El relieve de la República Mexicana

Abstract

The topography of the Mexican Republic (that of the continent and· that of the ocean bottom of the exclusive economic zone) is represented in a very small scale (1:12'000,000) which permits the recognition of the major structural landforms: block-type, volcanic, and folded mountain systems; high platea u surfaces with diverse geologic and morphological characteristics; platform plains; intermontane depressions; and border plains of the mountain systems. The topography of the ocean bottom is extraordinarily diverse and complex; in it, the shelf and continental slope, continental rise, trenches, ridges, mid-oceanic ridges and rift depressions, abyssa1 plains of marine and oceanic basins, fracture zones, and sea-mounts are recognized. This complex of structural forms is the expression of the youthness of Mexican topography and of its intense present dynamics… In order to continue, download the full text in PDF.