24Jan. 29, 1954Apr. 19Jan. 12, 1955Mar. 23
/
32.4431.9431.6031.6231.6831.56
5-34-28bca
Mar. 19, 1946May 29Aug. 1 5July 30, 1947Oct. 8Dec. 5Feb. 4, 1948Apr. 12June 9Aug. 4 Oct. 5Dec. 9Feb. 8, 1949Apr. 6
57.6758.3058.4857.7056.9157.8757.6257.6058.4260.2558.3057.6157.3957.20
June 9, 1949July 19Aug. 26Oct. 6Nov. 17Dec. 20Jan. 19, 1950Mar. 6Apr. 6May 26Aug. 11Sept. 20Oct. 16Dec. 6
57.0357i3258.2457.9057.6857.6157.5057.1958.3357.4558.1658.8358.1858.12
May 9, 1951June 7July 5Oct. 8Dec. 27Apr. 7, 1952May 5June 2July 16Aug. 28Sept. 8Oct. 30Dec. 8Dec. 20
58.2658.0558.0057.9057.8857.3057.3157.4359.6059.1558.5758.1257.7957.83
466 GROUND-WATER GEOLOGY, FRENCHMAN CREEK BASES"
Table :
Date
iQ. Measurements of water levels in observation wells Continued
Water level Date
Water level
pateWater level
5-34 28bca Continued
Jan. 28, 1953Mar. 17Mar. 27Apr. 24May 22June 25July 16Aug. 28
57.6557.3057.6757.6157.7258.22
2 63.0058.99
Sept. 15, 1953Sept. 29Oct. 28Nov. 24Jan. 5, 1954Jan. 29Mar. 16Apr. 19
59.5258.4558.2058.1658.1058.0558.0958.13
May 7, 1954June 1 1Sept. 13Nov. 12Jan. 12, 1955Jan. 19Mar. 18Mar. 23
58.0055.6559.2758.3258.2858.2057.9057.95
5-34-30baa
Aug. 15. 1946Oct. 24Dec. 16Feb. 27, 1947June 7July 30Oct. 8Dec. 5Feb. 4, 1948Apr. 12June 9Aug. 4Oct. 5Dec. 9Feb. 8, 1949Apr. 6June 9July 19Aug. 4Aug. 26Oct. 6Nov. 17Dec. 20Jan. 17, 1950Mar. 6
11.4710.5510.8110.6210.9611.0911.3011.1910.7211.0211.3111.3811.5310.87
9.6310.4510.0510.9311.2511.3811.1610.4810.8510.1110.60
Apr. 6, 1950May 26July 11Aug. 11Sept. 20Oct. 16Dec. 6May 9, 1951June 7July 5Aug. 21Oct. 8Dec. 27Apr. 7, 1952May 5June 2July 16Aug. 11Sept. 8Dec. 8Mar. 17, 1953Mar. 27Apr. 24May 11May 22
10.7510.7211.1311.0411.0911.0111.8411.5511.1511.6311.351.1.5011.4210.1910.3310.7411.0911.0511.1111.0211.2011.1111.0311.0211.02
June 16, 1953June 25July 15July 17Aug. 10Aug. 28Sept. 15Sept. 29Oct. 28Nov. 24Jan. 5, 1954Jan. 29Mar. 16Apr. 19May 7June 1 1July 17Sept. 13Nov. 12Jan. 12, 1955Jan. 19Mar. 18Mar. 23May 10
11.1211.1511.0411.0311.0611.1811.2311.3511.4211.7011.8311.4011.8012.8111.2911.5211.4811.0411.7311.5711.6011.1011.1111.17
5-35-16ddd
Aug. 15, 1946Oct. 24Dec. 16Feb. 27, 1947June 7 »July 30Oct. 8Dec. 5Feb. 4, 1948Apr. 12June 1 1Aug. 4Oct. 6Dec. 10Feb. 8, 1949Apr. 6June 9
9.188.228.358.388.658.889.008.758.418.709.159.329.338.586.837.967.70
Aug. 4, 1949Nov. 17Dec. 20Jan. 19, 1950Mar. 6Apr. 6May 26July ' 11Aug. 11Sept. 20Oct. 16Dec. 7May 9, 1951June 7July 5Aug. 21Oct. 8
9.208.698.627.688.668.508.599.218.978.978.879.749.089.099.649.359.49
Dec. 27, 1951Apr. 7, 1952May 5June 2July 16Aug. 11Sept. 8Nov. 27Dec. 8Dec. 20Jan. 28, 1953Mar. 17Mar. 26 Apr. 24May 11May 22June 16
