General Information

Structure type
Deformed/Undeformed
Geological Setting ,
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)
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Location

Location

Map (detail)

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Geological map

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Cross section

Location

Structure type (Hudec and Jackson, 2009)

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Regional Stratigraphy

Location

Other maps 1

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Other maps 2

Generic Data

Unique ID 88
Name Caldas da Rainha-Óbidos
Structure type Evaporite diapir
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Lusitanian Basin
Geological Regional Setting Central Domain
Evaporite unit/s name Dagorda Fm.
Evaporite unit/s age Late Rhaetian-Hettangian (Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic)
Evaporite unit/s era Mesozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Marine
Evaporite unit/s composition Gypsum-Marlstone-Halite-Bituminous dolomite-Shales
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) Passive piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt wall
Mining activity? Y
Mining activity start
Mining activity end Active
Mining galleries? Y
Mining products Gypsum
Mining sub-products Halite
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Kimmeridgian-Turonian
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Rifting and normal faulting
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Normal faults / anticline-syncline folding
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Lower Jurassic (Coimbra and San Miguel Fms., dolostones) ; Mid Early Jurassic (Agua das Medeiros, Vale das Fontes and Lemede Fms, marlstones, marly limestones, limestones) ; Late Early Jurassic-Middle Jurassic (Brenha Fm., limestones, marly limestones) ; Late Jurassic (Complexo Carbonoso and Montejunto, marlstones and limestones)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Kimmeridgian (Alcobasa Fm., limestones and marly limestones) ; Tithonian (Lourinha Fm., sandstones and conglomerates)
Available seismic profiles
Available boreholes
Additional comments

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 88
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Historical (not indexed in the Spanish National Minning Cadastre)
Exploitation name #1 n.a.
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 n.a.
Municipality #1 n.a.
Province #1 n.a.
Company #1 n.a.
Main minning Products #1 Gypsum
Exploitation name #2
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2
Municipality #2
Province #2
Company #2
Main minning Products #2
Exploitation name #3
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3
Municipality #3
Province #3
Company #3
Main minning Products #3

Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 88
Outcropping area (km2) 208.64646
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 11.2
Max. Length (Km) 49.5
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 2
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 157
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 90
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 88
Section source Davison, I., Barreto, P., 2020. Deformation and sedimentation processes, and hydrocarbon accumulations on upturned salt diapir flanks in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal. Petroleum Geoscience, 27(1). [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 Carvalho, J. M. F., 2013. Tectónica e caraterização da fraturação do Maciço Calcário Estremenho, Bacia Lusitaniana. Contributo para a prospeção de rochas ornamentais e ordenamento da atividade extrativa [Ph.D. thesis:]: Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Departamento de Geologia, 449pp. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/8908
Well / Borehole availability #2 Davison, I., Barreto, P., 2020. Deformation and sedimentation processes, and hydrocarbon accumulations on upturned salt diapir flanks in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal. Petroleum Geoscience, 27(1). [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Davison, I., Barreto, P., 2020. Deformation and sedimentation processes, and hydrocarbon accumulations on upturned salt diapir flanks in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal. Petroleum Geoscience, 27(1). [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Duarte, L. V., 2007. Lithostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and depositional setting of the Pliensbachian and Toarcian series in the Lusitanian Basin (Portugal). Ciencias de la Tierra, 16, 17-23. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Carvalho, J. M. F., 2013. Tectónica e caraterização da fraturação do Maciço Calcário Estremenho, Bacia Lusitaniana. Contributo para a prospeção de rochas ornamentais e ordenamento da atividade extrativa [Ph.D. thesis:]: Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Departamento de Geologia, 449pp. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Dinis, J., Bernardes, C., 2004. Upper Jurassic outcrops along the Caldas da Rainha diapir, west Central Portugal: A regional geoheritage overview. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 110(1), 407-415. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 dos Reis, R. P., Pimentel, N., Fainstein, R., Reis, M., Rasmussen, B., 2017. Influence of salt diapirism on the basin architecture and hydrocarbon prospects of the Western Iberian Margin. In Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins (pp. 313-329). Elsevier. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Uphoff, T. L., 2005. Subsalt (pre-Jurassic) exploration play in the northern Lusitanian basin of Portugal. AAPG bulletin, 89(6), 699-714. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Davison, I., Barreto, P., 2020. Deformation and sedimentation processes, and hydrocarbon accumulations on upturned salt diapir flanks in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal. Petroleum Geoscience, 27(1). [link]
Seismic data availability #1 Davison, I., Barreto, P., 2020. Deformation and sedimentation processes, and hydrocarbon accumulations on upturned salt diapir flanks in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal. Petroleum Geoscience, 27(1). [link]
Seismic data availability #2 dos Reis, R. P., Pimentel, N., Fainstein, R., Reis, M., Rasmussen, B., 2017. Influence of salt diapirism on the basin architecture and hydrocarbon prospects of the Western Iberian Margin. In Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins (pp. 313-329). Elsevier. [link]
Seismic data availability #3 Carvalho, J. M. F., 2013. Tectónica e caraterização da fraturação do Maciço Calcário Estremenho, Bacia Lusitaniana. Contributo para a prospeção de rochas ornamentais e ordenamento da atividade extrativa [Ph.D. thesis:]: Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Departamento de Geologia, 449pp. [link]
Available data (Structure) #1 Davison, I., Barreto, P., 2020. Deformation and sedimentation processes, and hydrocarbon accumulations on upturned salt diapir flanks in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal. Petroleum Geoscience, 27(1). [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Pereira, N., Carneiro, J. F., Araújo, A., Bezzeghoud, M., Borges, J., 2014. Seismic and structural geology constraints to the selection of CO2 storage sites—The case of the onshore Lusitanian basin, Portugal. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 102, 21-38. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Carvalho, J. M. F., 2013. Tectónica e caraterização da fraturação do Maciço Calcário Estremenho, Bacia Lusitaniana. Contributo para a prospeção de rochas ornamentais e ordenamento da atividade extrativa [Ph.D. thesis:]: Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Departamento de Geologia, 449pp. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 dos Reis, R. P., Pimentel, N., Fainstein, R., Reis, M., Rasmussen, B., 2017. Influence of salt diapirism on the basin architecture and hydrocarbon prospects of the Western Iberian Margin. In Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins (pp. 313-329). Elsevier. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Rasmussen, E. S., Lomholt, S., Andersen, C., Vejbæk, O. V., 1998. Aspects of the structural evolution of the Lusitanian Basin in Portugal and the shelf and slope area offshore Portugal. Tectonophysics, 300(1-4), 199-225. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Pimentel, N., Pena dos Reis, R., 2016. Petroleum systems of the West Iberian Margin: A review of the Lusitanian Basin and the deep offshore Peniche Basin. Journal of Petroleum Geology, 39(3), 305-326. [link]
Available data (Analogue modelling) #1 Fonseca, P., Ribeiro, L. P., Caranova, R., Filipe, P., 2001. Experimentación analógica sobre el desarrollo de un diapiro y la deformación producida en las rocas encajantes. Enseñanza de las Ciencias de la Tierra, 9(3), 270-276. [link]
Available data (Analogue modelling) #2 n.a.
Available data (Analogue modelling) #3 n.a.
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #1 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) #2 n.a.
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #1 Marques, J. M., Graça, H., Eggenkamp, H. G., Neves, O., Carreira, P. M., Matias, M. J., …, Trancoso, V. N., 2013. Isotopic and hydrochemical data as indicators of recharge areas, flow paths and water–rock interaction in the Caldas da Rainha–Quinta das Janelas thermomineral carbonate rock aquifer (Central Portugal). Journal of hydrology, 476, 302-313. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 Sêco, S. L., Silva, R. L., Watson, N., Duarte, L. V., Pereira, A. J., Wach, G., 2019. Application of petrophysical methods to estimate total organic carbon in Lower Jurassic source rocks from the offshore Lusitanian Basin (Portugal). Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 180, 1058-1068. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 Azerêdo, A. C., Inês, N., & Bizarro, P., 2020. Carbonate reservoir outcrop analogues with a glance at pore-scale (Middle Jurassic, Lusitanian Basin, Portugal). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 111, 815-851. [link]
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number n.a.
Other Maps #1 (source) Davison, I., Barreto, P., 2020. Deformation and sedimentation processes, and hydrocarbon accumulations on upturned salt diapir flanks in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal. Petroleum Geoscience, 27(1). [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Davison, I., Barreto, P., 2020. Deformation and sedimentation processes, and hydrocarbon accumulations on upturned salt diapir flanks in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal. Petroleum Geoscience, 27(1). [link]
Other related references #1 Cabral, J., Ribeiro, P., Ramos, A., Cunha, P. P., 2018. Diapiric activity affecting Late Pliocene to Pleistocene sediments under a tectonic compressive regime: an example from the Western Iberian Margin (Srª da Vitória beach, central Portugal). Journal of Iberian Geology, 44(3), 431-445. [link]
Other related references #2 Dinis, J. L., Henriques, V., Freitas, M. C., Andrade, C., Costa, P., 2006. Natural to anthropogenic forcing in the Holocene evolution of three coastal lagoons (Caldas da Rainha valley, western Portugal). Quaternary International, 150(1), 41-51. [link]
Other related references #3 Mateus, O., Dinis, J., & Cunha, P. P., 2017. The Lourinhã Formation: the Upper Jurassic to lower most Cretaceous of the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal–landscapes where dinosaurs walked. Ciências da Terra/Earth Sciences Journal, 19(1), 75-97. [link]
Other related references #4 dos Reis, P., Cunha, P. P., Dinis, J., Trincão, P. R., 2000. Geological evolution of the Lusitanian Basin (Portugal) during the Late Jurassic. 5th Jurassic Symposium, Vancouver, 6, 345-356. [link]