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Calahorra-Lodosa

ID #126
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General Information

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Age of evaporite flow or deformation (when deformed)
Other comments Evaporites formed under a playa-lake system. Detritic intercalations are related to the Pyrenean and Iberian ranges uplift during the Oligocene and Early Miocene (see Salvany, 1989).

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Generic Data

Unique ID 126
Name Calahorra-Lodosa
Structure type Evaporite body
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Ebro Basin
Geological Regional Setting NW Sector
Evaporite unit/s name Falces gypsum Fm. and Lerín Gypsum Fm.
Evaporite unit/s age Oligocene-Lower Miocene
Evaporite unit/s era Cenozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Continental
Evaporite unit/s composition Gypsum-Shale-Anhydrite-Glauberite-Halite-Sandstone
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Middle-Upper Miocene (limestones, sandstones and conglomerates) ; 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
Mining activity end Active
Mining galleries? N
Mining products Gravel and sand
Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Lower Miocene (early stage) and Middle Miocene (late stage)
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Miocene (Alpine) compression in the Navarra-Rioja basin (folding during the early stage and thrust emplacement during the late stage)
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Thrust faults / anticline-syncline folding / Low-angle unconformities
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) –
Syn-kinematic unit/s Lower Miocene (Tudela Fm., shales and sandstones) ; Lower-Middle Miocene (Alfaro Fm., sandstones)
Available seismic profiles LO-15 / LO-7 / RI-16 / LO-15 / LO-3 / RI-43 / LO-04 / LO-07 / LO-15 / LO-15 / RI-37 / RI-7 / ELZ-12 / LO-4 / RI-16 / LO-7 /
Available boreholes RINCON DE SOTO (RINCON) / CORERA-1 / CALAHORRA / GALILEA-2 / GALILEA-1 / QUEL / REDAL-1
Additional comments Evaporites formed under a playa-lake system. Detritic intercalations are related to the Pyrenean and Iberian ranges uplift during the Oligocene and Early Miocene (see Salvany, 1989)

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 126
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Active
Exploitation name #1 SOMADILLA
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 348
Municipality #1 Calahorra
Province #1 LA RIOJA
Company #1 HORMIGONES REINARES SA
Main minning Products #1 Gravel and sand
Exploitation name #2 LA PLANILLA
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2 405
Municipality #2 Pradejón
Province #2 LA RIOJA
Company #2 HORMIGONES REINARES SA
Main minning Products #2 Gravel and sand
Exploitation name #3 LA ESTANCA
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3 3392
Municipality #3 Calahorra
Province #3 LA RIOJA
Company #3 CERAMICA LA ESTANCA, S.A.
Main minning Products #3 Claystone

Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 126
Outcropping area (km2) 309.90431
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 37.341619
Max. Length (Km) 19.8712307
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 0.6
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 20
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 12
Deformation stages 2

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 126
Section source Casas-Sainz, A. M., Gil, I., Leránoz, B., Millán, H., Simón, L., 1994. Quaternary reactivation of flexural-slip folds by diapiric activity: example from the western Ebro Basin (Spain). Geologische Rundschau, 83(4), 853-867. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 Lanaja, J. M., R. Querol, A. Navarro, 1987. Contribución de la Exploración Petrolífera al Conocimiento de la Geología de España, pp. 1–465, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Salvany, J. M., 1989. Los sistemas lacustres evaporíticos del sector navarro-riojano de la Cuenca del Ebro durante el Oligoceno y Mioceno inferior. Acta geológica hispánica, 231-241. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Casas-Sainz, A. M., Gil, I., Leránoz, B., Millán, H., Simón, L., 1994. Quaternary reactivation of flexural-slip folds by diapiric activity: example from the western Ebro Basin (Spain). Geologische Rundschau, 83(4), 853-867. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Casas-Sáinz, A. M., Berdiel, T. R., 1999. Geología de los alrededores de Calahorra (Rioja Baja). Zubía, (17), 165-194. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Orti, F., Rosell, L., Playa, E., Salvany, J. M., 2012. Meganodular anhydritization: a new mechanism of gypsum to anhydrite conversion (Palaeogene–Neogene, Ebro Basin, North‐east Spain). Sedimentology, 59(4), 1257-1277. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Suárez González, P., Quijada, I. E., Benito Moreno, M. I., Mas Mayoral, J. R., 2013. Eustatic versus tectonic control in an intraplate rift basin (Leza Fm, Cameros Basin). Chronostratigraphic and paleogeographic implications for the Aptian of Iberia. Journal of Iberian Geology, 39(2), 285-312. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 n.a.
Regional Stratigraphy Salvany, J. M., 1989. Los sistemas lacustres evaporíticos del sector navarro-riojano de la Cuenca del Ebro durante el Oligoceno y Mioceno inferior. Acta geológica hispánica, 231-241. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 n.a.
Seismic data availability #2 n.a.
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Casas-Sainz, A. M., Gil, I., Leránoz, B., Millán, H., Simón, L., 1994. Quaternary reactivation of flexural-slip folds by diapiric activity: example from the western Ebro Basin (Spain). Geologische Rundschau, 83(4), 853-867. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Salvany, J. M., 1989. Los sistemas lacustres evaporíticos del sector navarro-riojano de la Cuenca del Ebro durante el Oligoceno y Mioceno inferior. Acta geológica hispánica, 231-241. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Casas-Sáinz, A. M., Berdiel, T. R., 1999. Geología de los alrededores de Calahorra (Rioja Baja). Zubía, (17), 165-194. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Salè, S. O., Guimerà, J., Mas, R., Arribas, J., 2014. Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of an inverted extensional basin: the Cameros Basin (north of Spain). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 103(6), 1597-1620. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Suárez González, P., Quijada, I. E., Benito Moreno, M. I., Mas Mayoral, J. R., 2013. Eustatic versus tectonic control in an intraplate rift basin (Leza Fm, Cameros Basin). Chronostratigraphic and paleogeographic implications for the Aptian of Iberia. Journal of Iberian Geology, 39(2), 285-312. [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 Guinea, A., Playà, E., Rivero, L., Salvany, J. M., 2014. Geoelectrical prospecting of glauberite deposits in the Ebro basin (Spain). Engineering geology, 174, 73-86. [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 Orti, F., Rosell, L., Playa, E., Salvany, J. M., 2012. Meganodular anhydritization: a new mechanism of gypsum to anhydrite conversion (Palaeogene–Neogene, Ebro Basin, North‐east Spain). Sedimentology, 59(4), 1257-1277. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 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]
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 n.a.
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 243-Calahorra. [link] and 205-Lodosa. [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) Salvany, J. M., 1989. Los sistemas lacustres evaporíticos del sector navarro-riojano de la Cuenca del Ebro durante el Oligoceno y Mioceno inferior. Acta geológica hispánica, 231-241. [link]
Other related references #1 Quijada, I. E., Benito, M. I., Suarez-Gonzalez, P., Rodríguez-Martínez, M., Campos-Soto, S., 2020. Challenges to carbonate-evaporite peritidal facies models and cycles: Insights from Lower Cretaceous stromatolite-bearing deposits (Oncala Group, N Spain). Sedimentary Geology, 408, 105752. [link]
Other related references #2 Salvany, J. M., Ortí, F., 1994. Miocene glauberite deposits of Alcanadre, Ebro Basin, Spain: Sedimentary and diagenetic processes. SEPM Special Publications, 50, 203-215. [link]
Other related references #3 n.a.
Other related references #4 n.a.