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Alcaudete

ID #103
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General Information

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Deformed/Undeformed
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Outcropping/buried
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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 Complex tectonics, Keuper materials reworked by Miocene gravitational landslides.

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Generic Data

Unique ID 103
Name Alcaudete
Structure type Evaporite diapir
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Betic System
Geological Regional Setting Sub-Betic Cordillera
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-Limestone-Dolostone
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Palaeocene-Eocene (limestones and marly limestones) ; Oligocene-Burdigalian (white marlstones and bioclastic limestones) ; Middle-Upper Miocene (calcarenites, sandstones, conglomerates, breccias, white marlstones and limestones) ; Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Palaeocene-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Thrust piercement / Ductile piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt pillow
Mining activity? Y
Mining activity start
Mining activity end Active
Mining galleries? Y
Mining products Gypsum
Mining sub-products –
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Cretaceous? Active now?
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Traspressive-transtensive fractures (N95º to N130º)
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Thickness variations / progressive unconformities / thrust faults / overturned flanks / roll-over anticlines
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Lower Jurassic (limestones, dolostones, marly limestones, marlstones) ; Middle Jurassic (limestones, oolitic limestones, marlstones, dolerites) ; Upper Jurassic (radiolaritic limestones, marlstones and breccias)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Cretaceous (limestones, shales, marlstones, marly limestones, radiolaritic marlstones)
Available seismic profiles CO-23 / CO-18 / S82-31 / CO-33 / S82-32 / RG-18 / RG-15 / CO-29 / CO-31 / CO-18 / CO-25 / CO-23 / CO-32 / CO-22 /
Available boreholes S-VI-4-1 (ALCAUDETE) / S-VI-4-2 (ALCAUDETE) / FUENSANTA DE MARTOS-1 / CASTILLO DE LOCUBIN-2 / ALCAUDETE-6 / ALCAUDETE-5 (FUENTE PEÑA) / CASTILLO DE LOCUBIN-1 / ALCAUDETE-3 / ALCAUDETE-4 / ALCAUDETE-1 / ALCAUDETE-2
Additional comments Complex tectonics, Keuper materials reworked by Miocene gravitational landslides .

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 103
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Historical (not indexed in the Spanish National Minning Cadastre)
Exploitation name #1 n.a.
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 n.a.
Municipality #1 n.a.
Province #1 n.a.
Company #1 n.a.
Main minning Products #1 Gypsum
Exploitation name #2
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2
Municipality #2
Province #2
Company #2
Main minning Products #2
Exploitation name #3
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3
Municipality #3
Province #3
Company #3
Main minning Products #3

Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 103
Outcropping area (km2) 124.75437
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 17.131441
Max. Length (Km) 18.2544508
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 0.4
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 145
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 66
Deformation stages 1?

