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Echalecu

ID #038
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Other comments Alignment of the Salinas del Oro, Anoz, Alloz, Estella, Ollo, Echalecu and Iza along the Pamplona fault. Salt motion lasted until syn-orogenic times in the Echalecu diapir, as the Maastrichtian layers are also affected by diapirs (see Ducoux et al., 2020).

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Generic Data

Unique ID 38
Name Echalecu
Structure type Evaporite diapir
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Basque-Cantabrian Basin
Geological Regional Setting Navarra-Álava trough
Evaporite unit/s name Keuper facies
Evaporite unit/s age Carnian-Rhaetian (Upper Triassic)
Evaporite unit/s era Mesozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Marine
Evaporite unit/s composition Gypsum-Halite-Anhydrite-Claystone-Ophites
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) Thrust piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt roller
Mining activity? N
Mining activity start
Mining activity end
Mining galleries?
Mining products
Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Neocomian – Albian
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Mesozoic extensional regime in the Basque–Cantabrian Basin (listric faults and salt tectonics)
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Normal high-angle faults / joints / thickness variations / progressive unconformities
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Jurassic (limestones, dolostones, oolitic limestones, marls)
Syn-kinematic unit/s  Valanginian – Barremian (Weald facies, limestones, clays and sandstones) / Aptian – Albian (limestones, marls, sandstones and lutites)
Available seismic profiles 38 / OS-10 / 37 / 23 / OS-9 / OS-8 / OS-10 / 8 / 38 / 33-QU / 34 / 33-QU-1 / 9 / OS-9 / 23 / 36 / 33 / 0S12 / 39 / 37 /
Available boreholes
Additional comments Alignment of the Salinas del Oro, Anoz, Alloz, Estella, Ollo, Echalecu and Iza along the Pamplona fault. Salt motion lasted until syn-orogenic times in the Echalecu diapir, as the Maastrichtian layers are also affected by diapirs (see Ducoux et al., 2020).

