The Roswell Basin aquifer system is located in southeastern New Mexico. It is composed of an alluvial aquifer and an underlying carbonate-rock aquifer. The aquifer covers an area of about 2,200 square miles and the alluvial aquifer covers about 1,200 square miles of the eastern half of this area. The alluvial aquifer primarily consists of Quaternary sediments and the carbonate-rock aquifer consists of the San Andres Limestone. Both aquifers offer highly productive groundwater wells that are extensively used for agricultural, industrial, and municipal use (HA 730-C). This product provides source data for the Roswell Basin aquifer system framework, including: Georeferenced images: 1. i_43RSWLBS_top.tif: Digitized figure of altitude contour lines representing the top of the Roswell Basin aquifer system. The original figure was from the Geohydrologic Framework of the Roswell Ground-water Basin report (Welder, 1983). Extent shapefiles: 1. p_43RSWLBS.shp: Polygon shapefile containing the areal extent of the Roswell Basin aquifer system. This shapefile was sourced from Roswell_AqExtent and was modified based off of (Welder, 1983). The extent file contains no aquifer subunits.
Contour line shapefiles: 1. c_43RSWLBS_top.shp: Contour line dataset containing altitude values, in feet reference to National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD29), across the top of the Roswell Basin aquifer system. These data were used to create the ra_43RSWLBS_top.tif raster dataset. Altitude raster files: 1. ra_43RSWLBS_top.tif: Altitude raster dataset of the top of the Roswell Basin aquifer system. The altitude values are in meters reference to North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). This file was interpolated from the contour line dataset (Welder, 1983). 2. ra_43RSWLBS_bot.tif: Altitude raster dataset of the bottom of the Roswell Basin aquifer system. The altitude values are in meters reference to NAVD88. Depth raster files: 1. rd_43RSWLBS_top.tif: Depth raster dataset of the top of the Roswell Basin aquifer system. The depth values are in meters below land surface (NED, 100-meter). 2. rd_43RSWLBS_bot.tif: Depth raster dataset of the bottom of the Roswell Basin aquifer system. The depth values are in meters below land surface (NED, 100-meter).