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Pico del Águila

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General Information

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Other comments Structural and stratigraphic origin related to the Guarga thrust. Central External Sierras show a set of N-S to NW-SE anticlines, perpendicular to the structural trend of the Pyrenees, that become younger and smaller westwards (Pico del Águila, Bentué de Rasal, Gabardiella, Rasal; see i.e. Vidal-Royo, et al., 2013)

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Generic Data

Unique ID 58
Name Pico del Águila
Structure type Evaporite-cored anticline
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Southern Pyrenees
Geological Regional Setting External Ranges
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-Ophites
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Late Oligocene-Miocene (Uncastillo Fm., conglomerates), Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Late Oligocene-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Thrust piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt anticline
Mining activity? N
Mining activity start
Mining activity end
Mining galleries?
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Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Late Lutetian – Oligocene
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms E-W shortening related to the southward displacement of the South Central Pyrenean Unit
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Joint sets / Normal faults / Thickness variations / Progressive unconformities
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Upper Cretaceous (Adraén Fm., limestones) ; Palaeocene (Garumnian, Tremp Fm., mudstone, siltstone and sandstone) ; Early Lutetian (Guara Fm., lower part, limestones rich in foraminifera)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Late Lutetian (Guara Fm., upper part, limestones and sandstones) ; Lutetian-Early Priabonian (Arguís Fm., marly siltstones and sandstones) ; Middle Priabonian (Belsué-Atarés Fm., sandstones, conglomerates) ; Late Eocene-Early Oligocene (Campodarbe Fm., sandstones and claystones)
Available seismic profiles HU-14 / JH / SP-22 / SP-61 / SP-56 / SP-56 / SP-56 / SP-56
Available boreholes Surpirineica-1
Additional comments Structural and stratigraphic origin related to the Guarga thrust. Central External Sierras show a set of N-S to NW-SE anticlines, perpendicular to the structural trend of the Pyrenees, that become younger and smaller westwards (Pico del Águila, Bentué de Rasal, Gabardiella, Rasal; see Vidal-Royo, et al., 2013)

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 58
Minning exploitations within <2km? N
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Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 58
Outcropping area (km2) 1.03712
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 3.40487087
Max. Length (Km) 0.73062723
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 3
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 47
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 23
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

