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Ribafrecha

ID #127
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Classif. (Jackson and Talbot, 1986)
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Other comments Together with Monteagudo and Grávalos gypsum units, they represent the last evaporite sedimentation in the Navarra-La Rioja sector. Contemporary to the Zaragoza central saline lake. Deposited under lacustrine marginal, low salinity environments. Mega nodular gypsum facies reported by Ortí et al. (2012).

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Generic Data

Unique ID 127
Name Ribafrecha
Structure type Evaporite body
Deformed/Undeformed Undeformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Southern Pyrenees
Geological Regional Setting Buerba Corridor
Evaporite unit/s name Ribafrecha Gypsum Unit
Evaporite unit/s age Late Aquitanian-Early Burdigalian (Miocene)
Evaporite unit/s era Cenozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Continental
Evaporite unit/s composition Primary gypsum-Secondary gypsum-Carbonates-Chert nodules
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) No diapirism
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) No diapirism
Mining activity? Y
Mining activity start
Mining activity end Active
Mining galleries? N
Mining products Gypsum
Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? N
Age of evaporite flow –
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms –
Flow-linked structures? –
Halokinetic structures –
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) –
Syn-kinematic unit/s –
Available seismic profiles RI-15
Available boreholes V-04-3 / V-04-2
Additional comments Together with Monteagudo and Grávalos gypsum units, they represent the last evaporite sedimentation in the Navarra-La
Rioja sector. Contemporary to the Zaragoza central saline lake. Deposited under lacustrine marginal, low salinity environments. Mega nodular gypsum facies reported by Ortí et al. (2012).

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 127
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Active
Exploitation name #1 VIRGEN DEL PILAR A
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 3403-06
Municipality #1 Lagunilla del Jubera
Province #1 LA RIOJA
Company #1 FASSA HISPANIA,SL
Main minning Products #1 Gypsum
Exploitation name #2 SANTA BÁRBARA 2B
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2 3455-10
Municipality #2 Lagunilla del Jubera
Province #2 LA RIOJA
Company #2 FASSA HISPANIA,SL
Main minning Products #2 Gypsum
Exploitation name #3 PEREZ
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3 3328
Municipality #3 Leza de Río Leza
Province #3 LA RIOJA
Company #3 LUIS PEREZ ULECIA. S/L
Main minning Products #3 Gypsum

Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 127
Outcropping area (km2) 8.27122
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 1.95664662
Max. Length (Km) 8.42822553
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 0.3
Max. Deformation age (Ma) –
Min. Deformation age (Ma) –
Deformation stages 0

