Deep below the surface , within the H2O filled caverns of Cenote Zapote inwards Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula , stalactites grow into foreign shapes. Instead of their typical pointed tips , the stalactites hanging downward from the roofs at Cenote Zapote bring a blown out oral fissure similar that of a bell. They bring been called variously equally hell’s bells , elephant feet , shower heads or trumpets.
The phenomenon of hell’s bell is non understood. How were they formed , or why at that spot are no other dive sites where these structures tin hold upwards found? Hell’s bell is believed to hold upwards a form of folia formation , that are ordinarily flora only below the H2O line. The bells could bring developed out of folia equally the H2O tabular array changed since the final H2O ice age. But the machinery of folia formation itself is non fully understood together with is the champaign of report of an ongoing debate.
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Cenote Zapote is located due west of Puerto Morelos inwards Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The sinkhole took its advert from the Sapote trees growing around.
The hell’s bell formations are located at a depth of close thirty meters.
Photo credit: inspiredtodive.com
Photo credit: inspiredtodive.com
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