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Aulet

ID #019
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General Information

Structure type
Deformed/Undeformed
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Outcropping/buried
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Evaporite unit/s age
Evaporite unit/s origin
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Age of evaporite flow or deformation (when deformed) ,
Other comments Post-late Santonian compressional overprinting: weld formation and partial downward salt flow into the source layer. Adons (ID #044) and Aulet diapirs are separated by a sub-vertical weld.

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Generic Data

Unique ID 19
Name Aulet
Structure type Evaporite diapir
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Southern Pyrenees
Geological Regional Setting Nogueres Zone
Evaporite unit/s name El Pont de Suert Fm.
Evaporite unit/s age Carnian-Rhaetian (Upper Triassic)
Evaporite unit/s era Mesozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Marine
Evaporite unit/s composition Shale-Marlstone-Gypsum-Halite-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) Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Passive piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt roller
Mining activity? N
Mining activity start
Mining activity end
Mining galleries?
Mining products
Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Upper Jurassic – Early Albian (early stage) and Albian – Santonian (late stage)
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Gravity-driven extensional event up to late Santonian: development of the Montiberri and Northern Faiada depocenters (early stage) and main development of the Sopeira depocenter (late stage)
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Progressive unconformities / Normal faults
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) N
Syn-kinematic unit/s Lower Cretaceous (limestones) / Albian-Cenomanian (grainstones) / Cenomanian (marls and limestones) / Cenomanian-Turonian (brecchias) / Turonian (limestones) / Coniacian-Santonian (limestones and brecchias)
Available seismic profiles T-12 / ND-214
Available boreholes (Private Access): Tamurcia-1 / Cajigar-1
Additional comments Post-late Santonian compressional overprinting: weld formation and partial downward salt flow into the source layer. dons and Aulet diapirs are separated by a sub-vertical weld.

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 19
Minning exploitations within <2km? N
Historical/Active
Exploitation name #1
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1
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Main minning Products #1
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Exploitation name #3
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3
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Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 19
Outcropping area (km2) 7.38681
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 2.3
Max. Length (Km) 7.4
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 1.5
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 163.5
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 83.6
Deformation stages 2

