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Ababuj

ID #145
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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 Most active diapiric growth in the Maestrat basin match with eastward drift of the Iberian microplate.

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Other maps 1

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Generic Data

Unique ID 145
Name Ababuj
Structure type Evaporite-cored anticline
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Buried
Geological setting Iberian Range
Geological Regional Setting Maestrat Basin
Evaporite unit/s name Keuper facies
Evaporite unit/s age Carnian-Rhaetian (Upper Triassic)
Evaporite unit/s era Mesozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Marine
Evaporite unit/s composition Shale-Gypsum-Anhydrite
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed)  Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Pleistocene-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Passive piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt anticline
Mining activity? N
Mining activity start
Mining activity end
Mining galleries?
Mining products
Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Jurassic (early salt mobilization) ; Upper Valanginian-Upper Albian (main stage) ; Late Campanian-Early Oligocene (rejuvenation stage) ; Miocene (rejuvenation stage)
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous rift and Alpine inversion of listric normal faults
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Thickness variations / progressive unconformities
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Late Cretaceous (Mosqueruela, Barranco de los Degollados, La Cañadilla and Fortanete Fms., limestones, dolostones and marlstones)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Early Jurassic (Cortes de Tajuña and Cuevas Labradas Fm., limestones and dolostones) ; Late Jurassic (Loriguilla, Higueruelas and Arzobispo Fms., limestones and sandy limestones) ; Hauterivian (El Castellar Fm., limestones and sandstones) ; Barremian (Camarillas, Artoles, Morella and Xert Fms., clays, sandstones, marlstones, limestones) ; Early Aptian (Forcall and Villaroya de los Pinares Fms., marlstones, limestones and nodular limestones) ; Late Aptian (Benassal Fm., marlstone, limestone, nodular limestone) Albian (Escucha and Utrillas Fms., sandstones and claystones) ; Paleogene-Miocene (conglomerates and sandstones)
Available seismic profiles ILIHA C-F
Available boreholes
Additional comments Most active diapiric growth in the Maestrat basin match with eastward drift of the Iberian microplate

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 145
Minning exploitations within <2km? N
Historical/Active
Exploitation name #1
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1
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Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 145
Outcropping area (km2) Buried
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) 10.84226
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) 0.3
Max. Width (Km) 9.5
Max. Length (Km) 2
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 1.2
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 201
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 5
Deformation stages 4

