Delaware Basin

Herczeg A, Simpson J, Anderson R, Trier R, Mathieu G, Deck B (1988) Uranium and Radium mobility in groundwaters and brines within the Delaware basin. Southeastern New Mexico, USA Chem Geol 72 181-196... 

Local dissolution features are recognized in the Delaware Basin. These may be of either shallow or deep origin, and it is the latter which may pose the greater potential hazard to the repository. These features, often called collapse chimneys or breccia pipes, form when localized dissolution occurs deep in the evaporite section, possibly at the base of the salt beds, resulting in a cavern into which overlying beds... 

Anderson, Roger Y., Deep Dissolutioning of Salt - Northern Delaware Basin, New Mexico, to be published, 1978... 

Anderson, R.Y., Kietzke, K.K. and Rhodes, D.J., 1978. Development of dissolution breccias, northern Delaware Basin, New Mexico and Texas. In G.S. Austin (Compiler), Geology and Mineral Deposits of Ochoan Rocks in Delaware Basin and Adjacent Areas. N.M. Bur. Mines Miner. Resour., Circ. No. 159, pp. 47—52. 

Luo, M., Baker, M.R. Lemone, D.V. (1994) Distribution and generation of the overpressure system, eastern Delaware basin, western Texas and southern New Mexico. Bull. Am. /1m. Petrol. Geol., 78, 1386-1405. 

Evidence of reservoir compartmentalization by calcite cement layers in deepwater sandstones, Bell Canyon Formation, Delaware Basin, Texas... 

Fig. 1. (a) Location of East Ford field in the Delaware Basin and palaeogeographic setting during the Late Permian (modified from Silver Todd 1969). (b) Map of East Ford field (modified from Dutton et al. 2003). Cross section A-A shown in Figure 3. 

Dutton, S. P., Flanders, W. A. Barton, M. D. 2003. Reservoir characterization of a Permian deepwater sandstone. East Ford field, Delaware Basin, Texas. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 87, 609-627. 

Server, B. A. Todd, R. G. 1969. Permian cychc strata, northern Midland and Delaware Basins, west Texas and southeastern New Mexico. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 52, 2223-2251. 

Scholle P.A., Ulmer D.S. Melim L.A. 1992 - Late-stage calcites in the Permian Capitan Formation and its equivalents, Delaware Basin margin, west Texas and New Mexico evidence for replacement of precursor evaporates. Sedimentology, 39 207-234. 

Dahl, H. M., 1965. Clay mineralogy of some Permian bentonites from the Delaware basin area, Texas. Am. Mineral 50 1637-1646. 

Industrial Discharge Inventory, Delaware River Basin Commission, Trenton, N.J. (1975). 

Mud ponds and retention and settling basins are often made by constructing a continuous dike on a relatively impervious formation of a size and shape adequate to retain the desired liquid volume. Such was the case in Delaware, where a dike some 20 ft high was built of fine, granular materials to retain sulfate solutions. 

Figure 17. Showing coherent spatial variation in %C02 and C02rHe in C02-rich natural gases in the Val Verde basin, part of the west Texas Permian basin (after Ballentine et al. 1991). Arrows show the direction of the regional increase in CO2 content and C02/ He ratio towards the Marathon thrust belt. Inset shows the location of the Val Verde basin relative to the major Permian uplift and basinal features. Basins 1, Delaware 2, Midland 3, Palo-Duro 4, Anadarko 5, Arkoma 6, Ft Worth 7, Kerr.

Employment opportunities in hydrolog) include positions in federal, state, and local government, state water project associations (such as the Central Arizona Project), bi-state river basin commissions (such as the Delaware River Basin Commission),... 

Delaware River Basin Compact (sec. 15.1, 75 Stat. 714). This joint resolution creates, by intergovernmental compact between the United States, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, a regional agency for planning, conservation, utilization, development, management and control of the water and related sources of the Delaware River. 

Downing, RB. (1984). Environmental Economics and Policy. Little, Brown, Boston. DRBC. (2010). Administrative Mantud—Part HI Water Quality Regulations 18 CFR Part 410. Delaware River Basin Commission, West Trenton, NJ. 

A comparison of atmospheric versus fluvial loading of selected dissolved trace elements to Delaware s Inland Bays indicates that on an annual basis, aeolian input provides as much as a third of the total input for Zn and at least 5% for the other metals. On shorter time scales, the relative atmospheric and fluvial loadings can vary significantly. Approximately half of the atmospheric input is directly to the surface waters of the bays, a majority of which is derived from wet deposition. The transmission of atmospheric inputs through the watershed varies among elements and for each sub-basin. Overall, atmospheric flux appears to provide quantitatively and qualitatively important inputs for a number of trace metals of ecological concern. 

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