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La Sarsa

ID #077
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General Information

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Age of evaporite flow or deformation (when deformed)
Other comments Salt wall collapse and thrust-related welding from Late Maastrichtian time.

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Generic Data

Unique ID 77
Name La Sarsa
Structure type Evaporite diapir
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Buried
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-Shale-Marlstone-Ophites
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Upper Palaeocene (limestones, mudstones, slumped sandstones) ; Eocene (marls and mudstones, limestones, calcarenites, sandstones) ; Oligocene (marls, mudstones, sandstones) ; Miocene (sandstones, mudstones, limestones, calcarenites) ; Pliocene-Quaternary (alluvial deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Palaeocene-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Ductile piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt wall
Mining activity? Y
Mining activity start –
Mining activity end –
Mining galleries? –
Mining products Claystone
Mining sub-products –
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Upper Jurassic-Upper Albian
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Extensional activity of the suprasalt faults
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Low-angle unconformities / Normal high-angle faults / joints
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Early Jurassic (mudstones, dolostones, marlstones) ; Middle Jurassic (dolostones, oolitic dolostones)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Late Jurassic (limestones, dolostones, marlstones, oolitic dolostones, marly limestones) ; Neocomian (limestones, calcarenites) ; Barremian (bioclastic limestones) ; Early Aptian (limestones, calcarenites) ; Late Aptian-Upper Albian (dolostones)
Available seismic profiles RV-6 / CZ-11 / RV-62 / RV-62 / CZ-10 / RV-14 / RV-62 / RV-5 / RV-62 / CZ9-1 / CZ-10 / RV-14 / RV-4 / RV-61 / CZ9-1 / CZ-11 / RV-6 / RV-76 / RV-62 / RV-60 / RV-5
Available boreholes SOLANA-2 / FUENTE BLANCA-2 / FUENTE BLANCA-1 / HOYA HERMOSA / SOLANA-1 / FUENTE BLANCA-1 / SOLANA-1
Additional comments Salt wall collapse and thrust-related welding from Late Maastrichtian time

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 77
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Active
Exploitation name #1 LA PULGA
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 22261
Municipality #1 Jumilla
Province #1 MURCIA
Company #1 LA LADRILLERA MURCIANA S.A.
Main minning Products #1 Claystone
Exploitation name #2 LA TORRE
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2 1037
Municipality #2 Jumilla
Province #2 MURCIA
Company #2 CERAMICAS BORJA S.A.
Main minning Products #2 Claystone
Exploitation name #3 RUBÍ
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3 1283
Municipality #3 Fortuna
Province #3 MURCIA
Company #3 LYM JAR NATURAL STONE, S.L.
Main minning Products #3 Ornamental limestone

Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 77
Outcropping area (km2) Buried
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) 19.55618
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) 1
Max. Width (Km) 13.0706902
Max. Length (Km) 2.95909155
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 1.8
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 157
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 100
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 77
Section source Escosa, F.O., Roca, E., Ferrer, O., 2018. Testing thin-skinned inversion of a prerift salt-bearing passive margin (Eastern Prebetic Zone, SE Iberia). Journal of Structural Geology, 109, 55-73. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 Escosa, F.O., Roca, E., Ferrer, O., 2018. Testing thin-skinned inversion of a prerift salt-bearing passive margin (Eastern Prebetic Zone, SE Iberia). Journal of Structural Geology, 109, 55-73. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Escosa, F.O., Roca, E., Ferrer, O., 2018. Testing thin-skinned inversion of a prerift salt-bearing passive margin (Eastern Prebetic Zone, SE Iberia). Journal of Structural Geology, 109, 55-73. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 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, 170–192. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Arche, A., López-Gómez, J., García-Hidalgo, J. F., 2002. Control climático y eustático en depósitos del Carniense (Triásico Superior) del SE de la Peninsula Iberica.  Journal of Iberian Geology, 28, 13-30. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Vilas, L., Martín-Chivelet, J., Arias, C., 2003. Integration of subsidence and sequence stratigraphic analyses in the Cretaceous carbonate platforms of the Prebetic (Jumilla-Yecla Region), Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 200, 107-129. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Rodríguez-Estrella, T., 1977. Síntesis geológica del Prebético de la provincia de Alicante. Boletín del Instituto Geológico y Minero de España 88, 183–214 and 273–299. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Mancheño, M.A., Rodriguez-Estrella, T., 1985. Geología de los diapiros triásicos del nordeste de la provincia de Murcia. Estudios geológicos, 41, 189-200. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy 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]
Seismic data availability #1 Escosa, F.O., Roca, E., Ferrer, O., 2018. Testing thin-skinned inversion of a prerift salt-bearing passive margin (Eastern Prebetic Zone, SE Iberia). Journal of Structural Geology, 109, 55-73. [link]
Seismic data availability #2 n.a.
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Escosa, F.O., Roca, E., Ferrer, O., 2018. Testing thin-skinned inversion of a prerift salt-bearing passive margin (Eastern Prebetic Zone, SE Iberia). Journal of Structural Geology, 109, 55-73. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Navarro-Hervás, F., Rodríguez-Estrella, T., 1985. Características morfoestructurales de los diapiros triásicos de Hellín, Ontur, la Celia, Jumilla, La Rosa y Pinoso, en las provincias de Albacete, Murcia y Alicante. Papeles de geografía, 10, 49-69. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 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, 170–192. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Roca, E., Sans, M., Koyi, H.A., 2006. Polyphase deformation of diapiric areas in models and in the eastern Prebetics (Spain). AAPG Bulletin, 90, 115-136. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Mancheño, M.A., Rodriguez-Estrella, T., 1985. Geología de los diapiros triásicos del nordeste de la provincia de Murcia. Estudios geológicos, 41, 189-200. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 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]
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 Escosa, F.O., Roca, E., Ferrer, O., 2018. Testing thin-skinned inversion of a prerift salt-bearing passive margin (Eastern Prebetic Zone, SE Iberia). Journal of Structural Geology, 109, 55-73. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #2 Castaño, S., Carbó, A., 1995. Los afloramientos triásicos de la zona de confluencia de las Cordilleras Ibérica y Bética. Aportes de la gravimetría a su interpretación. Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica, 19, 235-248. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #3 Castaño-Fernández, S., 1993. La estructura cortical del area de unión de las cordilleras Ibérica y Béticas. Interpretación geotectónica basada en datos gravimétricos. PhD thesis, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid. [link]
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 n.a.
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 892-Fortuna. [link]
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) 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 related references #1 Rodríguez-Estrella, T., 1983. Neotectónica relacionada con las estructuras diapíricas en el Sureste de la Península Ibérica. Tecniterrae, 9, 14-30. [link]
Other related references #2 Ortí, F. C., 1990. El domo de Pinoso, La sal del domo de La Rosa y el domo de Jumilla Formaciones evaporíticas de la Cuenca del Ebro y Cadenas periféricas, y de la zona de Levante. Ortí y Salvany (Eds.) ENRESAGPPG. Barcelona: 289-291 (Unpublished)
Other related references #3 Ortí, F. C., 1974. El Keuper del Levante español. Estudios Geológicos, 30, 7- 46. [link]
Other related references #4 Ortí, F. C., 1987. Aspectos sedimentológicos de las evaporitas del Triásico y del Liásico inferior en el Este de la Península Ibérica. Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica 11, 837-858. [link]