We classify salt-related faults and fault welds in the northern Gulf of Mexico on the basis of the three-dimensional geometry of the faults, welds, deformed strata, and associated salt bodies. Kinematic or genetic criteria are not used in the classification, although we comment on these aspects where they are helpful.

Use of groundwater-flow models for prediction of future availability of water resources is standard practice. Having accurate hydraulic parameters for input into groundwater-flow models is critical to the generation of realistic local and regional water-resource management plans. Transmissivity, hydraulic conductivity, and storativity are some of the important parameters needed for developing numerical groundwater-flow models.