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Aranjuez-Getafe

ID #121
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General Information

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Deformed/Undeformed
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Outcropping/buried
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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 Decimeter-thick layers of gypsum with centimetric intercalations of claystones and marlstones. Gypsum shows meso- and macro-lenticular fabrics with a bimodal size-distribution of the lenses. Burrowing features and chert nodules are also common.

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Generic Data

Unique ID 121
Name Aranjuez-Getafe
Structure type Evaporite body
Deformed/Undeformed Undeformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Tagus Basin
Geological Regional Setting Madrid Basin
Evaporite unit/s name Unnamed
Evaporite unit/s age Lower-Middle Miocene
Evaporite unit/s era Cenozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Continental (lacustrine)
Evaporite unit/s composition Gypsum-Halite-Anhydrite-Shale-Marlstone
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Middle-Upper Miocene (limestones, dolostones and marlstones) ; Upper Miocene (sandstones and red claystones) ; Upper Miocene (limestones) ; Upper Pliocene (sandstones and red claystones) ; Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Middle Miocene-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) No diapirism
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) No diapirism
Mining activity? Y
Mining activity start Roman Empire
Mining activity end Active
Mining galleries? Y
Mining products Gypsum
Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? N
Age of evaporite flow –
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms –
Flow-linked structures? –
Halokinetic structures –
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) –
Syn-kinematic unit/s –
Available seismic profiles ILIHA B-E / ILIHA X-A
Available boreholes FINCA SAN ISIDRO / PLEITO (ESQUIVIAS)
Additional comments Decimeter-thick layers of gypsum with centimetric intercalations of claystones and marlstones. Gypsum shows meso and macrolenticular fabrics with a bimodal size-distribution of the lenses. Burrowing features and chert nodules are also common.

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 121
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Active
Exploitation name #1 SOLEDAD II
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 ca2988-11
Municipality #1 Ciempozuelos
Province #1 MADRID
Company #1 PLADUR GYPSUM, SA
Main minning Products #1 Gypsum
Exploitation name #2 SAN JOSÉ
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2 2815
Municipality #2 San Martín de la Vega
Province #2 MADRID
Company #2 YESOS HERMANOS CASTAÑO, S.L.
Main minning Products #2 Gypsum
Exploitation name #3 LLANO DEL OLIVAR
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3 187
Municipality #3 San Martín de la Vega
Province #3 MADRID
Company #3 YESOS SAN MARTIN, S.A.
Main minning Products #3 Gypsum

Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 121
Outcropping area (km2) 322.24643
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 44.491569
Max. Length (Km) 11.482416
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 0.4
Max. Deformation age (Ma) –
Min. Deformation age (Ma) –
Deformation stages 0

