User:SwordsmanRyan/Geology of Mexico

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The territory of Mexico contains a great diversity of geological formations. The center contains woodland, lakes and mountains with volcanic activity being the band of "Volcanic Axis", the most active today. The Yucatan peninsula is an area of lowlands.

In a discussion of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt of Mexico the basement include Proterozoic, Paleozoic and Mesozoic age rocks for the Oaxaquia, the Mixteco and the Guerrero terranes respectively.[1]

Hills, mountains and volcanoes[edit]

Altzomoni, Colima Volcano, Cerro Rabon, Cerro de Los Gallos, Cerro de la Cruz (Tepic), Cerro de la Loma Larga, Cerro de la Silla, Cerro de las Mitras, Hill Cubilete, Hill Inn, Cerro del Topo Chico, Cofre de Perote, Christ Copoya, Cuatlapanga, Cerro Culiacan, The Jorullo, Evermann volcano, Iztaccíhuatl, The m, Cerro del Muerto, Nevado de Toluca, Otzelotzi, Peña de Bernal, Pico de Orizaba, Popocatepetl, Tetela de Ocampo, Tonalapa, Xocotépetl

Cuevas[edit]

The caves are important systems and relatively little known. Their study is hampered by access to its interior and knowledge required topographic and biological. Some of the most visited caves in the area are: Naquitz Guilá, Loltún, Oxtotitlán, Cave of Swallows, Clay Cellar, Zacatón

Rivers[edit]

See: Rivers of Mexico

Lagos[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ A. Gómez-Tuena, Ma.T. Orozco-Esquivel, and L. Ferrari Igneous petrogenesis of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, Ch 5, in Susana A. Alaniz-Álvarez and Angel F. Nieto-Samaniego, eds., Geology of México, Geological Society of America Special Paper 422, 2007, p.142 - 145 ISBN 978-0813724225

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