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Navarrés

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Other comments Bicorp-Quesa, Navarrés and Sellent salt wall segments constitute a continuous kinked salt wall of Middle to Upper Triassic evaporites, that crosses the central part of the Valencian domain. Salt wall development was preceded by a contractional deformation that folded and thrusted the Middle-Upper Triassic successions. Quaternary diapirism in the region (proposed by Gutiérrez et al., 2019) is enhanced by erosional unloading related to fluvial entrenchment

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Generic Data

Unique ID 50
Name Navarrés
Structure type Evaporite diapir
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Betic System
Geological Regional Setting Pre-Betic Cordillera (Valencian domain)
Evaporite unit/s name Jarafuel, Manuel, Cofrentes, Quesa, Ayora and Imón Fms.
Evaporite unit/s age Carnian-Rhaetian (Upper Triassic)
Evaporite unit/s era Mesozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Marine
Evaporite unit/s composition Gypsum-Mudstone-Dolostone-Sandstone
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) Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Passive piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt wall
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 Miocene (main stage) and Quaternary (late stage?)
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Late Miocene thin-skinned extensional fault system
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Normal high-angle faults / joints / thickness variations / progressive unconformities
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Jurassic (anhydrite, calcarenite, dolostones, marly limestones) ; Early Cretaceous (sandstones, dolostones, calcarenites) ; Late Cretaceous (sandstones, dolostones, marly dolostones, limestones)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Miocene (red and grey mudstones, sandstones, limestones, conglomerates), Quaternary (fluvial and alluvial deposits)
Available seismic profiles
Available boreholes ABRULLADOR / BARRANCO BONO / BARRANCO PELOTERO / MONTECARLO / MONTESA-6 (VIÑET) / MONTESA-7 (ALQUERIES) / MONTESA-1 / MONTESA-5 (HONDO EL FIGUERAL) / CALDERON / BANCAL ROJO / CAMINO DEL PINAR / CALDERON-II / CARRASCAL / CARRASCAL (ALGUARIA) / PEDRERA-2
Additional comments Bicorp-Quesa, Navarrés and Sellent salt wall segments constitute a continuous kinked salt wall of Middle to Upper Triassic evaporites, that crosses the central part of the Valencian domain. Salt wall development was preceded by a contractional deformation that folded and thrusted the Middle-Upper Triassic successions. Quaternary diapirism in the region (proposed by Gutiérrez et al., 2019) is enhanced by erosional unloading related to fluvial entrenchment

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 50
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Active
Exploitation name #1 TOSSAL NEGRE
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 855
Municipality #1 Sellent
Province #1 VALENCIA
Company #1 AGLOMERADOS LOS SERRANOS S.A
Main minning Products #1 Limestone (other uses)
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 50
Outcropping area (km2) 16.70358
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 5.17317777
Max. Length (Km) 9.52428639
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 1.1
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 23
Min. Deformation age (Ma) Active?
Deformation stages 2

