AMCS Bulletin 9 Hydrogeology of the Sistema Huautla Karst Groundwater Basin By James H. Smith, Jr. 154 pages, softbound 68 figures, including 16 foldouts 21 photos 2002

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.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 15
2. Important ideas of karst hydrology 29
3. Stratigraphy of the study area 37
4. Structural geology 53
5. Karst hydrology of the Sistema Huautla Karst Groundwater Basin 77
6. Hydrologic flow patterns 91
7. Geomorphology and speleogenesis of the Sistema Huautla Karst Groundwater Basin 123
References 147