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Section source Beaudoin, N., Huyghe, D., Bellahsen, N., Lacombe, O., Emmanuel, L., Mouthereau, F., Ouanhnon, L., 2015. Fluid systems and fracture development during syn-depositional fold growth: An example from the Pico del Aguila anticline, Sierras Exteriores, southern Pyrenees, Spain. Journal of Structural Geology, 70, 23-38. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 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]
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Castelltort, S., Guillocheau, F., Robin, C., Rouby, D., Nalpas, T., Lafont, F., Eschard, R., 2003. Fold control on the stratigraphic record: a quantified sequence stratigraphic study of the Pico del Aguila anticline in the south-western Pyrenees (Spain). Basin Research, 15, 527-551. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Millán, H., Aurell, M., Meléndez, A., 1994. Synchronous detachment folds and coeval sedimentation in the Prepyrenean External Sierras (Spain): a case study for a tectonic origin of sequences and systems tracts. Sedimentology, 41(5), 1001-1024. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Puigdefábregas, C., 1975. La sedimentación molásica en la cuenca de Jaca. Monografías del Instituto de Estudios Pirenaicos. Número Extraordinario de la Revista Pirineos, 104, 153pp. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Anastasio, D., Parés, J. M., Kodama, K. P., Troy, J., & Pueyo, E. L., 2016. Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) records synsedimentary deformation kinematics at Pico del Aguila anticline, Pyrenees, Spain. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 425(1), 129-144. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Vidal-Royo, O., Muñoz, J. A., Hardy, S., Koyi, H., Cardozo, N., 2013. Structural evolution of the Pico del Águila anticline (External Sierras, southern Pyrenees) derived from sandbox, numerical and 3D structural modelling techniques. Geologica Acta: an international earth science journal, 11(1), 1-23. [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 Vidal-Royo, O., Muñoz, J. A., Hardy, S., Koyi, H., Cardozo, N., 2013. Structural evolution of the Pico del Águila anticline (External Sierras, southern Pyrenees) derived from sandbox, numerical and 3D structural modelling techniques. Geologica Acta: an international earth science journal, 11(1), 1-23. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 Vidal-Royo, O., Muñoz, J. A., Hardy, S., Koyi, H., Cardozo, N., 2013. Structural evolution of the Pico del Águila anticline (External Sierras, southern Pyrenees) derived from sandbox, numerical and 3D structural modelling techniques. Geologica Acta: an international earth science journal, 11(1), 1-23. [link]
Seismic data availability #2 Labaume, P., Teixell, A., 2018. 3D structure of subsurface thrusts in the eastern Jaca Basin, southern Pyrenees. Geologica Acta, 16(4), 477-498. [link]
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Vidal-Royo, O., Muñoz, J. A., Hardy, S., Koyi, H., Cardozo, N., 2013. Structural evolution of the Pico del Águila anticline (External Sierras, southern Pyrenees) derived from sandbox, numerical and 3D structural modelling techniques. Geologica Acta: an international earth science journal, 11(1), 1-23. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Vidal‐Royo, O., Cardozo, N., Muñoz, J. A., Hardy, S., Maerten, L., 2012. Multiple mechanisms driving detachment folding as deduced from 3D reconstruction and geomechanical restoration: The Pico del Aguila anticline (External Sierras, Southern Pyrenees). Basin Research, 24(3), 295-313. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Vidal-Royo, O., Hardy, S., Muñoz, J. A., 2011. The roles of complex mechanical stratigraphy and syn-kinematic sedimentation in fold development: insights from discrete-element modelling and application to the Pico del Águila anticline (External Sierras, Southern Pyrenees). Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 349(1), 45-60. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Poblet, J., Stuart, H., 1995. Reverse modelling of detachment folds; application to the Pico del Aguila anticline in the South Central Pyrenees (Spain). Journal of Structural Geology, 17(12), 1707-1724. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Poblet, J., McClay, K., Storti, F., Muñoz, J. A., 1997. Geometries of syntectonic sediments associated with single-layer detachment folds. Journal of Structural Geology, 19(3-4), 369-381. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Nichols, G. J., 1987. The structure and stratigraphy of the western external sierras of the Pyrenees, northern Spain. Geological Journal, 22(3), 245-259. [link]
Available data (Analogue modelling) #1 Vidal-Royo, O., Muñoz, J. A., Hardy, S., Koyi, H., Cardozo, N., 2013. Structural evolution of the Pico del Águila anticline (External Sierras, southern Pyrenees) derived from sandbox, numerical and 3D structural modelling techniques. Geologica Acta: an international earth science journal, 11(1), 1-23. [link]
Available data (Analogue modelling) #2 Nalpas, T., Gyorfi, I., Guillocheau, F., Lafont, F., Homewood, P., 1999. Influence de la charge sedimentaire sur le developpement d’anticlinaux synsedimentaires; modelisation analogique et exemple de terrain (bordure sud du bassin de Jaca). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 170(5), 733-740. [link]
Available data (Analogue modelling) #3 Nalpas, T., Gapais, D., Verges, J., Barrier, L., Gestain, V., Leroux, G., …, Kermarrec, J. J., 2003. Effects of rate and nature of synkinematic sedimentation on the growth of compressive structures constrained by analogue models and field examples. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 208(1), 307-319. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #1 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) #2 n.a.
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #1 Hoareau, G., Crognier, N., Lacroix, B., Aubourg, C., Roberts, N. M., Niemi, N., Branellec, M., Beaudoin, N, Ruiz, I. S, 2021. Combination of Δ47 and U-Pb dating in tectonic calcite veins unravel the last pulses related to the Pyrenean Shortening (Spain). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 553, 116636. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #2
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 Pueyo-Morer, E. L., Millán-Garrido, H., Pocoví-Juan, A., Parés, J. M., 1997. Determination of the folding mechanism by AMS data. Study of the relation between shortening and magnetic anisotropy in the Pico del Aguila anticline (southern Pyrenees). Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 22(1-2), 195-201. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 Anastasio, D., Parés, J. M., Kodama, K. P., Troy, J., & Pueyo, E. L., 2016. Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) records synsedimentary deformation kinematics at Pico del Aguila anticline, Pyrenees, Spain. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 425(1), 129-144. [link]
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 248-Apiés. [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) Vidal-Royo, O., Muñoz, J. A., Hardy, S., Koyi, H., Cardozo, N., 2013. Structural evolution of the Pico del Águila anticline (External Sierras, southern Pyrenees) derived from sandbox, numerical and 3D structural modelling techniques. Geologica Acta: an international earth science journal, 11(1), 1-23. [link]
Other related references #1 Novoa, E., Suppe, J., Shaw, J. H., 2000. Inclined-shear restoration of growth folds. AAPG bulletin, 84(6), 787-804. [link]
Other related references #2 Pueyo-Morer, E., Garrido, H. M., Juan, A. P., Parés, J. M., 1997. Cinemática rotacional del cabalgamiento basal surpirenaico en las Sierras Exteriores Aragonesas: Datos magnetotectónicos. Acta geológica hispánica, 32(3), 237-256. [link]
Other related references #3 Pueyo Morer, E., Millán, H., Pocovı, A., 2002. Rotation velocity of a thrust: a paleomagnetic study in the External Sierras (Southern Pyrenees). Sedimentary Geology, 146(1-2), 191-208. [link]
Other related references #4 Vidal Royo, O., 2010. 3D Reconstruction and Modelling of the Sierras Exteriores Aragonesas (Southern Pyrenees, Spain). Structural Evolution of the Pico del Águila anticline [Ph.D. thesis]: Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 321pp. [link]