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ID #080
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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) ,
Other comments Reactivation stage strongly influenced by Mid Miocene transpression. The diapir rised reactively in the late stage in a pull-apart basin bounded by R-shears and P-shears.

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Map (detail)

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Structure type (Hudec and Jackson, 2009)

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Regional Stratigraphy

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Other maps 1

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Other maps 2

Generic Data

Unique ID 80
Name Finestrat
Structure type Evaporite diapir
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Betic System
Geological Regional Setting Pre-Betic Cordillera
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-Anhydrite-Mudstone-Sandstone
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) Passive piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt wall
Mining activity? N
Mining activity start
Mining activity end
Mining galleries?
Mining products
Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Eocene-Oligocene (main stage) and Serravallian-Early Tortonian (reactivation stage)
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Differential loading (main stage) and Mid Miocene transpression (reactivation stage)
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Reverse faults / normal faults / anticline-syncline folding / progressive unconformities
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Lower Jurassic (limestones) ; Barremian-Albian (limestones, marls, micritic limestones) ; Upper Cretaceous (tabular limestones, marly limestones, calcarenites, dolostones) ; Aquitanian -Serravallian (marlstones, marly limestones, limestones)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Eocene (marlstones, marly limestones, limestones) ; Late Oligocene (limestones, carbonate brecchia) ; Serravallian-Tortonian (marlstones, calcarenites)
Available seismic profiles RV-11-V / RV15-V / RV-12 / RV-87-03 / RV-87-03 / RV-87-03 / RV-87-01 / RV-11-V / RV-87-01 / RV-87-01 / RV-87-01
Available boreholes
Additional comments Reactivation stage strongly influences by Mid Miocene transpression. The diapir rose diapir rose reactively in the late stage in a pull-apart basin bounded by R-shears and
P-shears.

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 80
Minning exploitations within <2km? N
Historical/Active
Exploitation name #1
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1
Municipality #1
Province #1
Company #1
Main minning Products #1
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 80
Outcropping area (km2) 8.36146
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 2.59394488
Max. Length (Km) 10.5405992
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 2.1
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 56
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 10
Deformation stages 2

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 80
Section source del Olmo, W. M., Motis, K., Martín, D., 2015. El papel del diapirismo de la sal Triásica en la estructuración del Prebético (SE de España). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 28(1), 3-24. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 n.a.
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Cater, J. M. L., 1987. Sedimentary evidence of the Neogene evolution of SE Spain. Journal of the Geological Society, 144(6), 915-932. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Martín-Martín, M., Guerrera, F., Tramontana, M., 2020. Tectono-Sedimentary Evolution of the Cenozoic Basins in the Eastern External Betic Zone (SE Spain). Geosciences, 10(10), 394. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Hoentzsch, S., Scheibner, C., Brock, J. P., Kuss, J., 2013. Circum-Tethyan carbonate platform evolution during the Palaeogene: the Prebetic platform as a test for climatically controlled facies shifts. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 22(6), 891-918. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Guerrera, F., Martín-Martín, M., 2014. Paleogene-Aquitanian tectonic breakup in the eastern External Betic Zone (Alicante, SE Spain). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 27, 271-286. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 del Olmo, W. M., Motis, K., Martín, D., 2015. El papel del diapirismo de la sal Triásica en la estructuración del Prebético (SE de España). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 28(1), 3-24. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Guerrera, F., Mancheño, M. A., Martín-Martín, M., Raffaelli, G., Rodríguez-Estrella, T., Serrano, F., 2014. Paleogene evolution of the External Betic Zone and geodynamic implications. Geologica Acta, 12(3), 171-192. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Martín-Martín, M., Guerrera, F., Tramontana, M., 2020. Tectono-Sedimentary Evolution of the Cenozoic Basins in the Eastern External Betic Zone (SE Spain). Geosciences, 10(10), 394. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 n.a.
Seismic data availability #2 n.a.
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 del Olmo, W. M., Motis, K., Martín, D., 2015. El papel del diapirismo de la sal Triásica en la estructuración del Prebético (SE de España). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 28(1), 3-24. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Jackson, M., Hudec, M., 2017. Strike-Slip Salt-Tectonic Systems. In Salt Tectonics: Principles and Practice (pp. 336-362). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Martín-Martín, M., Guerrera, F., Tramontana, M., 2020. Tectono-Sedimentary Evolution of the Cenozoic Basins in the Eastern External Betic Zone (SE Spain). Geosciences, 10(10), 394. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Guerrera, F., Martín-Martín, M., 2014. Paleogene-Aquitanian tectonic breakup in the eastern External Betic Zone (Alicante, SE Spain). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 27, 271-286. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Cater, J. M. L., 1987. Sedimentary evidence of the Neogene evolution of SE Spain. Journal of the Geological Society, 144(6), 915-932. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 n.a.
Available data (Analogue modelling) #1 Callot, J. P., Jahani, S., Letouzey, J., 2007. The role of pre-existing diapirs in fold and thrust belt development. In Thrust belts and foreland basins (pp. 309-325). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. [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 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) #2 Höntzsh, S., Scheibner, C., Brock, J. P., Kuss, J., 2013. Circum-Tethyan carbonate platform evolution during the Palaeogene: the Prebetic platform as a test for climatically controlled facies shifts. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 22(6), 891-918. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 n.a.
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 847-Villajoyosa. http://info.igme.es/cartografiadigital/datos/magna50/pdfs/d8_G50/Magna50_847.pdf
Other Maps #1 (source) Escosa, F. O., Ferrer, O., Roca, E., 2018. Geology of the Eastern Prebetic Zone at the Jumilla region (SE Iberia). Journal of Maps, 14(2), 77-86. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Martín-Martín, M., Guerrera, F., Tramontana, M., 2020. Tectono-Sedimentary Evolution of the Cenozoic Basins in the Eastern External Betic Zone (SE Spain). Geosciences, 10(10), 394. [link]
Other related references #1 García‐Veigas, J., Gibert, L., Cendón, D. I., Artiaga, D., Corbí, H., Soria, J. M., …, Sanz, E., 2020. Late Miocene evaporite geochemistry of Lorca and Fortuna basins (Eastern Betics, SE Spain): Evidence of restriction and continentalization. Basin Research, 32(5), 926-958. [link]
Other related references #2 Pedrera, A., Marín-Lechado, C., Galindo-Zaldívar, J., García-Lobón, J. L., 2014. Control of preexisting faults and near-surface diapirs on geometry and kinematics of fold-and-thrust belts (Internal Prebetic, Eastern Betic Cordillera). Journal of Geodynamics, 77, 135-148. [link]
Other related references #3 Guerrera, F., Estévez, A., López-Arcos, M., Martín-Martín, M., Martín-Pérez, J. A., Serrano, F., 2006. Paleogene tectono-sedimentary evolution of the Alicante Trough (External Betic Zone, SE Spain) and its bearing on the timing of the deformation of the South-Iberian Margin. Geodinamica Acta, 19(2), 87-101. [link]
Other related references #4 del Olmo, W. M., Verdú, G. L., Alba, J. S., 1986. La estructuración diapirica del Sector Prebético. Geogaceta, (1), 43-44. [link]