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Botaya

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General Information

Structure type
Deformed/Undeformed
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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 Syntectonic sedimentation along the southern flank of the fold (see Puigdefàbregas, 1975). Several interpretations on its depth geometry and related kinematic evolution due to the lack of seismic lines (see a review in Calvín et al., 2018).

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Generic Data

Unique ID 64
Name Botaya
Structure type Evaporite-cored anticline
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Buried
Geological setting Southern Pyrenees
Geological Regional Setting External Ranges
Evaporite unit/s name El Pont de Suert Fm. (Middle Muschelkalk and Keuper Facies)
Evaporite unit/s age Upper Anisian and Carnian-Rhaetian (Middle-Upper Triassic)
Evaporite unit/s era Mesozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Marine
Evaporite unit/s composition Shale-Marlstone-Gypsum-Anhydrite
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Miocene (Uncastillo Fm., conglomerates), Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Miocene-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Ductile 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 Late Oligocene-Early Miocene
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms External Sierras second development stage
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Thrust faults / thickness variations / joints
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Upper Cretaceous (Adraen-Bona Fms., limestones) ; Cretaceous-Palaeocene (Garumnian, Tremp Fm., sandstones, mudstones) ; Lutetian (Guara Fm., limestones rich in foraminifera) ; Bartonian-Early Priabonian (Arguís Fm., marly siltstones and sandstones) ; Late Eocene (Yeste-Arrés Fm., sandstones, conglomerates) ; Upper Priabonian-Lower Oligocene (Lower member, conglomerates and sandstones) ; Lower Oligocene-Early Upper Oligocene (Campodarbe Fm., sandstones and claystones)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Upper Oligocene (Upper sequence, sandstones and claystones) ; Lower Miocene (Bernués and Uncastillo Fms., conglomerates and sandstones)
Available seismic profiles
Available boreholes Roncal
Additional comments Syntectonic sedimentation along the southern flank of the fold (see Puigdefàbregas, 1975). Several interpretations on its depth geometry and related kinematic evolution due to the lack of seismic lines (see a review in Calvín et al., 2018).

