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Montiberri

ID #043
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General Information

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Outcropping/buried
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Evaporite unit/s age
Evaporite unit/s origin
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Age of evaporite flow or deformation (when deformed)
Other comments Post-late Santonian compressional overprinting: weld formation and partial downward salt flow into the source layer.

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Generic Data

Unique ID 43
Name Montiberri
Structure type Evaporite diapir
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Southern Pyrenees
Geological Regional Setting South Pyrenees Central Unit (Nogueres zone)
Evaporite unit/s name El Pont de Suert Fm. (Middle Muschelkalk and Keuper Facies)
Evaporite unit/s age Upper Anisian and Carnian-Rhaetian (Middle-Upper Triassic)
Evaporite unit/s era Mesozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Marine
Evaporite unit/s composition Shale-Marlstone-Gypsum-Halite-Anhydrite
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Cenomanian-Turonian (limestones and marlstones) ; Turonian-Campanian (limestones, marly limestones and turbiditic deposits) ; Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Cenomanian-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Passive piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt roller (welded)
Mining activity? N
Mining activity start
Mining activity end
Mining galleries?
Mining products
Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Upper Jurassic – Early Albian
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Gravity-driven extensional event up to late Santonian: development of the Montiberri and Northern Faiada depocenters
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Progressive unconformities / Normal faults
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Lower Jurassic (limestones and dolostones)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Lower Cretaceous (limestones) / Albian (grainstones)
Available seismic profiles
Available boreholes
Additional comments Post-late Santonian compressional overprinting: weld formation and partial downward salt flow into the source layer.

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 43
Minning exploitations within <2km? N
Historical/Active
Exploitation name #1
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1
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Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 43
Outcropping area (km2) 1.26749
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 2.17100191
Max. Length (Km) 1.75511293
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 1.2
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 150
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 110
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 43
Section source Saura, E., Ardèvol i Oró, L., Teixell, A., Vergés, J., 2016. Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees). Tectonics, 35(3), 638-662. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 Saura, E., Ardèvol i Oró, L., Teixell, A., Vergés, J., 2016. Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees). Tectonics, 35(3), 638-662. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #2 Ardèvol, L., Klimowitz, J., Malagón, J., Nagtegaal, P. J., 2000. Depositional sequence response to foreland deformation in the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Pyrenees, Spain. AAPG bulletin, 84(4), 566-587. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Martín-Chivelet, J., Floquet, M., García-Senz, J., Callapez, P. M., López-Mir, B., Muñoz, J. A., Barroso-Barcenilla, F., Segura, M., Ferrerira-Soares, A., Morgado, P., Marques, J. F., Arbués, P., 2019. Late Cretaceous Post-Rift to Convergence in Iberia. In The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach (pp. 285-376). Springer, Cham. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Saura, E., Ardèvol i Oró, L., Teixell, A., Vergés, J., 2016. Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees). Tectonics, 35(3), 638-662. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 García-Senz, J., 2003. Cuencas extensivas del Cretácico Inferior en los Pirineos centrales, formación y subsecuente inversión [Ph.D. thesis]: Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 310pp. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Lanaja, J. M., Querol, R., Navarro, A., 1987. Contribución de la Exploración Petrolífera al Conocimiento de la Geología de España. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, 465pp. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Cámara, P., Flinch, J. F., 2017. The southern Pyrenees: a salt-based fold-and-thrust belt. In Juan I. Soto, Joan F. Flinch, Gabor Tari (eds.): Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins, Elsevier, pp. 395-415. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Caus, E., Teixell, A., Bernaus, J. M., 1997. Depositional model of a Cenomanian-Turonian extensional basin (Sopeira Basin, NE Spain): interplay between tectonics, eustasy and biological productivity. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 129(1-2), 23-36. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Saura, E., Ardèvol i Oró, L., Teixell, A., Vergés, J., 2016. Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees). Tectonics, 35(3), 638-662. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 Ardèvol, L., Klimowitz, J., Malagón, J., Nagtegaal, P. J., 2000. Depositional sequence response to foreland deformation in the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Pyrenees, Spain. AAPG bulletin, 84(4), 566-587. [link]
Seismic data availability #2 Muñoz, J. A., Mencos, J., Roca, E., Carrera, N., Gratacós, O., Ferrer, O., Fernández, O., 2018. The structure of the South-Central-Pyrenean fold and thrust belt as constrained by subsurface data. Geologica Acta, 16(4), 439-460. [link]
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Saura, E., Ardèvol i Oró, L., Teixell, A., Vergés, J., 2016. Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees). Tectonics, 35(3), 638-662. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Dalton, C. E. G., 2019. Stratigraphic and Structural Characterization and Evolution of Exposed Megaflaps Flanking Salt Diapirs [Ph.D. thesis]: The University of Texas, El Paso, 273 pp. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Martín-Chivelet, J., Floquet, M., García-Senz, J., Callapez, P. M., López-Mir, B., Muñoz, J. A., Barroso-Barcenilla, F., Segura, M., Ferrerira-Soares, A., Morgado, P., Marques, J. F., Arbués, P., 2019. Late Cretaceous Post-Rift to Convergence in Iberia. In The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach (pp. 285-376). Springer, Cham. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Muñoz, J. A., Mencos, J., Roca, E., Carrera, N., Gratacós, O., Ferrer, O., Fernández, O., 2018. The structure of the South-Central-Pyrenean fold and thrust belt as constrained by subsurface data. Geologica Acta, 16(4), 439-460. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Cámara, P., Flinch, J. F., 2017. The southern Pyrenees: a salt-based fold-and-thrust belt. In Juan I. Soto, Joan F. Flinch, Gabor Tari (eds.): Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins, Elsevier, pp. 395-415. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Teixell, A., Muñoz, J. A., 2000. Evolución tectonosedimentaria del Pirineo meridional durante el Terciario: una síntesis basada en la transversal del río Noguera Ribagorçana. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 13(2), 251-264. [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 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 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 Santolaria, P., Casas-Sainz, A. M., Soto, R., Casas, A., 2017. Gravity modelling to assess salt tectonics in the western end of the South Pyrenean Central Unit. Journal of the Geological Society, 174(2), 269-288. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 n.a.
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 213-El Pont de Suert. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Dalton, C. E. G., 2019. Stratigraphic and Structural Characterization and Evolution of Exposed Megaflaps Flanking Salt Diapirs [Ph.D. thesis]: The University of Texas, El Paso, 273 pp. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Saura, E., Ardèvol i Oró, L., Teixell, A., Vergés, J., 2016. Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees). Tectonics, 35(3), 638-662. [link]
Other related references #1 Lanaja, J. M., R. Querol, A. Navarro, 1987. Contribución de la Exploración Petrolífera al Conocimiento de la Geología de España, pp. 1–465, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid. [link]
Other related references #2 Rosell, J., 1967. Estudio geológico del sector del Prepirineo comprendido entre los ríos Segre y Noguera Ribagorzana (Prov. de Lérida). Pirineos, 21, 214, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid. [link]
Other related references #3 Robert, R., Robion, P., Souloumiac, P., David, C., Saillet, E., 2018. Deformation bands, early markers of tectonic activity in front of a fold-and-thrust belt: Example from the Tremp-Graus basin, southern Pyrenees, Spain. Journal of Structural Geology, 110, 65-85. [link]
Other related references #4 Saura, E., 2004. Estudi estructural de la zona de les Nogueres (Pirineus Centrals) [Ph.D. thesis]: Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 106p. [link]