General Information

Structure type
Deformed/Undeformed
Geological Setting ,
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 Series of contractional salt structures aligned along the N–S Burgalesa platform boundary: Aguilar, Reinosa and Pas evaporite structures (from south to north).

Location

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Map (detail)

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Structure type (Hudec and Jackson, 2009)

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Regional Stratigraphy

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Other maps 1

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Generic Data

Unique ID 37
Name Reinosa
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 Gypsum-Halite-Anhydrite-Shales
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Pleistocene-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Passive piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt wall
Mining activity? N
Mining activity start
Mining activity end
Mining galleries?
Mining products
Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Barremian – Albian
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Rumaceo normal fault
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Normal high-angle faults / joints
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Jurassic (dolostones, marls and oolitic limestones)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Barremian (Weald facies, limestones, clays and sandstones) / Aptian – Albian (limestones, marls, sandstones and lutites)
Available seismic profiles MARCONI WA / DR-89-02 / DR-89-02 / DR-89-02 / DR-89-02 / DR-89-02 /
Available boreholes FONTIBRE / ORZALES-7
Additional comments Series of contractional and salt structures aligned along the N–S Burgalesa platform boundary: Aguilar, Reinosa and Pas (from south to north).

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 37
Minning exploitations within <2km? N
Historical/Active
Exploitation name #1
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1
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Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 37
Outcropping area (km2) 22.48658
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 4.1
Max. Length (Km) 11.3
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 2
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 130
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 100
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 37
Section source IGME MAGNA 50. SHEET 83 (REINOSA)
Well / Borehole availability #1 n.a.
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 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) #2 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) #3 Pujalte, V., Robles, S., Mondéjar, J. G., 1986. Características sedimentológicas, secuenciales y tectoestratigráficas del Triásico de Cantabria y norte de Palencia. Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica, 10, 151-172. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 López-Gómez, J., Martín-González, F., Heredia, N., de La Horra, R., Barrenechea, J. F., Cadenas, P., Juncal, M., Díez, J. B., Borruel-Abadía, V., Pedreira, B., García-Sansegundo, J., Farias, P., Galé, C., Lago, M., Ubide, T., Fernández-Viejo, G., Gand, G., 2019. New lithostratigraphy for the Cantabrian Mountains: A common tectono-stratigraphic evolution for the onset of the Alpine cycle in the W Pyrenean realm, N Spain. Earth-Science Reviews, 188, 249-271. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Tavani, S., 2012. Plate kinematics in the Cantabrian domain of the Pyrenean orogen. Solid Earth, 3(2), 265. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Soto, R., Casas-Sainz, A. M., Villalaín, J. J., 2011. Widespread Cretaceous inversion event in northern Spain: evidence from subsurface and palaeomagnetic data. Journal of the Geological Society, 168(4), 899-912. [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 Soto, R., Casas-Sainz, A. M., Villalaín, J. J., 2011. Widespread Cretaceous inversion event in northern Spain: evidence from subsurface and palaeomagnetic data. Journal of the Geological Society, 168(4), 899-912. [link]
Seismic data availability #2 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]
Seismic data availability #3 Gallart Muset, J., Pulgar, J. A., Muñoz, J. A., Diaz, J., Ruiz Fernández, M., 2020. Litospheric Structure of the North Iberian Margin: MARCONI-WA reflection profiles. DigitalCSIC – SEISDARE data repository. [link]
Available data (Structure) #1 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) #2 Tavani, S., 2012. Plate kinematics in the Cantabrian domain of the Pyrenean orogen. Solid Earth, 3(2), 265. [link]
Available data (Structure) #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 (Structure) #4 Tavani, S., Carola, E., Granado, P., Quintà, A., Muñoz, J. A., 2013. Transpressive inversion of a Mesozoic extensional forced fold system with an intermediate décollement level in the Basque‐Cantabrian Basin (Spain). Tectonics, 32(2), 146-158. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Tavani, S., Granado, P., 2015. Along‐strike evolution of folding, stretching and breaching of supra‐salt strata in the Plataforma Burgalesa extensional forced fold system (northern Spain). Basin Research, 27(4), 573-585. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Soto, R., Casas-Sainz, A. M., Villalaín, J. J., 2011. Widespread Cretaceous inversion event in northern Spain: evidence from subsurface and palaeomagnetic data. Journal of the Geological Society, 168(4), 899-912. [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 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) #2 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) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #1 Béziat, D., Joron, J.L., Monchoux, P., Treuil, M., Walgenwitz, F., 1991. Geodynamic implications of geochemical data for the Pyrenean ophites (Spain-France). Chemical Geology, 89, 243-262. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 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) #3 Iribar, V., Ábalos, B. 2011. The geochemical and isotopic record of evaporite recycling in spas and salterns of the Basque Cantabrian basin, Spain. Applied geochemistry, 26, 1315-1329. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 Soto, R., Casas-Sainz, A. M., Villalaín J. J., Gil-Imaz, A., Fernandez-Gonzalez, G., Del Rio, P., Calvo, M., Mochales, T., 2008. Characterizing the Mesozoic extension direction in the northern Iberian plate margin by anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS). Journal of the Geological Society, 165(6), 1007-1018. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 n.a.
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 83-Reinosa. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Perona, J., 2016. Mineralizaciones de Pb-Zn asociadas a los diapiros de Murguía y Orduña (Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica) [PhD thesis]: Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, 281 pp. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Tavani, S., 2012. Plate kinematics in the Cantabrian domain of the Pyrenean orogen. Solid Earth, 3(2), 265. [link]
Other related references #1 Calvet, F., de Porta, N. S., Salvany, J. M., 1993. Cronoestratigrafía (Palinología) del Triásico Sudpirenaico y del Pirineo Vasco-Cantábrico. Acta geológica hispánica, 33-48. [link]
Other related references #2 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]
Other related references #3 n.a.
Other related references #4 n.a.