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 Main growth of the anticline coeval with the Peraltilla Fm. deposition and accompanied by a significant forelandward shift of the basin depocenter (see Senz and Zamorano, 1982).

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Structure type (Hudec and Jackson, 2009)

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Regional Stratigraphy

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Other maps 1

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Generic Data

Unique ID 109
Name Peralta
Structure type Evaporite-cored anticline
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Buried
Geological setting Ebro Basin
Geological Regional Setting Northern-Central Domain
Evaporite unit/s name Barbastro Fm.
Evaporite unit/s age Upper Priabonian-Chattian (Eocene-Oligocene)
Evaporite unit/s era Cenozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Continental
Evaporite unit/s composition Gypsum-Halite-Anhydrite-Shale
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Late Chattian-Miocene (Baells Fm., sandstones, conglomerates and calcareous breccias) ; Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Late Chattian-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Thrust piercement / Ductile piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt anticline
Mining activity? N
Mining activity start
Mining activity end
Mining galleries?
Mining products
Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Rupelian-Chattian
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Alpine compression and thrusting
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Normal faults / joints / progressive unconformities / anticline-syncline folding
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Rupelian (Peraltilla Fm., limestones, marly limestones, sandstones and red mudstones) ; Upper Rupelian (Calasanz Fm., conglomerates and sandstones) ; Upper Rupelian (Peraltilla Fm., red shales, sandstones and conglomerates) ; Chattian (Sariñena Fm., sandstones and conglomerates)
Available seismic profiles HL-07 / HL-16 / HL-7 / HL-16 / SP-10_PROL / HL-16 / HL-07 / SP-10PROL / HL-26 / HL-22 / ND-63 / ND-90 / HL-22 / HL-26 / HL-16 / CN-73 / HL-7
Available boreholes V-16-1 / Monzón-1 (not across)
Additional comments Main growth of the anticline coeval with the Peraltilla Fm. Deposition and accompanied by a significant forelandward shift of the basin depocenter (see Senz and Zamorano, 1982)

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 109
Minning exploitations within <2km? N
Historical/Active
Exploitation name #1
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1
Municipality #1
Province #1
Company #1
Main minning Products #1
Exploitation name #2
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2
Municipality #2
Province #2
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Exploitation name #3
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3
Municipality #3
Province #3
Company #3
Main minning Products #3

Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 109
Outcropping area (km2) Buried
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) 8.08315
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) 0.8
Max. Width (Km) 1.7
Max. Length (Km) 6.7
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 1.9
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 33.9
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 25
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 109
Section source Senz, J. G., Zamorano, M., 1992. Evolución tectónica y sedimentaria durante el Priaboniense superior-Mioceno inferior, en el frente de cabalgamiento de las Sierras Marginales occidentales. Acta geológica hispánica, 27(1-2), 195-209. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 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]
Well / Borehole availability #2 Vargas, H., Gaspar-Escribano, J. M., López-Gómez, J., Van Wees, J. D., Cloetingh, S., de La Horra, R., Arche, A., 2009. A comparison of the Iberian and Ebro Basins during the Permian and Triassic, eastern Spain: A quantitative subsidence modelling approach. Tectonophysics, 474(1-2), 160-183. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Senz, J. G., Zamorano, M., 1992. Evolución tectónica y sedimentaria durante el Priaboniense superior-Mioceno inferior, en el frente de cabalgamiento de las Sierras Marginales occidentales. Acta geológica hispánica, 27(1-2), 195-209. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Calvet, M., Gunnell, Y., Laumonier, B., 2020. Denudation history and palaeogeography of the Pyrenees and their peripheral basins: an 84-million-year geomorphological perspective. Earth-Science Reviews, 103436. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 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 (Stratigraphy) #4 Santolaria, P., Ayala, C., Pueyo, E. L., Rubio, F. M., Soto, R., Calvín, P., Luzón, A., Rodríguez-Pintor, A., Oliván, C., Casas‐Sainz, A. M., 2020. Structural and geophysical characterization of the western termination of the South Pyrenean triangle zone. Tectonics, 39(8), e2019TC005891. [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 n.a.
Regional Stratigraphy Senz, J. G., Zamorano, M., 1992. Evolución tectónica y sedimentaria durante el Priaboniense superior-Mioceno inferior, en el frente de cabalgamiento de las Sierras Marginales occidentales. Acta geológica hispánica, 27(1-2), 195-209. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 Santolaria, P., Ayala, C., Pueyo, E. L., Rubio, F. M., Soto, R., Calvín, P., Luzón, A., Rodríguez-Pintor, A., Oliván, C., Casas‐Sainz, A. M., 2020. Structural and geophysical characterization of the western termination of the South Pyrenean triangle zone. Tectonics, 39(8), e2019TC005891. [link]
Seismic data availability #2 Gil, J. A., Jurado, M. J., 1998. Geological interpretation and numerical modelling of salt movement in the Barbastro–Balaguer anticline, southern Pyrenees. Tectonophysics, 293(3-4), 141-155. [link]
Seismic data availability #3 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 (Structure) #1 Senz, J. G., Zamorano, M., 1992. Evolución tectónica y sedimentaria durante el Priaboniense superior-Mioceno inferior, en el frente de cabalgamiento de las Sierras Marginales occidentales. Acta geológica hispánica, 27(1-2), 195-209. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Peña, B. M., Pocoví, J. A., 1988. El amortiguamiento frontal de la estructura de la cobertera surpirenaica y su relación con el anticlinal de Barbastro-Balaguer. Acta geológica hispánica, 81-94. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Gil, J. A., Jurado, M. J., 1998. Geological interpretation and numerical modelling of salt movement in the Barbastro–Balaguer anticline, southern Pyrenees. Tectonophysics, 293(3-4), 141-155. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Sancho-Marcén, C., 1989. Deformaciones asociadas a la actividad diapírica cuaternaria del anticlinal de Barbastro (Provincia de Huesca). Cuaternario y Geomorfología, 3(1-4), 35-43. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 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 (Structure) #6 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 (Analogue modelling) #1 Gil, J. A., Jurado, M. J., 1998. Geological interpretation and numerical modelling of salt movement in the Barbastro–Balaguer anticline, southern Pyrenees. Tectonophysics, 293(3-4), 141-155. [link]
Available data (Analogue modelling) #2 n.a.
Available data (Analogue modelling) #3 n.a.
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #1 Santolaria, P., Ayala, C., Pueyo, E. L., Rubio, F. M., Soto, R., Calvín, P., Luzón, A., Rodríguez-Pintor, A., Oliván, C., Casas‐Sainz, A. M., 2020. Structural and geophysical characterization of the western termination of the South Pyrenean triangle zone. Tectonics, 39(8), e2019TC005891. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #2 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 (Gravimetry – Tomography) #3 Santolaria, P., Rubio, F. M., Ayala, C., Pueyo, E. L., Rodríguez-Pintó, A., Soto, R., Casas, A. M., 2016. Gravimetría preliminar del antepaís Pirenaico central; distribución de las evaporitas y geometría de zócalo. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #1 Cendón Sevilla, D. I., 1999. Evolución geoquímica de cuencas evaporíticas terciarias: implicaciones en la composición isotópica disuelto en el océano durante el terciario [Ph.D. thesis]: University of Barcelona, 335p. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 Salvany, J. M., Bastida, J., 2004. Análisis litoestratigráfico del Keuper surpirenaico central. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 17(1), 3-26. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 Gómez-Gras, D., Roigé, M., Fondevilla, V., Oms, O., Boya, S., Remacha, E., 2016. Provenance constraints on the Tremp Formation paleogeography (southern Pyrenees): Ebro Massif vs Pyrenees sources. Cretaceous Research, 57, 414-427. [link]
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 Oliván, C., Pueyo, E. L., Pocoví, A., Luzón, A., Martínez-Peña, M. B., 2008. Fábricas magnéticas (ASM) en el anticlinal de Barbastro–Balaguer (Pirineo Central): implicaciones cinemáticas. Geotemas, 10, 1239-1242. [link]
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 326-Monzón. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) 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]
Other Maps #2 (source) 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]
Other related references #1 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]
Other related references #2 Meigs, A. J., 1997. Sequential development of selected Pyrenean thrust faults. Journal of Structural Geology, 19(3-4), 481-502. [link]
Other related references #3 Torné, M., 1989. Modelización gravimétrica en 3d de un sector de la depresión central catalana y sierras marginales. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 2, 133-142. [link]
Other related references #4 Garrido-Megías, A., 1972. Precisiones sobre la» mise en place» del manto de Gavarnie en el borde norte del valle del Ebro (Región de Barbastro, provincia de Huesca). Acta geológica hispánica, 50-52. [link]