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 127
Section source IGME MAGNA 50. SHEET 204 (LOGROÑO)
Well / Borehole availability #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]
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Salvany, J. M., Munoz, A., 1989. Aspectos petrologicos y sedimentologicos de las yesos de Ribafrecha, la Rioja. In Congreso español de sedimentologia, com. 12, pp. 87-90. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Ingles, M., Salvany, J. M., Muñoz, A., Pérez, A., 1998. Relationship of mineralogy to depositional environments in the non-marine Tertiary mudstones of the southwestern Ebro Basin (Spain). Sedimentary Geology, 116(3-4), 159-176. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Salvany, J. M., 1989. Los sistemas lacustres evaporíticos del sector navarro-riojano de la Cuenca del Ebro durante el Oligoceno y Mioceno inferior. Acta geológica hispánica, 231-241. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Suárez González, P., Quijada, I. E., Benito Moreno, M. I., Mas Mayoral, J. R., 2013. Eustatic versus tectonic control in an intraplate rift basin (Leza Fm, Cameros Basin). Chronostratigraphic and paleogeographic implications for the Aptian of Iberia. Journal of Iberian Geology, 39(2), 285-312. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Ortí, F., 1990. Introducción a las evaporitas de la Cuenca Terciaria del Ebro. In: Ortí, F., Salvany, J.M. (Eds.), Formaciones evaporíticas de la Cuenca del Ebro y cadenas periféricas, y de la zona de Levante. ENRESA-GPPG, Barcelona, pp. 62–66. Unpublished report. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Elorza, M. G., Santolalla, F. G., 1998. Geomorphology of the Tertiary gypsum formations in the Ebro Depression (Spain). Geoderma, 87(1-2), 1-29. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Ortí, F., 1990. Introducción a las evaporitas de la Cuenca Terciaria del Ebro. In: Ortí, F., Salvany, J.M. (Eds.), Formaciones evaporíticas de la Cuenca del Ebro y cadenas periféricas, y de la zona de Levante. ENRESA-GPPG, Barcelona, pp. 62–66. Unpublished report. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 n.a.
Seismic data availability #2 n.a.
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Ortí, F., 1990. Introducción a las evaporitas de la Cuenca Terciaria del Ebro. In: Ortí, F., Salvany, J.M. (Eds.), Formaciones evaporíticas de la Cuenca del Ebro y cadenas periféricas, y de la zona de Levante. ENRESA-GPPG, Barcelona, pp. 62–66. Unpublished report. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Casas-Sainz, A. M., Gil, I., Leránoz, B., Millán, H., Simón, L., 1994. Quaternary reactivation of flexural-slip folds by diapiric activity: example from the western Ebro Basin (Spain). Geologische Rundschau, 83(4), 853-867. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Salvany, J. M., 1989. Los sistemas lacustres evaporíticos del sector navarro-riojano de la Cuenca del Ebro durante el Oligoceno y Mioceno inferior. Acta geológica hispánica, 231-241. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Suárez González, P., Quijada, I. E., Benito Moreno, M. I., Mas Mayoral, J. R., 2013. Eustatic versus tectonic control in an intraplate rift basin (Leza Fm, Cameros Basin). Chronostratigraphic and paleogeographic implications for the Aptian of Iberia. Journal of Iberian Geology, 39(2), 285-312. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Casas-Sáinz, A. M., Berdiel, T. R., 1999. Geología de los alrededores de Calahorra (Rioja Baja). Zubía, (17), 165-194. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Salè, S. O., Guimerà, J., Mas, R., Arribas, J., 2014. Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of an inverted extensional basin: the Cameros Basin (north of Spain). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 103(6), 1597-1620. [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 Guinea, A., Playà, E., Rivero, L., Salvany, J. M., 2014. Geoelectrical prospecting of glauberite deposits in the Ebro basin (Spain). Engineering geology, 174, 73-86. [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 Orti, F., Rosell, L., Playa, E., Salvany, J. M., 2012. Meganodular anhydritization: a new mechanism of gypsum to anhydrite conversion (Palaeogene–Neogene, Ebro Basin, North‐east Spain). Sedimentology, 59(4), 1257-1277. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 Utrilla, R.,Ortí, F.,, Pierre, C., Pueyo, J. J., 1991. Composición isotópica de las evaporitas terciarias continentales de la Cuenca del Ebro: relación con los ambientes deposicionales. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 4(3), 353-360. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 n.a.
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 204-Logroño. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Utrilla, R.,Ortí, F.,, Pierre, C., Pueyo, J. J., 1991. Composición isotópica de las evaporitas terciarias continentales de la Cuenca del Ebro: relación con los ambientes deposicionales. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 4(3), 353-360. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Salvany, J. M., 1989. Los sistemas lacustres evaporíticos del sector navarro-riojano de la Cuenca del Ebro durante el Oligoceno y Mioceno inferior. Acta geológica hispánica, 231-241. [link]
Other related references #1 Casas-Sainz, A. M., 1990. El frente norte de las Sierras de Cameros: estructuras cabalgantes y campo de esfuerzos [Ph.D. thesis]: University of Zaragoza, 384p. [link]
Other related references #2 Quijada, I. E., Benito, M. I., Suarez-Gonzalez, P., Rodríguez-Martínez, M., Campos-Soto, S., 2020. Challenges to carbonate-evaporite peritidal facies models and cycles: Insights from Lower Cretaceous stromatolite-bearing deposits (Oncala Group, N Spain). Sedimentary Geology, 408, 105752. [link]
Other related references #3 Salvany, J. M., Ortí, F., 1994. Miocene glauberite deposits of Alcanadre, Ebro Basin, Spain: Sedimentary and diagenetic processes. SEPM Special Publications, 50, 203-215. [link]
Other related references #4 Orti, F., Rosell, L., Playa, E., Salvany, J. M., 2012. Meganodular anhydritization: a new mechanism of gypsum to anhydrite conversion (Palaeogene–Neogene, Ebro Basin, North‐east Spain). Sedimentology, 59(4), 1257-1277. [link]