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 64
Minning exploitations within <2km? N
Historical/Active
Exploitation name #1
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1
Municipality #1
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Company #1
Main minning Products #1
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Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 64
Outcropping area (km2) Buried
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) 5.90144
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) 4
Max. Width (Km) 1.68710904
Max. Length (Km) 7.68500255
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 3
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 26
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 16
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 64
Section source Calvín, P., Santolaria, P., Casas, A. M., Pueyo, E. L., 2018. Detachment fold vs. ramp anticline: a gravity survey in the southern Pyrenean front (External Sierras). Geological Journal, 53(1), 178-190. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 Cámara, P., Flinch, J. F., 2017. The southern Pyrenees: a salt-based fold-and-thrust belt. In Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins (pp. 395-415). Elsevier. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #2 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]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Nichols, G. J., 1987. The structure and stratigraphy of the western external sierras of the Pyrenees, northern Spain. Geological Journal, 22(3), 245-259. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Silva-Casal, R., Aurell, M., Payros, A., Pueyo, E. L., Serra-Kiel, J., 2019. Carbonate ramp drowning caused by flexural subsidence: The South Pyrenean middle Eocene foreland basin. Sedimentary Geology, 393, 105538. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Cámara, P., Flinch, J. F., 2017. The southern Pyrenees: a salt-based fold-and-thrust belt. In Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins (pp. 395-415). Elsevier. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Silva-Casal, R., 2017. Las plataformas carbonatadas del Eoceno medio de la Cuenca de Jaca-Pamplona (Formación Guara, Sierras Exteriores): análisis estratigráfico integral y evolución sedimentaria [Ph.D. thesis]: Universidad de Zaragoza. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Puigdefábregas, C., 1975. La sedimentación molásica en la cuenca de Jaca. Monografías del Instituto de Estudios Pirenaicos. Número Extraordinario de la Revista Pirineos, 104, 153pp. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 n.a.
Regional Stratigraphy Vidal-Royo, O., Muñoz, J. A., Hardy, S., Koyi, H., Cardozo, N., 2013. Structural evolution of the Pico del Águila anticline (External Sierras, southern Pyrenees) derived from sandbox, numerical and 3D structural modelling techniques. Geologica Acta: an international earth science journal, 11(1), 1-23. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 n.a.
Seismic data availability #2 n.a.
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Millán, H. A., Pocoví, J. A., Casas, A. M., 1995. El frente de cabalgamiento surpirenaico en el extremo occidental de las Sierras Exteriores. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 8(1), 73-90. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Teixell, A., 1996. The Ansó transect of the southern Pyrenees: basement and cover thrust geometries. Journal of the Geological Society, 153(2), 301-310. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Calvín, P., Santolaria, P., Casas, A. M., Pueyo, E. L., 2018. Detachment fold vs. ramp anticline: a gravity survey in the southern Pyrenean front (External Sierras). Geological Journal, 53(1), 178-190. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Oliva, B., Millán, H., Pocoví, A., & Casas, A. M., 1996. Estructura de la Cuenca de Jaca en el sector occidental de las Sierras Exteriores Aragonesas. Geogaceta, 20(4), 800-802. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Oliván, C., Pueyo, E. L., Garrido-Schneider, E., Azcón, A., Sánchez-Moreno, E., Larrasoaña, J. C., Compaired, F., 2020. Physical and chemical properties of the groundwater of the Santo Domingo-Salinas ranges, South Central Pyrenees. Journal of Maps, 16(2), 285-298. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Hoareau, G., Crognier, N., Lacroix, B., Aubourg, C., Roberts, N. M., Niemi, N., Branellec, M., Beaudoin, N, Ruiz, I. S, 2021. Combination of Δ47 and U-Pb dating in tectonic calcite veins unravel the last pulses related to the Pyrenean Shortening (Spain). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 553, 116636. [link]
Available data (Analogue modelling) #1 Ortiga, M. R., 2013. Flexural unfolding of complex geometries in fold and thrust belts using paleomagnetic vectors [Ph. D. thesis]: Universidad de Zaragoza, 262pp. [link]
Available data (Analogue modelling) #2 n.a.
Available data (Analogue modelling) #3 n.a.
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #1 Calvín, P., Santolaria, P., Casas, A. M., Pueyo, E. L., 2018. Detachment fold vs. ramp anticline: a gravity survey in the southern Pyrenean front (External Sierras). Geological Journal, 53(1), 178-190. [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 Hoareau, G., Crognier, N., Lacroix, B., Aubourg, C., Roberts, N. M., Niemi, N., Branellec, M., Beaudoin, N, Ruiz, I. S, 2021. Combination of Δ47 and U-Pb dating in tectonic calcite veins unravel the last pulses related to the Pyrenean Shortening (Spain). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 553, 116636. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 Pocoví Juan, A., Pueyo Anchuela, O., Pueyo, E.L., Casas-Sainz, A.M., Román Berdiel, M. T., Gil Imaz, A., Ramajo Cordero, J., Mochales, T., García Lasanta, C., IzquierdoLlavall, E., Parés, J.M., Sanchez, E., Soto Marín, R., Oliván, C., Rodríguez Pinto, A., Oliva-Urcia, B., Villalaín, J.J., 2014. Magnetic fabrics in the western centralpyrenees: an overview. Tectonophysics 629, 303–318. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 Pueyo-Morer, E. L., Millán-Garrido, H., Pocoví-Juan, A., Parés, J. M., 1997. Determination of the folding mechanism by AMS data. Study of the relation between shortening and magnetic anisotropy in the Pico del Aguila anticline (southern Pyrenees). Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 22(1-2), 195-201. [link]
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 209-Agüero. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Mochales, T., Pueyo, E. L., Casas, A. M., Barnolas, A., 2010. Kinematic approach by means of AMS study in the Boltaña anticline (southern Pyrenees). Trabajos de Geología, 30, 87-95. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Roigé, M., Gómez-Gras, D., Stockli, D. F., Teixell, A., Boya, S., Remacha, E., 2019. Detrital zircon U–Pb insights into the timing and provenance of the South Pyrenean Jaca basin. Journal of the Geological Society, 176(6), 1182-1190. [link]
Other related references #1 Ramón, M., Pueyo, E. L., Pocoví, A., Briz, J. L., Ciria, J. C., Ros, L. H., 2009. Paleomagnetism as a truly 3Dindicator in restoration methods of complex structures. Latinmag, Primera Reunión Bienal, Isla Margarita, Venezuela. 7pp. [link]
Other related references #2 Silva-Casal, R., Aurell, M., Payros, A., Pueyo, E. L., Serra-Kiel, J., 2019. Carbonate ramp drowning caused by flexural subsidence: The South Pyrenean middle Eocene foreland basin. Sedimentary Geology, 393, 105538. [link]
Other related references #3 Arenas, C., Millán, H., Pardo, G., Pocoví, A., 2001. Ebro Basin continental sedimentation associated with late compressional Pyrenean tectonics (north‐eastern Iberia): controls on basin margin fans and fluvial systems. Basin Research, 13(1), 65-89. [link]
Other related references #4 Bauluz, B., Yuste, A., Mayayo, M. J., Rodríguez-Navarro, A. B., González-López, J. M., 2012. Microtexture and genesis of clay minerals from a turbiditic sequence in a Southern Pyrenees foreland basin (Jaca basin, Eocene). Clay minerals, 47(3), 303-318. [link]