9.267.747.838.449.179.358.859.108.949.008.808.838.748.718.678.708.84
2 Well pumped recently.
BASIC DATA 467
Toble 30. Measurements of water levels in observation wells Continued
JDateWater .level JDate
Water level Date .
Water level
5-35r-16ddd Continued
June 25, 1953July 15July 17Aug. 10Aug. 28Sept. 15Sept. 29Oct. 28
9.169.008.919.128.989.049.099.29
Nov. 24, 1953Jan. 5, 1954Jan. 29Mar. 16Apr. 19May 7June 1 1July 17
9.499.579.069.459.598.909.149.53
Sept. 13, 1954Nov. 12Jan. 12, 1955Jan. 19Mar. 18Mar. 23May 10
8.279.429.239.328.668.679.14
5-35-16ddc
July 29, 1952Aug. 28Sept. 25Oct. 30Nov. 27Dec. 20Jan. 28, 1953
24.2524.6323.5222.0622.0021.7921.54
Mar. 26, 1953Apr. 24May 22June 25July 17Aug. 28Sept. 29
21.6721.5421.5922.4522.1022.3522.27
Oct. 28, 1953Nov. 24Jan. 29, 1954Apr. 19Jan. 12, 1955Mar. 23
22.1222.2822.0423.1722.1421.60
5-35-24dac
Aug. 1, 1952Aug. 28Sept. 25Oct. 30Nov. 27Dec. 20Jan. 28, 1953
15.9115.8515.8216.4415.8415.7815.52
Mar. 27, 1953Apr. 24May 22June 25July 17Aug. 28Sept. 29
15.6615.6215.6215.8515.7415.9016.02
Oct. 28, 1953Nov. 24Jan. 29, 1954Apr. 19Jan. 12, 1955Mar. 23
16.0416.2716.0716.3716.2515.73
PERKINS COUNTY, NEBR.
11-39-3 5ddd
Sept. 15, 1952 Apr. 1, 1953 May 12 June 2 5
155.65 155.50 155.58 155.45
.July 29, 1953 Aug. 26 Sept. 28 Qct. 27
155.37 155.17 154.72 155.20
Nov. 23, 1953 Apr. 20, 1954 Mar. 23, 1955
154.60 154.80 154.45
INDEX
A PageAcknowledgments______________ 7-8 Acres irrigated with water from wells____ 90,92 Akron, Colo.................................. 42,51Algal bed... . ._...... 40,41Alluvial deposits, sand and gravel.____ 15-16,87 Alluvium........ 23,58,62,65, 76,78,83,86, 111; pi. 2
character__________________ 32,53distribution and ihickness _.__29, 53; pis. 2,3flood-plain_________________ 29terraces. ____ .. 13,23,29; pi. 2water supply._______._____ 53,66,88
Altitude of land surface___________ 8; pi. 2American Society of Civil Engineers, quoted. 79Amherst, Colo..._______.. ______ 88Aquifer tests, summary of results.___ 58,60; pi. 7Aquifers, classification____________ 63
specific yield. _______________ 116Arbuckle group________________ 25Arikaree sandstone______________ 27,28Arterburn Lake_________________ 76Artesian conditions... __ . . 67Atmospheric pressure, effect on water level in
wells............................. 71-73
Baca County, Colo________-_______ 26 Bank storage, defined. 77 Basic data, explanation_____________ 129 Brule formation...______ 24,33,34,35,36,39,40 Brule Indians. _______ _____ 36,39 Bureau of Land Management . 6
Oarlile formation________________ 26Castle Rock conglomerate.. _....___ 27Cattle raising.....____._________ 17-18Ohadron formation_____________ 33,34-38Champion, Nebr_____.._..... 9,10,16,88,97ChRse County, Nebr____._________ 3,
5, 8, 11, 18, 20, 21, 22, 35, 50, 86, 99,104, 106-107, 109, 169-195, 363-108,440-449, 461-464.
