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Ayora-Cofrentes

ID #049
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Generic Data

Unique ID 49
Name Ayora-Cofrentes
Structure type Evaporite diapir
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Betic System
Geological Regional Setting Pre-Betic Cordillera (Valencian domain)
Evaporite unit/s name Jarafuel, Manuel, Cofrentes, Quesa, Ayora and Imón Fms.
Evaporite unit/s age Carnian-Rhaetian (Upper Triassic)
Evaporite unit/s era Mesozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Marine
Evaporite unit/s composition Gypsum-Mudstone-Dolostone-Sandstone
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 wall
Mining activity? N
Mining activity start
Mining activity end
Mining galleries?
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Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Oligocene – Early Miocene (early stage), Middle Miocene (compressional closure) and Late Miocene – Pliocene (reactivation late stage)
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Main Prebetic rifting event (early stage), intra-Miocene contractional stage with the thrusting of the Mesozoic overburden above the Lower Miocene unit (compressional closure) and extensional phase described at the eastern Prebetics during Tortonian–Pliocene times (reactivation late stage)
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Normal high-angle faults / thrust faults / joints / thickness variations
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Kimmeridgian (Loriguilla Fm., rhythmic alternation of sandstones and marls) ; Barremian-Middle Cenomanian (Caroig, Sácaras, Alpuente and Chera Fms., limestones, marls and calcarenites) ; Middle Cenomanian-Coniacian (Alatoz, Villa de Ves,
Casas de Medina, Ciudad Encantada and Alarcón Fms., dolostones, doloarenites, dolomitic marls
and marls) ; Santonian – Maastrichtian (Utiel and Sierra Perenxisa Fms, marine and continental limestones and marls)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Oligocene – Lower/Middle Miocene (Conglomerates, breccias, sandstones, sands and silts, limestones and marls) / Tortonian – Pliocene (utites, sands, sandstones and conglomerates
Available seismic profiles
Available boreholes BLANCOS-2 / BLANCOS-3 / BLANCOS-1 / BLANCOS-5 / MANJORRA-1 / MANJORRA-2 (MANJORRA) / CASILLA CAMINEROS / CASA DEL ESCRIBANO / CASA DON PIO / CASA MIGA (MONTESA)
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Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 49
Minning exploitations within <2km? N
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Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 49
Outcropping area (km2) 22.22939
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 27.3974844
Max. Length (Km) 3.83745002
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 1
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 30
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 3
Deformation stages 3

