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Sierra de Cantabria

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General Information

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Age of evaporite flow or deformation (when deformed)
Other comments Shifted the Treviño and Urbasa-Andia synclines southwards over the Ebro Valley footwall block with an estimated shortening based in geological reconstructions between 15 and 20 km (see Cámara, 2020).

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Generic Data

Unique ID 81
Name Sierra de Cantabria
Structure type Evaporite-detached thrust
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Buried
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-Shale-Mudstone-Marlstone
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) Thrust piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt wall
Mining activity? Y
Mining activity start –
Mining activity end –
Mining galleries? –
Mining products Ophites
Mining sub-products –
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Upper Oligocene-Miocene
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Main compressive Alpine stage
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Low-angle unconformities / joints
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Jurassic (dolostones, marls and oolitic limestones) ; 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) / Early Priabonian (marlstones, marly limestones)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Oligocene-Lower Miocene (shales, marlstones, sandstones and conglomerates) ; Upper Miocene (sandstones and conglomerates)
Available seismic profiles ILIHA X-A / C-28 / RI-60 / C-18 / RI-61 / RI-23 / RI-50 / RI-63 / C-18-1 / ALL-8 / RI-61 / ELZ-3 / RI-60 / CE-8 / RI-62 / RI-63 / RI-50 / RI-23 / C-20 / C-17 / AN-01
Available boreholes LAGRAN-1 / RIOJA-3 / LAGRAN-1 / PIPAON-1 / ANGOSTINA-1 / BERNEDO-1 / BASTIDA-2 / MIRANDA DE EBRO
Additional comments Shifted the Treviño and Urbasa-Andia synclines southwards over the Ebro Valley footwall block with an estimated shortening based in geological reconstructions between 15 and 20 km (see Cámara, 2020)

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 81
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Active
Exploitation name #1 LAS CONCHAS
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 3310
Municipality #1 Haro
Province #1 LA RIOJA
Company #1 OFITAS DE SAN FELICES, S.A.
Main minning Products #1 Ophites
Exploitation name #2
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2
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Company #2
Main minning Products #2
Exploitation name #3
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3
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Main minning Products #3

Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 81
Outcropping area (km2) Buried
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) 19.05099
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) 0.9
Max. Width (Km) 5.97865583
Max. Length (Km) 39.7941264
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 1.3
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 25
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 10
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 81
Section source 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]
Well / Borehole availability #1 c
Well / Borehole availability #2 Jurado, M. L., Riba, O., 1996. The Rioja Area (westernmost Ebro basin): a ramp valley with neighbouring piggybacks. In (Friend, P. F., Dabrio, C. J., eds.): Tertiary basins of Spain, p. 173-179. Cambridge Universiy Press. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Arostegui, J., Sanguesa, F. J., Nieto, F., Uriarte, J. A., 2006. Thermal models and clay diagenesis in the Tertiary-Cretaceous sediments of the Alava block (Basque-Cantabrian basin, Spain). Clay Minerals, 41(4), 791-809. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 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]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #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 (Stratigraphy) #4 Carola, E., Muñoz, J. A., Roca, E., 2015. The transition from thick-skinned to thin-skinned tectonics in the Basque-Cantabrian Pyrenees: The Burgalesa Platform and surroundings. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 104(8), 2215-2239. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Soliz, J. G., Acebo, H. J. L., Villaro, B. Á., 2001. Estudio hidrigeológico general de la unidad de Sierra de Cantabria. Estudios del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava, 16, 5-42. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Cámara, P., 2020. Inverted turtle salt anticlines in the eastern basque-cantabrian basin, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104358. [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 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]
Seismic data availability #3 Carola, E., Tavani, S., Ferrer, O., Granado, P., Quintà, A., Butillé, M., Muñoz, J. A., 2013. Along-strike extrusion at the transition between thin-and thick-skinned domains in the Pyrenean Orogen (northern Spain). Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 377(1), 119-140. [link]
Available data (Structure) #1 Ábalos, B., Llanos, H. J., 1994. Structure of the Sierra de Cantabria (Southern Pyrenean Frontal Thrust, Basque Country, Spain): a new perspective from section balancing. Comptes rendus de l’Académie des sciences. Série 2. Sciences de la terre et des planètes, 319(4), 475-481. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Carola, E., Muñoz, J. A., Roca, E., 2015. The transition from thick-skinned to thin-skinned tectonics in the Basque-Cantabrian Pyrenees: The Burgalesa Platform and surroundings. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 104(8), 2215-2239. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Muñoz, J. A., 2019. Alpine Orogeny: Deformation and Structure in the Northern Iberian Margin (Pyrenees sl). In (Quesada C., Oliveira J., eds.): The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach, p. 433-451. Regional Geology Reviews, Springer, Cham. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Martínez Torres, L. M., 1993. Corte balanceado de la Sierra Cantabria (cabalgamiento de la Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica sobre la Cuenca del Ebro). Geogaceta, 14, 113-115. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 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]
Available data (Structure) #6 Cámara, P., 2020. Inverted turtle salt anticlines in the eastern basque-cantabrian basin, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104358. [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 Pinto, V., Rivero, L., Ponsatí, A. C., 2000. Modelo gravimétrico de los diapiros de Estella y Alloz, y localización de nuevos diapiros no aflorantes en la zona sur de Atauri, Cubeta Alavesa. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 13(3), 529-538. [link]
Available data (Gravimetry – Tomography) #2 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) #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 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) #2 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) #3 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) #4 Marín, P., Márquez, G., Gallego, J. R., Permanyer, A., 2014. Characterization of asphaltic oil occurrences from the southeastern margin of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Spain. Geologica Acta, 12(4), 327-342. [link]
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 Soto, R., Beamud, E., Roca, E., Carola, E., Almar, Y., 2017. Distinguishing the effect of diapir growth on magnetic fabrics of syn-diapiric overburden rocks: Basque-Cantabrian basin, Northern Spain. Terra Nova 29, 191-201. [link]
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 170-Haro. [link] and 169-Casalareina. [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) Pereda-Suberbiola, X., Corral, J. C., Astibia, H., Badiola, A., Bardet, N., Berreteaga, A., …, Torices, A., 2015. Late Cretaceous continental and marine vertebrate assemblages of the Laño Quarry (Basque-Cantabrian Region, Iberian Peninsula): an update. Journal of Iberian Geology, 41(1), 101-124. [link]
Other related references #1 Tarriño, A., Arriortua, M. I., Elorza, J., 1989. Estudio geológico del área de Peñacerrada (Álava): Petrografía y cristalografía de las silicificaciones existentes. Cuadernos de Sección de Eusko-Ikaskuntza (Ciencias Naturales), 5, 1-135. [link]
Other related references #2 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 #3 Serrano, A., Martínez del Olmo, W., 2004. Estructuras diapíricas de la zona meridional de la Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica. In: Vera, J.A. (Ed.), Geología de España. Sociedad Geológica de España. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, pp. 334–338. [link]
Other related references #4 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]