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Fig. 1. Overview of natural and artificial causes of groundwater salinity problems in southcentral Kansas. Most of the salt penetrates into the aquifer of GMD5 from underlying
Permian bedrock formations; GMD2 is affected primarily by downgradient groundwater
transport of salt, with some local penetration from the bedrock.