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 19
Section source Saura, E., Ardèvol i Oró, L., Teixell, A., Vergés, J., 2016. Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees). Tectonics, 35(3), 638-662. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 Saura, E., Ardèvol i Oró, L., Teixell, A., Vergés, J., 2016. Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees). Tectonics, 35(3), 638-662. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #2 Ardèvol, L., Klimowitz, J., Malagón, J., Nagtegaal, P. J., 2000. Depositional sequence response to foreland deformation in the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Pyrenees, Spain. AAPG bulletin, 84(4), 566-587. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Dalton, C. E. G., 2019. Stratigraphic and Structural Characterization and Evolution of Exposed Megaflaps Flanking Salt Diapirs [Ph.D. thesis]: The University of Texas, El Paso, 273 pp. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 García-Senz, J. M., 2002. Cuencas extensivas del Cretácico inferior en los Pirineos Centrales, formación y subsecuente inversión [Ph.D. thesis]: Universitat de Barcelona, 294 p. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Saura, E., Ardèvol i Oró, L., Teixell, A., Vergés, J., 2016. Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees). Tectonics, 35(3), 638-662. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Rosell, J., 1967. Estudio geológico del sector del Prepirineo comprendido entre los ríos Segre y Noguera Ribagorzana (Prov. de Lérida). Pirineos, 21, 214, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Calvet, F., Anglada, E., Salvany, J.M., 2004. El Triásico de los Pirineos. In Vera, J.A., (ed.), Geología de España, pp. 272–274, SGE-IGME, Madrid. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Caus, E., Teixell, A., Bernaus, J. M., 1997. Depositional model of a Cenomanian-Turonian extensional basin (Sopeira Basin, NE Spain): interplay between tectonics, eustasy and biological productivity. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 129(1-2), 23-36. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Saura, E., Ardèvol i Oró, L., Teixell, A., Vergés, J., 2016. Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees). Tectonics, 35(3), 638-662. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 Saura, E., Ardèvol i Oró, L., Teixell, A., Vergés, J., 2016. Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees). Tectonics, 35(3), 638-662. [link]
Seismic data availability #2 Muñoz, J. A., Mencos, J., Roca, E., Carrera, N., Gratacós, O., Ferrer, O., Fernández, O., 2018. The structure of the South-Central-Pyrenean fold and thrust belt as constrained by subsurface data. Geologica Acta, 16(4), 439-460. [link]
Seismic data availability #3 Dalton, C. E. G., 2019. Stratigraphic and Structural Characterization and Evolution of Exposed Megaflaps Flanking Salt Diapirs [Ph.D. thesis]: The University of Texas, El Paso, 273 pp. [link]
Available data (Structure) #1 Saura, E., Ardèvol i Oró, L., Teixell, A., Vergés, J., 2016. Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees). Tectonics, 35(3), 638-662. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Flinch, J. F., Casas, J.M., 1996. Inversion of a transfer system into lateral ramps: An example from the South-Central Pyrenees (Spain). Geol. Rundsch., 85, 372–379. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Martín-Chivelet, J., Floquet, M., García-Senz, J., Callapez, P. M., López-Mir, B., Muñoz, J. A., …, Marques, J. F., 2019. Late Cretaceous Post-Rift to Convergence in Iberia. In The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach (pp. 285-376). Springer, Cham. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Dalton, C. E. G., 2019. Stratigraphic and Structural Characterization and Evolution of Exposed Megaflaps Flanking Salt Diapirs [Ph.D. thesis]: The University of Texas, El Paso, 273 pp. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 García-Senz, J. M., 2002. Cuencas extensivas del Cretácico inferior en los Pirineos Centrales, formación y subsecuente inversión [Ph.D. thesis]: Universitat de Barcelona, 294 p. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Muñoz, J. A., Mencos, J., Roca, E., Carrera, N., Gratacós, O., Ferrer, O., Fernández, O., 2018. The structure of the South-Central-Pyrenean fold and thrust belt as constrained by subsurface data. Geologica Acta, 16(4), 439-460. [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 ICGC, 2012. Mapa Gravimètric de Catalunya 1:500.000. Barcelona, Servei Geològic de Catalunya. [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 Ortí, F., García-Veigas, J., Rossell, L., Jurado, M. J., Utrilla, R., 1996. Formaciones salinas de las cuencas triásicas en la Península Ibérica: Caracterización Petrológica y Geoquímica. Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica, 20, 13-35. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 Santolaria, P., Casas-Sainz, A. M., Soto, R., Casas, A., 2017. Gravity modelling to assess salt tectonics in the western end of the South Pyrenean Central Unit. Journal of the Geological Society, 174(2), 269-288. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 n.a.
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 213-El Pont de Suert. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Dalton, C. E. G., 2019. Stratigraphic and Structural Characterization and Evolution of Exposed Megaflaps Flanking Salt Diapirs [Ph.D. thesis]: The University of Texas, El Paso, 273 pp. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Dalton, C. E. G., 2019. Stratigraphic and Structural Characterization and Evolution of Exposed Megaflaps Flanking Salt Diapirs [Ph.D. thesis]: The University of Texas, El Paso, 273 pp. [link]
Other related references #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]
Other related references #2 Rosell, J., 1967. Estudio geológico del sector del Prepirineo comprendido entre los ríos Segre y Noguera Ribagorzana (Prov. de Lérida). Pirineos, 21, 214, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid. [link]
Other related references #3 Robert, R., Robion, P., Souloumiac, P., David, C., Saillet, E., 2018. Deformation bands, early markers of tectonic activity in front of a fold-and-thrust belt: Example from the Tremp-Graus basin, southern Pyrenees, Spain. Journal of Structural Geology, 110, 65-85. [link]
Other related references #4 Teixell, A., Muñoz, J. A., 2000. Evolución tectonosedimentaria del Pirineo meridional durante el Terciario: una síntesis basada en la transversal del río Noguera Ribagorçana. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 13(2), 251-264. [link]