Geology and water availability of Cullman County, Alabama

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Geohydrology and susceptibility of major aquifers to surface contamination in Alabama; area 3

“…The following descriptions of geology were derived from Causey and others (1972), Faust and Jefferson (1980), Knight (1972), O 1 Rear and others (1972), and Wahl and others (1971).…”

Hydrology of area 21, Eastern Coal province, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia

“…2.2-2). Thickness of the Pennsylvanian rocks ranges from 210 feet at the southern boundary (Faust and Jefferson, 1980) to more than 800 feet on Sand Mountain. The Pennsylvanian rocks capping the Plateau are resistant to both physical and chemical weathering and therefore, the regolith is generally thin.…”

Hydrology of area 22, Eastern Coal Province, Alabama

“…The formation generally becomes thicker to the south because (1) the regional dip to the southwest is greater than the southward slope of the land surface preserving younger beds to the southwest, and (2) the beds of the formation thicken and increase in number to the south and southeast. Thickness of the Pottsville Formation within Area 22 ranges from 210 feet at the northern boundary (Faust and Jefferson, 1980) to 1,400 feet on Blount Mountain in the southeast (Culbertson, 1964). Blount Mountain is located on the downthrown side of a thrust fault which contributes in part to the greater thickness there (see eastern geologic structure section, fig.…”