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Piedmont and Blue Ridge Crystalline rocks with glacial cover
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Piedmont Chimney rock Blue Ridge Province
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flow through fractures
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Transition Fractured metamorphic and igneous rock Saprolite
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Gneiss, schist bedrock Granite or other intrusive bedrock Distinct transition Gradational transition
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Storage and transmission properties High porosity S y ? porosity Low storage 10 -5 10 -4 cm/s
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Saprolite sampled at different depths. Measure density and chemical composition. S.G. decreases from 2.1 in rock to 1.6 in shallow saprolite. S.G. decreases as minerals are altered and mass is removed. 0.5 gm/cc removed during weathering. Chemical concentrations indicate S.G. change largely due to weathering of feldspar to kaolinite as a two-stage reaction.
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Saprolite thickness Typically 50 ft, but variable 10-100 ft w.t. 20-60 ft bgs Frx zones in valleys Flat-lying frx
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Saprolite thickness Greatest over valley or highland? Could be either
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Ground watersheds
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Lineaments
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Specific capacity
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Effects of lineaments on well yields in the Piedmont Other effects of location on well yield Factor of 2 to 7 difference in yield Factors from 3 to 25 between valley and hill
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Well yields in different rock types and regions in the Piedmont 15-30 gpm typical Roughly 20 gpm
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Effects of well depth and diameter on yield in the Piedmont. Based on Daniels
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Glaciated crystalline rocks in northern Appalachians
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Other Hydrogeologic Settings in the Piedmont
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Stockton Fm. Lockatong Fm. Passaic Fm. Orange Mt. Basalt Feltville Fm. Preakness Basalt Towaco Fm. Hook Mt. Basalt Boonton Fm. Conglomerates Palisade sill
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Newark Basin, NJ Mesozoic Basins Sandstone aquifers Shale confining units Redbeds in the Hartford Basin, Conn Conglomerate Basalt Arkose
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Carbonate rock aquifers
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Water quality in Crystalline Rock aquifers
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Crystalline rock Triassic Basin Carbonate rock meq/L
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Crystalline Rock Triassic Basins Carbonate Aquifers
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SC, GA, Al =100 mgpd
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