LCMR supported ground water projects and reports

County Geologic Atlases

Regional Hydrogeologic Assessments

Computerized County Well Index

Hydrogeology on the Mesabi Iron Range

• M-126 Bedrock topography and Depth to Bedrock on the western Mesabi Range.

• M-118 One hundred years of mining: alterations to the physical and cultural geography of the western half of the Mesabi Iron Range, northern Minnesota. R.S. Lively, G.B. Morey, and E.J. Bauer. 2002. 4 pls. Scale 1:100,000. Paper plots. Pl. 1, land-surface topography; pl. 2, drainage and cultural features; pl. 3, topographic disturbance; pl. 4 bedrock geology; each sheet, $12.00. Complete set - $48.00. Digital files available via the M-118 link include a readme, ArcView shape files and grids in the zipped m118.zip file, and jpg images of the final plates.
  
  
• M-157 Land-surface topography of the eastern half of the Mesabi Iron Range, northern Minnesota. 1899 and 1999. R.S. Lively, E.J. Bauer, and M.A. Jirsa. 2005. 3 pls. Scale 1:100,000. Pl. 1, 1899 map of land-surface topography, surface hydrology, and infrastructure; pl. 2, 1999 map of land surface topography, surface hydrology, and infrastructure; pl. 3, shaded-relief map showing elevation differences between the 1899 and 1999 land-surface topography; each sheet $10.00. Complete set paper plots - $30.00. PDF images available for these plates.
  
  
• M-158 Bedrock geology database, bedrock topography, and depth to bedrock maps of the eastern half of the Mesabi Iron Range, northern Minnesota. M.A. Jirsa, D.R. Setterholm, B.A. Bloomgren, E.J. Bauer, and R.S. Lively. 2005. 3 pls. Scale 1:100,000. Pl. 1, bedrock geology and database map; pl. 2, bedrock topography map; pl 3, depth to bedrock; each sheet $10.00. Complete set paper plots - $30.00. PDF images available for these plates.
  
  
• OFR-07-03 BEDROCK AND QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE CENTRAL MESABI IRON RANGE, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA
  Mark A. Jirsa and Gary N. Meyer, Minnesota Geological Survey, Open-File Report, 2007.
  

Prairie du Chien Aquifer

• Preliminary report on groundwater flow

• Open file 91-5. Geologic factors affecting the sensitivity of the Prairie du Chien-Jordan aquifer. D.R. Setterholm and others. 12 plates (plates 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12 are available as ozalid-paper copies for $5.00 each from MGS map sales; plates 1, 3, and 11 are color paper plots and are available only for inspection at MGS Library.); 29 p. text (photocopy), $4.35. Project provided funding to purchase downhole geophysical logging equipment.

Support for equipment used in groundwater research

• Borehole geophysical logging equipment