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 38
Minning exploitations within <2km? N
Historical/Active
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Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 38
Outcropping area (km2) 2.58641
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 1.2
Max. Length (Km) 7.4
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 1
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 140
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 100
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 38
Section source IGME MAGNA 50. SHEET 115 (ANOSAIN)
Well / Borehole availability #1 n.a.
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 García-Mondejar, J., Aguirrezabalaga, L.M., Aramburu, A., Fernandez-Mendiola, P.A., Gomez-Perez, I., Lopez-Horgue, M., Corrales, I., 1996. Aptian-albian tectonic pattern of the Basque-Cantabrian basin (Northern Spain). Geological Journal, 31, 13-45. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Küchler, T., 1998. Upper Cretaceous of the Barranca (Navarra, northern Spain); integrated itho-, bio- and event stratigraphy. Part I: Cenomanian through Santonian. Acta Geologica Polonica, 48 (2), 157-180. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Soler, R., 1971. El Jurásico Marino de la Sierra de Aralar (Cuenca Cantábrica occidental): Los problemas poskinméricos. Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica, 2, 509-532. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Küchler, T., Kutz, A., Wagreich, M., 2001. Chapter E3: The Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary in northern Spain (Navarra province): The Imiscoz and Erro sections. In Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, 19, 723-744. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Ducoux, M., Jolivet, L., Callot, J. P., Aubourg, C., Masini, E., Lahfid, A., Hommonay, E., Cagnard, F., Gumiaux, C., Baudin, T., 2019. The Nappe des Marbres unit of the Basque‐Cantabrian Basin: the tectono‐thermal evolution of a fossil hyperextended rift basin. Tectonics, 38(11), 3881-3915. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Bodego, A., Iriarte, E., Agirrezabala, L. M., García-Mondéjar, J., López-Horgue, M. A., 2015. Synextensional mid-Cretaceous stratigraphic architecture of the eastern Basque–Cantabrian basin margin (western Pyrenees). Cretaceous Research, 55, 229-261. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Pedrera, A., García‐Senz, J., Ayala, C., Ruiz‐Constán, A., Rodríguez‐Fernández, L. R., Robador, A., González Menéndez, L., 2017. Reconstruction of the exhumed mantle across the North Iberian Margin by crustal‐scale 3‐D gravity inversion and geological cross section. Tectonics, 36, 3155-3177. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 Pedreira, D., Pulgar, J. A., Gallart, J., Díaz, J., 2003. Seismic evidence of Alpine crustal thickening and wedging from the western Pyrenees to the Cantabrian Mountains (north Iberia). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 108(B4), 2204. [link]
Seismic data availability #2 DeFelipe, I., Álvarez Pulgar, F. J., Pedreira Rodríguez, D., 2018. Crustal structure of the Eastern Basque-Cantabrian Zone-western Pyrenees: from the Cretaceous hyperextension to the Cenozoic inversion. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 31(2), 69-82. [link]
Seismic data availability #3 Pedreira, D., 2004. Estructura cortical de la zona de transición entre los Pirineos y la Cordillera Cantábrica [Ph.D. thesis]: Universidad de Oviedo, 364p. [link]
Available data (Structure) #1 Ducoux, M., Jolivet, L., Callot, J. P., Aubourg, C., Masini, E., Lahfid, A., Hommonay, E., Cagnard, F., Gumiaux, C., Baudin, T., 2019. The Nappe des Marbres unit of the Basque‐Cantabrian Basin: the tectono‐thermal evolution of a fossil hyperextended rift basin. Tectonics, 38(11), 3881-3915. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 García-Mondejar, J., Aguirrezabalaga, L.M., Aramburu, A., Fernandez-Mendiola, P.A., Gomez-Perez, I., Lopez-Horgue, M., Corrales, I., 1996. Aptian-albian tectonic pattern of the Basque-Cantabrian basin (Northern Spain). Geological Journal, 31, 13-45. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Soler, R., 1971. El Jurásico Marino de la Sierra de Aralar (Cuenca Cantábrica occidental): Los problemas poskinméricos. Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica, 2, 509-532. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 DeFelipe, I., Álvarez Pulgar, F. J., Pedreira Rodríguez, D., 2018. Crustal structure of the Eastern Basque-Cantabrian Zone-western Pyrenees: from the Cretaceous hyperextension to the Cenozoic inversion. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 31(2), 69-82. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Pedrera, A., García‐Senz, J., Ayala, C., Ruiz‐Constán, A., Rodríguez‐Fernández, L. R., Robador, A., González Menéndez, L., 2017. Reconstruction of the exhumed mantle across the North Iberian Margin by crustal‐scale 3‐D gravity inversion and geological cross section. Tectonics, 36, 3155-3177. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Cámara, P., 2020. Inverted turtle salt anticlines in the eastern basque-cantabrian basin, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104358. [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 Pedrera, A., García‐Senz, J., Ayala, C., Ruiz‐Constán, A., Rodríguez‐Fernández, L. R., Robador, A., González Menéndez, L., 2017. Reconstruction of the exhumed mantle across the North Iberian Margin by crustal‐scale 3‐D gravity inversion and geological cross section. Tectonics, 36, 3155-3177. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #2 Pedreira, D., Pulgar, J. A., Gallart, J., Díaz, J., 2003. Seismic evidence of Alpine crustal thickening and wedging from the western Pyrenees to the Cantabrian Mountains (north Iberia). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 108(B4), 2204. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #3 Pinto, V., Rivero, L., Ponsatí, A. C., 2000. Modelo gravimétrico de los diapiros de Estella y Alloz, y localización de nuevos diapiros no aflorantes en la zona sur de Atauri, Cubeta Alavesa. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 13(3), 529-538. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #1 DeFelipe, I., Pedreira, D., Pulgar, J. A., Van der Beek, P. A., Bernet, M., Pik, R., 2019. Unraveling the Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonothermal evolution of the eastern Basque‐Cantabrian zone–western Pyrenees by low‐temperature thermochronology. Tectonics, 38(9), 3436-3461. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 Iribar, V., Ábalos, B. 2011. The geochemical and isotopic record of evaporite recycling in spas and salterns of the Basque Cantabrian basin, Spain. Applied geochemistry, 26, 1315-1329. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 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) #4 Ducoux, M., Jolivet, L., Callot, J. P., Aubourg, C., Masini, E., Lahfid, A., Hommonay, E., Cagnard, F., Gumiaux, C., Baudin, T., 2019. The Nappe des Marbres unit of the Basque‐Cantabrian Basin: the tectono‐thermal evolution of a fossil hyperextended rift basin. Tectonics, 38(11), 3881-3915. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 Llamas, B., Castañeda, M. C., Laín, C., Pous, J., 2017. Study of the Basque–Cantabrian basin as a suitable region for the implementation of an energy storage system based on compressed air energy storage (CAES). Environmental Earth Sciences, 76(5), 204. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 Soto, R., Beamud, E., Roca, E., Carola, E., Almar, Y., 2017. Distinguishing the effect of diapir growth on magnetic fabrics of syn-diapiric overburden rocks: Basque-Cantabrian basin, Northern Spain. Terra Nova 29, 191-201. [link]
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 115-Ansoain. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) DeFelipe, I., Álvarez Pulgar, F. J., & Pedreira Rodríguez, D., 2018. Crustal structure of the Eastern Basque-Cantabrian Zone-western Pyrenees: from the Cretaceous hyperextension to the Cenozoic inversion. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 31 (2), 69-82. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Ducoux, M., Jolivet, L., Callot, J. P., Aubourg, C., Masini, E., Lahfid, A., Hommonay, E., Cagnard, F., Gumiaux, C., Baudin, T., 2019. The Nappe des Marbres unit of the Basque‐Cantabrian Basin: the tectono‐thermal evolution of a fossil hyperextended rift basin. Tectonics, 38(11), 3881-3915. [link]
Other related references #1 Turner, J. P., 1996. Switches in subduction direction and the lateral termination of mountain belts: Pyrenees-Cantabrian transition, Spain. Journal of the Geological Society, 153(4), 563-571. [link]
Other related references #2 Tugend, J., Manatschal, G., Kusznir, N. J., Masini, E., Mohn, G., Thinon, I., 2014. Formation and deformation of hyperextended rift systems: Insights from rift domain mapping in the Bay of Biscay‐Pyrenees. Tectonics, 33(7), 1239-1276. [link]
Other related references #3 DeFelipe, I., Pedreira, D., Pulgar, J. A., Iriarte, E., Mendia, M., 2017. Mantle exhumation and metamorphism in the B asque‐C antabrian B asin (NS pain): Stable and clumped isotope analysis in carbonates and comparison with ophicalcites in the N orth‐P yrenean Z one (U rdach and L herz). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18(2), 631-652. [link]
Other related references #4 n.a.