Abstract
The Cuatro Ciénegas area is renown worldwide for its thermal springs, which feed a unique ecosystem consisting of many pools, lakes and marshes. The pools also represent a very important water resource in a region characterized by scarce rainfalls. Field investigation has emphasized the role of karst in the hydrogeology of the area. Only few and restricted forms of surface karst are represented; caves are mainly relics of old speleogenetic phases of thermal and bathyphreatic water flow.
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.36.2.4
Recommended Citation
Piccini, Leonardo; Paolo Forti; Italo Giulivo; and Marco Mecchia.
2007.
The polygenetic caves of Cuatro Ciénegas (Coahuila, Mexico): morphology and speleogenesis.
International Journal of Speleology,
36: 83-92.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol36/iss2/4
