Ground-water Supply of the Memphis Area |
Common terms and phrases
Allen well field alluvial alluvium analyses of water aquifer Auction Avenue average daily pumpage beds Claiborne group coarse sand Crittenden County cross section Drillers east Memphis electric and lithologic Eocene Eocene age feet below sea feet per mile feet thick field in southwest Figure formation free carbon dioxide gallons per day Geol gravel greenish-gray ground water ground-water Hardness as CaCO3 Horton oil test Jackson land surface lenses lignite lithologic logs Loess Loosahatchie River maximum Memphis area Memphis Light Middle unit million gallons Minimum drawdown Mississippi embayment Mississippi River north Memphis observation outcrop overlying Paleocene Parkway well field Pleistocene Pliocene Pliocene and Pleistocene Pumping tests Records samples screened Sheahan well field Shelby County shows southwest Memphis station began operating storage subsurface supply of Memphis Tenn terrace deposits TIPTON COUNTY U. S. Geological Survey unit ranges Water Division water levels Water-Supply Paper western Tennessee Wilcox group Wolf River