United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-473
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A o elected Diblioqpaphij vJi Kceiepences vJn ilijdpoloqij, And C^eocnemistpL) vJi I he Midwestepn asns And T^Vches Ixeqion-CJhio, Indiana, Michiqan, And Illinois Uij Anmonij Ixobinson ana L.T. Ducjliosi United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-473 Columbus, Ohio 1994 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE BABBIT, Secretary U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GORDON P. EATON, Director For additional information Copies of this report may write to: be purchased from: Office of Ground Water U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Division Earth Science Information Center U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Reports Section Mail Stop 411 Box 25286, MS 517 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Denver Federal Center Reston, VA 22092 Denver, CO 80225 CONTENTS Abstrat.............................................................................................^^^ 1 Introduction................................................^ 1 Purpose and scope................................................................................................................................. 1 Acknowledgments.................................................................................................................................. 1 Bibliographic format....................................................................................................................................... 3 Selected bibliogi^>hy............................................._ 4 Ohio...........................................................»^ 4 Geology......................................................................................................................................... 4 Hydrology...................................................................................................................................... 12 Geochemistry................................................................................................................................ 18 Miscellaneous................................................................................................................................ 20 Imliana....................................................................................^^ 21 Geology......................................................................................................................................... 21 Hydrology...................................................................................................................................... 29 Geochemistry................................................................................................................................ 36 Miscellaneous................................................................................................................................. 36 Michigan.............................................................................................................................................^ 37 Geology......................................................................................................................................... 37 Hydrology....,............................................^ 37 niinois........................................................................................................................................^ 37 Geology......................................................................................................................................... 37 Hydrology....................................................^ 38 FIGURE 1. Map showing area of data collection in the Midwestern Basins and Arches Region................................................................................................................................ 2 CONVERSION FACTORS AND ABBREVIATIONS Multiply By To obtain foot (ft) 0.3048 meter mile (mi) 1.609 kilometer Contents III A Selected Bibliography of References on Geology, Hydrology, and Geochemistry of the Midwestern Basins and Arches Region Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois By Anthony Robinson and E. F. Bugliosi Abstract rocks of Silurian and Devonian age and glacial deposits of Pleistocene age within a 90,000-squarc- This report contains selected references mile area (fig.l) that encompasses parts of Ohio, used for the Midwestern Basins and Arches Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois. Regional Aquifer System Analysis project of the U.S. Geological Survey. The project was begun in 1988 to study the geologic frame Purpose and Scope work, hydrology, and geochemistry of the This report is provided to help promote a surficial and the Silurian and Devonian comprehensive understanding of the literature that carbonate-rock aquifers in the Midwestern pertains to the Midwestern Basins and Arches Basins and Arches Region. The area of data region and to present a systematic overview of this collection is 90,000 square miles and includes literature. The information provided in this report, parts of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois. which should be of value in literature searches on Geologic, hydrologic, and geochemical the geology, hydrology, and water chemistry of the references that apply to the hydrogeology and Midwest, includes many of the sources of geochemistry of the region were collected and information that were compiled and used in the are presented in this bibliography by State and analysis of the Midwestern Basins and Arches by geologic, hydrologic, and geochemical RASA study. This report does not include all the categories for each State. literature used for this study; instead, only the major publications are included. For example, a number of consultants' reports were used as data INTRODUCTION sources but were not listed in the bibliography because of copyright and privacy issues. The need for regional ground-water infor mation for the United States became critical during the 1970's after a period of severe drought. In Acknowledgments response to this need, the U.S. Geological Survey Regional Aquifer System Analysis (RASA) The authors wish to thank the personnel of the Ohio and Indiana Geological Surveys, and the program was created by Congress in 1977 and began operation in 1978. Twenty-eight regional major universities within each State, for their aquifer systems were identified for study under the cooperation. RASA program. The purpose of the Midwestern Basins and Arches RASA study (fig. 1), which began in 1988 and was scheduled for completion in September 1994, is to investigate the geologic framework, hydrology, and geochemistry of the regional aquifer system that consists of carbonate Introduction 1 43° 42° Base from U.S. Geological Survey dgltal data, 1: 2.000.000. 1972 50 100 150 200 MILES Map scale 1: 4.500.000 I I I _J Map projection Alters Equal-Area Conic Projection 1 I First Standard'Parallel 37 50 , Second Standard Parallel 41 10 0 50 100 150 200 KILOMETERS Central Meridian 84 EXPLANATION AREA OF DATA COLLECTION Figure 1. Location of area of data collection for the Midwestern Basins and Arches Regional Aquifer Systems Analysis (RASA) project. 2 Selected Bibliography on Geology, Hydrology, and Geochemistry, Midwestern Basins and Arches Region BIBLIOGRAPHIC FORMAT In addition to the references listed in this report, a number of reports dealing with aquifer The compilation of references that follows is tests were examined for the study. Many of these arranged first by State (the largest number of reports were obtained from private consulting firms references pertain to Indiana and Ohio) and second and were released for a specific publication only. A by geology, hydrology, and geochemistry. Some listing of these consultants and the city in which references may be duplicated in different sections they are located is given below: of this bibliography if a substantial part of the reference pertains to more than one topic (geology, Aqua-Ran Water Supplies, Inc., Columbus, Ohio hydrology, or geochemistry) or if the reference Burgess & Niple, Limited, Columbus, Ohio pertains to areas within several States. References E. D'Appolonia Consulting Engineers, Inc., that could not be classified in those above- Beme, Ind. mentioned categories (for example, census data) Groundwater Management of Kansas City, were categorized as miscellaneous. Kansas City, Mo. Groundwater Management, Inc., Columbus, Ohio Basic streamfiow and ground-water-level data Groundwater Management and Layne-Northern were used extensively for the Midwestern Basins Company, Indianapolis, Ind. and Arches RASA study. However, sources of Layne Northern Company, Indianapolis, Ind. basic data are not referenced individually. Instead, Layne-Ohio Company, Columbus, Ohio the reader is directed to local U.S. Geological Peerless-Midwest, Inc., Granger, Ind. Survey offices for copies of annual water-resources Reynolds Supply, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind. data reports or customized data retrievals. Copies Sargent and Lundy Engineers, Chicago, 111. of the annual data reports can also be found in Sieco, Inc., Columbus, Ind. many university libraries. Smith, R.C., and Associates, Hamilton, Ohio Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation, Indianapolis, Ind. Stremmel and Hill, Inc., La Fontaine, Ind. Toledo Testing Laboratories, Toledo, Ohio Introduction SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Ohio Geology Adams, B.J., 1976, Subsurface information catalog _1992d, Bedrock topography of the Jefferson 1968-1974: Ohio Department of Natural Quadrangle, Fayette County, Ohio: Unpublished Resources, Geological Survey Information map on file at offices of Ohio Department of Circular 46, 29 p. Natural Resources, Geological Survey, scale 1:24,000.