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References

Carter, J.M., Driscoll, D.G., and Hamade, G.R., 2001, Estimated recharge to the Madison and Minnelusa aquifers in the Black Hills area, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4278, 66 p.

Carter, J.M., Driscoll, D.G., Hamade, G.R., and Jerrell, G.J., 2001, Hydrologic budgets for the Madison and Minnelusa aquifers in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming, water years 1987-96: U.S. Geological Survey Water- Resources Investigations Report 01-4119, 53 p.

Carter, J.M., and Redden, J.A., 1999a, Altitude of the top of the Inyan Kara Group in the Black Hills area, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Investigations Atlas HA-744-A, 2 sheets, scale 1:100,000. 

--1999b, Altitude of the top of the Minnekahta Limestone in the Black Hills area, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Investigations Atlas HA-744-B, 2 sheets, scale 1:100,000.

--1999c, Altitude of the top of the Minnelusa Formation in the Black Hills area, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Investigations Atlas HA-744-C, 2 sheets, scale 1:100,000.

--1999d, Altitude of the top of the Madison Limestion in the Black Hills area, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Investigations Atlas HA-744-D, 2 sheets, scale 1:100,000.

--1999e, Altitude of the top of the Deadwood Formation in the Black Hills area, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Investigations Atlas HA-744-E, 2 sheets, scale 1:100,000.

DeWitt, Ed., Redden, J.A., Buscher, David, and Wilson, A.B., 1989, Geologic map of the Black Hills area, South Dakota and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Map I-1910.

Driscoll, D.G., 1992, Plan of study for the Black Hills Hydrology Study, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 92-84, 10 p.

Driscoll, D.G., and Bradford, W.L., 1994, Compilation of selected hydrologic data, through water year 1992, Black Hills Hydrology Study, western South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-319, 158 p.

Driscoll, D.G., Bradford, W.L., and Moran, M.J., 2000, Selected hydrologic data, through water year 1998, Black Hills Hydrology Study, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-70, 284 p.

Driscoll, D.G., Bradford, W.L., and Neitzert, K.M., 1996, Selected hydrologic data, through water year 1994, Black Hills Hydrology Study, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-399, 162 p.

Driscoll, D.G. and Carter, J.M., 2001, Hydrologic conditions and budgets in the Black Hills area of South Dakota, through water year 1998: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4226, 143 p.

Driscoll, D.G., Hamade, G.R., and Kenner, S.J., 2000, Summary of precipitation data compiled for the Black Hills area of South Dakota, water years 1931-98: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-329, 151 p.

Driscoll, D.G., and Hayes, T.S., 1995, Arsenic loads in Spearfish Creek, western South Dakota, water years 1989-91: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-249, 194 p.

Feldman, R.M., and Heimlich, R.A., 1980, The Black Hills: K/H Geology Field Guide Series, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 190 p.

Greene, E.A., 1993, Hydraulic properties of the Madison Aquifer System in the western Rapid City area, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4008, 56 p.

Hayes, T.S., 1999, Episodic sediment-discharge events in Cascade Springs, southern Black Hills, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4168, 34p.

Hortness, J.E., and Driscoll, D.G., 1998, Streamflow losses in the Black Hills of western South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4116, 99 p.

Johnson, B.N., 1933, A climatological review of the Black Hills: The Black Hills Engineer, Rapid City, South Dakota, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 71 p.

Kyllonen, D.P., and Peter, K.D., 1987, Geohydrology and water quality of the Inyan Kara, Minnelusa, and Madison aquifers of the northern Black Hills, South Dakota and Wyoming, and Bear Lodge Mountains, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 86-4158, 61 p.

Miller, L.D., and Driscoll, D.G., 1998, Streamflow characteristics for the Black Hills of South Dakota, through water year 1993: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4288, 322 p.

Naus, S.A., Driscoll, D.G., and Carter, J.M., 2001, Geochemistry of the Madison and Minnelusa aquifers in the Black Hills area, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4129, 118 p.

Peter, K.D., 1985, Availability and quality of water from the bedrock aquifers in the Rapid City area, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 85-4022, 34 p.

Rahn, P.H., and Gries, J.P., 1973, Large springs in the Black Hills, South Dakota and Wyoming: South Dakota Geological Survey Report of Investigations 107, 46 p.

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1990, Climatological data for South Dakota, annual summary: Asheville, North Carolina (issued annually).

Strobel, M.L., Davis, A.D., Sawyer, J.F., Webb, C.J., Naus, C.A., and Rahn, P.H., eds., 2000, Hydrology of the Black Hills -- Proceedings of the 1999 Conference on the Hydrology of the Black Hills: Rapid City, S. Dak., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Bulletin no. 20, 247 p.

Strobel, M.L., Galloway, J.M., Hamade, G.R., and Jarrell, G.J., 2000a, Protentiometric surface of the Inyan Kara aquifer in the Black Hills area, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Hyrologic Investigations Atlas HA-745-A, 2 sheets, scale 1:100,000.

--12000b, Protentiometric surface of the Minnekahta aquifer in the Black Hills area, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Hyrologic Investigations Atlas HA-745-B, 2 sheets, scale 1:100,000.

--12000c, Protentiometric surface of the Minnelusa aquifer in the Black Hills area, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Hyrologic Investigations Atlas HA-745-C, 2 sheets, scale 1:100,000.

--12000d, Protentiometric surface of the Madison aquifer in the Black Hills area, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Hyrologic Investigations Atlas HA-745-D, 2 sheets, scale 1:100,000.

--2000e, Protentiometric surface of the Deadwood aquifer in the Black Hills area, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Hyrologic Investigations Atlas HA-745-E, 2 sheets, scale 1:100,000.

Strobel, M.L., Jarrell, G.J., Sawyer, J.F., Schleicher, J.R., and Fahrenbach, M.D., 1999, Distribution of hydrogeologic units in the Black Hills area, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Investigations Atlas HA-743, 3 sheets, scale 1:100,000.

Williamson, J.E., and Carter, J.M., 2001, Water-quality characteristics for the Black Hills area, South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4194, 196 p.

Williamson, J.E., and Hayes, T.S., 2000, Water-quality characteristics for selected streams in Lawrence County, South Dakota, 1988-92: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4220, 131 p.

Williamson, J.E., Jarrell, G.J., Clawges, R.M., Galloway, J.M., and Carter, J.M., 2000, Digital data sets for map products produced as part of the Black Hills Hydrology Study, western South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-471.