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Senterada

ID #046
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General Information

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Outcropping/buried
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Other comments Post-late Santonian compressional overprinting: weld formation and partial downward salt flow into the source layer. Connected with de Adons diapir (ID #044) by a partially-welded, subvertical salt structure.

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Generic Data

Unique ID 46
Name Senterada
Structure type Evaporite diapir
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Southern Pyrenees
Geological Regional Setting South Pyrenees Central Unit (Nogueres zone)
Evaporite unit/s name El Pont de Suert Fm. (Middle Muschelkalk and Keuper Facies)
Evaporite unit/s age Upper Anisian and Carnian-Rhaetian (Middle-Upper Triassic)
Evaporite unit/s era Mesozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Marine
Evaporite unit/s composition Shale-Marlstone-Gypsum-Halite-Ophites
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Late Lutecian-Late Oligocene (conglomerates) and Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Late Lutecian-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Passive piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt roller (partially welded)
Mining activity? N
Mining activity start
Mining activity end
Mining galleries?
Mining products
Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Upper Jurassic – Early Albian (early stage) and Albian – Santonian (late stage)
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Gravity-driven extensional event up to late Santonian: development of the Montiberri and Northern Faiada depocenters (early stage) and main development of the Sant Gervàs and Sopeira depocenter (late stage)
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Normal high-angle faults / thrust faults / joints / thickness variations / progressive unconformities
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Lower Jurassic (limestones and dolostones)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Lower Cretaceous (limestones) / Albian-Cenomanian (grainstones) / Cenomanian (marls and limestones) / Cenomanian-Turonian (brecchias) / Turonian (limestones) / Coniacian-Santonian (limestones and brecchias)
Available seismic profiles T-41 / PIR-86-01 / PIR-86-01 / PIR-86-01 / T-42 / T-40 / T-21 / T-33 / T-32 / PIR-86-01 / PIR-86-01 / PIR-86-01 / PIR-86-01 / T-41 / T-34 / T-33 / T-21 / T-40 / T-42
Available boreholes SARROCA
Additional comments Post-late Santonian compressional overprinting: weld formation and partial downward salt flow into the source layer. Connected with de Adons diapir by a partially-welded, subvertical salt structure

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 46
Minning exploitations within <2km? N
Historical/Active
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Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 46
Outcropping area (km2) 16.82989
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 12.7530251
Max. Length (Km) 3.35536223
Max. Evaporites thickness (km)
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 163.5
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 83.6
Deformation stages 2

