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Water quality and the bad-water (saline-water) zone of the Edwards (Balcones fault zone) Aquifer
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John M. Sharp and Brian A. Smith
Water quality and the bad-water (saline-water) zone of the Edwards (Balcones fault zone) Aquifer (in The Edwards Aquifer; the past, present, and future of vital water resource, John M. Sharp, Ronald T. Green and Geary M. Schindel)
Memoir - Geological Society of America (September 2019) 215: 149-158
Water quality and the bad-water (saline-water) zone of the Edwards (Balcones fault zone) Aquifer (in The Edwards Aquifer; the past, present, and future of vital water resource, John M. Sharp, Ronald T. Green and Geary M. Schindel)
Memoir - Geological Society of America (September 2019) 215: 149-158
Index Terms/Descriptors
- Balcones fault zone
- Bexar County Texas
- bicarbonate ion
- brines
- calcium carbonate
- chemically precipitated rocks
- Comanchean
- Cretaceous
- desalinization
- Edwards Aquifer
- Edwards Plateau
- evaporites
- fault zones
- faults
- geochemistry
- Georgetown Formation
- hydrochemistry
- karstification
- Lower Cretaceous
- Maverick County Texas
- Medina County Texas
- Mesozoic
- permeability
- saline composition
- salinity
- sedimentary rocks
- segmentation
- solutes
- Texas
- transmissivity
- Travis County Texas
- United States
- Uvalde County Texas
- water quality
- water resources
- Edwards Limestone
Latitude & Longitude
ISSN: 0072-1069
Coden: GSAMAQ
Serial Title: Memoir - Geological Society of America
Serial Volume: 215
Title: Water quality and the bad-water (saline-water) zone of the Edwards (Balcones fault zone) Aquifer
Title: The Edwards Aquifer; the past, present, and future of vital water resource
Author(s): Sharp, John M., Jr.Smith, Brian A.
Author(s): Sharp, John M., Jr.
Author(s): Green, Ronald T.
Author(s): Schindel, Geary M.
Affiliation: University of Texas, Department of Geological Sciences,
Austin, TX,
United States
Affiliation: University of Texas, Department of Geological Sciences,
Austin, TX,
United States
Pages: 149-158
Published: 20190910
Text Language: English
Publisher: Geological Society of America (GSA),
Boulder, CO,
United States
References: 55
Accession Number: 891367-12
Categories: HydrogeologyEnvironmental geology
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. incl. 2 tables, geol. sketch map
N28°10'00" - N30°45'00", W100°45'00" - W97°25'00"
Secondary Affiliation: Southwest Research Institute,
San Antonio, TX,
USA,
United StatesEdwards Aquifer Authority,
San Antonio, TX,
USA,
United StatesBarton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District,
USA,
United States
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef in Process, Copyright 2025, American Geosciences Institute. After editing and indexing, this record will be added to Georef.
Update Code: 8913
