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San Fernando

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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)
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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 11
Name San Fernando
Structure type Evaporite diapir
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Betic System
Geological Regional Setting Guadalquivir Basin
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-Claystone-Marlstone-Dolomite
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 stock
Mining activity? N
Mining activity start
Mining activity end
Mining galleries?
Mining products
Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow lower-middle Pleistocene
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Quaternary reverse fault activity
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Anticline folding / Reverse faults / joints
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Plio-Pleistocene sands and conglomerates / Upper Pleistocene beach deposits
Available seismic profiles High Resolution Geophysics Surveys CADHYS0410 and INDEMARES-CHICA0610 (private access)
Available boreholes BAHIA DE CADIZ-08 / BAHIA DE CADIZ-03 / BAHIA DE CADIZ-07 / BAHIA DE CADIZ-11 / BAHIA DE CADIZ-12 / BAHIA DE CADIZ-09 / BAHIA DE CADIZ-10 / BAHIA DE CADIZ-17 / BAHIA DE CADIZ-18 / BAHIA DE CADIZ-14 / BAHIA DE CADIZ-15 / BAHIA DE CADIZ-30 / BAHIA DE CADIZ-04 / BAHIA DE CADIZ-28 / BAHIA DE CADIZ-29
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Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 11
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
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 11
Outcropping area (km2) 8.27845
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 6
Max. Length (Km) 2.5
Max. Evaporites thickness (km)
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 2
Min. Deformation age (Ma) Active
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 11
Section source Gracia, F. J., Rodríguez-Vidal, J., Cáceres, L. M., Belluomini, G., Benavente, J., Alonso, C., 2008. Diapiric uplift of an MIS 3 marine deposit in SW Spain: Implications for Late Pleistocene sea level reconstruction and palaeogeography of the Strait of Gibraltar. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, 2219-2231. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 n.a.
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Baena, J., Zazo, C., Goy, J.L., 1987. Mapa geoloógico de la Hoja 1062: Paterna de Rivera. Mapa Geológico de España, E. 1:50.000. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Hernández-Molina, F.J., Fernandez-Puga, M.C., Fernandez-Salas, L.M., Llave, E., Lobo, F.J., Vázquez, J.T., Acosta, J., Lopez-Aguayo, F., 1996. Distribución y estructuración sedimentaria de los depósitos del Holoceno Terminal en la Bahía de Cádiz. Geogaceta 20, 424-427. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Gracia, F. J., Rodríguez-Vidal, J., Cáceres, L. M., Belluomini, G., Benavente, J., Alonso, C., 2008. Diapiric uplift of an MIS 3 marine deposit in SW Spain: Implications for Late Pleistocene sea level reconstruction and palaeogeography of the Strait of Gibraltar. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, 2219-2231. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Gracia, F.J., 2008. Geomorfología y estratigrafía del Pleistoceno y Holoceno en la banda atlántica de Cádiz. In J. Ramos (ed.): La ocupación prehistórica de la campiña litoral y banda atlántica de Cádiz. Arqueología Monografías, Junta de Andalucía, pp. 53-68. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Matias, H., Kress, P., Terrinha, P., Mohriak, W., Menezes, P. T., Matias, L., Santos, F., Sandnes, F., 2011. Salt tectonics in the western Gulf of Cadiz, southwest Iberia. AAPG bulletin, 95(10), 1667-1698. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 n.a.
Regional Stratigraphy Ramos, A., Fernández, O., Terrinha, P., & Muñoz, J. A., 2017. Neogene to recent contraction and basin inversion along the Nubia‐Iberia boundary in SW Iberia. Tectonics, 36(2), 257-286. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 Vázquez, J. T., López-González, N., Fernández-Salas, L. M., del Río, V. D., Fernández-Puga, M. C., Palomino, D., 2010. Nuevos datos de actividad tectónica durante el Pleistoceno Superior-Holoceno en el sector oriental de la plataforma continental del Golfo de Cádiz (SO de Iberia). Resúmenes de la 1ª Reunión Ibérica sobre Fallas Activas y Paleosismología, Sigüenza, España. [link]
Seismic data availability #2 Gracia, F.J., Rodríguez-Vidal, J., Benavente, J., Cáceres, L., López Aguayo, F., 1999. Tectónica cuaternaria en la Bahía de Cádiz. In: Pallí, L., Roqué, C. (Eds.), Avances en el estudio del Cuaternario español. AEQUA, University of Girona, Girona, pp. 67–74. [link]
Seismic data availability #3 Medialdea, T., Vegas, R., Somoza, L., Vázquez, J.T., Maldonado, A., Díaz-del-Río, V., Maestro, A., Córdoba, D., Fernández-Puga, M.C., 2004. Structure and evolution of the ‘‘Olitostrome’’ complex of the Gibraltar Arc in the Gulf of Cádiz (eastern Central Atlantic): evidence from two long seismic cross-sections. Marine Geology 209, 173–198. [link]
Available data (Structure) #1 García de Domingo, J., González, J., Hernáiz, P.P., 1987. Memoria y mapa geológico E/1:50.000 de la hoja 1068 (San Fernando). Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Vázquez, J. T., López-González, N., Fernández-Salas, L. M., del Río, V. D., Fernández-Puga, M. C., Palomino, D., 2010. Nuevos datos de actividad tectónica durante el Pleistoceno Superior-Holoceno en el sector oriental de la plataforma continental del Golfo de Cádiz (SO de Iberia). Resúmenes de la 1ª Reunión Ibérica sobre Fallas Activas y Paleosismología, Sigüenza, España. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Gracia, F. J., Rodríguez-Vidal, J., Cáceres, L. M., Belluomini, G., Benavente, J., Alonso, C., 2008. Diapiric uplift of an MIS 3 marine deposit in SW Spain: Implications for Late Pleistocene sea level reconstruction and palaeogeography of the Strait of Gibraltar. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, 2219-2231. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Gracia, F.J., Rodríguez-Vidal, J., Benavente, J., Cáceres, L., López Aguayo, F., 1999. Tectónica cuaternaria en la Bahía de Cádiz. In: Pallí, L., Roqué, C. (Eds.), Avances en el estudio del Cuaternario español. AEQUA, University of Girona, Girona, pp. 67–74. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 n.a.
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 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 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 n.a.
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 1068-San Fernando. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Sánchez-Gómez, M., Balanyá, J. C., García-Dueñas, V., Azañón, J. M., 2002. Intracrustal tectonic evolution of large lithosphere mantle slabs in the western end of the Mediterranean orogen (Gibraltar arc). Journal of the Virtual Explorer, 8, 23-34. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Mas, J. M. G., Jorge, C. C., Esteban, O. A., 2017. Sedimentary analysis of mud patch fields in the subtidal zone of the Cádiz Bay (SW Spain). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 30(1), 41-54. [link]
Other related references #1 Baena, J., Zazo, C., Goy, J.L., 1987. Mapa geoloógico de la Hoja 1062: Paterna de Rivera. Mapa Geológico de España, E. 1:50.000. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid. [link]
Other related references #2 n.a.
Other related references #3 n.a.
Other related references #4 n.a.