Chapter 1Lake Alchichica: History of Human Settlements
Ismael Arturo Montero-García and Roberto Esteban Junco-Sánchez
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1.1 Introduction 1.2 Prehispanic Records
1.3 Colonial Period
1.4. 19th and 20th Centuries
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 2
Geological Evolution of the Alchichica Crater
Gerardo Carrasco-Núñez and Boris Chako-Tchamabé
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2.1 Introduction
2.2 Regional Geological Setting
2.3 Maar Crater Lakes: Origin and Mechanisms of Formation
2.4 Volcanic Stratigraphy of the Alchichica Crater
2.5 Geological Evolution of the Alchichica Crater
2.6 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 3
Paleoenvironmental Change in Central Mexico During the Last 20,000 Years
Margarita Caballero, Ma. del Socorro Lozano-García and Beatriz Ortega-Guerrero
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3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Nature of Quaternary Climatic Variability
3.3. Overview of Paleoenvironmental Changes in Central Mexico Since the Last Glacial Maximum
3.3.1 Full Glacial (20,000 to 15,000 yr BP)
3.3.2 Deglaciation (15,000 - 11,700 yr BP)
3.3.3 Holocene (last 11,700 yr BP)
3.4 Lake Aljojuca: A Record of Climatic Variability During the Meghalayan in the Cuenca de Oriental
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 4
Recent Climate of Serdán-Oriental Basin
Raúl Alberto Silva-Aguilera, Óscar Escolero and Javier Alcocer
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4.1 Introduction
4.2 Climate in Serdán-Oriental Basin
4.3 Vegetation
4.4 Temperature and Precipitation Seasonality and Annual Variability
Acknowledgments
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Chapter 5
Hydrogeology and Hydrochemistry of the Serdán-Oriental Basin and the Lake Alchichica
Raúl A. Silva-Aguilera, Gloria Vilaclara, María Aurora Armienta and Óscar Escolero
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5.1 The Catchment Area: Surface and Groundwater
5.2 Hydrogeology and Hydrogeochemistry of Groundwater in the Vicinity of Lake Alchichica
5.3 Past and Present Hydrochemical Characteristics
Acknowledgments
References Chapter 6
Meteorological Regime, Local Climate, and Hydrodynamics of Lake Alchichica
Anatoliy Filonov, Irina Tereshchenko, Maria del Refugio Barba-Lopez, Javier Alcocer and Lydia Ladah
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6.1 Introduction
6.1.1 Hydrodynamic modeling in Lake Alchichica
6.2 Local climatology
6.2.1 Variability from one hour to a day (2002-2005) 6.2.2 Synoptic variability
6.2.3 Seasonal variability
6.2.4 Interannual variability
6.2.5 The effect of rain on lake stratification
6.3 Bathymetry and morphology
6.4. Hydrodynamics (measurements and modeling)
6.4.1 Lake level and current fluctuations
6.4.2 Internal waves in the lake
6.4.2.1. Fluctuations of water along the line of hydrological survey 6.4.2.2 Stratification
6.4.2.3 Temperature fluctuations in two separate points (moorings 1 and 2)
6.4.2.4 The speed of currents caused by internal waves
6.4.2.5 Trajectories of beams 6.5 Discussion and Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 7
Physicochemical Characteristics
Javier Alcocer, Martín Merino-Ibarra, Jorge A. Ramírez-Zierold, Luis A. Oseguera, Daniela Cortés-Guzmán, F. Sergio Castillo-Sandoval, Andrea P. Guzmán-Ari
About the Author: Javier Alcocer graduated at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, Mexico (1981; MSc.: 1988 & DSc.: 1995, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), biologist, limnologist. He has been studying tropical epicontinental water bodies, including lentic and lotic; was founder and president of the Asociación Mexicana de Limnología, and the Grupo de Limnología Tropical of the FES Iztacala. He is also the coordinator of the Alchichica Lake Group of the Red Mexicana de Estudios Ecológicos a Largo Plazo, the Mexican branch of ILTER. He is Investigador Nacional III of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.
