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Poza de la Sal

ID #002
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General Information

Structure type
Deformed/Undeformed
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Outcropping/buried
Evaporite unit/s name
Evaporite unit/s age
Evaporite unit/s origin
Classif. (Hudec and Jackson, 2009)
Classif. (Jackson and Talbot, 1986)
Age of evaporite flow or deformation (when deformed) ,
Other comments Age of evaporite flow not well determined. Open-pit mine aperture suggested for 2021.

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Other maps 1

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Generic Data

Unique ID 02
Name Poza de la Sal
Structure type Evaporite diapir
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Basque-Cantabrian Basin
Geological Regional Setting Burgalesa Platform
Evaporite unit/s name Keuper facies
Evaporite unit/s age Carnian-Rhaetian (Upper Triassic)
Evaporite unit/s era Mesozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Marine
Evaporite unit/s composition Marlstone-Gypsum-Claystonestone-Halite
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Upper Cretaceous (dolostones, limestones and marlstones) ; Palaeocene (dolostones, claystones and sandstones) ; Eocene (sandstones, claystones, lacustrine limestones and conglomerates)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Upper Cretaceous-Eocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Ductile piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt stock
Mining activity? Y
Mining activity start 19th century
Mining activity end 20th century
Mining galleries? Y
Mining products Halite, gypsum
Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow late Lower Cretaceous (early stage?) and Oligocene/Miocene (late reactivation stage?)
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Mesozoic extensional regime in the Basque–Cantabrian Basin (early stage) and Alpine compression (late reactivation stage)
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Joints / Faults / Low-angle extensional faults / Anticline folding / Progressive discordances
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Jurassic (Calcareous breccias, limestones and dolomites)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Late Upper Cretaceous (limestones, marlstones, marly limestones, dolostones, micritic limestones) ; Oligocene (red claystones and sandstones)
Available seismic profiles VAL-1 / VAL-2 / VAL-4 / 92PB-02 / 92PB-03 / 92PB-04 /
Available boreholes
Additional comments Age of evaporite flow not well determined. Open-pit mine aperture suggested for 2021

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 2
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Historical (not indexed in the Spanish National Minning Cadastre)
Exploitation name #1 n.a.
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 n.a.
Municipality #1 n.a.
Province #1 n.a.
Company #1 n.a.
Main minning Products #1 Halite, gypsum
Exploitation name #2
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2
Municipality #2
Province #2
Company #2
Main minning Products #2
Exploitation name #3
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3
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Province #3
Company #3
Main minning Products #3

Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 2
Outcropping area (km2) 1.50265
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 1.8
Max. Length (Km) 1.2
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 0.6
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 113
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 23
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