Chemical analyses, ground water.....__ 6,105-108surface water in Nebraska______ 6,102-103
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co 8,22,88
Clay, bentonitic________________ 30,42 Climatic data, summary____________ 13 Coefficient of storage, defined________ 54 Coefficient of transmissibility, denned____ 54 Cone of depression_______________ 55 Cost of pumping water from irrigation wells.. 92-95 Crops, annual acreage harvested_______ 20 Culbertson, Nebr___________ 6,100,103,104
D pageDakota sandstone... 26Darcy's law 93Dawson arkose.__ 26-27Decatur County, Kans 50Depressions, undrained 8,9,77Discharge of ground water 78,96,97,110Drainage_ _ 9-13,52Drinking water standards.. __ __ 104,108Droughts . ... - 14,17,18-19Dundy County, Nebr. 3,
8,11,21,107,195-196,408-410,450-451Dune sand. _____.__ 9,11,23,24,29,51-53,76,86
character....__.___.....__ 9,11,47,51-53distribution and thickness..__ 51-52/110; pi. 1water supply.- 52-53,77
Dune-sand deposits._ . 110Dunes . . ..... 9-11,29,52
E Ellas, M. K., quoted....... ...... 41Enders, Nebr.... _.... 6,88,100,101,102,104 Enders Dam._________.__. 3,9,76 Enders Reservoir.._ 6,
39,70,76,83,101,109,110,122,123 Erosion, Precambrian basement rocks 25 Escarpment, High Plains_______ 28 Evaporation rate from land areas at various
temperatures. . 81 Evapotranspiration, fluctuations in water
table caused by 71 Extent of area_____ . 3
Fanning............ . - 14,17,21Field coefficient of permeability, defined...... 54Fieldwork .....__ _.... 5-6Fleming, Colo_______ . 51,73 Flood plains......_.....__. ... 9,10,29,70Folds......................_ _. . .. 27Fossils.......... ... 26,30,41Fox Hills formation... ... . 26,27Frenchman Creek_____..____.- 3,
5,6.8,10,11-13,29, 52,68, 70,83,100,101,109,110,112-113,121-123
alluvial valleys. .. 11,13,21,53,111 alluvium..... . 24,32,53,65flood plain and meandering channel- 10 fluctuations__ 83,121 reservoirs in Nebraska 76 valley floor___ .. ll, 13 water rights_ 76
Front Range.._,. 23-24.27
469
470 INDEX
O Page Gas.......................................... 16,27Geologic formations, areal distribution__ 30; pi. 1 Glaciers, alpine.________________ 29
continental..._______________ 29 Graneros formation______________ 26 Granite wash. ________________ 25 Grant, Nebr_._______________ 42,108 Greenhorn formation_____________ 26 Ground water, properties___________ 104 Ground-water divide_________ 69-70,93,110 Ground-water recharge by infiltration of sur
face water..___________ 76,77,78
HHamlet, Nebr________.___._.__ 88Hardness, defined. ______________ 109Harvey damsite, proposed.._________ 112Haxtun, Colo. _._________ 69,87,88,98,99Hay, Robert, quoted_____________ 70Hayes County, Nebr_____________ 3,
8, 11, 21, 93, 196-200, 410-415, 451-463,464-467.
