Simulation of ground-water flow in the coastal plain aquifer system of North Carolina

Abstract

A three-dimensional finite-difference digital model was used to simulate ground-water flow in the 25,000 square-mile aquifer system of the North Carolina Coastal Plain. The model was developed from a hydrogeologic framework that is based on an alternating sequence of 10 aquifers and 9 confining units, which comprise a seaward-thickening wedge of sediments that form the Coastal Plain aquifer system in the State of North Carolina.