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Laredo

ID #111
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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 Hydrothermal fluid flow and dolomitization in diapiric-flexure areas (see López-Horgue et al., 2010).

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Generic Data

Unique ID 111
Name Laredo
Structure type Evaporite diapir
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Basque-Cantabrian Basin
Geological Regional Setting Cantabrian Block
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 Shale-Gypsum-Anhydrite-Ophites
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Lower Cenomanian (sandstones, marlstones and limestones) ; Upper Cenomanian-Turonian (marlstones, limestones and marly limestones) ; Coniacian-Maastrichtian (limestones and marlstones) ; Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Coniacian-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Passive piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt stock
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 Berriasian – Albian (early stage) and Oligocene – Miocene (late stage)
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Mesozoic extensional regime in the Basque–Cantabrian Basin (listric faults and salt tectonics, early stage) and Tertiary compression (Coliendres-Ampuero fault zone; reverse faulting, reactivated salt diapirism and N-vergent salt sheets by low-angle trusting)
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Normal high-angle faults / joints / thickness variations / progressive unconformities
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Lower Jurassic (dolomitic brecchias, limestones and marls)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Upper Valanginian-Barremian (limestones and claystones) ; Aptian-Albian (orbitolinid-rich limestones)
Available seismic profiles STC2 / Unknown / Unknown / STC84-16 / STC84-11 / STC2 / STC4 / STC19 /
Available boreholes AJO-5B / AJO-5
Additional comments Hydrothermal fluid flow and dolomitization in diapiric-flexure areas (see López-Horgue et al., 2010)

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 111
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Active
Exploitation name #1 EL VIVERO
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 16484
Municipality #1 Bárcena de Cicero
Province #1 CANTABRIA
Company #1 CANTERAS Y HORMIGONES QUINTANA, S.A.
Main minning Products #1 Limestone (other uses)
Exploitation name #2
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2
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Company #2
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Exploitation name #3
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3
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Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 111
Outcropping area (km2) 35.35904
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 5.83324133
Max. Length (Km) 9.53141711
Max. Evaporites thickness (km)
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 142
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 16
Deformation stages 2

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 111
Section source IGME MAGNA 50. SHEET 36 (CASTRO-URDIALES)
Well / Borehole availability #1 n.a.
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 López-Horgue, M. A., Iriarte, E., Schröder, S., Fernández-Mendiola, P. A., Caline, B., Corneyllie, H., Frémont, J., Sudrie, M., Zerti, S., 2010. Structurally controlled hydrothermal dolomites in Albian carbonates of the Asón valley, Basque Cantabrian Basin, Northern Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27(5), 1069-1092. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 López-Horgue, M. A., Owen, H. G., Aranburu, A., Fernández-Mendiola, P. A., García-Mondéjar, J., 2009. Early late Albian (Cretaceous) of the central region of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin, northern Spain: biostratigraphy based on ammonites and orbitolinids. Cretaceous Research, 30(2), 385-400. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Iriarte, E., Lopez-Horgue, M. A., Schroeder, S., Caline, B., 2012. Interplay between fracturing and hydrothermal fluid flow in the Asón Valley hydrothermal dolomites (Basque–Cantabrian Basin, Spain). Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370(1), 207-227. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Badillo, J. M., 1982. Estudio geológico del sector de Ramales de la Victoria (Prov. de Santander). Kobie, 12, 139-166. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #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 (Stratigraphy) #6 Cámara, P., 2017. Salt and Strike-Slip Tectonics as Main Drivers in the Structural Evolution of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Spain. In Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins (pp. 371-393). Elsevier. [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 n.a.
Seismic data availability #2 n.a.
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 López-Horgue, M. A., Iriarte, E., Schröder, S., Fernández-Mendiola, P. A., Caline, B., Corneyllie, H., Frémont, J., Sudrie, M., Zerti, S., 2010. Structurally controlled hydrothermal dolomites in Albian carbonates of the Asón valley, Basque Cantabrian Basin, Northern Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27(5), 1069-1092. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Gómez, M., Vergés, J., Riaza, C., 2002. Inversion tectonics of the northern margin of the Basque Cantabrian Basin. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 173(5), 449-459. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 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) #4 Cámara, P., 2017. Salt and Strike-Slip Tectonics as Main Drivers in the Structural Evolution of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Spain. In Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins (pp. 371-393). Elsevier. [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 n.a.
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 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) #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 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(8), 1315-1329. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 Béziat, D., Joron, J.L., Monchoux, P., Treuil, M., Walgenwitz, F., 1991. Geodynamic implications of geochemical data for the Pyrenean ophites (Spain-France). Chemical Geology, 89, 243-262. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
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 n.a.
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 36-Castro-Urdiales. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Perona, J., 2016. Mineralizaciones de Pb-Zn asociadas a los diapiros de Murguía y Orduña (Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica) [PhD thesis]: Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, 281 pp. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Iriarte, E., Lopez-Horgue, M. A., Schroeder, S., Caline, B., 2012. Interplay between fracturing and hydrothermal fluid flow in the Asón Valley hydrothermal dolomites (Basque–Cantabrian Basin, Spain). Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 370(1), 207-227. [link]
Other related references #1 Pujalte, V., 1982. La evolución paleogeográfica de la cuenca ‘Wealdense’de Cantabria. Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica, 8, 65-83. [link]
Other related references #2 Cadenas, P., Manatschal, G., Fernández-Viejo, G., 2020. Unravelling the architecture and evolution of the inverted multi-stage North Iberian-Bay of Biscay rift. Gondwana Research, 88, 67-87. [link]
Other related references #3 López-Horgue, M. A., 2000. El Aptiense-Albiense de Karrantza-Lanestona (Bizkaia y Cantabria) [Ph.D. thesis]: Universidad del Paıs Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. Unpublished, 264pp. [link]
Other related references #4 García‐Mondéjar, J., López‐Horgue, M. A., Aranburu, A., Fernández‐Mendiola, P. A., 2005. Pulsating subsidence during a rift episode: stratigraphic and tectonic consequences (Aptian–Albian, northern Spain). Terra Nova, 17(6), 517-525. [link]