High Plains.._.____.... 8,18,28,29,39,42,69,77influence of drought on agriculture___ 18-19western escarpment..___________ 28
Highline Electric Association______ 90-91,92-93Hill, D. R., quoted...__________ 30,40-41,51Hitchcock County, Nebr___________ 3,
21, 51, 107, 200-202, 415-416, 453Holyoke, Colo..______________ 11,62,69
precipitation.....___.___.... 13-14,20,74Hydrographs, Frenchman Creek.._____ 84Hydrographs for wells, Colorado__...__. 74
Nebraska.. .__ _________ 75
Imperial, Nebr., gaging station________ 84,112,119,122-123
normal rainfall_ _____________ 82normal temperature. ___________ 82precipitation..________ 13,14,17,20,75,84
Irrigation.........._.....__ 5, 21, 22, 49, 76-77,78,85,86,90-92,99,100,109,114
Irrigation development from ground-watersources. __.... 111-112
Jacob, C. E., modified nonequilibrium Theisformula_______________ 57-59
Julesburg. structural basin__________ 27
Kilpatrick Reservoirs. 76
Lamar, Nebr___________________ 39,88 Lamotte sandstone______________ 25 Laramide uplift.._______________ 26-27 Laramie County, Wyo. ___________ 39 Laramie formation______________ 26-27 Leroy, Colo., precipita tion... _____ 13,14,15,20 Livestock on farms. ______________ 18
Page Location of area.... 3,4Location of water-sampling points ... pi. 10 Logan County, Colo.------ 3, 4, 8, 9, 11, 21, 31, 39,
105,130-137,208-240,424-427,458 Logs, drillers'... 6,129,20^422
electric, of test holes. .__ . 5,32,33,47,48oil-test wells.. . 31sample, of test holes. __________ 130-207
Lohman, S. W., quoted..___________ 28-29Louisville, Colo__ __ .. 31Lugn, A. L., quoted... ...._..., .- 51
M
McLaughlin, T. G., quoted_...._-___- 31,33Meinzer, O. E., quoted____________ 56,66 Methods of constructing irrigation wells.. 97-99 Methods of exploration for ground water . 99-100 Midwest Electric Membership Corp..___. 7,91 Morgan County, Colo 27 Morrison formation __.__ ....._. 26Mortar beds................... . 9,10,40-42,50Movement of ground water _ 64,66,68,69,110 Muskat formula _.......... 116,120-121
NNiobrara formation... 26
Smoky Hill chalk member. - 30-31North Fork of the Republican River____. 23,30North Platte River ......._... .. 34
OOgallala formation 8-
9, 10,13,15,16, 23, 24, 28, 29, 33, 40-50, 55, 58, 60, 62, 63, 65, 66, 78, 83, 86-88, 93, 95, 96, 100, 112; pis. 1, 2.
character 40-42distribution and thickness 42; pi. 1,2mortar beds__ 9,10Sand and gravel__________ 15-16,66,100terraces... . - 13,23water supply.________ ._- 49,66,87,88
Oil________________________ 16,23, 27Outliers, Brule formation ... 39
Sanborn formation. 51
Palisade, Nebr..... . .. 2>3, 8, 11, 16, 53, 76, 83, 85, 93, 110, 113, 114, 115
gaging station... __.. 117,119,120,122,123 precipitation... _ 14,18,20,73 wells--- __ __ 87,108
Paoli, Colo _... 88Parts per million, defined..___ 101 Patent Creek..___ 3,4 Peorian loess.--.._ 51 Percent sodium, defined.._______ 101Perkins County, Nebr. 3,
8, 11, 21, 45, 46, 93,107, 203-207, 417-422, 454-457, 467.
Permeability of a rock, defined...-- 53-54 Phillips County, Colo 3,
8, 11, 18, 20, 21, 22, 42, 43-44, 49, 86, 105, 137-152,241-261,427-432,458-459.
INDEX 471
PagePierre shale...-____.__ 23, 24, 26,27; pis. 2, 6
character.__________________ 30-31distribution and thickness____ ___ 31water supply _____________ 31,33-34,65
Piezometric surface, defined..________ 55Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.._______ 36,39Pit, sand and gravel_____________ 16Population.____________________ 21-22Precambrian Rocks..._____________ 23-25Precipitation.__________________ 3,
13-15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 52, 69, 71, 73-77,80, 81, 82, 83,84, 97,123; pi. 4.
