Zacatón
Since the late 1990s, Dr. Marcus Gary, a hydrogeologist at the Edwards Aquifer Authority and adjunct professor at the Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin has studied Sistema Zacatón to understand how the sinkholes formed and how they evolve over time.[14] During these studies, Gary made extensive use of a number of investigative tools, including those on the DEPTHX probe, geophysics, isotope geochemistry, field mapping, and geomicrobiology.Gary was a primary member and a principal investigator on the DEPTHX mission, which used an autonomous underwater robot to explore the deepest parts of Zacatón for the first time.In this view, volcanism turned deep water slightly acidic by adding dissolved carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide.Marc Airhart, a science writer at the Jackson School of Geosciences wrote: It’s a bit like the skin on a can of paint that has been left open in the sun.
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