{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Carol J. Becker", "hasEmail": "mailto:cjbecker@usgs.gov"}, "description": "This data set consists of digitized water-level elevation\ncontours for the Elk City aquifer in western Oklahoma. The\naquifer covers an area of approximately 193,000 acres and\nsupplies ground water for irrigation, domestic, and industrial\npurposes in Beckham, Custer, Roger Mills, and Washita Counties\nalong the divide between the Washita and Red River basins.\nThe Elk City aquifer consists of the Elk City Sandstone and\noverlying terrace deposits, made up of clay, silt, sand and\ngravel, and dune sands in the eastern part and sand and gravel\nof the Ogallala Formation (or High Plains aquifer) in the\nwestern part of the aquifer. The Elk City aquifer is unconfined\nand composed of very friable sandstone, lightly cemented with\nclay, calcite, gypsum, or iron oxide. Most of the grains are\nfine-sized quartz but the grain size ranges from clay to cobble\nin the aquifer. The Doxey Shale underlies the Elk City aquifer\nand acts as a confining unit, restricting the downward movement\nof ground water.\nWater-level elevations were measured in July 1973 and ranged\nfrom about 2,200 feet above sea level at the northwestern edge\nof the aquifer to about 1,700 feet above sea level at the\nsoutheastern edge of the aquifer. The water-level elevation\ncontours were digitized from a photocopy of a paper map from a\nground-water modeling thesis. The source map was published at a\nscale of 1:63,360.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P93ZZJB0", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.267ec1fb-daba-4123-bafe-045da9172b58.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_267ec1fb-daba-4123-bafe-045da9172b58", "keyword": ["Doxey Shale", "Elk City Sandstone", "Elk City Sandstone aquifer", "Elk City aquifer", "High Plains aquifer", "Ogallala Formation", "Ogallala aquifer", "USGS:267ec1fb-daba-4123-bafe-045da9172b58", "aquifers", "dune sand", "environment", "geoscientificInformation", "ground water", "ground-water level elevation", "ground-water level elevation contours", "ground-water levels", "ground-water vulnerability", "groundwater", "groundwater level elevation", "groundwater level elevation contours", "groundwater levels", "groundwater vulnerability", "inlandWaters", "terrace deposits", "water level contours", "water level elevation", "water level elevation contours", "water levels", "water-level contours", "water-level elevation", "water-level elevation contours"], "modified": "2020-11-17T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-99.6808, 35.2285, -99.0912, 35.5289", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Digital data sets that describe aquifer characteristics of the Elk City aquifer in western Oklahoma"}