Granite Wash, Palo Duro Basin, Texas (10)

Comments on Geologic Parameters

10 Fluid Residence Time:

Estimated travel times from the westernmost recharge area in New Mexico to the eastern boundary range from 1.2 to 4 Ma, depending on the flow path and average porosity of the different units (Senger 1991). Remember that permeability values assigned to the different hydrostratigraphic units are average values representing heterogeneous systems. (Senger and others, 1987, p. 27).

10 Reference:

Senger, R. K., 1991, Regional hydrodynamics of variable-density flow systems, Palo Duro Basin, Texas: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations No. 202, 54 p.

Senger, R. K., Fogg, G. E., and Kreitler, C. W., 1987, Effects of hydrostratigraphy and basin development on hydrodynamics of the Palo Duro Basin, Texas: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations No. 165, 48 p.