The Arbuckle-Simpson aquifer covers an area of about 800 square miles in the Arbuckle Mountains and Arbuckle Plains of South-Central Oklahoma. The aquifer is in the Central Lowland Physiographic Province and is composed of the Simpson and Arbuckle Groups of Ordovician and Cambrian age. The aquifer is as thick as 9,000 feet in some areas. The aquifer provides relatively small, but important, amounts of water depended on for public supply, agricultural, and industrial use (HA 730-E). This product provides source data for the Arbuckle-Simpson aquifer framework, including: Georeferenced images: 1. i_46ARBSMP_bot.tif: Digitized figure of depth contour lines below land surface representing the base of fresh water in the Arbuckle-Simpson aquifer. The base of fresh water is considered to be the bottom of the Arbuckle-Simpson aquifer. The original figure is from the "Reconnaissance of the water resources of the Ardmore and Sherman Quadrangles, southern Oklahoma" report, map HA-3, page 2, prepared by the Oklahoma Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey (HA3_P2). Extent shapefiles: 1. p_46ABKSMP.shp: Polygon shapefile containing the areal extent of the Arbuckle-Simpson aquifer (Arbuckle-Simpson_AqExtent). The extent file contains no aquifer subunits.
Contour line shapefiles: 1. c_46ABKSMP_bot.shp: Contour line dataset containing depth values, in feet below land surface, across the bottom of the Arbuckle-Simpson aquifer. This dataset is a digitized version of the map published in HA3_P2. This dataset was used to create the rd_46ABKSMP_bot.tif raster dataset. This map generalized depth values into zoned areas with associated ranges of depth. The edge of each zone was treated as the minimum value of the assigned range, thus creating the depth contour lines. This interpretation was favorable as it allowed for the creation of the resulting raster. This map was used because more detailed point or contour data for the area is unavailable. Altitude raster files: 1. ra_46ABKSMP_top.tif: Altitude raster dataset of the top of the Arbuckle-Simpson aquifer. The altitude values are in meters reference to North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). The top of the aquifer is assumed to be at land surface (NED, 100-meter) based on available data. This raster was interpolated from the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) dataset (NED, 100-meter). 2. ra_46ABKSMP_bot.tif: Altitude raster dataset of the bottom of the Arbuckle-Simpson aquifer. The altitude values are in meters referenced to NAVD88. Depth raster files: 1. rd_46ABKSMP_top.tif: Depth raster dataset of the top of the Arbuckle-Simpson aquifer. The depth values are in meters below land surface (NED, 100-meter). The top of the aquifer is assumed to be at land surface (NED, 100-meter) based on available data. 2. rd_46ABKSMP_bot.tif: Depth raster dataset of the bottom of the Arbuckle-Simpson aquifer. The depth values are in meters below land surface (NED, 100-meter). This raster was interpolated from the contour line dataset c_46ABKSMP_bot.shp.