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Calaf-Artesa

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Other comments Forming the Sanahuja Anticline and its eastwards and north-westwards propagation. Localized diapirism.

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Generic Data

Unique ID 124
Name Calaf-Artesa
Structure type Evaporite body
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Ebro Basin
Geological Regional Setting Central-Eastern Sector
Evaporite unit/s name Cardona Fm., Barbastro Fm.
Evaporite unit/s age Upper Priabonian-Upper Rupelian (Eocene-Oligocene)
Evaporite unit/s era Cenozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Continental
Evaporite unit/s composition Gypsum-Marlstone-Shale
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Pliocene (siltstones, sandstones, conglomerates) ; Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Pliocene-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Thrust piercement / Ductile piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt anticline
Mining activity? Y
Mining activity start
Mining activity end Active
Mining galleries? Y
Mining products Potassium salt
Mining sub-products Potassium salt
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Oligocene
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Alpine compression and thrusting, and buoyancy and differential loading (localized diapiric ascent in Bellfort and NE Pons areas)
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Normal faults / anticline-syncline folding / Folded unconformities
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) –
Syn-kinematic unit/s Early-Middle Rupelian (limestones and marlstones) ; Middle Rupelian (Torà Fm., marlstones, calcareous limolites, limestones, marly limestones) ; Chattian (marlstones, limestones, sandstones and conglomerates)
Available seismic profiles 33-1 / 8 / 5 / 13 / 51 / 39 / 1 / P-3 / P-2 / 54 / PIR-86-01 / PIR-86-01 / PIR-86-01 / PIR-86-01 / PIR-86-01 / PIR-86-01 / 33-1 / 44199 / 8 / 5 / 49
Available boreholes CALAF-102 / CALAF-109 / CALAF-101 / CALAF-107 / CALAF-112 / CALAF-104 / MASSOTERES / ARTESA DE SEGRE
Additional comments Forming the Sanahuja Anticline and its eastwards and north-westwards propagation. Localized diapirism.

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 124
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Active
Exploitation name #1 SOLEROT
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 5361
Municipality #1 Biosca
Province #1 LERIDA
Company #1 CANTERAS DE LA SEGARRA, SL
Main minning Products #1 Potassium salt
Exploitation name #2 BIOSCA
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2 5568
Municipality #2 Biosca
Province #2 LERIDA
Company #2 YESOVAL, SA
Main minning Products #2 Gypsum, Potassium salt
Exploitation name #3 SOT COMAS
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3 90581
Municipality #3 Massoteres
Province #3 LERIDA
Company #3 JOAN SISQUELLA ALAVEDRA
Main minning Products #3 Potassium salt

Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 124
Outcropping area (km2) 83.43407
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 16.9802805
Max. Length (Km) 62.6143856
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 1.8
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 34
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 23
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 124
Section source Santolaria, P., Pla, O., Soto Marín, R. L., Casas-Sainz, A. M., Gratacós, O., Roca, E., …, Pueyo Morer, E. L., 2016. Variaciones laterales de la estructura del anticlinal de Barbastro-Balaguer. Geotemas, 16, 105-108. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 n.a.
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Saez, A., Anadon, P., Herrero, M. J., Moscariello, A., 2007. Variable style of transition between Palaeogene fluvial fan and lacustrine systems, southern Pyrenean foreland, NE Spain. Sedimentology, 54(2), 367-390. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Lucha, P., Gutiérrez, F., Galve, J. P., Guerrero, J., 2012. Geomorphic and stratigraphic evidence of incision-induced halokinetic uplift and dissolution subsidence in transverse drainages crossing the evaporite-cored Barbastro–Balaguer Anticline (Ebro Basin, NE Spain). Geomorphology, 171, 154-172. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Anadón, P., Cabrera, L., Colldeforns, B., Sáez, A., 1989. Los sistemas lacustres del Eoceno superior y Oligoceno del sector oriental de la Cuenca del Ebro. Acta geológica hispánica, 24(3), 205-230. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Del Santo, G., García-Sansegundo, J., Sarasa, L., Torrebadella, J., 2000. Estratigrafía y estructura del Terciario en el sector oriental de la cuenca del Ebro entre Solsona y Manresa (NE de España). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 13(2), 265-278. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Costa, E., Garces, M., López‐Blanco, M., Beamud, E., Gómez‐Paccard, M., Larrasoaña, J. C., 2010. Closing and continentalization of the South Pyrenean foreland basin (NE Spain): magnetochronological constraints. Basin Research, 22(6), 904-917. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Senz, J. G., Zamorano, M., 1992. Evolución tectónica y sedimentaria durante el Priaboniense superior-Mioceno inferior, en el frente de cabalgamiento de las Sierras Marginales occidentales. Acta geológica hispánica, 27(1-2), 195-209. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Vergés, J., Fernàndez, M., Martìnez, A., 2002. The Pyrenean orogen: pre-, syn-, and post-collisional evolution. Journal of the Virtual Explorer, 8, 55-74. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 Pla, O., Ferrer García, J. O., Gratacós Torrà, Ò., Muñoz, J. A., Roca i Abella, E., 2016. Influencia de los niveles evaporíticos sin-orogénicos en la geometría del frente surpirenaico central: Anticlinales de Sanaüja y de La Sentiu-Almenara. Geo-Temas, 2016, vol. 16, num. 1, p. 65-68. [link]
Seismic data availability #2 Sans, M., Vergés, J., 1995. Fold Development Related to Contractional Salt Tectonics: Southeastern Pyrenean Thrust Front, Spain. In M.P.A. Jackson, D.G. Roberts, S. Snelson (eds.), Salt Tectonics: A Global Perspective. [link]
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Santolaria, P., Pla, O., Soto Marín, R. L., Casas-Sainz, A. M., Gratacós, O., Roca, E., …, Pueyo Morer, E. L., 2016. Variaciones laterales de la estructura del anticlinal de Barbastro-Balaguer. Geotemas, 16, 105-108. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Pla, O., Ferrer García, J. O., Gratacós Torrà, Ò., Muñoz, J. A., Roca i Abella, E., 2016. Influencia de los niveles evaporíticos sin-orogénicos en la geometría del frente surpirenaico central: Anticlinales de Sanaüja y de La Sentiu-Almenara. Geo-Temas, 2016, vol. 16, num. 1, p. 65-68. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Sans, M., Vergés, J., 1995. Fold Development Related to Contractional Salt Tectonics: Southeastern Pyrenean Thrust Front, Spain. In M.P.A. Jackson, D.G. Roberts, S. Snelson (eds.), Salt Tectonics: A Global Perspective. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Sans, M., Muñoz, J. A., & Vergés, J., 1996. Triangle zone and thrust wedge geometries related to evaporitic horizons (southern Pyrenees). Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, 44(2), 375-384. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 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 (Structure) #6 Krzywiec, P., Vergés, J., 2007. Role of the foredeep evaporites in wedge tectonics and formation of triangle zones: comparison of the Carpathian and Pyrenean Thrust Fronts. In Thrust belts and foreland basins (pp. 385-396). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. [link]
Available data (Analogue modelling) #1 Sans, M., 2003. From thrust tectonics to diapirism. The role of evaporites in the kinematic evolution of the eastern South Pyrenean front. Geologica Acta, 1(3), 239-260. [link]
Available data (Analogue modelling) #2 n.a.
Available data (Analogue modelling) #3 n.a.
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #1 Santolaria, P., Rubio Sánchez-Aguililla, F. M., Ayala Galán, C., Pueyo Morer, E. L., Rodriguez Pintó, A., Soto Marín, R. L., Casas, A. M., 2016. Gravimetría preliminar del antepaís Pirenaico central: distribución de las evaporitas y geometría de zócalo. Geotemas, 16(2), 559-562. [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 Cendón Sevilla, D. I., 1999. Evolución geoquímica de cuencas evaporíticas terciarias: implicaciones en la composición isotópica disuelto en el océano durante el terciario [Ph.D. thesis]: University of Barcelona, 335p. [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 Oliván, C., Pueyo, E. L., Pocoví, A., Luzón, A., Martínez-Peña, M. B., 2008. Fábricas magnéticas (ASM) en el anticlinal de Barbastro–Balaguer (Pirineo Central): implicaciones cinemáticas. Geotemas, 10, 1239-1242. [link]
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 328-Artesa de Segre. [link] and 329-Pons. [link] and 361-Guisona. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Pla, O., Ferrer García, J. O., Gratacós Torrà, Ò., Muñoz, J. A., Roca i Abella, E., 2016. Influencia de los niveles evaporíticos sin-orogénicos en la geometría del frente surpirenaico central: Anticlinales de Sanaüja y de La Sentiu-Almenara. Geo-Temas, 2016, vol. 16, num. 1, p. 65-68. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Del Santo, G., García-Sansegundo, J., Sarasa, L., Torrebadella, J., 2000. Estratigrafía y estructura del Terciario en el sector oriental de la cuenca del Ebro entre Solsona y Manresa (NE de España). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 13(2), 265-278. [link]
Other related references #1 Pla, O., Muñoz*, J. A., Ferrer, O., Roca, E., Gratacós, Ò., Ramírez, B., 2015. Halokinetic Deformations During the Development of Detachment Folds on Multilayered Syn-Orogenic Evaporitic Sequences: Results From Analogue Modeling and Comparison With the Sanaüja Anticline (Ebro Foreldand Basin, Iberian Peninsula). In International Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia 13-16 September 2015 (pp. 121-121). Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Association of Petroleum Geologists. [link]
Other related references #2 Sans, M., Vergés, J., Gomis, E., Parés, J. M., Schiattarella, M., Travé, A., …, Doulcet, A., 2003. Layer parallel shortening in salt-detached folds: constraint on cross-section restoration. Tectonophysics, 372(1-2), 85-104. [link]
Other related references #3 Krzywiec, P., Vergés, J., 2006. Salt Tectonics in Compressional Settings: Comparison of the S Pyrenees and the N Carpathians. Geolines, 20, 81. [link]
Other related references #4 Santolaria, P., Luzón, A., Casas, A. M., Soto, R., 2015. Coupling far and near tectonic signals in syn-orogenic sediments: the Olvena growth strata (Sierras Marginales, southern Pyrenees). Geologica Acta, 13(4), 297-308. [link]