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 121
Section source Cañaveras, J. C., Calvo, J. P., Ordóñez, S., Muñoz-Cervera, M. C., Sánchez-Moral, S., 2020. Tectono-Sedimentary Evolution of the Madrid Basin (Spain) during the Late Miocene: Data from Paleokarst Profiles in Diagenetically-Complex Continental Carbonates. Geosciences, 10(11), 433. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 n.a.
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Cañaveras, J. C., Calvo, J. P., Ordóñez, S., Muñoz-Cervera, M. C., Sánchez-Moral, S., 2020. Tectono-Sedimentary Evolution of the Madrid Basin (Spain) during the Late Miocene: Data from Paleokarst Profiles in Diagenetically-Complex Continental Carbonates. Geosciences, 10(11), 433. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Calvo, J. P., Zarza, A. A., Del Cura, M. G., 1989. Models of Miocene marginal lacustrine sedimentation in response to varied depositional regimes and source areas in the Madrid Basin (Central Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 70(1-3), 199-214. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Calvo, J. P., Pozo, M., Silva, P. G., Morales, J., 2013. Pattern of sedimentary infilling of fossil mammal traps formed in pseudokarst at Cerro de los Batallones, Madrid Basin, central Spain. Sedimentology, 60(7), 1681-1708. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Garrote, J., Heydt, G. G., Cox, R. T., 2008. Multi-stream order analyses in basin asymmetry: a tool to discriminate the influence of neotectonics in fluvial landscape development (Madrid Basin, Central Spain). Geomorphology, 102(1), 130-144. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Rodríguez‐Aranda, J. P., Calvo, J. P., Sanz‐Montero, M. E., 2002. Lower Miocene gypsum palaeokarst in the Madrid Basin (central Spain): dissolution diagenesis, morphological relics and karst end‐products. Sedimentology, 49(6), 1385-1400. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Karampaglidis, T., Benito-Calvo, A., Rodés, A., Braucher, R., Pérez-González, A., Pares, J., …, Bourles, D., 2020. Pliocene endorheic-exhoreic drainage transition of the Cenozoic Madrid Basin (Central Spain). Global and Planetary Change, 194, 103295. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Cañaveras, J. C., Calvo, J. P., Ordóñez, S., Muñoz-Cervera, M. C., Sánchez-Moral, S., 2020. Tectono-Sedimentary Evolution of the Madrid Basin (Spain) during the Late Miocene: Data from Paleokarst Profiles in Diagenetically-Complex Continental Carbonates. Geosciences, 10(11), 433. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 De Vicente, G., Muñoz-Martín, A., 2013. The Madrid Basin and the Central System: A tectonostratigraphic analysis from 2D seismic lines. Tectonophysics, 602, 259-285. [link]
Seismic data availability #2 Diaz, J., Gallart Muset, J., Córdoba, D., Senos, L., Matias, L., Suriñach, E., …, Maguire, P., 2020. The ILIHA deep seismic sounding experiment (Iberian LIthosphere Heterogeneity and Anisotropy). DigitalCSIC – SEISDARE data repository. [link]
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 De Vicente, G., Muñoz-Martín, A., 2013. The Madrid Basin and the Central System: A tectonostratigraphic analysis from 2D seismic lines. Tectonophysics, 602, 259-285. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 De Vicente, G., Giner, J. L., Muñoz-Martín, A., González-Casado, J. M., Lindo, R., 1996. Determination of present-day stress tensor and neotectonic interval in the Spanish Central System and Madrid Basin, central Spain. Tectonophysics, 266(1-4), 405-424. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 De Vicente, G., González-Casado, J. M., Muñoz-Martin, A., Giner, J., Rodríguez-Pascua, M. A., 1995. Structure and Tertiary evolution of the Madrid Basin. In P. Friend & C. Dabrio (Eds.), Tertiary Basins of Spain: The Stratigraphic Record of Crustal Kinematics (World and Regional Geology, pp. 263-267). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Suárez, I., Zapatero, M. A., Martínez, R., Marina, M., 2009. Synthesis of the exploration of formations with a potential of CO2 storage: Intermediate Depression and Madrid Basin. Energy Procedia, 1(1), 2709-2715. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 del Olmo, W. M., 2019. Cambio climático, acuerdos de París y trampas geológicas donde secuestrar el CO2 en España. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 32(2), 87-106. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 n.a.
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 Olaiz, A.J., Mantilla Pimiento, A., Muñoz Martín, A.,De Vicente Muñoz, G., 2015. Structural Achitecture of the Madrid Basin from 3D Gravity Inversion. Conference Paper 77th EAGE Conference & Exhibition 2015 . pp. 1-4. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #2 Calvo, J. P., Pozo, M., Silva, P. G., Morales, J., 2013. Pattern of sedimentary infilling of fossil mammal traps formed in pseudokarst at Cerro de los Batallones, Madrid Basin, central Spain. Sedimentology, 60(7), 1681-1708. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #3 De Vicente, G., Muñoz-Martín, A., 2013. The Madrid Basin and the Central System: A tectonostratigraphic analysis from 2D seismic lines. Tectonophysics, 602, 259-285. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #1 Cañaveras, J. C., Calvo, J. P., Ordóñez, S., Muñoz-Cervera, M. C., Sánchez-Moral, S., 2020. Tectono-Sedimentary Evolution of the Madrid Basin (Spain) during the Late Miocene: Data from Paleokarst Profiles in Diagenetically-Complex Continental Carbonates. Geosciences, 10(11), 433. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 Calvo, J. P., Pozo, M., Silva, P. G., Morales, J., 2013. Pattern of sedimentary infilling of fossil mammal traps formed in pseudokarst at Cerro de los Batallones, Madrid Basin, central Spain. Sedimentology, 60(7), 1681-1708. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 Herranz, J. E., Pozo, M., 2018. Authigenic Mg-Clay Minerals Formation in Lake Margin Deposits (the Cerro de los Batallones, Madrid Basin, Spain). Minerals, 8(10), 418. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 Vera, F. L., Lerman, J. C., Muller, A. B., 1981. The Madrid basin aquifer: Preliminary isotopic reconnaissance. Journal of Hydrology, 54(1-3), 151-166. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 n.a.
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 605-Aranjuez. [link] and 582-Getafe. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Cañaveras, J. C., Calvo, J. P., Ordóñez, S., Muñoz-Cervera, M. C., Sánchez-Moral, S., 2020. Tectono-Sedimentary Evolution of the Madrid Basin (Spain) during the Late Miocene: Data from Paleokarst Profiles in Diagenetically-Complex Continental Carbonates. Geosciences, 10(11), 433. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Herranz, J. E., Pozo, M., 2018. Authigenic Mg-Clay Minerals Formation in Lake Margin Deposits (the Cerro de los Batallones, Madrid Basin, Spain). Minerals, 8(10), 418. [link]
Other related references #1 García, R., Petit-Domínguez, M. D., Rucandio, M. I., González, J. A., 2011. Provenance of loess from the Spanish central region: chemometric interpretation. Geological Magazine, 148(3), 481-491. [link]
Other related references #2 Fort, R., de Buergo, M. A., Perez-Monserrat, E. M., Gomez-Heras, M., Varas-Muriel, M. J., Freire, D. M., 2013. Evolution in the use of natural building stone in Madrid, Spain. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 46(4), 421-429. [link]
Other related references #3 Megias, A. G., Ordóñez-Delgado, S., Calvo, J. P., 1981. Tertiary clastic gipsum deposits in the Madrid basin (Spain). International Association of Sedimentologists. Abstracts II European Meeting. [link]
Other related references #4 Menéndez Pidal, I., Mancebo Piqueras, J. A., Sanz-Pérez, E., Sáenz-Sanz, C., 2021. Influence of Hydrogeochemistry on Tunnel Drainage in Evaporitic Formations: El Regajal Tunnel Case Study (Aranjuez, Spain). Sustainability, 13, 1505. [link]