• Landform
  • Surface landform

cenote

cenotes

1.

cenote - a partly water-tilled, wall-sided doline.

Gillieson, 1996

2.

cenote : Steep-walled natural well that extends below the water tabl?; generally caused by collapse of a cave roof. Term used only for features in Yucatan. See also natural well.

Monroe, 1970

3.

A particular type of collapse doline is the cenotes, open depressions in the coastal karst belts giving access to the water table and resulting from the collapse of the roof of submerged cavities.

White and Culver, 2012

CAUSE caused by collapse of a cave roof
natural
FORM wall-sided
steep-walled
open depressions
LOCATION extends below the water table
in the coastal karst belts
ATTRIBUTE water-tilled
FUNCTION giving access to the water table