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Sineu-Manacor

ID #135
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General Information

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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 Interpreted to represent deposition in evaporitic mudflats lacustrine environments during the Serravallian.

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Generic Data

Unique ID 135
Name Sineu-Manacor
Structure type Evaporite body
Deformed/Undeformed Undeformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Betic System
Geological Regional Setting Central Hills (Mallorca island)
Evaporite unit/s name Pina Marls Unit
Evaporite unit/s age Serravallian (Middle Miocene)
Evaporite unit/s era Cenozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Continental
Evaporite unit/s composition Marlstone-Gypsum-Sandstones-Conglomerates
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Upper Serravallian (Sa Vardera Fm., limestones and marlstones) ; Tortonian (reef complex) ; Messinian (Santanyí Fm., limestones and marlstones) ; Pliocene (Son Mir and Sant Jordi Fms., marlstones and marly limestones) ; Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Upper Serravallian-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) No diapirism
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) No diapirism
Mining activity? Y
Mining activity start –
Mining activity end –
Mining galleries? –
Mining products Sandstone
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
Available boreholes
Additional comments Interpreted to represent deposition in evaporitic mudflats lacustrine environments during the Serravallian.

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 135
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Active
Exploitation name #1 SON AUBA
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 12
Municipality #1 Muro
Province #1 BALEARES
Company #1 SEBASTIAN PERELLO CARRIO
Main minning Products #1 Sandstone
Exploitation name #2 CA’S SABONERS
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2 152
Municipality #2 Sineu
Province #2 BALEARES
Company #2 GRAVILLERA CA’N SABONE, S.L.
Main minning Products #2 Limestone (other uses)
Exploitation name #3 MARIA
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3 112
Municipality #3 Porreres
Province #3 BALEARES
Company #3 SA CIMENTERA, SA
Main minning Products #3 Marlstone

Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 135
Outcropping area (km2) 123.89683
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 26.5585591
Max. Length (Km) 28.569137
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 0.5
Max. Deformation age (Ma) –
Min. Deformation age (Ma) –
Deformation stages 0

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 135
Section source IGME MAGNA 50. SHEET 699 (PORRERES)
Well / Borehole availability #1 n.a.
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Alvaro, M., 1984. El Neógeno de Mallorca: Caracterización sedimentológica y bioestratigráfica. Boletin geologico y minero Madrid, (1), 3-25. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Pomar, L., unpublished. The Late Miocene reef complex, Mallorca. Universitat de les Illes Balears, 37pp.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Capó, A., Garcia, C., 2019. Basin filling evolution of the central basins of Mallorca since the Pliocene. Basin Research, 31(5), 948-966. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Pomar, L., 1979. La evolución tectonosedimentaria de las Baleares: análisis crítico. Acta Geológica Hispánica, 14(1), 293-310. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Morey, B., 2018. El registro Messiniense de la isla de Mallorca (archipiélago Balear, Mediterráneo occidental). Revisión e interpretación. Estudios Geológicos, 74(2), e083. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Mas, G., Fornós, J. J., 2020. The Messinian Salinity Crisis in Mallorca: New insights for a Western Mediterranean stratigraphic scenario. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 122, 104656. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Mas, G., 2016. El registre estratigràfic del messinià terminal i del pliocè a l’illa de Mallorca: relacions amb la crisi de salinitat de la Mediterrània [Ph.D. Thesis]: Universitat de les Illes Balears, 530pp. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 n.a.
Seismic data availability #2 n.a.
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Pomar, L., 1979. La evolución tectonosedimentaria de las Baleares: análisis crítico. Acta Geológica Hispánica, 14(1), 293-310. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Sàbat, F., Gelabert, B., Rodríguez-Perea, A., Giménez, J., 2011. Geological structure and evolution of Majorca: Implications for the origin of the Western Mediterranean. Tectonophysics, 510(1-2), 217-238. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Mas, G., 2016. El registre estratigràfic del messinià terminal i del pliocè a l’illa de Mallorca: relacions amb la crisi de salinitat de la Mediterrània [Ph.D. Thesis]: Universitat de les Illes Balears, 530pp. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Pomar, L., 1979. La evolución tectonosedimentaria de las Baleares: análisis crítico. Acta Geológica Hispánica, 14(1), 293-310. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Giménez, J., Gelabert, B., 2002. Análisis de la actividad tectónica reciente en la isla de Mallorca. III Asamblea Hispano-Portuguesa de Geodesia y Geofísica, Valencia, 1, 390-394. [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 Sàbat, F., Gelabert, B., Rodríguez-Perea, A., Giménez, J., 2011. Geological structure and evolution of Majorca: Implications for the origin of the Western Mediterranean. Tectonophysics, 510(1-2), 217-238. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #2 Pous, J., Ayala, C., Ledo, J., Marcuello, A., Sàbat, F., 1995. 3D modelling of magnetotelluric and gravity data of Mallorca island (Western Mediterranean). Geophysical research letters, 22(6), 735-738. [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 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 n.a.
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 699-Porreres. [link] and 700-Manacor. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Fornós, J. J., Ferrer, B. G., 1995. Litologia i tectònica del carst de Mallorca. In El Carst i les coves de Mallorca. (pp. 27-43). Societat d’Història Natural de les Balears. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Ginés, J., Fornós, J. J., Ginés, A., Merino, A., Gràcia, F., 2014. Geologic constraints and speleogenesis of Cova des Pas de Vallgornera, a complex coastal cave from Mallorca Island (Western Mediterranean). International Journal of Speleology, 43(2), 2. [link]
Other related references #1 Arenas, C., Pomar, L., 2010. Microbial deposits in upper Miocene carbonates, Mallorca, Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 297(2), 465-485. [link]
Other related references #2 Fornós, J. J., Ginés, À., Ginés, J., Gràcia, F., Merino, A., 2019. Littoral Endokarst from Mallorca Island (Western Mediterranean). In The Spanish Coastal Systems (pp. 143-166). Springer, Cham. [link]
Other related references #3 Mateu, G., 1982. El Neógeno-Pleistoceno de Mallorca: Biocronoestratigrafía y paleoceanografía en base a los foraminíferos planctónicos. Bolletí de la Societat d’Història Natural de les Balears, 75-133. [link]
Other related references #4 Morey, B., Mas, G., 2009. Aproximació al neogen de Santa Eugènia (Mallorca, Illes Balears, Mediterrània occidental). Bolletí de la Societat d’Història Natural de les Balears, 99-122. [link]