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Sonde data to characterize physical and chemical water column properties of flooded caves (Ox Bel Ha and Cenote Crustacea) within the coastal aquifer of the Yucatan Peninsula, Quintana Roo, from December 2013 to January 2015

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2013-12-04
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2013-12-07
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2013-12-08
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2014-08-13
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2014-08-14
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2014-08-15
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2014-08-17
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2015-01-14

Citation

Brankovits, D., Pohlman, J.W., Lapham, L.L., Casso, M., Mann, A.G., and O'Keefe Suttles, J.A., 2022, Water column properties and temporal hydrologic and chemical records from flooded caves (Ox Bel Ha and Cenote Crustacea) within the coastal aquifer of the Yucatan Peninsula, Quintana Roo, from December 2013 to January 2015: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P91D2OUN.

Summary

Natural cave passages penetrating coastal aquifers in the Yucatan Peninsula (Quintana Roo, Mexico) were accessed to investigate how regional meteorology and hydrology control dissolved organic carbon and methane dynamics in karst subterranean estuaries, the region of aquifers where fresh and saline waters mix. Three field trips were carried out in December 2013, August 2014, and January 2015 to obtain 1) physicochemical and 2) geochemical data from the water column and 3) temporal records of water chemistry and hydrological parameters below and above the surface at three sites within the Ox Bel Ha cave (Cenote Jailhouse, Cenote Naach Wennen Ha, and Cenote Odyssey) and another cave (Cenote Crustacea). These efforts resulted in vertical [...]

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sonde_2013-2015.xlsx
“XLSX formatted all data records from diver sonde deployments in the caves.”
1.14 MB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
sonde.jpg
“Depth profiles of salinity and dissolved oxygen (DO) from the water column.”
thumbnail 96.21 KB image/jpeg
all.csv
“CSV formatted all data records from diver sonde deployments in the caves.”
609.62 KB text/csv
CRU_Aug14.csv
“CSV formatted data from an individual deployment (subset of the larger dataset).”
72.95 KB text/csv
JAH_Aug14.csv
“CSV formatted data from an individual deployment (subset of the larger dataset).”
347.22 KB text/csv
JAH_Dec13.csv
“CSV formatted data from an individual deployment (subset of the larger dataset).”
15.5 KB text/csv
NWH_Aug14.csv
“CSV formatted data from an individual deployment (subset of the larger dataset).”
46.95 KB text/csv
NWH_Dec13.csv
“CSV formatted data from an individual deployment (subset of the larger dataset).”
8.12 KB text/csv
NWH_Jan15.csv
“CSV formatted data from an individual deployment (subset of the larger dataset).”
17.96 KB text/csv
ODY_Aug14.csv
“CSV formatted data from an individual deployment (subset of the larger dataset).”
31.4 KB text/csv
ODY_Dec13.csv
“CSV formatted data from an individual deployment (subset of the larger dataset).”
16.31 KB text/csv
ODY_Jan15.csv
“CSV formatted data from an individual deployment (subset of the larger dataset).”
24.58 KB text/csv

Purpose

These data are used to characterize the habitat and constrain the biogeochemical processes that support anchialine habitat ecosystems. The sonde data are used to identify details about the physical and chemical structure of the water column and availability of dissolved oxygen in the subterranean estuary.

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