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AMCS Reprint Series 4

Las Cavernas de Cerro Grande,
Estados de Colima y Jalisco

By Carlos Lazcano Sahagún
Universidad de Guadalahara 1988 (AMCS reprint 2002)
5.5 by 8.5 inches, 144 pages, 15 photo plates


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Survey of this important cave area, with list of 94 caves and details about and maps of about thirty of the major ones. Resumidero de Toxín is 3 kilometers long, but most of the caves are vertical. Many have drops of more than 50 meters, and five of them have pits deeper than 100 meters. Pozo de las Lentiscos has a 126-meter drop, and Resumidero de Pozo Blanco has a 233-meter drop. Foldout area map and bibliography of 43 items. Most of the information is accessible without extensive knowledge of Spanish. Available as scanned pages in a PDF file on a CD along with AMCS Reprint 5.


Table of Contents

13
Introducción
17
El Área de Cerro Grande
29
Geología
39
El Karst del Área de Cerro Grande
55
Las Cavernas de Cerro Grande
67
Inventario de Cavidades
141
Bibliografía

 


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