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Secastilla

ID #068
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General Information

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Other comments Also known as "La Puebla de Castro". Passive translation of the diapir during Oligocene-Miocene main compression stage.

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Generic Data

Unique ID 68
Name Secastilla (La Puebla de Castro)
Structure type Evaporite diapir
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Southern Pyrenees
Geological Regional Setting South Pyrenees Central Unit (Sierras Marginales; Boltaña-Balzes thrust sheet)
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-Gypsum-Anhydrite-Halite
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Oligocene (Graus Fm., conglomerates) ; Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Oligocene, Pliocene-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Passive piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt wall
Mining activity? N
Mining activity start
Mining activity end
Mining galleries?
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Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Upper Santonian-Maastrichtian (early stage) ; Eocene (late stage)
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Tectonic inversion and thrusting (early stage) ; Compression and diapir shortening (late stage)
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Thrust faults / thickness variations / joints / progressive unconformities
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Lower Jurassic (dolostones, anhydrite) ; Albian (Turbón Fm., sandstones) ; Cenomanian-Turonian (Sopeira Fm., marlstones) ; Coniacian-Santonian (Montsec Fm., limestones) ; Palaeocene (Garumnian, Tremp Fm., mudstones, siltstones and sandstones)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Upper Santonian-Maastrichtian (Valcarga, Terradets, Aren Fms., limestones, marlstones, calcarenites, sandy limestones) ; Eocene (Alveoline Lms, Boltaña-Guara, Sanvicente, Camanue, Blue Marls, Sobrarbe, Belsué-Atarés Fms., marlstones, limestones, sandy limestones)
Available seismic profiles SP-58 / SP-58 / ND-59 / ND-155 / SP-58 / ND-55 / SP-6 / SP-6 / SP-58 / SP-58 / ND-55 / SP-58 / SP-58 / ND-58 / ND-155 / ND-59 / ND-55 / ND-159 /
Available boreholes Surpirenaica-1 / Graus-1 / Be-1 / Benabarre-1
Additional comments Passive translation of the diapir during Oligocene-Miocene main compression stage

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 68
Minning exploitations within <2km? N
Historical/Active
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Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1
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Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 68
Outcropping area (km2) 13.52321
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 3.57411702
Max. Length (Km) 5.04318447
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 2.4
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 84
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 34
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 68
Section 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]
Well / Borehole availability #1 Cámara, P., Flinch, J. F., 2017. The southern Pyrenees: a salt-based fold-and-thrust belt. In Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins (pp. 395-415). Elsevier. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #2 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]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 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 (Stratigraphy) #2 Santolaria, P., Luzon, A., Casas, A. M., Soto, R., 2015. Coupling far and near tectonic signals in syn-orogenic sediments: the Olvena growth strata (Sierras Marginales, southern Pyrenees). Geologica Acta, 13(4), 297-308. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Barnolas, A., Gil-Peña, I., 2001. Ejemplos de relleno sedimentario multiepisódico en una cuenca de antepaís fragmentada: La Cuenca Surpirenaica. Boletín Geológico y Minero, 112(3), 17-38. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Cámara, P., Flinch, J. F., 2017. The southern Pyrenees: a salt-based fold-and-thrust belt. In Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins (pp. 395-415). Elsevier. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 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]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Martín-Chivelet, J., López-Gómez, J., Aguado, R., Arias, C., Arribas, J., Arribas, M. E., … , Casas-Sainz, A., 2019. The Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Rifting. In (Quesada C., Oliveira J., eds.): The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer, Cham. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Santolaria, P., Ayala, C., Pueyo, E. L., Rubio, F. M., Soto, R., Calvín, P., …, 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 #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]
Seismic data availability #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]
Seismic data availability #3 Cámara, P., Flinch, J. F., 2017. The southern Pyrenees: a salt-based fold-and-thrust belt. In Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins (pp. 395-415). Elsevier. [link]
Available data (Structure) #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 (Structure) #2 Santolaria, P., Luzon, A., Casas, A. M., Soto, R., 2015. Coupling far and near tectonic signals in syn-orogenic sediments: the Olvena growth strata (Sierras Marginales, southern Pyrenees). Geologica Acta, 13(4), 297-308. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Cámara, P., Flinch, J. F., 2017. The southern Pyrenees: a salt-based fold-and-thrust belt. In Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins (pp. 395-415). Elsevier. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Fernández, O., Muñoz, J. A., Arbués, P., Falivene, O., 2012. 3D structure and evolution of an oblique system of relaying folds: the Ainsa basin (Spanish Pyrenees). Journal of the Geological Society, 169(5), 545-559. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 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]
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 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) #2 Casas, A., Santolaria, P., Rivero, L., Casas-Sainz, A., Himi, M., Pinto, V., Sendrós, A., 2016. The gravity method: new challenges for delineation diapiric structures in north-east Spain. First Break, 34(8). [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #3 Calvín, P., Santolaria, P., Casas, A. M., Pueyo, E. L., 2018. Detachment fold vs. ramp anticline: a gravity survey in the southern Pyrenean front (External Sierras). Geological Journal, 53(1), 178-190. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #1 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) #2 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 n.a.
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 Muñoz, J. A., Beamud, E., Fernández, O., Arbués, P., Dinarès‐Turell, J., Poblet, J., 2013. The Ainsa Fold and thrust oblique zone of the central Pyrenees: Kinematics of a curved contractional system from paleomagnetic and structural data. Tectonics, 32(5), 1142-1175. [link]
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 288-Fonz. [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 Balaguer, J. F., Casas-Sainz, A. M., 2016. Estructura de la terminación occidental del cabalgamiento del Montsec (Pirineos Centrales). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 29(2), 39-56. [link]
Other related references #2 Garrido, H. M., Morer, E. P., Cardona, M. A., Aguado, A. L., Urcia, B. O., Peña, B. M., 2000. Actividad tectónica registrada en los depósitos terciarios del frente meridional del Pirineo central. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 13(2), 279-300. [link]
Other related references #3 n.a.
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