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 46
Section source Beamud, E., Muñoz, J. A., Fitzgerald, P. G., Baldwin, S. L., Garcés, M., Cabrera, L., Metcalf, J. R., 2011. Magnetostratigraphy and detrital apatite fission track thermochronology in syntectonic conglomerates: constraints on the exhumation of the South‐Central Pyrenees. Basin Research, 23(3), 309-331. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 Dalton, C. E. G., 2019. Stratigraphic and Structural Characterization and Evolution of Exposed Megaflaps Flanking Salt Diapirs [Ph.D. thesis]: The University of Texas, El Paso, 273 pp. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Beamud, E., Muñoz, J. A., Fitzgerald, P. G., Baldwin, S. L., Garcés, M., Cabrera, L., Metcalf, J. R., 2011. Magnetostratigraphy and detrital apatite fission track thermochronology in syntectonic conglomerates: constraints on the exhumation of the South‐Central Pyrenees. Basin Research, 23(3), 309-331. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Beamund, E., 2014. Paleomagnetism and Thermochronology in Tertiary systectonic sediments of the South-central Pyrenees: Chronostratography, kinematic and exhumation constraints [Ph.D. thesis]: Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 274p. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Saura, E., 2004. Estudi estructural de la zona de les Nogueres (Pirineus Centrals) [Ph.D. thesis]: Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 106p. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Caus, E., Teixell, A., Bernaus, J. M., 1997. Depositional model of a Cenomanian-Turonian extensional basin (Sopeira Basin, NE Spain): interplay between tectonics, eustasy and biological productivity. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 129(1-2), 23-36. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Dalton, C. E. G., 2019. Stratigraphic and Structural Characterization and Evolution of Exposed Megaflaps Flanking Salt Diapirs [Ph.D. thesis]: The University of Texas, El Paso, 273 pp. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Caus, E., Teixell, A., Bernaus, J. M., 1997. Depositional model of a Cenomanian-Turonian extensional basin (Sopeira Basin, NE Spain): interplay between tectonics, eustasy and biological productivity. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 129(1-2), 23-36. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Saura, E., Ardèvol i Oró, L., Teixell, A., Vergés, J., 2016. Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees). Tectonics, 35(3), 638-662. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 Ardèvol, L., Klimowitz, J., Malagón, J., Nagtegaal, P. J., 2000. Depositional sequence response to foreland deformation in the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Pyrenees, Spain. AAPG bulletin, 84(4), 566-587. [link]
Seismic data availability #2 Teixell, A., Muñoz, J. A., 2000. Evolución tectonosedimentaria del Pirineo meridional durante el Terciario: una síntesis basada en la transversal del río Noguera Ribagorçana. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 13(2), 251-264. [link]
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Beamud, E., Muñoz, J. A., Fitzgerald, P. G., Baldwin, S. L., Garcés, M., Cabrera, L., Metcalf, J. R., 2011. Magnetostratigraphy and detrital apatite fission track thermochronology in syntectonic conglomerates: constraints on the exhumation of the South‐Central Pyrenees. Basin Research, 23(3), 309-331. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Beamund, E., 2014. Paleomagnetism and Thermochronology in Tertiary systectonic sediments of the South-central Pyrenees: Chronostratography, kinematic and exhumation constraints [Ph.D. thesis]: Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 274p. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Dalton, C. E. G., 2019. Stratigraphic and Structural Characterization and Evolution of Exposed Megaflaps Flanking Salt Diapirs [Ph.D. thesis]: The University of Texas, El Paso, 273 pp. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Saura, E., Ardèvol i Oró, L., Teixell, A., Vergés, J., 2016. Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees). Tectonics, 35(3), 638-662. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 García-Senz, J., 2003. Cuencas extensivas del Cretácico Inferior en los Pirineos centrales, formación y subsecuente inversión [Ph.D. thesis]: Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 310pp. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Canérot, J., Hudec, M. R., Rockenbauch, K., 2005. Mesozoic diapirism in the Pyrenean orogen: Salt tectonics on a transform plate boundary. AAPG bulletin, 89(2), 211-229. [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 ICGC, 2012. Mapa Gravimètric de Catalunya 1:500.000. Barcelona, Servei Geològic de Catalunya. [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 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 (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 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 Santolaria, P., Casas-Sainz, A. M., Soto, R., Casas, A., 2017. Gravity modelling to assess salt tectonics in the western end of the South Pyrenean Central Unit. Journal of the Geological Society, 174(2), 269-288. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 n.a.
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 214-Sort. [Unpublished]
Other Maps #1 (source) Dalton, C. E. G., 2019. Stratigraphic and Structural Characterization and Evolution of Exposed Megaflaps Flanking Salt Diapirs [Ph.D. thesis]: The University of Texas, El Paso, 273 pp. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Dalton, C. E. G., 2019. Stratigraphic and Structural Characterization and Evolution of Exposed Megaflaps Flanking Salt Diapirs [Ph.D. thesis]: The University of Texas, El Paso, 273 pp. [link]
Other related references #1 Cámara, P., Flinch, J. F., 2017. The southern Pyrenees: a salt-based fold-and-thrust belt. In Juan I. Soto, Joan F. Flinch, Gabor Tari (eds.): Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins, Elsevier, pp. 395-415. [link]
Other related references #2 Allen, P. A., Armitage, J. J., Carter, A., Duller, R. A., Michael, N. A., Sinclair, H. D., Whitchurch, A.L., Whittaker, A. C., 2013. The Qs problem: Sediment volumetric balance of proximal foreland basin systems. Sedimentology, 60(1), 102-130. [link]
Other related references #3 Babault, J., Teixell, A., Struth, L., Van Den Driessche, J., Arboleya, M. L., Tesón, E., 2013. Shortening, structural relief and drainage evolution in inverted rifts: insights from the Atlas Mountains, the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia and the Pyrenees. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 377(1), 141-158. [link]
Other related references #4 Rosell, J., 1967. Estudio geológico del sector del Prepirineo comprendido entre los ríos Segre y Noguera Ribagorzana (Prov. de Lérida). Pirineos, 21, 214, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid. [link]