Sistema Huautla, in the
state of Oaxaca, is the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere, at 1475 meters.
This newly typeset master's thesis, originally written in 1994, describes
the geology, hydrology, and speleogenesis in the area, which includes many
other deep caves. Dye-tracing results, cave maps.
Table of Contents
| 1 |
1. Introduction |
| 29 |
2. Important ideas of karst hydrology |
| 37 |
3. Stratigraphy of the study area |
| 53 |
4. Structural geology |
| 77 |
5.Karst hydrology of the Sistema Huautla Karst Groundwater Basin |
| 91 |
6. Hydrologic flow patterns |
| 123 |
7. Geomorphology and speleogenesis of the Sistema Huautla Karst Groundwater Basin |
| 147 |
8. References |
