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Calasanz

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General Information

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Age of evaporite flow or deformation (when deformed) ,
Other comments Subsurface occurrence of the Eocene evaporites of the Barbastro Formation beneath the diapir.

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Generic Data

Unique ID 72
Name Calasanz
Structure type Evaporite body
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Southern Pyrenees
Geological Regional Setting South Pyrenees Central Unit (Sierras Marginales; Boltaña-Balzes thrust sheet)
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-Gypsum-Anhydrite-Halite
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Early Miocene (alluvial fan conglomerates) ; Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Early Miocene, Pliocene-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Thrust piercement / Erosional Piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt glacier
Mining activity? Y
Mining activity start –
Mining activity end –
Mining galleries? –
Mining products Limestone (other uses)
Mining sub-products –
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Lutetian-Priabonian (early stage) ; Late Oligocene (late stage)
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Translation–rotation of the western end of the Sierras Marginales thrust sheet (early stage) and compression , thrust development and differential loading (late stage)
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Thickness variations / progressive unconformities
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Lower Jurassic (limestones, dolostones and shales) ; Upper Santonian-Maastrichtian (calcarenites and limestones) ; Maastrichian-Paleocene (Garumn Facies, carbonates and shales) ; Palaeocene-Lower Eocene (shallow marines carbonates) ; Upper Eocene-Oligocene (evaporites and detrital deposits)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Lutetian-Early Priabonian (marlstones, mudstones, limestones, sandstones) ; Late Oligocene (alluvial fan conglomerates)
Available seismic profiles ND-63 / SP-10PROL / SP-10_PROL / ND-64 / SP-10_PROL / CN-95 / HL-16 / HL-07 / SP-10PROL / SP-10PROL / HL-04 / HL-22 / ND-63 / HL-22 / HL-4 / HL-16 / HL-7
Available boreholes
Additional comments Subsurface occurrence of the Eocene evaporites of the Barbastro Formation beneath the diapir

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 72
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Active
Exploitation name #1 LAS CABANETAS
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 2070
Municipality #1 Fonz
Province #1 HUESCA
Company #1 HORPISA (HORMIGONES DEL PIRINEO, S.A.)
Main minning Products #1 Limestone (other uses)
Exploitation name #2 LA ALGARETA
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2 25
Municipality #2 Estadilla
Province #2 HUESCA
Company #2 CARBURO DEL CINCA, S.A.
Main minning Products #2 Limestone (other uses)
Exploitation name #3
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3
Municipality #3
Province #3
Company #3
Main minning Products #3

Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 72
Outcropping area (km2) 7.83172
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 3.9914252
Max. Length (Km) 13.4971678
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 0.9
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 46
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 24
Deformation stages 2

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 72
Section source 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]
Well / Borehole availability #1 Martín-Chivelet, J., López-Gómez, J., Aguado, R., Arias, C., Arribas, J., Arribas, M. E., … , Casas-Sainz, A., 2019. The Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Rifting. In (Quesada C., Oliveira J., eds.): The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer, Cham. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #2 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) #1 Salvany, J. M., Bastida, J., 2004. Análisis litoestratigráfico del Keuper surpirenaico central. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 17(1), 3-26. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Santolaria, P., Ayala, C., Pueyo, E. L., Rubio, F. M., Soto, R., Calvín, P., …, Casas‐Sainz, A. M., 2020. Structural and geophysical characterization of the western termination of the South Pyrenean triangle zone. Tectonics, 39(8), e2019TC005891. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Millán-Garrido, H., Morer, E. P., Cardona, M. A., Aguado, A. L., Urcia, B. O., Peña, B. M., 2000. Actividad tectónica registrada en los depósitos terciarios del frente meridional del Pirineo central. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 13(2), 279-300. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 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]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 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) #6 Martín-Chivelet, J., López-Gómez, J., Aguado, R., Arias, C., Arribas, J., Arribas, M. E., … , Casas-Sainz, A., 2019. The Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Rifting. In (Quesada C., Oliveira J., eds.): The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer, Cham. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Santolaria, P., Ayala, C., Pueyo, E. L., Rubio, F. M., Soto, R., Calvín, P., …, Casas‐Sainz, A. M., 2020. Structural and geophysical characterization of the western termination of the South Pyrenean triangle zone. Tectonics, 39(8), e2019TC005891. [link]
Seismic data availability #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]
Seismic data availability #2 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]
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #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 (Structure) #2 Santolaria, P., Casas-Sainz, A. M., 2013. Estructura y cinemática del sector occidental de las Sierras Marginales (Unidad Surpirenaica Central). Geogaceta, 53, 69-72. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Santolaria, P., Calvín, P., Soto Marín, R. L., Casas, A. M., Luzón Aguado, M. A., Pueyo Morer, E. L., 2016. Nuevas aportaciones sobre la estructura de la terminación occidental del anticlinal de Barbastro-Balaguer. Geotemas, 16, 77-80. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 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]
Available data (Structure) #5 Santolaria, P., Ayala, C., Pueyo, E. L., Rubio, F. M., Soto, R., Calvín, P., …, Casas‐Sainz, A. M., 2020. Structural and geophysical characterization of the western termination of the South Pyrenean triangle zone. Tectonics, 39(8), e2019TC005891. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 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 (Analogue modelling) #1 n.a.
Available data (Analogue modelling) #2 n.a.
Available data (Analogue modelling) #3 n.a.
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #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 (Gravimetry – Tomography) #2 Casas, A., Santolaria, P., Rivero, L., Casas-Sainz, A., Himi, M., Pinto, V., Sendrós, A., 2016. The gravity method: new challenges for delineation diapiric structures in north-east Spain. First Break, 34(8). [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #1 Salvany, J. M., Bastida, J., 2004. Análisis litoestratigráfico del Keuper surpirenaico central. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 17(1), 3-26. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 Gómez-Gras, D., Roigé, M., Fondevilla, V., Oms, O., Boya, S., Remacha, E., 2016. Provenance constraints on the Tremp Formation paleogeography (southern Pyrenees): Ebro Massif vs Pyrenees sources. Cretaceous Research, 57, 414-427. [link]
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 Muñoz, J. A., Beamud, E., Fernández, O., Arbués, P., Dinarès‐Turell, J., Poblet, J., 2013. The Ainsa Fold and thrust oblique zone of the central Pyrenees: Kinematics of a curved contractional system from paleomagnetic and structural data. Tectonics, 32(5), 1142-1175. [link]
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 288-Fonz. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) 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]
Other Maps #2 (source) 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]
Other related references #1 Garrido, H. M., Morer, E. P., Cardona, M. A., Aguado, A. L., Urcia, B. O., Peña, B. M., 2000. Actividad tectónica registrada en los depósitos terciarios del frente meridional del Pirineo central. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 13(2), 279-300. [link]
Other related references #2 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 #3 Lanaja, J.M., 1987. Contribución de la exploración petrolífera al conocimiento de la geología de España. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, 465 p. [link]
Other related references #4 López Martínez, N., Arribas Mocoroa, M. E., Robador, A., Vicens, E., Ardèvol, L., 2006. Los carbonatos danienses (Unidad 3) de la Fm Tremp (Pirineos sur-centrales): paleogeografía y relación con el límite Cretácico-Terciario. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 19(3-4), 233-255. [link]