Integrated land and water-borne geophysical surveys shed light on the sudden drying of large karst lakes in southern Mexico

Bücker, Matthias; Flores Orozco, Adrián; Gallistl, Jakob; Steiner, Matthias; Aigner, Lukas; Hoppenbrock, Johannes; Glebe, Ruth; Morales Barrera, Wendy; Pita de la Paz, Carlos; García García, César Emilio; Razo Pérez, José Alberto; Buckel, Johannes; Hördt, Andreas; Schwalb, Antje; Pérez, Liseth

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-439-2021

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-439-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-439-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

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24 Feb 2021

Research article |

| 24 Feb 2021

Integrated land and water-borne geophysical surveys shed light on the sudden drying of large karst lakes in southern Mexico

Matthias Bücker, Adrián Flores Orozco, Jakob Gallistl, Matthias Steiner, Lukas Aigner, Johannes Hoppenbrock, Ruth Glebe, Wendy Morales Barrera, Carlos Pita de la Paz, César Emilio García García, José Alberto Razo Pérez, Johannes Buckel, Andreas Hördt, Antje Schwalb, and Liseth Pérez

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RC1: 'Review Matthias Bücker et al. (MS No. se-2020-75)', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Jun 2020
- AC1: 'Authors´ response to referee 1', Matthias Bücker, 27 Aug 2020
RC2: 'Review', Pritam Yogeshwar, 05 Jul 2020
- AC2: 'Authors´ response to referee (Pritam Yogeshwar)', Matthias Bücker, 27 Aug 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Matthias Bücker on behalf of the Authors (30 Nov 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (02 Dec 2020) by Ulrike Werban

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (14 Dec 2020)

RR by Pritam Yogeshwar (04 Jan 2021)

Suggestions for revision or reasons for rejection

Dear Editor and dear Authors,

please find attached and below my report.

Best wishes,
Pritam Yogeshwar

1. General Comments
I have carefully re-reviewed the manuscript (MS). For my feeling, the authors have significantly improved the MS. The red line has become very clear and is worked out well now in the revised version. Furthermore, the authors have expanded the results and included various discussion points also to give a more general conclusion. The reader is guided clearly through the study now.

Actually all my points were discussed in great detail and all suggestions were considered and followed where it was appropriate. I appreciate the very precise and clear answers of the authors in this revision round. Therefore, I do not have any more general comments.

2. Specific comments
All technical comments where considered and answered in detail. Where appropriate the text was expanded and discussion points included. However, I do have a few more specific comments/suggestions that can be considered:
• I do suggest to included a small overview Figure 1a with the boarders of Mexico. It is more convenient to start location description at a larger scale.
• I found it quite interesting that the lakes have differing water conductivity. The chemical analysis of the sediments and the water are discussed in the MS later on. Maybe you can add some sentence if they do shed some light on the evolution of the lakes.

3. Technical corrections
Some few technical corrections remain:
• L260 - TU - Vienna
• L300 - local heights -> maybe better "...local rising of the ..."
• L315 - possibly include one sentence, e.g. "... which shows the benefit of evaluating the TD-IP phase".
• Figure 4 - it would be actually nice if the width of the subfigures are adjusted to that the profile meters are aligned to compare the structures better in a 1-1 way.
• Figure 8 b-d - include some reference in the text and short description. Please check also for other subfigures if they are referenced in the text.
• p14 - p16 - please check language. For me the language here can be improved, e.g. "underpinned", "were unplugged".

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (06 Jan 2021) by Ulrike Werban

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (07 Jan 2021) by CharLotte Krawczyk (Executive editor)

AR by Matthias Bücker on behalf of the Authors (14 Jan 2021) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

We use seismic, electromagnetic, and geoelectrical methods to assess sediment thickness and lake-bottom geology of two karst lakes. An unexpected drainage event provided us with the unusual opportunity to compare water-borne measurements with measurements carried out on the dry lake floor. The resulting data set does not only provide insight into the specific lake-bottom geology of the studied lakes but also evidences the potential and limitations of the employed field methods.