Tuscaloosa Group, Alabama Gulf Coastal Plain (12c)
Comments on Geologic Parameters
12c CO2 Solubility Brine: Formation Water Salinity:
A number of authors have reported that DSC in the Tuscaloosa Group in southwestern Alabama is high (Alverson, 1970; Tucker and Kidd, 1973; Miller, 1990) However, there are few published numbers (see Tucker and Kidd (1973; their table 3 in which they report one calculated DSC for the Tuscaloosa Group of 151,000 mg/L). For the GIS, we used a map of Miller (1990), which shows the portion of southwest Alabama, Tuscaloosa Group (Black Warrior River aquifer), in which formation waters are more than 10,000 mg/L.
12c Reference:
Alverson, R. M., 1970, Deep well disposal study for Baldwin, Escambia and Mobile Counties, Alabama: Alabama Geological Survey, Circular 58, 49 p
Miller, J. A., 1990, Ground water atlas of the United States-segment 6, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey, Hydrologic Investigations Atlas No. HA-730-G, 28 p
Tucker, W. E., and Kidd, R. E., 1973, Deep-well disposal in Alabama: Alabama Geological Survey, Bulletin 104, 229 p., 4 plates.