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Section source Quintà, A., Tavani, S. and Roca, E., 2012. Fracture pattern analysis as a tool for constraining the interaction between regional and diapir-related stress fields: Poza de la Sal Diapir (Basque Pyrenees, Spain). In Alsop,G. I.,Archer, S. G.,Hartley,A. J.,Grant, N. T and Hodgkinson,R. (eds), Salt Tectonics, Sediments and Prospectivity. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 363, 521–532. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 Mas-Tudó, R., 2011. Geometria i cinemàtica del diapir salí de Poza de la Sal. PhD thesis, Universitat de Barcelona – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Cámara, P., 2017. Salt and Strike-Slip Tectonics as Main Drivers in the Structural Evolution of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Spain. In Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins (pp. 371-393). Elsevier. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Martín-Chivelet, J., López-Gómez, J., Aguado, R., Arias, C., Arribas, J., Arribas, M. E., … , Casas-Sainz, A., 2019. The Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Rifting. In (Quesada C., Oliveira J., eds.): The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer, Cham. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Espina, R. G., 1997. La estructura y evolución tectonoestatigráfica del borde occidental de la Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica (Cordillera Cantábrica, NO de España) [Ph.D. thesis]: Univeridad de Oviedo: 230 p. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Carola, E., Muñoz, J. A., Roca, E., 2015. The transition from thick-skinned to thin-skinned tectonics in the Basque-Cantabrian Pyrenees: The Burgalesa Platform and surroundings. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 104(8), 2215-2239. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Peropadre, C., Mediato, J. F., Hernaiz, P. P., Robador, A., Solé, F. X., Sarrionandía, F., 2012. La discordancia de La Mesa (base de las Facies Utrillas) en el sinclinal de Polientes (Cretácico, Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica): implicaciones tectónicas. Geotemas, 13, 85. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Cámara, P., 2020. Inverted turtle salt anticlines in the eastern basque-cantabrian basin, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104358. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Pedrera, A., García‐Senz, J., Ayala, C., Ruiz‐Constán, A., Rodríguez‐Fernández, L. R., Robador, A., González Menéndez, L., 2017. Reconstruction of the exhumed mantle across the North Iberian Margin by crustal‐scale 3‐D gravity inversion and geological cross section. Tectonics, 36, 3155-3177. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 Quintà, A., Tavani, S. and Roca, E., 2012. Fracture pattern analysis as a tool for constraining the interaction between regional and diapir-related stress fields: Poza de la Sal Diapir (Basque Pyrenees, Spain). In Alsop,G. I.,Archer, S. G.,Hartley,A. J.,Grant, N. T and Hodgkinson,R. (eds), Salt Tectonics, Sediments and Prospectivity. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 363, 521–532. [link]
Seismic data availability #2 Mas-Tudó, R., 2011. Geometria i cinemàtica del diapir salí de Poza de la Sal. PhD thesis, Universitat de Barcelona – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. [link]
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Quintà, A., Tavani, S. and Roca, E., 2012. Fracture pattern analysis as a tool for constraining the interaction between regional and diapir-related stress fields: Poza de la Sal Diapir (Basque Pyrenees, Spain). In Alsop,G. I.,Archer, S. G.,Hartley,A. J.,Grant, N. T and Hodgkinson,R. (eds), Salt Tectonics, Sediments and Prospectivity. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 363, 521–532. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Cámara, P., 2020. Inverted turtle salt anticlines in the eastern basque-cantabrian basin, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104358. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Cámara, P., 2017. Salt and Strike-Slip Tectonics as Main Drivers in the Structural Evolution of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Spain. In Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins (pp. 371-393). Elsevier. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Carola, E., Muñoz, J. A., Roca, E., 2015. The transition from thick-skinned to thin-skinned tectonics in the Basque-Cantabrian Pyrenees: The Burgalesa Platform and surroundings. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 104(8), 2215-2239. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Pedrera, A., García‐Senz, J., Ayala, C., Ruiz‐Constán, A., Rodríguez‐Fernández, L. R., Robador, A., González Menéndez, L., 2017. Reconstruction of the exhumed mantle across the North Iberian Margin by crustal‐scale 3‐D gravity inversion and geological cross section. Tectonics, 36, 3155-3177. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Espina, R. G., 1997. La estructura y evolución tectonoestatigráfica del borde occidental de la Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica (Cordillera Cantábrica, NO de España) [Ph.D. thesis]: Univeridad de Oviedo: 230 p. [link]
Available data (Analogue modelling) #1 n.a.
Available data (Analogue modelling) #2 n.a.
Available data (Analogue modelling) #3 n.a.
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #1 Ayala, C., Bohoyo, F., Maestro, A., Reguera, M. I., Torne, M., Rubio, F., Fernández, M., García-Lobón, J. L., 2016. Updated Bouguer anomalies of the Iberian Peninsula: a new perspective to interpret the regional geology. Journal of Maps, 12(5), 1089-1092. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #2 Pedrera, A., García‐Senz, J., Ayala, C., Ruiz‐Constán, A., Rodríguez‐Fernández, L. R., Robador, A., González Menéndez, L., 2017. Reconstruction of the exhumed mantle across the North Iberian Margin by crustal‐scale 3‐D gravity inversion and geological cross section. Tectonics, 36, 3155-3177. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #3 Nettleton, L.L., 1968. Gravity anomalies over salt diapirs, northern Spain. Geological Society of America Special Papers, 88, 75–82. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #1 Ortí, F., García-Veigas, J., Rossell, L., Jurado, M. J., Utrilla, R., 1996. Formaciones salinas de las cuencas triásicas en la Península Ibérica: Caracterización Petrológica y Geoquímica. Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica, 20, 13-35. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 Andrés, J., Alcalde, J., Ayarza, P., Saura, E., Marzán, I., Martí, D., … & Rubio, F. M., 2016. Basement structure of the Hontomín CO2 storage site (Spain) determined by integration of microgravity and 3D seismic data. Solid earth, 7, 827-841. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 Llamas, B., Castañeda, M. C., Laín, C., Pous, J., 2017. Study of the Basque–Cantabrian basin as a suitable region for the implementation of an energy storage system based on compressed air energy storage (CAES). Environmental Earth Sciences, 76(5), 204. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 n.a.
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 136-Oña. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Mas-Tudó, R., 2011. Geometria i cinemàtica del diapir salí de Poza de la Sal [PhD thesis]: Universitat de Barcelona – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 77pp. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Mas-Tudó, R., 2011. Geometria i cinemàtica del diapir salí de Poza de la Sal. PhD thesis, Universitat de Barcelona – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. [link]
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