PhD student, Nabil Shawwa, had his photo selected as the cover for this April's 2023 volume of "Geology"
This is an aerial view of Dean's Blue Hole, near Clarence Town on Long Island, Bahamas. This water-filled sinkhole is the deepest known cave in the Bahamas, and the second deepest in the world, at 202 m. Although the processes linked with it's formation are still unclear, its considerable depth might suggest a fracture of the bank margin. See 'Carbon isotope and biostratigraphic evidence for an expanded Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum sedimentary record in the deep Gulf of Mexico' by Vimpere et al., p. 334-339.
Photo credit: Lucas Vimpere and Nabil A. Shawwa
Posted on: Thursday, April 6, 2023