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Tinajas-Torralba

ID #150
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Age of evaporite flow or deformation (when deformed)
Other comments Stratigraphic successions of Early Miocene age (Tórtola, Villalba de la Sierra and Valdeganga depositional systems) include interbedded deposits of playa-lake and meandering river environments.

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Generic Data

Unique ID 150
Name Tinajas-Torralba
Structure type Evaporite body
Deformed/Undeformed Slightly deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Tagus Basin
Geological Regional Setting Loranca Sub-Basin
Evaporite unit/s name Unnamed
Evaporite unit/s age Aquitanian-Burdigalian (Lower Miocene)
Evaporite unit/s era Cenozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Continental
Evaporite unit/s composition Gypsum
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Middle Miocene (Aragonian, limestones, conglomerates, sandstones, marlstones, gypsum intercalations and siltstones) ; Upper Miocene (limestones) ; Pliocene and 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
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Alpine compression, Altromira range development
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Syncline-Anticline folding / thrust faults
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) –
Syn-kinematic unit/s Evaporitic rocks
Available seismic profiles 0192A80G / 8G-ST-43 / 8F-ST-43 / 8F-ST-43 / 8G-ST-43 / 8F-ST-43 / 8G-ST-43 / 8F-ST-43 / 8F-ST-43 / 8F-ST-43 / 0192A80G / 8F-ST-43 / 8G-ST-43
Available boreholes TORRALBA-1 / MIMBRE
Additional comments Stratigraphic successions of Early Miocene age (Tórtola, Villalba de la Sierra and Valdeganga depositional systems) include interbedded deposits of playa-lake and meandering river environments.

