MiscGW: Groundwater Quality

In USGS-R/smwrData: Example hydrologic data to support statistical methods in water resources

Groundwater Quality

Description

Groundwater-quality data from miscellaneous wells in the United States.

Usage

MiscGW

Format

Data frame with 4 rows and 10 columns

Name	Type	Description
Calcium	numeric	Calcium concentration
Magnesium	numeric	Magnesium concentration
Sodium	numeric	Sodium concentration
Potassium	numeric	Potassium concentration
Carbonate	numeric	Carbonate concentration
Bicarbonate	numeric	Bicarbonate concentration
Sulfate	numeric	Sulfate concentration
Chloride	numeric	Chloride concentration
Fluoride	numeric	Fluoride concentration
Nitrate	numeric	Nitrate concentration

Notes: all concentrations are in milligrams per liter; for combined sodium and potassium in the original tables, the concentration was assumed to be sodium in these data and potassium is set to 0.

Source

Extracted from Hem (1989), to replicate the data in figure 37.

References

Hem J.D., 1989, Study and interpretation of the chemical characteristics of natural water: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2254, 263 p.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(MiscGW)
# The sodium-potassium data
MiscGW[, c("Sodium", "Potassium")]

## End(Not run)

USGS-R/smwrData documentation built on Oct. 18, 2022, 9:56 a.m.