Reference Data

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Section source Gutiérrez, F., Sevil, J., Silva, P. G., Roca, E., Escosa, F., 2019. Geomorphic and stratigraphic evidence of Quaternary diapiric activity enhanced by fluvial incision. Navarrés salt wall and graben system, SE Spain. Geomorphology, 342, 176-195. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 Pérez-López, A., Solé de Porta, N., Ortí, F., 1996. Facies carbonato-evaporiticas del Trías superior y tránsito al Líás en el Levante espanol: nuevas precisiones estratigráficas. Cuadernos de geología ibérica, 20, 245-270. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Roca, E., Beamud, E., Rubinat, M., Soto, R., Ferrer, O., 2013. Paleomagnetic and inner diapiric structural constraints on the kinematic evolution of a salt-wall: The Bicorb-Quesa and northern Navarrés salt-wall segments case (Prebetic Zone, SE Iberia). Journal of Structural Geology, 52, 80-95. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Gutiérrez, F., Sevil, J., Silva, P. G., Roca, E., Escosa, F., 2019. Geomorphic and stratigraphic evidence of Quaternary diapiric activity enhanced by fluvial incision. Navarrés salt wall and graben system, SE Spain. Geomorphology, 342, 176-195. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 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]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Rubinat-Cabanas, M., 2012. Basement fault influence on the Bicorb-Quesa Salt Wall kinematics, insights from Magnetotelluric and Paleomagnetic techniques on Salt Tectonics [Ph.D. thesis]: Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 169pp. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Santisteban, C., Ruíz-Sánchez, F., Bello, D., 1989. Los depósitos lacustres del Terciario de Bicorp (Valencia). Acta geológica hispánica, 24(3), 299-307. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Ortí, F., Pérez-López, A., Salvany, J. M., 2017. Triassic evaporites of Iberia: Sedimentological and palaeogeographical implications for the western Neotethys evolution during the Middle Triassic–Earliest Jurassic. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 471, 157-180. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy IGME MAGNA50 SHEET (769-Navarrés). [link]
Seismic data availability #1 n.a.
Seismic data availability #2 n.a.
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Rubinat-Cabanas, M., 2012. Basement fault influence on the Bicorb-Quesa Salt Wall kinematics, insights from Magnetotelluric and Paleomagnetic techniques on Salt Tectonics [Ph.D. thesis]: Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 169pp. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Roca, E., Beamud, E., Rubinat, M., Soto, R., Ferrer, O., 2013. Paleomagnetic and inner diapiric structural constraints on the kinematic evolution of a salt-wall: The Bicorb-Quesa and northern Navarrés salt-wall segments case (Prebetic Zone, SE Iberia). Journal of Structural Geology, 52, 80-95. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Gutiérrez, F., Sevil, J., Silva, P. G., Roca, E., Escosa, F., 2019. Geomorphic and stratigraphic evidence of Quaternary diapiric activity enhanced by fluvial incision. Navarrés salt wall and graben system, SE Spain. Geomorphology, 342, 176-195. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Arche, A., López-Gómez, J., García-Hidalgo, J. F., 2002. Control climático, tectónico y eustático en depósitos del Carniense (Triásico Superior) del SE de la Península Ibérica. Journal of Iberian Geology, 28, 13-30. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Roca, E., Sans, M., Koyi, H. A., 2006. Polyphase deformation of diapiric areas in models and in the eastern Prebetics (Spain). AAPG bulletin, 90(1), 115-136. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Soto, R., Beamud, E., Oliva-Urcia, B., Roca, E., Rubinat, M., Villalaín, J. J., 2014. Applicability of magnetic fabrics in rocks associated with the emplacement of salt structures (the Bicorb–Quesa and Navarrés salt walls, Prebetics, SE Spain). Tectonophysics, 629, 319-334. [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 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]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #2 Rubinat-Cabanas, M., 2012. Basement fault influence on the Bicorb-Quesa Salt Wall kinematics, insights from Magnetotelluric and Paleomagnetic techniques on Salt Tectonics [Ph.D. thesis]: Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 169pp. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #3 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 (Geochemistry) #1 Cuairán, J. B., Inglès, M., Cabo, F. O., 1987. Observaciones sobre mineralogía y geoquímica de lutitas del Keuper de Valencia. Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica, 11, 363-384. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #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 (Geochemistry) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 Roca, E., Beamud, E., Rubinat, M., Soto, R., Ferrer, O., 2013. Paleomagnetic and inner diapiric structural constraints on the kinematic evolution of a salt-wall: The Bicorb-Quesa and northern Navarrés salt-wall segments case (Prebetic Zone, SE Iberia). Journal of Structural Geology, 52, 80-95. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 Soto, R., Beamud, E., Oliva-Urcia, B., Roca, E., Rubinat, M., Villalaín, J. J., 2014. Applicability of magnetic fabrics in rocks associated with the emplacement of salt structures (the Bicorb–Quesa and Navarrés salt walls, Prebetics, SE Spain). Tectonophysics, 629, 319-334. [link]
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 769-Navarres. [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) Rubinat-Cabanas, M., 2012. Basement fault influence on the Bicorb-Quesa Salt Wall kinematics, insights from Magnetotelluric and Paleomagnetic techniques on Salt Tectonics [Ph.D. thesis]: Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 169pp. [link]
Other related references #1 Arche, A., López-Gómez, J., García-Hidalgo, J. F., 2002. Control climático, tectónico y eustático en depósitos del Carniense (Triásico Superior) del SE de la Península Ibérica. Journal of Iberian Geology, 28, 13-30. [link]
Other related references #2 Santisteban, C., Ruíz-Sánchez, F., Bello, D., 1989. Los depósitos lacustres del Terciario de Bicorp (Valencia). Acta geológica hispánica, 24(3), 299-307. [link]
Other related references #3 Ortí-Cabo, F., 1974. El Keuper del Levante español. Estudios Geológicos, 30. [link]
Other related references #4 del Olmo, W. M., Motis, K., Martín, D., 2015. El papel del diapirismo de la sal Triásica en la estructuración del Prebético (SE de España). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 28(1), 3-24. [link]