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Maestu

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Outcropping/buried
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Evaporite unit/s age
Evaporite unit/s origin
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Generic Data

Unique ID 30
Name Maestu
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) Passive piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt wall
Mining activity? Y
Mining activity start Roman Empire
Mining activity end
Mining galleries?
Mining products
Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Berriasian – Albian (early stage) and Danian – Burdigalian (main stage)
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms NE-SW extensional faults
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Progressive unconformities / radial normal and thrust faults / radial joints / thickness variations
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Jurassic (dolostones, marls and oolitic limestones)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Upper Weald facies (sandstones) / Aptian-middle Albian (Urgonian Group: marlstones, marly limestones, packstones, carbonate brecchias, rudistid limestones; Punta del Bakio Unit: turbidites, mudstones and carbonate grainstones) / Danian-Selandian (dolomites and limestones) / Thanetian-Ypresian (limestones and marls) / Lutetian-Bartonian (limestones and marls) / Priabonian-Burdigalian (shales, sandstones and conglomerates)
Available seismic profiles CE-6 / MA97-04 / MA97-01 / MA97-03 / MA97-02 / MA97-07 / MA97-03 / MA97-07 / MA97-01 / MA97-05 / MA97-02 / MA97-05 / MA97-04 / SA84-22 / SA84-20 / ALL-8 / CE-5 / ELZ-1 / CE-6 / CE-7 / CE-4
Available boreholes ATAURI-1 / CORRES-1 / ZIKUJANO-2 / CICUJANO R-1
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Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 30
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Active
Exploitation name #1 CARMEN Y TERESA
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 705
Municipality #1 Arraia-Maeztu
Province #1 ALAVA
Company #1 COMPAÑIA DE ASFALTOS DE MAESTU, S.A.
Main minning Products #1 n.a.
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 30
Outcropping area (km2) 14.16625
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 4.5
Max. Length (Km) 4.3
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 4.5
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 145
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 16
Deformation stages 2

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 30
Section source Cámara, P., 2020. Inverted turtle salt anticlines in the eastern basque-cantabrian basin, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104358. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 Cámara, P., 2020. Inverted turtle salt anticlines in the eastern basque-cantabrian basin, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104358. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #2 Roca, E., Ferrer, O., Rowan, M. G., Muñoz, J. A., Butillé, M., Giles, K. A., Arbués, P., de Matteis, M., 2020. Salt tectonics and controls on halokinetic-sequence development of an exposed deepwater diapir: The Bakio Diapir, Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Pyrenees. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104770. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Cámara, P., 2020. Inverted turtle salt anticlines in the eastern basque-cantabrian basin, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104358. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 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) #3 Larrasoaña, J. C., Parés, J. M., Millán, H., Del Valle, J., Pueyo, E. L., 2003. Paleomagnetic, structural, and stratigraphic constraints on transverse fault kinematics during basin inversion: The Pamplona Fault (Pyrenees, north Spain). Tectonics, 22(6), 1-22. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 López-Horgue, M. A., Owen, H. G., Rodríguez-Lázaro, J., Fernández-Mendiola, P. A., García-Mondéjar, J., 1999. Late Albian–Early Cenomanian stratigraphic succession near Estella-Lizarra (Navarra, central northern Spain) and its regional and interregional correlation. Cretaceous Research, 20(4), 369-402. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Soliz, J. G., Acebo, H. J. L., Villaro, B. Á., 2001. Estudio hidrigeológico general de la unidad de Sierra de Cantabria. Estudios del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava, 16, 5-42. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Tarriño, A., Arriortua, M. I., Elorza, J., 1989. Estudio geológico del área de Peñacerrada (Álava): Petrografía y cristalografía de las silicificaciones existentes. Cuadernos de Sección de Eusko-Ikaskuntza (Ciencias Naturales), 5, 1-135. [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 Cámara, P., 2020. Inverted turtle salt anticlines in the eastern basque-cantabrian basin, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104358. [link]
Seismic data availability #2 Poprawski, Y., Basile, C., 2018. Long-lasting diapir growth history in the Basque-Cantabrian basin (Northern Spain): a review. Conference poster, Advances in Salt Tectonics: Observations, Applications, and Perspective: In Honor of Martin P.A. Jackson. [link]
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Cámara, P., 2020. Inverted turtle salt anticlines in the eastern basque-cantabrian basin, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104358. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 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) #3 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 (Structure) #4 Tarriño, A., Arriortua, M. I., Elorza, J., 1989. Estudio geológico del área de Peñacerrada (Álava): Petrografía y cristalografía de las silicificaciones existentes. Cuadernos de Sección de Eusko-Ikaskuntza (Ciencias Naturales), 5, 1-135. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Roca, E., Ferrer, O., Rowan, M. G., Muñoz, J. A., Butillé, M., Giles, K. A., Arbués, P., de Matteis, M., 2020. Salt tectonics and controls on halokinetic-sequence development of an exposed deepwater diapir: The Bakio Diapir, Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Pyrenees. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104770. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Poprawski, Y., Basile, C., 2018. Long-lasting diapir growth history in the Basque-Cantabrian basin (Northern Spain): a review. Conference poster, Advances in Salt Tectonics: Observations, Applications, and Perspective: In Honor of Martin P.A. Jackson. [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 Pinto, V., Casas, A., Rivero, L., Torne, M., 2005. 3D gravity modeling of the Triassic salt diapirs of the Cubeta Alavesa (northern Spain). Tectonophysics, 405, 65-75. [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 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 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 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) #3 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) #4 Marín, P., Márquez, G., Gallego, J. R., Permanyer, A., 2014. Characterization of asphaltic oil occurrences from the southeastern margin of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Spain. Geologica Acta, 12(4), 327-342. [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 139-Eulate. [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) Marín, P., Márquez, G., Gallego, J. R., Permanyer, A., 2014. Characterization of asphaltic oil occurrences from the southeastern margin of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Spain. Geologica Acta, 12(4), 327-342. [link]
Other related references #1 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 #2 Ábalos, B., 2016. Geologic map of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin and a new tectonic interpretation of the Basque Arc. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 105, 2327-2354. [link]
Other related references #3 Sanz, T., Lago, M., Gil, A., Galé, C., Ramajo, J., Ubide, T., Pocoví, A., Tierz, P., Larrea, P., 2013. The Upper Triassic alkaline magmatism in the NW Iberian Chain (Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology, 39, 202-222. [link]
Other related references #4 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]