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Environmental Earth Sciences
Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences 5/2020

01-03-2020 | Original Article

Changes in the hydrochemistry of a karstic lake in Yucatan, Mexico

Authors: Eduardo Cejudo, Gilberto Acosta-González, Daniela Ortega-Camacho, Giovani Emmanuel Tun-Rosado

Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences | Issue 5/2020

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Abstract

The Yucatan Peninsula is a karstic region with groundwater-dependent ecosystems and geological features such as karstic lakes. The objective of this research was to calculate the volume of water stored in this section of the aquifer and to describe the changes in the hydrochemistry of the lake Punta Laguna as a representative of karstic lakes in the Yucatan Peninsula. A bathymetry and calculation of the volume of water stored in the lake resulted in 5,198,505 m3 with a maximum depth measured of 26.6 m Physicochemical measurements were completed in surface and three vertical profiles to estimate the mass of nutrients and ions and to describe the current hydrochemistry. The lake is an oligotrophic one of mixed-typed water (chloride-calcium/magnesium), saturated or supersaturated with calcite, dolomite and aragonite due to limestone dissolution. No evidence obtain regarding the saline intrusion. The conclusion that we can derive from the data is that Punta Laguna is a tropical karstic lake in good condition with low anthropogenic influence, evolving hydrochemically speaking. The changes over a 20-year period suggest that there has been reverse ion exchange, evaporation and sulfate reduction.
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Metadata
Title
Changes in the hydrochemistry of a karstic lake in Yucatan, Mexico
Authors
Eduardo Cejudo
Gilberto Acosta-González
Daniela Ortega-Camacho
Giovani Emmanuel Tun-Rosado
Publication date
01-03-2020
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Environmental Earth Sciences / Issue 5/2020
Print ISSN: 1866-6280
Electronic ISSN: 1866-6299
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-020-8838-3

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