Previous investigations____________ 3,5 Provinces, topographic.____________ 8 Purgatoire formation, Cheyenne sandstone
member_______________ 26Kiowa shale member.__________ 26
Purpose and scope of investigation______ 2-3
R Rainfall...._._ __... _..... 14,76,77,81
See also Precipitation.Rapp, J. R., and others, quoted _.._ _. 40 Recharge of ground water, from precipitation.. 2,
3,69,73, 76,96,97Red Willow Creek....__________.._ 3,4 Relief, sandhills________________ 9 Republican River.______________ 71 Reservoirs in Nebraska on Frenchman Creek.. 76 Resources, principal 2-3 Rocky Mountain geosyncline _____ 26-28 Runoff...___ ....__.__. 70,76,112,117,123
St. Louis, Mo.. . .. . . 29Sanborn formation, character _ . 48,49-51
distribution and thickness.. _____ 51,52loess........... .... 9,23,24,29,48,49-50; pi.2water supply___ _.... 51,65
Sand and gravel in Ogallala formation____ 15-16,44-46,50
Sand Creek .________ ____ 11,13,70 Sand dunes. _ . . . 10,11,52 Sand Hills formation. ___ _____ 52 Sandhill areas............_........._ 9,52,68,70Sandhills ....................___.. 9,21,52,83Sandy Creek... 3,4Sawatch quartzite_ _ 25Sections, stratigraphic, Chadron formation... 34-35
stratigraphic, generalized_________ 24Ogallala formation__________ 40-41
Sedgwick County, Colo_____________ 3,9,11, 21,35,42,105,152-163,261-274,433-434,460.
Seepage, from canals, ditches, irrigation, andreservoirs... __________ 73, 76-77
from surface reservpirs and streams____ 70,71- '-_ _._.________ 83 ............ 13Snowfall _____________ ...
See also Precipitation. Soil. ._ . .__ 2, 15Soil moisture_______________ 71,73,77,79 Soils... __... 21,52,68 Southwest Electric Membership C orp____ 7,91 Specific capacity of a well, defined______ 61 Specific conductance, defined_________ 101
PageSpecific yield, defined - 54Spring Creek 4",
8,11,13,69,70,77,83,110, 111, 112,122,123Springs, gravity 83Stinking Water Creek ._ ___ 3,
6,8,11,13,69,70,77,83,104,110, 111, 112,122,123Storage, ground-water 96-97Streamfiow, computations of depletion.--.- 112-123
measurements..._.. 83-85,97,112-115; pi. 10Streams, effluent ___._ ___ 9,10,11,77,83
influent. ._____.__________ 9,11,77intermittent____ 77; pi. 1
Subsurface flow across the Colorado-NebraskaState line in the Frenchman Creekbasin. 96
Subsurface outflow from the Frenchman Creekbasin____ _ 95
Surface water in Nebraska, chemical anal yses________________ 102-103
Surface waters, properties.. 101 South Platte River.__.... 4,9,28,29,36,39,71,129
Temperature______ . 13,79,80,81Terrace deposits.. _ - 23,24,29,53; pi. 2Terraces________ 13Test holes._______. __- ____ __ 5,
23,30,32,33,35,36,37-38,42,43-48,100,129,130-207; pis. 2,6
Theis-Conover chart 116,118 Theis equation... 56-57 Theis nonequilibrium formula 117 Titanothere beds. 34 Tompkin, J. M., quoted.. _ 30,40-41 Topography .... 8-9,21 Transpiration, a factor in controlling decline
of water table.. ___ 71fluctuations in water table caused by.. 79-80,82
Transportation____ 22
UUplands.... . . .... - 8,9 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.__ 3,5,6,110, 111, 129 U.S. Public Health Service...._...... 104, 108
Valley floor of Frenchman Creek 11,13 Venango, Nebr__...... ~ 62, 69, 70Volcanoes in Rocky Mountains.... 42
WWaite, H. A., quoted .. ... . 72-73 Washington County, Colo....__....... 3,
