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Serres de Llevant

ID #133
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General Information

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Other comments The Serres de Llevant and the Serra de Tramuntana at the north-western part of the island, are considered to be the north-eastern end of the Betic fold-and-thrust belt.

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Generic Data

Unique ID 133
Name Serres de Llevant
Structure type Evaporite-detached thrust
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Betic System
Geological Regional Setting Serres de Llevant range (Mallorca island)
Evaporite unit/s name 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 Claystonestone-Gypsum-Sandstone-Volcanic rocks
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Middle Miocene (conglomerates and sandstones) ; Upper Miocene (limestones) ; Pliocene (calcarenites) ; Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Middle Miocene-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Thrust piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986)
Mining activity? N
Mining activity start
Mining activity end
Mining galleries?
Mining products
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Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Oligocene-Lower Miocene
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Alpine compression
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Thrust faults / anticline-syncline folding
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Upper Triassic (Rhaetian, dolostones, brecchias and «carniolas») ; Lower Jurassic (tabular limestones and dolostones) ; Middle Jurassic (marlstones, marly limestones and limestones) ; Upper Jurassic (oolitic limestones and tabular limestones) ; Lower Cretaceous (sandy limestones and marlstones, marly limestones) ; Eocene (conglomerates, sandstones and claystones)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Early Miocene (conglomerates, sandstones and claystones with a uppermost marlstone level)
Available seismic profiles
Available boreholes
Additional comments The Serres de Llevant and the Serra de Tramuntana at the north-western part of the island, are considered to be the north-eastern end of the Betic fold-and-thrust belt

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 133
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 133
Outcropping area (km2) 2.53504
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 4.85014247
Max. Length (Km) 10.7994371
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 0.3
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 30
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 14
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 133
Section source Sàbat, F., Gelabert, B., Rodríguez-Perea, A., Giménez, J., 2011. Geological structure and evolution of Majorca: Implications for the origin of the Western Mediterranean. Tectonophysics, 510(1-2), 217-238. [link]
Well / Borehole availability #1 n.a.
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Rosales, I., Barnolas, A., López-García, J. M., Sevillano, A., 2021. Strontium isotope stratigraphy (SIS) dating of the Bathonian regression in western Tethys (Mallorca island). Journal of Iberian Geology, 1-18. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Sàbat, F., Muñoz, J., Santanach, P., 1988. Transversal and oblique structures at the Serres de Llevant thrust belt (Mallorca Island). Geologische Rundschau, 77(2), 529-538. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Morey, B., 2018. El registro Messiniense de la isla de Mallorca (archipiélago Balear, Mediterráneo occidental). Revisión e interpretación. Estudios Geológicos, 74(2), e083. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Rodríguez-Perea, A., Ramos-Guerrero, E., Pomar, L., Paniello, X., Obrador, A., Martí, J., 1987. El Triásico de las Baleares. Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica, 11, 295-321. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Sàbat, F., Gelabert, B., Rodríguez-Perea, A., Giménez, J., 2011. Geological structure and evolution of Majorca: Implications for the origin of the Western Mediterranean. Tectonophysics, 510(1-2), 217-238. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Fornós, J. J., Ferrer, B. G., 1995. Litologia i tectònica del carst de Mallorca. In El Carst i les coves de Mallorca. (pp. 27-43). Societat d’Història Natural de les Balears. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Gelabert, B., 1998. La estructura geológica de la mitad occidental de la Isla de Majorca. Colección Memorias: Instituto Tecnologico GeoMinero de España. 129 pp. Madrid. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 Sàbat, F., Gelabert, B., Rodríguez-Perea, A., Giménez, J., 2011. Geological structure and evolution of Majorca: Implications for the origin of the Western Mediterranean. Tectonophysics, 510(1-2), 217-238. [link]
Seismic data availability #2 n.a.
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Sàbat, F., Muñoz, J., Santanach, P., 1988. Transversal and oblique structures at the Serres de Llevant thrust belt (Mallorca Island). Geologische Rundschau, 77(2), 529-538. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Moragues, L., Rea, G. B., Ruano, P., Azañón, J. M., Gaidi, S., Peña, J. V. P., 2018. Middle Miocene extensional tectonics in Southeast Mallorca Island (Western Mediterranean). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 31(2), 101-110. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Fornós, J. J., Gelabert, B., Ginés, A., Ginés, J., Tuccimei, P., Vesica, P., 2002. Phreatic overgrowths on speleothems: a useful tool in structural geology in littoral karstic landscapes. The example of eastern Mallorca (Balearic Islands). Geodinamica Acta, 15(2), 113-125. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Sàbat, F., Gelabert, B., Rodríguez-Perea, A., Giménez, J., 2011. Geological structure and evolution of Majorca: Implications for the origin of the Western Mediterranean. Tectonophysics, 510(1-2), 217-238. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 Sàbat, F., Santanach, P., 1987. Cabalgamientos en las Serres de Llevant de Mallorca. Geogaceta, 2, 10-12. [link]
Available data (Structure) #6 Booth-Rea, G., Azañín, F. J., Roldán, L., Moragues, L., Pérez-Peña, V., Mateos, R. M., 2017. SW-transport extensional detachments in Mallorca, key structures for integrating the Balearic Promontory in the Miocene tectonic evolution of the western Mediterranean. Geotemas, 18. [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 Sàbat, F., Gelabert, B., Rodríguez-Perea, A., Giménez, J., 2011. Geological structure and evolution of Majorca: Implications for the origin of the Western Mediterranean. Tectonophysics, 510(1-2), 217-238. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #2 Pous, J., Ayala, C., Ledo, J., Marcuello, A., Sàbat, F., 1995. 3D modelling of magnetotelluric and gravity data of Mallorca island (Western Mediterranean). Geophysical research letters, 22(6), 735-738. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #3 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 (Geochemistry) #1 Rosales, I., Barnolas, A., López-García, J. M., Sevillano, A., 2021. Strontium isotope stratigraphy (SIS) dating of the Bathonian regression in western Tethys (Mallorca island). Journal of Iberian Geology, 1-18. [link]
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 672-Arta. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Fornós, J. J., Ferrer, B. G., 1995. Litologia i tectònica del carst de Mallorca. In El Carst i les coves de Mallorca. (pp. 27-43). Societat d’Història Natural de les Balears. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Rosales, I., Barnolas, A., López-García, J. M., Sevillano, A., 2021. Strontium isotope stratigraphy (SIS) dating of the Bathonian regression in western Tethys (Mallorca island). Journal of Iberian Geology, 1-18. [link]
Other related references #1 Capó, A., Garcia, C., 2019. Basin filling evolution of the central basins of Mallorca since the Pliocene. Basin Research, 31(5), 948-966. [link]
Other related references #2 Casas, J. M., Sàbat, F., 1987. An example of three-dimensional analysis of thrust-related tectonites. Journal of structural geology, 9(5-6), 647-657. [link]
Other related references #3 Fornós, J. J., Ginés, À., Ginés, J., Gràcia, F., Merino, A., 2019. Littoral Endokarst from Mallorca Island (Western Mediterranean). In The Spanish Coastal Systems (pp. 143-166). Springer, Cham. [link]
Other related references #4 n.a.