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 145
Section source Vergés, J., Poprawski, Y., Almar, Y., Drzewiecki, P. A., Moragas, M., Bover‐Arnal, T., …, Hunt, D., 2020. Tectono‐Sedimentary Evolution of Jurassic‐Cretaceous diapiric structures: Miravete anticline, Maestrat Basin, Spain. Basin Research, 1-55. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 n.a.
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Aurell, M., Bádenas, B., Gasca, J. M., Canudo, J. I., Liesa, C. L., Soria, A. R., …, Najes, L., 2016. Stratigraphy and evolution of the Galve sub-basin (Spain) in the middle Tithonian–early Barremian: implications for the setting and age of some dinosaur fossil sites. Cretaceous Research, 65, 138-162. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Vergés, J., Poprawski, Y., Almar, Y., Drzewiecki, P. A., Moragas, M., Bover‐Arnal, T., …, Hunt, D., 2020. Tectono‐Sedimentary Evolution of Jurassic‐Cretaceous diapiric structures: Miravete anticline, Maestrat Basin, Spain. Basin Research, 1-55. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Embry, J. C., Vennin, E., Van Buchem, F. S. P., Schroeder, R., Pierre, C., Aurell, M., 2010. Sequence stratigraphy and carbon isotope stratigraphy of an Aptian mixed carbonate-siliciclastic platform to basin transition (Galve sub-basin, NE Spain). Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 329(1), 113-143. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Bover-Arnal, T., Moreno-Bedmar, J. A., Frijia, G., Pascual-Cebrian, E., Salas, R., 2016. Chronostratigraphy of the Barremian–Early Albian of the Maestrat Basin (E Iberian Peninsula): integrating strontium-isotope stratigraphy and ammonoid biostratigraphy. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 49(1), 41-68. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Navarrete, R., Rodríguez-López, J. P., Liesa, C. L., Soria, A. R., Fernanda de Mesquita, L. V., 2013. Changing physiography of rift basins as a control on the evolution of mixed siliciclastic–carbonate back-barrier systems (Barremian Iberian Basin, Spain). Sedimentary Geology, 289, 40-61. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Meléndez, N., Liesa, C. L., Soria, A. R., Meléndez, A., 2009. Lacustrine system evolution during early rifting: el Castellar formation (Galve sub-basin, Central Iberian Chain). Sedimentary Geology, 222(1-2), 64-77. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Vergés, J., Poprawski, Y., Almar, Y., Drzewiecki, P. A., Moragas, M., Bover‐Arnal, T., …, Hunt, D., 2020. Tectono‐Sedimentary Evolution of Jurassic‐Cretaceous diapiric structures: Miravete anticline, Maestrat Basin, Spain. Basin Research, 1-55. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 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 #2 n.a.
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Vergés, J., Poprawski, Y., Almar, Y., Drzewiecki, P. A., Moragas, M., Bover‐Arnal, T., …, Hunt, D., 2020. Tectono‐Sedimentary Evolution of Jurassic‐Cretaceous diapiric structures: Miravete anticline, Maestrat Basin, Spain. Basin Research, 1-55. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Salas, R., Guimerà, J., Mas, R., Martin-closas, C., Meléndez, A., Alonso, A., 2001. Evolution of the Mesozoic Central Iberian Rift System and its Cainozoic inversion (Iberian chain). In P. A. Ziegler, W. Cavazza, A. H. F. Robertson, & S. Crasquin-Soleau (Eds), Peritethys memoir 6: Peri-tethyan riftiwrench basins and passive margins. Mem. M, 186, 145–185. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Liesa, C. L., Casas, A. M., Simón, J. L., 2018. La tectónica de inversión en una región intraplaca: La Cordillera Ibérica. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 31(2), 23-50. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Liesa, C. L., Soria, A. R., Meléndez, N., Meléndez, A., 2006. Extensional fault control on the sedimentation patterns in a continental rift basin: El Castellar Formation, Galve sub-basin, Spain. Journal of the Geological Society, 163(3), 487-498. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Liesa, C. L., Casas, A. M., Simón, J. L., 2018. La tectónica de inversión en una región intraplaca: La Cordillera Ibérica. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 31(2), 23-50. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Simón, J. L., Liesa, C. L., 2011. Incremental slip history of a thrust: diverse transport directions and internal folding of the Utrillas thrust sheet (NE Iberian Chain, Spain). Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 349(1), 77-97. [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 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 543-Villarluengo. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Vergés, J., Poprawski, Y., Almar, Y., Drzewiecki, P. A., Moragas, M., Bover‐Arnal, T., …, Hunt, D., 2020. Tectono‐Sedimentary Evolution of Jurassic‐Cretaceous diapiric structures: Miravete anticline, Maestrat Basin, Spain. Basin Research, 1-55. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Simón-Porcar, G., Liesa, C. L., Simón, J. L., 2018. El ancestro mioceno del alto Alfambra: persistencia de un drenaje SN en la depresión de El Pobo (Teruel, Cordillera Ibérica). Geogaceta, 64, 111-114. [link]
Other related references #1 Navarrete, R., Liesa, C. L., Castanera, D., Soria, A. R., Rodríguez-López, J. P., Canudo, J. I., 2014. A thick Tethyan multi-bed tsunami deposit preserving a dinosaur megatracksite within a coastal lagoon (Barremian, eastern Spain). Sedimentary Geology, 313, 105-127. [link]
Other related references #2 Peropadre, C., Liesa, C. L., Meléndez, N., 2013. High-frequency, moderate to high-amplitude sea-level oscillations during the late Early Aptian: Insights into the Mid-Aptian event (Galve sub-basin, Spain). Sedimentary Geology, 294, 233-250. [link]
Other related references #3 Salas, R., Guimerà, J., 1996. Rasgos estructurales principales de la cuenca cretácica inferior del Maestrazgo (Cordillera Ibérica oriental). Geogaceta, 20(7), 1704-1706. [link]
Other related references #4 n.a.