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Salinas del Oro

ID #024
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General Information

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Outcropping/buried
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Evaporite unit/s origin
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Classif. (Jackson and Talbot, 1986)
Age of evaporite flow or deformation (when deformed) ,
Other comments Alignment of the Salinas del Oro, Anoz, Alloz, Estella, Ollo, Echalecu and Iza along the Pamplona fault.

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Generic Data

Unique ID 24
Name Salinas del Oro
Structure type Evaporite diapir
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Basque-Cantabrian Basin
Geological Regional Setting Navarra-Álava trough
Evaporite unit/s name Keuper facies
Evaporite unit/s age Carnian-Rhaetian (Upper Triassic)
Evaporite unit/s era Mesozoic
Evaporite unit/s origin Marine
Evaporite unit/s composition Gypsum-Halite-Anhydrite-Claystone-Ophites
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) Ductile piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt wall
Mining activity? Y
Mining activity start Roman Empire
Mining activity end Active
Mining galleries?
Mining products Salt springs, Common salt
Mining sub-products –
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Berriasian – Albian (early stage) and Danian – Burdigalian (main stage)
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Pamplona fault
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Progressive unconformities / radial normal and thrust faults / radial joints / thickness variations
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Jurassic (dolostones, marls and oolitic limestones)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Upper Weald facies (sandstones) / Aptian-middle Albian (Urgonian Group: marlstones, marly limestones, packstones, carbonate brecchias, rudistid limestones; Punta del Bakio Unit: turbidites, mudstones and carbonate grainstones) / Danian-Selandian (dolomites and limestones) / Thanetian-Ypresian (limestones and marls) / Lutetian-Bartonian (limestones and marls) / Priabonian-Burdigalian (shales, sandstones and conglomerates)
Available seismic profiles AN-9 / AN-14 / AN-1 / AN-12 / AN-10 / AN-01 / AN-9 / AN-01 / AN-11 / P-12 / AN-16 / AN-7 / AN-18 / AN-14 / P-7-4 / P-21 /
Available boreholes
Additional comments Alignment of the Salinas del Oro, Anoz, Alloz, Estella, Ollo, Echalecu and Iza along the Pamplona fault.

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 24
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Active
Exploitation name #1 LAS SALINAS
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 3199
Municipality #1 Salinas de Oro
Province #1 NAVARRA
Company #1 AYUNTAMIENTO DE SALINAS DE ORO
Main minning Products #1 Salt springs, Common salt
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 24
Outcropping area (km2) 8.15071
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 4.2
Max. Length (Km) 2.7
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 7
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 145
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 16
Deformation stages 2

