Veronica McCauley, Alex Jensen, Nick Gibas, Tessa Buehner
Great Blue Hole Veronica McCauley, Alex Jensen, Nick Gibas, Tessa Buehner LOCATION N, W Lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, 62 miles from the mainland of Belize City. PLACE Physical characteristics: Part of the Lighthouse Reef system.In the middle of The Lighthouse Reef system is the GreatBlue Hole. This hole is almost perfectly circular.Stalactitesand limestone cover the walls more and more as you godeeper. Human Characteristics: It is known to be one of the mostastounding dive spots in the entire world. This is a bigplace for tourists. Weather: warm weather all year long June-August: Rainy February-May: Dry REGION The underwater cave contains stalactites and stalagmitespredicting that the area was once above sea level. Some of the animals that inhabit this area are the ReefSharks, Nurse sharks, and Blacktip Sharks. MOVEMENT Belize attracts countless amount of tourists that want to seeThe Great Blue Hole Belize barrier reef surrounds The Great Blue Hole The one and only way to get to the Blue Hole is by boat It takes about two hours to get to the Blue Hole fromland The first 45 minutes are over open choppy waters The next 20 minutes are going through the Turneffe Atoll The last 40 minutes are back out into open sea HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION
Belize offers a wide variety of human interactions includingsnorkeling, white water rafting, hiking, and mountain biking.However, the most famous interaction is diving into The Great BlueHole. After diving into The Great Blue Hole, NASA scientist described itas: the deepest, deep blue hole imaginable; A chasm [deep fissure inthe earth] that fell away deep into the deep, dark blue. It had beenforged out of solid rock as caverns, hundreds of thousands of yearsago during the last ice age. For eons, water filtered through the rockand into these great stone cathedrals, breeding multicolored stalactitesand stalagmites. Then, one by one they collapsed in on each other,creating a chasm four hundred feet deep. As Earths swollen polar ice- caps receded, the warm Caribbean ocean swept in to fill the chasmwith boiling white hands, the last rays of sunlight struck the chasmsfloor. Then, as the limestone broke down, it began to rain tinyfragments of rock, which slowly began to fill the great Blue Hole. How was the Blue Hole created?
Subsidence=ground failure Formed thousands of years ago Formed as a limestone cavesystem during the last Ice Age Sea levels were low Ocean began to rise Caves flooded Roof then collapsed VIDEO/FACTS/DIAGRAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBYYbGNO4cM