Detection of groundwater conduits in limestones with gravity surveys: Data from the area of the Chicxulub Impact Crater, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Detection of groundwater conduits in limestones with gravity surveys: Data from the area of the Chicxulub Impact Crater, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
- Geophysical Research Letters, 27(8), p.1223-1226, 2000 .
Smalln egativeg ravitya nomalieasr e foundi n gravity data from along the northwesterns horelineo f the Yucatan PeninsulaT. hese anomaliesa re shownt o be due to elongate, shallow anomalous porosity zones in the Tertiary carbonates. Thesez onesa re causedp rimarilyb y groundwatesr olutiona nd are presently active conduits for groundwater flow. The association of these small gravity anomalies with known topographica nd structurafle atureso f the area, which partially overliest he ChicxulubI mpactc rater,i ndicatesth eir development was influencedb y structuresf,a ults and/orf racturesw, ithin the tertiary and pre-Tertiary carbonates.
Smalln egativeg ravitya nomalieasr e foundi n gravity data from along the northwesterns horelineo f the Yucatan PeninsulaT. hese anomaliesa re shownt o be due to elongate, shallow anomalous porosity zones in the Tertiary carbonates. Thesez onesa re causedp rimarilyb y groundwatesr olutiona nd are presently active conduits for groundwater flow. The association of these small gravity anomalies with known topographica nd structurafle atureso f the area, which partially overliest he ChicxulubI mpactc rater,i ndicatesth eir development was influencedb y structuresf,a ults and/orf racturesw, ithin the tertiary and pre-Tertiary carbonates.