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 24
Section source Poprawski, Y., Basile, C., 2018. Long-lasting diapir growth history in the Basque-Cantabrian basin (Northern Spain): a review. Conference poster, Advances in Salt Tectonics: Observations, Applications, and Perspective: In Honor of Martin P.A. Jackson. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 Cámara, P., 2020. Inverted turtle salt anticlines in the eastern basque-cantabrian basin, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104358. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Cámara, P., 2020. Inverted turtle salt anticlines in the eastern basque-cantabrian basin, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104358. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Larrasoaña, J. C., Parés, J. M., Millán, H., Del Valle, J., Pueyo, E. L., 2003. Paleomagnetic, structural, and stratigraphic constraints on transverse fault kinematics during basin inversion: The Pamplona Fault (Pyrenees, north Spain). Tectonics, 22(6), 1-22. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Guerrero, J., Desir, G., Roqué, C., Zarroca, M., Fabregat, I., 2019. The episodic rise, net growing rate and kinematics of radial faults of the Salinas de Oro diapir using paleoseismological techniques (NE Spain). Salt upwelling versus karstic subsidence. Geomorphology, 342, 210-222. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Pinto, V., Casas, A., Rivero, L., Torne, M., 2005. 3D gravity modeling of the Triassic salt diapirs of the Cubeta Alavesa (northern Spain). Tectonophysics, 405, 65-75. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Bodego, A., Iriarte, E., López-Horgue, M. A., Álvarez, I., 2018. Rift-margin extensional forced folds and salt tectonics in the eastern Basque-Cantabrian rift basin (western Pyrenees). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 91, 667-682. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Cámara, P., 2017. Salt and Strike-Slip Tectonics as Main Drivers in the Structural Evolution of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Spain. In Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins (pp. 371-393). Elsevier. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy 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]
Seismic data availability #1 Cámara, P., 2020. Inverted turtle salt anticlines in the eastern basque-cantabrian basin, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104358. [link]
Seismic data availability #2 Poprawski, Y., Basile, C., 2018. Long-lasting diapir growth history in the Basque-Cantabrian basin (Northern Spain): a review. Conference poster, Advances in Salt Tectonics: Observations, Applications, and Perspective: In Honor of Martin P.A. Jackson. [link]
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Cámara, P., 2020. Inverted turtle salt anticlines in the eastern basque-cantabrian basin, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104358. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Larrasoaña, J. C., Parés, J. M., Millán, H., Del Valle, J., Pueyo, E. L., 2003. Paleomagnetic, structural, and stratigraphic constraints on transverse fault kinematics during basin inversion: The Pamplona Fault (Pyrenees, north Spain). Tectonics, 22(6), 1-22. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Guerrero, J., Desir, G., Roqué, C., Zarroca, M., Fabregat, I., 2019. The episodic rise, net growing rate and kinematics of radial faults of the Salinas de Oro diapir using paleoseismological techniques (NE Spain). Salt upwelling versus karstic subsidence. Geomorphology, 342, 210-222. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Pinto, V., Casas, A., Rivero, L., Torne, M., 2005. 3D gravity modeling of the Triassic salt diapirs of the Cubeta Alavesa (northern Spain). Tectonophysics, 405, 65-75. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Poprawski, Y., Basile, C., 2018. Long-lasting diapir growth history in the Basque-Cantabrian basin (Northern Spain): a review. Conference poster, Advances in Salt Tectonics: Observations, Applications, and Perspective: In Honor of Martin P.A. Jackson. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 n.a.
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 Pinto, V., Casas, A., Rivero, L., Torne, M., 2005. 3D gravity modeling of the Triassic salt diapirs of the Cubeta Alavesa (northern Spain). Tectonophysics, 405, 65-75. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #2 Nettleton, L.L., 1968. Gravity anomalies over salt diapirs, northern Spain. Geological Society of America Special Papers, 88, 75–82. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #3 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 (Geochemistry) #1 Iribar, V., Ábalos, B. 2011. The geochemical and isotopic record of evaporite recycling in spas and salterns of the Basque Cantabrian basin, Spain. Applied geochemistry, 26, 1315-1329. [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 Béziat, D., Joron, J.L., Monchoux, P., Treuil, M., Walgenwitz, F., 1991. Geodynamic implications of geochemical data for the Pyrenean ophites (Spain-France). Chemical Geology, 89, 243-262. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 Llamas, B., Castañeda, M. C., Laín, C., Pous, J., 2017. Study of the Basque–Cantabrian basin as a suitable region for the implementation of an energy storage system based on compressed air energy storage (CAES). Environmental Earth Sciences, 76(5), 204. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 n.a.
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 140-Estella. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Perona, J., 2016. Mineralizaciones de Pb-Zn asociadas a los diapiros de Murguía y Orduña (Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica) [PhD thesis]: Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, 281 pp. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) DeFelipe, I., Álvarez Pulgar, F. J., & Pedreira Rodríguez, D., 2018. Crustal structure of the Eastern Basque-Cantabrian Zone-western Pyrenees: from the Cretaceous hyperextension to the Cenozoic inversion. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 31 (2), 69-82. [link]
Other related references #1 Sanz, T., Lago, M., Gil, A., Galé, C., Ramajo, J., Ubide, T., Pocoví, A., Tierz, P., Larrea, P., 2013. The Upper Triassic alkaline magmatism in the NW Iberian Chain (Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology, 39, 202-222. [link]
Other related references #2 Rios, J. M., 1948. Mapa Geológico de la Zona Cántabro-Navarra con las chimeneas salinas diapíricas de Salinas de Rosío, Villasana de Mena, Orduña, Murguía, Salinas de Añana, Maestu, Estella, Lácar, Salinas de Oro, Goñi y Atondo (scale 1/300.000, 80 × 34 cm). In: “Diapirismo”. Boletín del Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, 60, pp 153–390. [link]
Other related references #3 Ábalos, B., 2016. Geologic map of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin and a new tectonic interpretation of the Basque Arc. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 105, 2327-2354. [link]
Other related references #4 Ruiz, M., Gallart, J., Díaz, J., Olivera, C., Pedreira, D., López, C., González-Cortina, J.M., Pulgar, J.A., 2006. Seismic activity at the western Pyrenean edge. Tectonophysics, 412, 217–235. [link]