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 -

Location

Location

Map (detail)

Location
Location

Geological map

Location

Cross section

Location

Structure type (Hudec and Jackson, 2009)

Location

Regional Stratigraphy

Location

Other maps 1

Location

Other maps 2

Generic Data

Unique ID 123
Name Igualada
Structure type Evaporite body
Deformed/Undeformed Undeformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Ebro Basin
Geological Regional Setting SE Sector
Evaporite unit/s name Òdena Gypsum Fm.
Evaporite unit/s age Priabonian (Eocene)
Evaporite unit/s era Cenozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Marine
Evaporite unit/s composition Gypsum-Shale-Marlstone-Anhydrite
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Upper Priabonian (marlstones and red sandstones) ; Lower Oligocene (grey marlstones, sandstones and conglomerates) ; Upper Miocene (conglomerates, sandstones and claystones) ; Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Upper Priabonian-Lower Oligocene and Upper Miocene-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) No diapirism
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) No diapirism
Mining activity? Y
Mining activity start
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 19
Available boreholes
Additional comments

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 123
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Active
Exploitation name #1 SANT JORDI
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 2619
Municipality #1 Jorba
Province #1 BARCELONA
Company #1 TERRACUITA JORBA, SAU
Main minning Products #1 Gypsum
Exploitation name #2 IDYSA
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2 3895-9
Municipality #2 Jorba
Province #2 BARCELONA
Company #2 GUIXOS CANALS, S.L.
Main minning Products #2 Gypsum
Exploitation name #3 LAS IGLAS
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3 2452
Municipality #3 Jorba
Province #3 BARCELONA
Company #3 GUIXOS CANALS, S.L.
Main minning Products #3 Gypsum

Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 123
Outcropping area (km2) 2.75049
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 5.69189446
Max. Length (Km) 16.2887988
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 0.1
Max. Deformation age (Ma)
Min. Deformation age (Ma)
Deformation stages 0

