Overview of the Controls on Eogenetic Cave and Karst Development in Quintana Roo, Mexico

Kambesis, Patricia N.; Coke, James G.

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5016-6_16

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“…The wide horizontal shape is a result of dissolution in the mixing zone and shows little evidence of past flow direction or velocities (Smart et al, 2006). However, the northeast-southwest Rio Hondo Fault Zone may have also influenced cave passage development in Sac Actun, but there is no definitive study of this feature (Kambesis and Coke, 2013;Weidie, 1985). From the pit the northeast passage leads to Cenote La Concha which is over z600 m upstream from HN but has a very narrow passage (Fig.…”

Section: Hoyo Negro -Sac Actun Cave Systemmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…1). The Outland Cave is part of a network of over 1000 km of anastomosing phreatic caves that trend sub-perpendicular to the Caribbean Coast from Puerto Morelos to Miyul (Kambesis and Coke, 2013). As the anastomosing conduits drain the upland areas, flow is generally to the east towards the coast (Neuman and Rahbek, 2007).…”

Section: Hoyo Negro -Sac Actun Cave Systemmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Studies of the water table response to external forcing mechanisms in the Northwestern Yucatan have shown that sea-level is a controlling factor on water table fluctuations (Perry et al, 1989(Perry et al, , 1995(Perry et al, , 2003. However, fault and fracture zones (Rio Hondo, Holbox) are thought to influence water flow (Kambesis and Coke, 2013).…”

Section: Geologic Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reconstructing water level in Hoyo Negro, Quintana Roo, Mexico, implications for early Paleoamerican and faunal access

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Reinhardt

Rissolo

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Quaternary Science Reviews

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Section: Hoyo Negro -Sac Actun Cave Systemmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Hoyo Negro -Sac Actun Cave Systemmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Reconstructing water level in Hoyo Negro, Quintana Roo, Mexico, implications for early Paleoamerican and faunal access

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Rissolo

et al. 2015

Quaternary Science Reviews

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“…They are the two largest submerged karst networks in the world. Each network is comprised of more than 200 km of connected conduits [21] and covers an area of about 10 × 10 km 2 with a limited vertical extension (average conduit depth is approximately 12 m). They formed within a horizontal FIGURE 1 | Cave divers' maps of (1) the Sac Actun system and (2) Ox Bel Ha.…”

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Subnetworks of Percolation Backbones to Model Karst Systems Around Tulum, Mexico

Hendrick

Renard

2016

Front. Phys.

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Karstic caves, which play a key role in groundwater transport, are often organized as complex connected networks resulting from the dissolution of carbonate rocks. In this work, we propose a new model to describe and study the structures of the two largest submersed karst networks in the world. Both of these networks are located in the area of Tulum (Quintana Roo, Mexico). In a previous work [1] we showed that these networks behave as self-similar structures exhibiting well-defined scaling behaviors. In this paper, we suggest that these networks can be modeled using substructures of percolation clusters (θ -subnetworks) having similar structural behavior (in terms of fractal dimension and conductivity exponent) to those observed in Tulum's karst networks. We show in addition that these θ -subnetworks correspond to structures that minimize a global function, where this global function includes energy dissipation by the viscous forces when water flows through the network, and the cost of network formation itself.

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“…They are natural, underground, coastal, networks transporting water from inland to the sea. The area of Tulum hosts two of the largest water filled networks in the world: Ox Bel Ha and Sac Actun (above 200 km of connected conduits for each one [9]). Due to their large sizes and the relatively simple and homogeneous geology (horizontal carbonate platform) of the underground, we expect that these networks exhibit a well marked statistical signature characterizing the physical processes of their formation.…”

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Fractal Dimension, Walk Dimension and Conductivity Exponent of Karst Networks around Tulum

Hendrick

Renard

2016

Front. Phys.

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Understanding the complex structure of karst networks is a challenge. In this work, we characterize the fractal properties of some of the largest coastal karst network systems in the world. They are located near the town of Tulum (Quintana Roo, Mexico). Their fractal dimension d f , conductivity exponent μ and walk dimension d w are estimated using real space renormalization and numerical simulations. We obtain the following values for these exponents: d f ≈ 1.5, d w ≈ 2.4, μ ≈ 0.9. We observe that the Einstein relation holds for these structures μ ≈ −d f + d w . These results indicate that coastal karst networks can be considered as critical systems and this provides some foundations to model them within this framework.

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Overview of the Controls on Eogenetic Cave and Karst Development in Quintana Roo, Mexico

Cited by 30 publications

References 19 publications

Reconstructing water level in Hoyo Negro, Quintana Roo, Mexico, implications for early Paleoamerican and faunal access

Reconstructing water level in Hoyo Negro, Quintana Roo, Mexico, implications for early Paleoamerican and faunal access

Subnetworks of Percolation Backbones to Model Karst Systems Around Tulum, Mexico

Fractal Dimension, Walk Dimension and Conductivity Exponent of Karst Networks around Tulum

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