GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
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198 GBOUND WATEB <strong>IN</strong> NOBTH-<strong>CENTRAL</strong> <strong>TENNESSEE</strong><br />
Driller's partial log of Midwest Tennessee Oil Co.'s well on Marvin Milton property<br />
[No. 34, pi. 4. So-called Standing Rock Well; casing head about 430 feet above sea level; total depth, 1,636<br />
feet]<br />
Feet<br />
Soil_______ --_ ._._ _ _. _..___._--_-_ 0-30<br />
Chert, dense__--__._._._._.___________.___ 30-164<br />
Shale, black (Chattanooga shale)____._._._____ 164-239<br />
Limestone, white and brown, water bearing. _______ 239-375<br />
Limestone, petroliferous.__________________ ._._ 375-380<br />
Limestone, dense, brown_ ._._._._._.___._._._._._ 380-495<br />
Shale, blue.--_-_._-_-_.___-________---__________ 495-597<br />
Limestone, white__-_._._._._._.____-__-_______ 597-602<br />
Limestone, gray____-_-_._-___._._._._.___ 602-608<br />
Limestone, brown_________________________ 608-612<br />
Limestone, red_________________________ 612-670<br />
Limestone, white_______________._._._._._._ 670-696<br />
Shale, green____________.____ _______ 696-706<br />
Limestone and shale, brown___-----_-____________ 706-742<br />
Limestone, red_________-___._._.--_-_._-_.___ 742-904<br />
Limestone, white____________ ___._._._ 904-924<br />
Limestone, darkblue___________ 924-1,129<br />
Limestone, gray______________________ 1,129-1,220<br />
SUMNER COUNTY<br />
[Area, 663 square miles. Population, 28,6221<br />
GENERAL FEATURES<br />
Sumner County, which occupies the northeast corner of the region<br />
covered by this report (pi. 1), is bounded on the west by Robertson<br />
County, on the southwest by Davidson County, and on the south by<br />
Wilson County. Its county seat and principal commercial center is<br />
Gallatin (population, 3,050).<br />
Sumner County is divided into two physiographic districts of<br />
nearly equal area by the Highland Rim escarpment; to the north lies<br />
the Highland Rim plateau; to the south lies the northern lobe of the<br />
Nashville Basin (pp. 16-18). In this county the Highland Rim pla<br />
teau is a very gently undulating plain which slopes northward from<br />
an altitude of about 900 feet above sea level along its southern edge<br />
to about 775 to 880 feet in the northwestern part of the county.<br />
This plain is drained northwestward by subparallel mature valleys trib<br />
utary to the Red and Green Rivers, branches of the Cumberland and<br />
Ohio Rivers, respectively. (See pi. 3.) Undrained depressions and<br />
sink holes are common in many parts of the plain. The Highland<br />
Rim escarpment is a southward-facing dissected scarp from 350 to<br />
400 feet high which embraces a belt of rugged topography from 4 to<br />
1% miles wide produced by the northward advance of Mansker,<br />
Drake, Station Camp, and Bledsoe Creeks, subparallel tributaries of<br />
the Cumberland River. Its general trend within the county as de<br />
fined by a line tangent to the points of protruding spurs is approxi-