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 123
Section source IGME MAGNA 50. SHEET 391 (IGUALADA)
Well / Borehole availability #1 IGME MAGNA 50. SHEET 391 (IGUALADA). Supplementary information. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Serra-Kiel, J., Travé, A., i Palós, E. M., Briansó, E. S., i Cañadell, C. F., Busquets, P., …, Masip, J. V., 2003. Marine and Transitional Middle/Upper Eocene Units of the Southeastern Pyrenean Foreland Basin (NE Spain). Geologica Acta, 1(2), 177-200. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Sanjuan, J., Martín-Closas, C., Costa, E., Barberà, X., Garcés, M., 2014. Calibration of Eocene-Oligocene charophyte biozones in the Eastern Ebro Basin (Catalonia, Spain). Stratigraphy, 11(1), 61-81. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Costa, E., Garces, M., López‐Blanco, M., Beamud, E., Gómez‐Paccard, M., Larrasoaña, J. C., 2010. Closing and continentalization of the South Pyrenean foreland basin (NE Spain): magnetochronological constraints. Basin Research, 22(6), 904-917. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Colldeforns, B., Anadón, P., Cabrera, L., 1994. Litoestratigrafía del Eoceno superior-Oligoceno inferior de la zona oriental de la cuenca del Ebro. Sector de Igualada-Santa Coloma de Queralt. Geogaceta, 15, 55-58. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Ortí, F., Rosell, L., Ingles, M., Playa, E., 2007. Depositional models of lacustrine evaporites in the SE margin of the Ebro Basin (Paleogene, NE Spain). Geologica Acta: an international earth science journal, 5(1), 19-34. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 n.a.
Regional Stratigraphy Sanjuan, J., Martín-Closas, C., Serra-Kiel, J., Gallardo, H., 2012. Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy (charophytes) of the marine-terrestrial transition in the Upper Eocene of the NE Ebro Basin (Catalonia, Spain). Geologica Acta, 10(1), 1-13. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 n.a.
Seismic data availability #2 n.a.
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Vergés, J., Marzo, M., Santaeulària, T., Serra-Kiel, J., Burbank, D. W., Muñoz, J. A., Giménez-Montsant, J., 1998. Quantified vertical motions and tectonic evolution of the SE Pyrenean foreland basin. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 134(1), 107-134. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Vergés J., Muñoz J.A., Martínez A., 1992. South Pyrenean fold and thrust belt: The role of foreland evaporitic levels in thrust geometry. In: McClay K.R. (eds), Thrust Tectonics. Springer, Dordrecht, 255-264 pp. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Anadón, P., Cabrera, L., GuimerÀ, J. and Santanach, P., 1985. Paleogene strike-slip deformation and sedimentation along the southeastern margin of the Ebro basin. In: K. T. Biddle and N. Christie-Blick (Editors), Strike-Slip Deformation, Basin Formation and Sedimentation. Soc. Econ. Palaeontol. Mineral. Spec. Publ., 37: 303-318. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Anadón, P., Cabrera, L., Colombo, F., Marzo, M. y Riba, O., 1986. Syntectonic intradeforrnational unconformities in alluvial fan deposits, Eastern Ebro Basin margins (NE Spain). In Ph. Allen and P. Hornewood (eds.): Foreland basins. Spec. Publ. I.A.S., 8: 33-45. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 n.a.
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 Guinea, A., Playà, E., Rivero, L., Ledo, J. J., Queralt, P., 2012. The electrical properties of calcium sulfate rocks from decametric to micrometric scale. Journal of applied geophysics, 85, 80-91. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #2 Lugo, E., Playà, E., Rivero, L., 2008. Aplicación de la tomografía eléctrica a la prospección de formaciones evaporíticas. Geogaceta, 44, 223-226. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #3 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 (Geochemistry) #1 Utrilla, R., Pierre, C., Orti, F., Pueyo, J. J., 1992. Oxygen and sulphur isotope compositions as indicators of the origin of Mesozoic and Cenozoic evaporites from Spain. Chemical Geology, 102(1-4), 229-244. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 Casado, J., Calvo Torralba, D., Monterde Ruiz, E., Alfonso Abella, M. P., 2013. Determinación del origen de los sulfatos disueltos en las aguas de La Cuenca del LLobregat en el Bages. In Libro de Actas del III Congreso Internacional de Geología y Minería Ambiental para el Ordenamiento Territorial y el Desarrollo. (pp. 1-14). [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 Costa, E., Garces, M., López‐Blanco, M., Beamud, E., Gómez‐Paccard, M., Larrasoaña, J. C., 2010. Closing and continentalization of the South Pyrenean foreland basin (NE Spain): magnetochronological constraints. Basin Research, 22(6), 904-917. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 Guinea, A., Playà, E., Rivero, L., Ledo, J. J., Queralt, P., 2012. The electrical properties of calcium sulfate rocks from decametric to micrometric scale. Journal of applied geophysics, 85, 80-91. [link]
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 391-Igualada. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Utrilla, R.,Ortí, F.,, Pierre, C., Pueyo, J. J., 1991. Composición isotópica de las evaporitas terciarias continentales de la Cuenca del Ebro: relación con los ambientes deposicionales. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 4(3), 353-360. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Sanjuan, J., Martín-Closas, C., Costa, E., Barberà, X., Garcés, M., 2014. Calibration of Eocene-Oligocene charophyte biozones in the Eastern Ebro Basin (Catalonia, Spain). Stratigraphy, 11(1), 61-81. [link]
Other related references #1 Playà, E., Inglès, M., Rosell, L., Ortí, M., Artigau, M., Yeguas, …, Pey, J., 2012. Determining gypsum alabaster provenance in sculptural artefacts: an application example. Macla, Revista de la Sociedad Española de Mineralogía, 16, 50-51. [link]
Other related references #2 Sanjuan, J., Martín-Closas, C., Serra-Kiel, J., Gallardo, H., 2012. Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy (charophytes) of the marine-terrestrial transition in the Upper Eocene of the NE Ebro Basin (Catalonia, Spain). Geologica Acta: an international earth science journal, 10(1), 1-13. [link]
Other related references #3 Rosell i Ortiz, L. and Pueyo Mur, J. J., 1984. Características geoquímicas de la formación de sales potásicas de Navarra (Eoceno superior). Comparación con la cuenca potásica catalana. Acta Geologica Hispanica, 19, 81-95. [link]
Other related references #4 n.a.