SHORT NOTE - World’s deepest karst hydrologic system documented in Sierra de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico

Mexico is rapidly being recognized as possessing some of the most spectacular and deepest caves in the world. Six of the 46 cave systems in the world that have been explored to depths greater than 1,000 m are in Mexico (Minton, 1994). Two of the world's 10 deepest explored caves are in Oaxaca....

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Main Author: Louise D. Hose
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Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2019-05-01
Series:Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas
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Online Access:https://rmcg.unam.mx/index.php/rmcg/article/view/1489
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description Mexico is rapidly being recognized as possessing some of the most spectacular and deepest caves in the world. Six of the 46 cave systems in the world that have been explored to depths greater than 1,000 m are in Mexico (Minton, 1994). Two of the world's 10 deepest explored caves are in Oaxaca. Mexico's second deepest explored cave, Sistema Cheve, is in the Sierra Juárez in northeastern Oaxaca (Figure 1). Its present explored depth is 1,386 m, the eighth deepest in the world… in order to continue, download the full paper in PDF
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spelling doaj-art-0098cc203965428db9f7ff6f0e7df2522025-08-20T02:32:44ZengUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoRevista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas1026-87742007-29022019-05-01121SHORT NOTE - World’s deepest karst hydrologic system documented in Sierra de Juárez, Oaxaca, MexicoLouise D. Hose0Department of Geology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Co. 80933-7150, U.S.A. Mexico is rapidly being recognized as possessing some of the most spectacular and deepest caves in the world. Six of the 46 cave systems in the world that have been explored to depths greater than 1,000 m are in Mexico (Minton, 1994). Two of the world's 10 deepest explored caves are in Oaxaca. Mexico's second deepest explored cave, Sistema Cheve, is in the Sierra Juárez in northeastern Oaxaca (Figure 1). Its present explored depth is 1,386 m, the eighth deepest in the world… in order to continue, download the full paper in PDF https://rmcg.unam.mx/index.php/rmcg/article/view/1489HYDROLOGIC SYSTEM, SIERRA JUÁREZ, OAXACA
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SHORT NOTE - World’s deepest karst hydrologic system documented in Sierra de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico
Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas
HYDROLOGIC SYSTEM, SIERRA JUÁREZ, OAXACA
title SHORT NOTE - World’s deepest karst hydrologic system documented in Sierra de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico
title_full SHORT NOTE - World’s deepest karst hydrologic system documented in Sierra de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico
title_fullStr SHORT NOTE - World’s deepest karst hydrologic system documented in Sierra de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico
title_full_unstemmed SHORT NOTE - World’s deepest karst hydrologic system documented in Sierra de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico
title_short SHORT NOTE - World’s deepest karst hydrologic system documented in Sierra de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico
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