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Madax

ID #007
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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 The onset of diapirism is unknown. Also known as "La Celia".

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Generic Data

Unique ID 07
Name Madax (La Celia)
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 Claystone-Siltstone-Gypsum-Anhydrite-Halite
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Miocene (marlstones and sandstones) ; Pliocene (lamproitic dykes, basalts, and tuffs) ; 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) Active piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt wall
Mining activity? Y
Mining activity start Roman Empire
Mining activity end
Mining galleries? N
Mining products Halite
Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Active now
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Cancaraix fault
Flow-linked structures?
Halokinetic structures Growth related to the La Celia volcano eruptions
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Jurassic-Cretaceous carbonate cover
Syn-kinematic unit/s
Available seismic profiles
Available boreholes HERMANAS, LAS / CATALANES, LOS
Additional comments –

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 7
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 Halite
Exploitation name #2
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2
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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 7
Outcropping area (km2) 3.11468
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 1.5
Max. Length (Km) 3.5
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 0.6
Max. Deformation age (Ma)
Min. Deformation age (Ma) Active
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 7
Section source IGME MAGNA 50. SHEET 869 (JUMILLA)
Well / Borehole availability #1 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]
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 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 (Stratigraphy) #2 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 (Stratigraphy) #3 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 (Stratigraphy) #4 Van Balen, R.T., Forzoni, A., Van Dam, J.A., 2015. Active faulting and folding along the Jumilla Fault Zone, northeastern Betics, Spain. Geomorphology, 237, 88-97. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 n.a.
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 n.a.
Seismic data availability #2 n.a.
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 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) #2 Van Balen, R.T., Forzoni, A., Van Dam, J.A., 2015. Active faulting and folding along the Jumilla Fault Zone, northeastern Betics, Spain. Geomorphology, 237, 88-97. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 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) #4 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #5 n.a.
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 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 (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 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 869-Jumilla. [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) Castaño Fernández, S., Carbó Gorosabel, 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]
Other related references #1 De Ruig, M., 1995. Extensional diapirism in the eastern Prebetic foldbelt, southeastern Spain. In: Jackson, M.P.A., Roberts, D.G., Nelson, S. (Eds.), Salt tectonics: a global perspective. AAPG Memoir, 65, pp. 353–367. [link]
Other related references #2 Ábalos, B., Alkorta, A., Iríbar, V., 2008. Geological and isotopic constraints on the structure of the Bilbao anticlinorium (Basque–Cantabrian basin, North Spain). Journal of Structural Geology, 30(11), 1354-1367. [link]
Other related references #3 Martín-Chivelet, J., López-Gómez, J., Aguado, R., Arias, C., Arribas, J., Arribas, M. E., … , Casas-Sainz, A., 2019. The Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Rifting. In (Quesada C., Oliveira J., eds.): The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer, Cham. [link]
Other related references #4 n.a.