8, 9, 11, 21, 106, 163-164, 274-349, 434-435, 460Water, chemical quality, alluvium 53, 106-107
chemical quality, Brule formation 40quality, on basis of boron content.. 110
on basis of percent sodium and specificconductance 109
Water-bearing properties, stratigraphic units.. 24,30, 31, 32, 36, 40, 49, 51, 52, 53
Water for irrigation, rating_-__ 109-110 Water from public supplies for domestic use,
suitability-__-_____- 108
472 INDEX
Page Water level in wells.... __________ 67
decline___________________ 79 Water-level, measurements, in observation
wells -_.. 55, 458-467in pumped wells_____________ 55
Water losses by evaporation from land areas.. 81-82 Water rights..._........................... 76Water table......__ 9, 32, 52, 62, 63, 65, 67-68; pi. 5
contour lines depicting configuration__ 3464, 68, 69, 93, 95; pis. 2, 5, 6
denned___________________ 66fluctuations... _____.._ 68,70-73,76,79,116shape and slope_____________ 34,68-70
Water-table conditions................. 54,58,61,67Water-table gradient.. ____________ 70 Water-table lakes........ ............. 9,11,52Wauneta, Nebr., grain mill, electric power_ 16
precipitation..._____._.__ 13,14,19,20 weUs..................................... 87,88
Well-numbering system.. _________ 6-8Wells, domestic and stock. ________. 85,86-87
drilled.............. ......... 85,86drillers' logs.. .._.............. 6,129-422effect of pumping water... ...__ 78 industrial.................. .._- 85,86,88irrigation. 5,21,22,49,61,63,68,85,86,88-93,97-99 municipal.__________________ 87-88 observation. .. . 5,56,68,85 Ogallala formation... . ...... 49,86,87,88
Wells-Continued Page oil-test... .. 31,129pumped-.. ... 55-57,85,86,87,88,92-93,94records..________________ 5,424-457type... - . 85yield, alluvium ..____..__ 53
domestic and stock__________ 86industrial-.. ._._......._ 86municipal- -------- r ..... 87Ogallala formation.._______ 49,86,87
Wenzel, L. K., quoted..............._.. 56,72-73White River group....._ 23,27,34,64,65; pi. 2,5,6
Brule formation.... . .. _ 34character______________.. 33,36,39 distribution and thickness_____... 39 water supply . 40
Chadron formation 34 character....... ... _ 34-38distribution and thickness___ 36water supply. -. -. . 36
Wray, Colo........... . 23,30
Yield of a well, defined- 61Yuma, Colo., precipitation..______ 14,16,20Yuma County, Colo_______..__ 3,
8, 11, 21, 25, 31, 49, 52, 104, 106, 109, 164-169,350-363, 435-440, 460-461
Cardwell, William Douglas Edward, 1918-
Ground-water geology and pump irrigation in Frenchman Creek basin above Palisade, Nebraska, by W. D. E. Cardwell and Edward D. Jenkins; with a section on the chemical quality of the water, by E. R. Jochens and R. A. Krieger. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1962.
472 p. illus., maps, diagrs., tables, and portfolio (maps, diagrs.) 24 cm. (U.S. Geological Survey. Water-supply paper 1577)
Bibliography: p. 123-128.
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Cardwell, William Douglas Edward, 1918-
Ground-water geology and pump irrigation in Frenchman Creek basin above Palisade, Nebraska. 1962. (Card 2)
1. Water-supply Nebraska Frenchman Creek basin. 2. Water, Underground Nebraska Frenchman Creek basin. 3. Irrigation Nebraska Frenchman Creek basin. 4. Water Composition. I. Jen- kins, Edward D 1916-, joint author. II. Jochens, Eugene R 1924-, III. Krieger, Robert Albert, 1918-. (Series)