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Villasana de Mena

ID #014
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Other comments Northwest-southeast alignment (Las Losas fault; Martín-Chivelet et al., 2002) of the Murguía, Orduña, and Villasana de Mena diapirs. Pb-Zn mineralization hints at San Juan and Concejero zones (eastern contact of the diapir). Limestones and dolomites interbedded with the salt.

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Generic Data

Unique ID 14
Name Valle de Mena
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) Miocene (sandstones and conglomerates) / Quaternary (alluvial and colluvial detrital deposits)
Post-kinematic unit/s age (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Miocene-Holocene
Classification (Hudec and Jackson, 2009) Passive piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt stock
Mining activity? Y
Mining activity start –
Mining activity end –
Mining galleries? –
Mining products Ornamental limestone
Mining sub-products –
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Middle Cretaceous (early pillow-stage piercement) and Eocene (main stage)
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Mesozoic extensional regime in the Basque–Cantabrian Basin (early stage) and Alpine compression and squeezing (late stage)
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Radial joints and faults / Syncline-Anticline folding
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Lower Jurassic (dolomitic brecchias, limestones and marls)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Albo-Cenomanian (Valmaseda Fm.) / Cenomanian (marls and limestones) / Turonian (Gárate limestones Fm.) / Middle-Upper Turonian (Zuazo marls Fm.) / Lower Coniacian (Subijana limestones) / Palaeocene-Eocene (limestones, clays and marls)
Available seismic profiles 13 / PR-59 / S82-15 / PR-59 / S-82-13 / S82-15 / PR-53 / PR-32-P / PR-58 / PR-52 / PR-40-P / 44243 / 13 / 18 / 44211 / 77 / 16 / 64 / 19 / 73 / 66
Available boreholes
Additional comments Northwest-southeast alignment (Las Losas fault; Martín-Chivelet et al., 2002) of the Murguía, Orduña, and Villasana de Mena diapirs. Pb-Zn mineralization hints at San Juan and Concejero zones (eastern contact of the diapir). Limestones and dolomites interbedded with the salt.

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 14
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Active
Exploitation name #1 UNGO NAVA-VIVANCO
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 4147
Municipality #1 Valle de Mena
Province #1 BURGOS
Company #1 UNGO NAVA, SA
Main minning Products #1 Ornamental limestone
Exploitation name #2
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2
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Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #3
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Main minning Products #3

Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 14
Outcropping area (km2) 38.03652
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 6.1
Max. Length (Km) 8.3
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 3
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 100
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 40
Deformation stages 2

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 14
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 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]
Well / Borehole availability #2 IGME MAGNA 50. SHEET 50 (VILLASANA DE MENA) Supplementary information. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 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]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Serrano, A., Martínez del Olmo, W., Cámara, P., 1989. Diapirismo del Trías salino en el dominio Cántabro-Navarro. Libro homenaje a Rafael Soler: Madrid, Asociación de Geólogos y Geofísicos Españoles del Petróleo, p. 115–121.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 García-Mondéjar, J., López-Horgue, M.A., Aranburu, A., Fernández-Mendiola, P.A., 2005. Pulsating subsidence during a rift episode: Stratigraphic and tectonic consequences (Aptian-Albian, northern Spain). Terra Nova, 17, 517–525. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Reitner, J., 1986. A comparative study of the diagenesis in diapir-influenced reef atolls and a fault block reef platform in the Late Albian of the Vasco-Cantabrian Basin (Northern Spain). In Reef diagenesis (pp. 186-209). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Ábalos, B., Alonso, N., Berrocal, T., Furundarena, A., Gorospe, I., Martínez-Escauriaza, G., Matxain, I., Sánchez-Lorda, M.E., 2003. Análisis estructural de los surcos periféricos del diapiro de Murguía (Álava, Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica). Geogaceta, 34, 7–10. [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 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 #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 Fernández-Mendiola, P. A., García-Mondéjar, J., 1997. Isolated carbonate platform of Caniego, Spain: a test of the latest Albian worldwide sea-level changes. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 109(2), 176-194. [link]
Available data (Structure) #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]
Available data (Structure) #3 García‐Mondéjar, J., Agirrezabala, L. M., Aranburu, A., Fernández‐Mendiola, P. A., Gómez‐Pérez, I., López‐Horgue, M., Rosales, I., 1996. Aptian—Albian tectonic pattern of the Basque—Cantabrian Basin (Northern Spain). Geological Journal, 31(1), 13-45. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Rat, P., 1988. The Basque-Cantabrian basin between the Iberian and European plates; some facts but still many problems. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 1, 327–348. [link]
Available data (Structure) #5 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 (Structure) #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]
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 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) #2 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 (Gravimetry – Tomography) #3 Pinto, V., Casas, A., Rivero, L., Torné, M., 2005. 3D gravity modeling of the Triassic salt diapirs of the Cubeta Alavesa (northern Spain). Tectonophysics, 405, 65-75. [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 Perona, J., Canals, À., Cardellach, E., 2018. Zn-Pb mineralization associated with salt diapirs in the basque-cantabrian Basin, Northern Spain. Geology, geochemistry, and genetic model. Economic Geology, 113, 1133-1159. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 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]
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 Reitner, J., 1986. A comparative study of the diagenesis in diapir-influenced reef atolls and a fault block reef platform in the Late Albian of the Vasco-Cantabrian Basin (Northern Spain). In Reef diagenesis (pp. 186-209). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. [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 n.a.
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 85-Villasana de Mena. [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) 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 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 Cámara, P., 2020. Inverted turtle salt anticlines in the eastern basque-cantabrian basin, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104358. [link]
Other related references #3 Ruiz, M., Díaz, J., Gallart, J., Pulgar, J.A., González-Cortina, J.M., López, C., 2006. Seismotectonic constraints at the western edge of the Pyrenees: aftershock series monitoring of the 2002 February 21, 4.1 Lg earthquake. Geophysical Journal International, 166, 238–252. [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]