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 150
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Active
Exploitation name #1 EL MOLATÓN
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 390
Municipality #1 Villaconejos de Trabaque
Province #1 CUENCA
Company #1 JUAN MIGUEL CAÑIZARES GONZALEZ
Main minning Products #1 Gravel and sand
Exploitation name #2
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2
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Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3
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Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 150
Outcropping area (km2) 255.59434
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 24.353286
Max. Length (Km) 28.9857096
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 0.3
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 23
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 18
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 150
Section source IGME MAGNA 50. SHEET 586 (GASCUEÑA)
Well / Borehole availability #1 Piña-Varas, P., Ledo, J., Queralt, P., Roca, E., García-Lobón, J. L., Ibarra, P., Biete, C., 2013. Two-dimensional magnetotelluric characterization of the El Hito Anticline (Loranca Basin, Spain). Journal of Applied Geophysics, 95, 121-134. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #2 Pérez-Hidalgo, J., 1992. La microfauna de los sondeos de ENUSA en la Depresión Intermedia (provincias de Cuenca y Guadalajara). Revista española de micropaleontología, 24(1), 117-140. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Arribas Mocoroa, J., Díaz Molina, M., Tortosa, A., 1996. Ambientes de sedimentación, procedencia y diagénesis de depósitos de ríos meandriformes desarrollados sobre playa-Iakes. Mioceno de la Cuenca de Loranca (provincias de Cuenca y Guadalajara). Cuadernos de geología ibérica, (21), 319-343. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Díaz-Molina, M., Marzo, M., Puigdefábregas, C., 1993. Geometry and lateral accretion patterns in meander loops: examples from the upper Oligocene–lower Miocene, Loranca basin, Spain. In Alluvial sedimentation (Vol. 17, pp. 115-131). International Association of Sedimentologists. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 RodríguezAranda, J. P., Calvo Sorando, J. P., Ordóñez Delgado, S., 1991. Transición de abanicos aluviales a evaporitas en el Mioceno del borde oriental de la cuenca de Madrid (sector Barajas de Melo-Illana). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 4(1-2), 33-50. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Díaz Molina, M., 1978. Bioestratigrafía y Paleogeografía del Terciario al E. de la Sierra de Altomira (Cuenca) [Ph.D. thesis]: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 456pp. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Calvo Sorando, J. P., Daams, R., Morales, J., López Martínez, N., Agustí, J., Anadón, P., …, Mein, P., 1993. Up-to-date Spanish continental Neogene synthesis and paleoclimatic interpretation. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 6(3-4), 29-40. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 n.a.
Regional Stratigraphy Civis, J., Pardo, G., Delgado, J. G., Alonso-Gavilán, G., Armenteros, I., Alonso-Zarza, A. M., …, Viseras, C., 2004. Cuencas cenozoicas. In Vera, J. A. (Ed.): Geología de España. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 Valcárcel, M., Soto, R., Beamud, E., Oliva-Urcia, B., Muñoz, J. A., Biete, C., 2016. Integration of palaeomagnetic data, basement-cover relationships and theoretical calculations to characterize the obliquity of the Altomira–Loranca structures (central Spain). Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 425(1), 169-188. [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 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) #1 Valcárcel, M., Soto, R., Beamud, E., Oliva-Urcia, B., Muñoz, J. A., Biete, C., 2016. Integration of palaeomagnetic data, basement-cover relationships and theoretical calculations to characterize the obliquity of the Altomira–Loranca structures (central Spain). Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 425(1), 169-188. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 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) #3 Muñoz Martín, A., Vicente Muñoz, G. D., 1998. Cuantificación del acortamiento alpino y estructura en profundidad del extremo sur-occidental de la Cordillera Ibérica (Sierras de Altomira y Bascunana). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 11(3-4), 233-252. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Munoz-Martın, A., Cloetingh, S. A. P. L., De Vicente, G., Andeweg, B., 1998. Finite-element modelling of Tertiary paleostress fields in the eastern part of the Tajo Basin (central Spain). Tectonophysics, 300(1-4), 47-62. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 del Pozo Tejedor, J., Moreno, M. M., Sánchez, J. A. D., 2019. Propuesta de compartimentación estructural en la MASb 041.001 Sierra de Altomira: implicaciones hidrogeológicas. Boletín geológico y minero, 130(2), 317-340. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Giner-Robles, J. L., Pérez-López, R., Silva, P. G., Jiménez-Díaz, A., Rodríguez-Pascua, M. A., 2012. Recent tectonic model for the Upper Tagus Basin (central Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology, 38(1), 113-126. [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 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) #2 n.a.
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #1 Arribas Mocoroa, M. E., Doval, M., Díaz Molina, M., 1995. Petrological and mineralogical characterization of lutitic deposits in a fluvial dominated depositional system. Upper Oligocene-Lower Miocene, Loranca Basin (Central Spain). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 8(3), 149-160. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 Arribas Mocoroa, J., Díaz Molina, M., Tortosa, A., 1996. Ambientes de sedimentación, procedencia y diagénesis de depósitos de ríos meandriformes desarrollados sobre playa-Iakes. Mioceno de la Cuenca de Loranca (provincias de Cuenca y Guadalajara). Cuadernos de geología ibérica, (21), 319-343. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 Valcárcel, M., Soto, R., Beamud, E., Oliva-Urcia, B., Muñoz, J. A., Biete, C., 2016. Integration of palaeomagnetic data, basement-cover relationships and theoretical calculations to characterize the obliquity of the Altomira–Loranca structures (central Spain). Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 425(1), 169-188. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 n.a.
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 562-Sacedón. [link] and 586-Gascueña. [link] and 585-Alonacid de Zorita. [link] and 563-Priego. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Guimerà, J. J., 2018. Structure of an intraplate fold-and-thrust belt: The Iberian Chain. A synthesis. Geologica Acta, 16(4), 427-438. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Valcárcel, M., Soto, R., Beamud, E., Oliva-Urcia, B., Muñoz, J. A., Biete, C., 2016. Integration of palaeomagnetic data, basement-cover relationships and theoretical calculations to characterize the obliquity of the Altomira–Loranca structures (central Spain). Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 425(1), 169-188. [link]
Other related references #1 Díaz-Molina, M., Muñoz-García, M. B., 2010. Sedimentary facies and three-dimensional reconstructions of upper Oligocene meander belts from the Loranca Basin, Spain. AAPG bulletin, 94(2), 241-257. [link]
Other related references #2 Herrero, M. J., Escavy, J. I., Schreiber, B. C., 2015. Thenardite after mirabilite deposits as a cool climate indicator in the geological record: lower Miocene of central Spain. Climate of the Past, 11(1), 1-13. [link]
Other related references #3 Torres Pérez-Hidalgo, T., Bravo, F. C., Sañudo, M. G., Nestares, T., Menéndez, J. E. O., Martínez, Á. P., 1996. Análisis markoviano de las sucesiones de abanicos aluviales de la cuenca de Madrid y de la depresión intermedia (Madrid y Guadalajara, España Central). Cuadernos de geología ibérica 21, 345-368. [link]
Other related references #4 n.a.