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 49
Section source Silva, P. G., Giner-Robles, J. L., Elez, J., Rodríguez-Pascua, M. A., Perucha, M. A., Roquero, E., (…), Martínez-Graña, A., 2015. Tectonic geomorphology and volcanism in the Ayora-Cofrentes tectonic corridor, Valencia (Prebetic, SE Spain). XIV Reunión Nacional de Cuaternario, Granada, 162-166. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 De Torres, T., Sánchez, A., 1990. Espesores de las Facies Keuper en la Rama Castellana de la Cordillera Ibérica y en el Dominio Prebético. In F. Ortí & J. M. Salvany (Eds.): Formaciones evaporíticas de la Cuenca del Ebro y cadenas periféricas y de la zona de Levante (pp. 212–218). ENRESA – Universitat de Barcelona (Estudi 6). [link]
Well / Borehole availability #2 Pérez-López, A., Solé de Porta, N., Ortí, F., 1996. Facies carbonato-evaporiticas del Trías superior y tránsito al Líás en el Levante espanol: nuevas precisiones estratigráficas. Cuadernos de geología ibérica, 20, 245-270. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Castaño-Fernández, S., Carbó-Gorosabel, A., 1995. Los afloramientos triásicos de la zona de confluencia de las Cordilleras Ibérica y Bética. Aportes de la gravimetría a su interpretación. Cuadernos de geología ibérica, (19), 235-248. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Navarro-Carrasco, Ó., Meléndez-Hevia, I., 2020. Geology and evolution of the Cortes de Pallás diapir (Eastern Iberia). Journal of Maps, 16(2), 625-637. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Roca, E., Anadón, P., Utrilla, R., Vázquez, A., 1996. Rise, closure and reactivation of the Bicorb–Quesa evaporite diapir, eastern Prebetics, Spain. Journal of the Geological Society, 153(2), 311-321. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Gutiérrez, F., Sevil, J., Silva, P. G., Roca, E., Escosa, F., 2019. Geomorphic and stratigraphic evidence of Quaternary diapiric activity enhanced by fluvial incision. Navarrés salt wall and graben system, SE Spain. Geomorphology, 342, 176-195. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 del Olmo, W. M., Motis, K., Martín, D., 2015. El papel del diapirismo de la sal Triásica en la estructuración del Prebético (SE de España). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 28(1), 3-24. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Ortí, F., Pérez-López, A., Salvany, J. M., 2017. Triassic evaporites of Iberia: Sedimentological and palaeogeographical implications for the western Neotethys evolution during the Middle Triassic–Earliest Jurassic. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 471, 157-180. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Navarro-Carrasco, Ó., Meléndez-Hevia, I., 2020. Geology and evolution of the Cortes de Pallás diapir (Eastern Iberia). Journal of Maps, 16(2), 625-637. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 n.a.
Seismic data availability #2 n.a.
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Roca, E., Sans, M., Koyi, H. A., 2006. Polyphase deformation of diapiric areas in models and in the eastern Prebetics (Spain). AAPG bulletin, 90(1), 115-136. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Gutiérrez, F., Sevil, J., Silva, P. G., Roca, E., Escosa, F., 2019. Geomorphic and stratigraphic evidence of Quaternary diapiric activity enhanced by fluvial incision. Navarrés salt wall and graben system, SE Spain. Geomorphology, 342, 176-195. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Castaño-Fernández, S., Carbó-Gorosabel, A., 1995. Los afloramientos triásicos de la zona de confluencia de las Cordilleras Ibérica y Bética. Aportes de la gravimetría a su interpretación. Cuadernos de geología ibérica, (19), 235-248. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Silva, P. G., Giner-Robles, J. L., Elez, J., Rodríguez-Pascua, M. A., Perucha, M. A., Roquero, E., (…), Martínez-Graña, A., 2015. Tectonic geomorphology and volcanism in the Ayora-Cofrentes tectonic corridor, Valencia (Prebetic, SE Spain). XIV Reunión Nacional de Cuaternario, Granada, 162-166. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Santisteban, C. D., Saiz, J., Ruiz Sánchez, F. J., Bello, D, 1990. Tectónica y sedimentación en el margen oeste del «rift» terciario del valle de Ayora-Cofrentes (Valencia). Geogaceta, 8, 44-47. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Roca, E., Beamud, E., Rubinat, M., Soto, R., Ferrer, O., 2013. Paleomagnetic and inner diapiric structural constraints on the kinematic evolution of a salt-wall: The Bicorb-Quesa and northern Navarrés salt-wall segments case (Prebetic Zone, SE Iberia). Journal of Structural Geology, 52, 80-95. [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 Castaño-Fernández, S., Carbó-Gorosabel, A., 1995. Los afloramientos triásicos de la zona de confluencia de las Cordilleras Ibérica y Bética. Aportes de la gravimetría a su interpretación. Cuadernos de geología ibérica, (19), 235-248. [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 Cuairán, J. B., Inglès, M., Cabo, F. O., 1987. Observaciones sobre mineralogía y geoquímica de lutitas del Keuper de Valencia. Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica, 11, 363-384. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 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) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 Roca, E., Beamud, E., Rubinat, M., Soto, R., Ferrer, O., 2013. Paleomagnetic and inner diapiric structural constraints on the kinematic evolution of a salt-wall: The Bicorb-Quesa and northern Navarrés salt-wall segments case (Prebetic Zone, SE Iberia). Journal of Structural Geology, 52, 80-95. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 Soto, R., Beamud, E., Oliva-Urcia, B., Roca, E., Rubinat, M., Villalaín, J. J., 2014. Applicability of magnetic fabrics in rocks associated with the emplacement of salt structures (the Bicorb–Quesa and Navarrés salt walls, Prebetics, SE Spain). Tectonophysics, 629, 319-334. [link]
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 745-Jalance. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Escosa, F. O., Ferrer, O., Roca, E., 2018. Geology of the Eastern Prebetic Zone at the Jumilla region (SE Iberia). Journal of Maps, 14(2), 77-86. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Navarro-Carrasco, Ó., Meléndez-Hevia, I., 2020. Geology and evolution of the Cortes de Pallás diapir (Eastern Iberia). Journal of Maps, 16(2), 625-637. [link]
Other related references #1 Ortí-Cabo, F., 1974. El Keuper del Levante español. Estudios Geológicos, 30. [link]
Other related references #2 Rubinat-Cabanas, M., 2012. Basement fault influence on the Bicorb-Quesa Salt Wall kinematics, insights from Magnetotelluric and Paleomagnetic techniques on Salt Tectonics [Ph.D. thesis]: Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 169pp. [link]
Other related references #3 Gagliardo, M., Piñol, F. C., Caselli, A., Tripaldi, A., Limarino, C. O., 2000. Evolución tectonosedimentaria de la cuenca Miocena de» Piggy-Back» de Rodeo-Iglesia (San Juan, Argentina). Geotemas (Madrid), (2), 77-79. [link]
Other related references #4 Santisteban, C., Ruíz-Sánchez, F., Bello, D., 1989. Los depósitos lacustres del Terciario de Bicorp (Valencia). Acta geológica hispánica, 24(3), 299-307. [link]