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 103
Section source Blankenship, C. L., 1992. Structure and palaeogeography of the External Betic Cordillera, southern Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 9(3), 256-264. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 Blankenship, C. L., 1992. Structure and palaeogeography of the External Betic Cordillera, southern Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 9(3), 256-264. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Pérez-López, A., López Chicano, M., 1989. Estudio sedimentológico del Keuper inferior, a partir del análisis de facies, en el sector central de la Cordillera Bética. Algunas consideraciones paleogeográficas. Estudios Geológicos, 45, 375-385. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Pérez-López, A. D., de Porta, N. S., Márquez, L., Aliaga, A. M., 1992. Caracterización Y Datación De Una Unidad Carbonática De Edad Norense (FM. Zamoranos) En El Trías De La Zona Subbética. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 5(2), 113-127. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Berástegui, X., Banks, C. J., Puig, C., Taberner, C., Waltham, D., Fernández, M., 1998. Lateral diapiric emplacement of Triassic evaporites at the southern margin of the Guadalquivir Basin, Spain. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 134(1), 49-68. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Blankenship, C. L., 1992. Structure and palaeogeography of the External Betic Cordillera, southern Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 9(3), 256-264. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Lanaja, J. M., Querol, R., Navarro, A., 1987. Contribución de la exploración petrolífera al conocimiento de la geología de España. IGME. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Flinch, J. F., Soto, J. I., 2017. Allochthonous Triassic and Salt Tectonic Processes in the Betic-Rif Orogenic Arc. In Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins (pp. 417-446). Elsevier. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Pérez-López, A., López Chicano, M., 1989. Estudio sedimentológico del Keuper inferior, a partir del análisis de facies, en el sector central de la Cordillera Bética. Algunas consideraciones paleogeográficas. Estudios Geológicos, 45, 375-385. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 Blankenship, C. L., 1992. Structure and palaeogeography of the External Betic Cordillera, southern Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 9(3), 256-264. [link]
Seismic data availability #2 Pérez‐Valera, F., Sánchez‐Gómez, M., Pérez‐López, A., Pérez‐Valera, L. A., 2017. An evaporite‐bearing accretionary complex in the northern front of the Betic‐Rif orogen. Tectonics, 36(6), 1006-1036. [link]
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Blankenship, C. L., 1992. Structure and palaeogeography of the External Betic Cordillera, southern Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 9(3), 256-264. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Berástegui, X., Banks, C. J., Puig, C., Taberner, C., Waltham, D., Fernández, M., 1998. Lateral diapiric emplacement of Triassic evaporites at the southern margin of the Guadalquivir Basin, Spain. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 134(1), 49-68. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Pérez-López, A., Sanz de Galdeano, C., 1994. Tectónica de los materiales triásicos en el sector central de la Zona Subbética (Cordillera Bética). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 7, 143-153. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Pérez‐Valera, F., Sánchez‐Gómez, M., Pérez‐López, A., Pérez‐Valera, L. A., 2017. An evaporite‐bearing accretionary complex in the northern front of the Betic‐Rif orogen. Tectonics, 36(6), 1006-1036. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Lanaja, J. M., Querol, R., Navarro, A., 1987. Contribución de la exploración petrolífera al conocimiento de la geología de España. IGME. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Flinch, J. F., Soto, J. I., 2017. Allochthonous Triassic and Salt Tectonic Processes in the Betic-Rif Orogenic Arc. In Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins (pp. 417-446). Elsevier. [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 Garcia‐Castellanos, D., Fernandez, M., Torné, M., 2002. Modeling the evolution of the Guadalquivir foreland basin (southern Spain). Tectonics, 21(3), 9-1. [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 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 968-Alcaudete. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Permanyer, A., Jorge, R., Baudino, R., Gibert, L., 2016. Organic-rich shales from internal Betic basins (SE Spain): potential source rocks analogs for the pre-Messinian Salt play in the western Mediterranean. Geologica Acta, 14(4), 443-460. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Gómez, M. S., Medina, F. T., 2002. Actividad tectónica reciente en el borde sur de la depresión del Guadalquivir entre Cabra y Quesada (provincias de Jaén y Córdoba). Primer centenario del Observatorio de Cartuja [Unpublished report]. [link]
Other related references #1 Simon, O. J., 1987. On the Triassic of the Betic Cordilleras (Southern Spain). Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica, 11, 385-402. [link]
Other related references #2 Sissingh, W., 2008. Punctuated Neogene tectonics and stratigraphy of the African-Iberian plate-boundary zone: Concurrent development of Betic-Rif basins (southern Spain, northern Morocco). Netherlands Journal of Geosciences/Geologie en Mijnbouw, 87(4), 241-289. [link]
Other related references #3 Fernandez, M., Berástegui, X., Puig, C., García-Castellanos, D., Jurado, M. J., Torné, M., Banks, C., 1998. Geophysical and geological constraints on the evolution of the Guadalquivir foreland basin, Spain. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 134(1), 29-48. [link]
Other related references #4