Metadata: Hydrogeological Units of the Fraser Lowlands

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Abstract

The Fraser Lowlands are located in south-west British Columbia, just east of Vancouver. The regional aquifer system follows the Fraser River from Vancouver to Hope. The aquifer system extents south to the international border. It consists of two types of aquifer: granular and fractured rock. Granular aquifers are abundant, including more than 200 aquifers. Along those aquifers, the two major granular aquifers are Abbotsford-Sumas and Brookswood. Those aquifers are composed of glaciofluvial sand and gravel and exhibits high aquifer potential. They are the most used unconfined aquifers in the Fraser Lowlands. This dataset describes in details the hydrogeological context of the aquifers and the associated aquifer system and more specifically, the aquifers yields and usage. The dataset also provides information on aquifer vulnerability, groundwater quality, surficial deposits thickness and confinement. The dataset is a summary of data and hydrogeological information for all aquifers, aquifer systems and hydrogeological contexts of the Fraser Lowlands project.
Status:register proposed
TitleHydrogeological Units of the Fraser Lowlands
Date2003-01-01 (register publication)
Date1997-01-01 (register creation)
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register principalInvestigator
NameBrian Ricketts
OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Pacific, Vancouver
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AddressDelivery point : 1500 - 605 Robson Street 1500 - 605 Robson Street
City : Vancouver Vancouver
Administrative region : British Columbia British Columbia
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Country : Canada Canada
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NameBrian Ricketts
OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Pacific, Vancouver
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AddressDelivery point : 1500 - 605 Robson Street 1500 - 605 Robson Street
City : Vancouver Vancouver
Administrative region : British Columbia British Columbia
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Country : Canada Canada
Email nrcan.gsc-geosciencedata-donneesgeoscience-cgc.rncan@canada.ca
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NameFrancois Letourneau
OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Quebec
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AddressDelivery point : 490, rue de la Couronne, 3e étage 490, rue de la Couronne, 3e étage
City : Québec Québec
Administrative region : Québec Québec
Postal code :
Country : Canada Canada
Email francois.letourneau@canada.ca
Telephonetelephone voice; 1 (418) 6543826
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OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada
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Related publication

  • Aquifer delineation, Fraser lowland and delta, British Columbia: mapping, geophysics, and groundwater modelling; Ricketts, B D (ed.); Makepeace, A J (ed.). Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3828, 2003, ; 1 CD-ROM, doi:10.4095/214294

Goals

This dataset was created to provide a regional frame of the spatial distribution of the hydrostratigraphic units and hydrogeological contexts within Fraser Lowland area.

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Languageeng; CAN
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Distributor

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register distributor
NameEric Boisvert
OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Quebec
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AddressDelivery point : 490, rue de la Couronne, 3e étage 490, rue de la Couronne, 3e étage
City : Québec Québec
Administrative region : Québec Québec
Postal code :
Country : Canada Canada
Email eric.boisvert2@canada.ca
Telephonetelephone voice; 1 (418) 6543705
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register pointOfContact
Name
OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada
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AddressDelivery point :
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Email nrcan.gsc-geosciencedata-donneesgeoscience-cgc.rncan@canada.ca
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Introduction
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Process step Sources
The dataset comes from the two fraser.shp files of folders (limites and ressource) of the Fraser Lowlands project archives folder. One file describes the aquifer system geometry and the other the aquifers geometry. Both files were merged to create the dataset. The aquifers nomenclature comes from figure 9 (Datfig09.pdf) of the document Aquifer Delineation, Fraser Lowland and Delta: Mapping, Geophysics, and Groundwater Modelling (B.D. Ricketts and A.J. Makepeace, Editors).
The dataset comes from the two fraser.shp files of folders (limites and ressource) of the Fraser Lowlands project archives folder. One file describes the aquifer system geometry and the other the aquifers geometry. Both files were merged to create the dataset. The aquifers nomenclature comes from figure 9 (Datfig09.pdf) of the document Aquifer Delineation, Fraser Lowland and Delta: Mapping, Geophysics, and Groundwater Modelling (B.D. Ricketts and A.J. Makepeace, Editors).

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Languageeng; CAN
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Date2016-06-10
Metadata standardNorth American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
VersionCAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
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Update frequencyregister asNeeded

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Geographic Reference System

Reference System codeEPSG:4326
Registerhttp://www.epsg-registry.org/
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Metadata Contact

register author
NameFrancois Letourneau
OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Quebec
Position
Information
AddressDelivery point : 490, rue de la Couronne, 3e étage 490, rue de la Couronne, 3e étage
City : Québec Québec
Administrative region : Québec Québec
Postal code :
Country : Canada Canada
Email francois.letourneau@canada.ca
Telephonetelephone voice; 1 (418) 6543826
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register pointOfContact
Name
OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada
Position
Information
AddressDelivery point :
City :
Administrative region :
Postal code :
Country :
Email nrcan.gsc-geosciencedata-donneesgeoscience-cgc.rncan@canada.ca
Telephone
Online Resource