Karst and Colors on the Yucatán Peninsula - NASA Earth …
WEBMay 7, 2022 · From an astronaut’s perspective, the wetlands along the northwest coast of the Yucatán Peninsula are arrayed in distinct colors. This photograph, taken from the International Space Station (ISS), captures the diversity of the estuarian landscape near Celestún, a fishing village in Yucatán, Mexico.
Karst and Colors on the Yucatan Peninsula - NASA
WEBMay 8, 2022 · From an astronaut’s perspective, the wetlands along the northwest coast of the Yucatán Peninsula are arrayed in distinct colors. This photograph, taken from the International Space Station (ISS), captures the diversity of the estuarian landscape near Celestún, a fishing village in Yucatán, Mexico.
Review: The Yucatán Peninsula karst aquifer, Mexico
WEBJan 26, 2011 · The Yucatán Peninsula karst aquifer is one of the most extensive and spectacular karst aquifer systems on the planet. This transboundary aquifer system extends over an area of approximately 165,000 km 2 in México, Guatemala and Belize.
WEBThe center of the ~200 km impact crater, named the Chicxulub impact crater, is located off the present YP Gulf of México coastline, at approximately 21.4 ̊N/89.52 ̊W. Fig. 1 Location and base map of the Yucatán Peninsula. Background shading indicates topographic elevation. SRTM, meters above mean sea level (mamsl).
Yucatán Peninsula - Wikipedia
WEBThe whole of the Yucatán Peninsula is an unconfined flat lying karst landscape. [7] Sinkholes, known locally as cenotes , are widespread in the northern lowlands.
WEBThe Peninsula is a karst formation, composed mainly of calcite, dolomite and gypsum, that emerged at the end of the Tertiary or during the early Quaternary (López-Ramos, 1981; Bautista et al., 2011); the oldest geologic formations are located in the south and the most recent to the north and east.
Review: The Yucatán Peninsula karst aquifer, Mexico
WEBMay 1, 2011 · AEM measurements combined with remote-sensing data analysis provide a potentially powerful multi-scale methodology for structural mapping in karst aquifers on the Yucatan Peninsula and beyond.
Evolutionary stages of the karst-anthropogenic system of the Yucatán ...
WEBDec 22, 2017 · An analysis is made of the karst geomorphosystems of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is found that the main factors influencing its formation were climate and ocean level oscillations, tectonic movements, and impact effects.
Ring of Cenotes | Karst Geochemistry and Hydrogeology
WEBThe topographic and geophysical features of the deep impact structure of the Chicxulub crater are reflected on the surface of the Yucatan Peninsula with an aligned arc of sinkholes, forming the “Ring of Cenotes”.
Changes in the sediment microbial community structure of coastal …
WEBJan 21, 2022 · The karst underground river ecosystem of Yucatan peninsula is composed of cave systems and sinkholes. The microbial diversity of water from this underground river has been studied, but, structure...