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Villel

ID #074
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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)
Other comments Teruel (ID #75), Villel and Landete-Moya (ID #087) diapirs uplift triggered by extensional tectonics along the Teruel graben during the Miocene. Karst dissolution processes active from Pliocene-Holocene.

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Generic Data

Unique ID 74
Name Villel
Structure type Evaporite diapir
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Outcropping
Geological setting Iberian Range
Geological Regional Setting Teruel-Jiloca Graben
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 Shale-Gypsum-Anhydrite-Ophites
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) Ductile piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt pillow
Mining activity? N
Mining activity start
Mining activity end
Mining galleries?
Mining products
Mining sub-products
Evaporite flow? Y
Age of evaporite flow Miocene
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Neogene extension, erosion and differential loading
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Normal faults / anticline-syncline folding
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Lower-Middle Jurassic (dolomitic brecchias, limestones and marls) ; Upper Jurassic (marls and limestones) ; Lower Cretaceous (sandstones and limestones) ; Upper Cretaceous (dolostones, dolomitic limestones and dolomitic brecchias)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Miocene (conglomerates, red siltstones, sandstones, limestones and marlstones)
Available seismic profiles
Available boreholes
Additional comments Teruel, Villel and Landete diapirs uplift triggered by extensional tectonics along the Teruel graben during the Miocene. Karst dissolution processes active from Pliocene-Holocene.

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 74
Minning exploitations within <2km? N
Historical/Active
Exploitation name #1
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1
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Main minning Products #1
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Quantitative Data

UNIQUE_ID 74
Outcropping area (km2) 25.77872
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) Not buried
Max. Width (Km) 11.909692
Max. Length (Km) 3.38414946
Max. Evaporites thickness (km)
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 23
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 7
Deformation stages 1

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 74
Section source IGME MAGNA 50. SHEET 589 (TERRIENTE)
Well / Borehole availability #1 n.a.
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Alonso-Zarza, A. M., Calvo, J. P., 2000. Palustrine sedimentation in an episodically subsiding basin: the Miocene of the northern Teruel Graben (Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 160(1-2), 1-21. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Arche, A., López-Gómez, J., Herranz, P., Márquez-Aliaga, A., Sole de Porta, N., 1995. The Permian and Triassic sediments of the Teruel area, SE Iberian Ranges, Spain/Les sédiments permiens et triasiques de la région de Teruel, Chaîne Ibérique, Espagne. Sciences Géologiques, bulletins et mémoires, 48(1), 101-117. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #3 Arche, A., Gómez, J. L., Marzo, M., Hernández, H. M. V., 2004. The siliciclastic Permian-Triassic deposits in Central and northeastern Iberian Peninsula (Iberian, Ebro and Catalan basins): a proposal for correlation. Geologica Acta, 4, 305-320. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #4 Alnazghah, M. H., Bádenas, B., Pomar, L., Aurell, M., Morsilli, M., 2013. Facies heterogeneity at interwell-scale in a carbonate ramp, Upper Jurassic, NE Spain. Marine and petroleum geology, 44, 140-163. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 Liesa, C.L., Soria, A.R., Casas, A., Aurell, M., Melendez, N., Badenas, B., Fregenal-Martínez, M., Navarrete, R., Peropadre, C., Rodríguez-Lopez, J.P., 2019. The Southiberian, central-Iberian and Maestrazgo basins. In: Oliveira, J.T., Quesada, C. (Eds.), The Geology of Iberia: a Geodynamic Approach. Springer Nature, pp. 214–228. Vol. 3 (The Alpine Cycle), (Chapter 5) (The Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Rifting). Regional Geology Reviews.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 Rodríguez-López, J. P., Melendez, N., De Boer, P. L., Soria, A. R., 2012. Controls on marine–erg margin cycle variability: aeolian–marine interaction in the mid‐Cretaceous Iberian Desert System, Spain. Sedimentology, 59(2), 466-501. [link]
Regional Stratigraphy Ezquerro, L., Lafuente, P., Pesquero, M. D., Alcalá, L., Arlegui, L., Liesa, C., Luque, L., Rodriguez-Pascua, M., Simón, J.L., 2012. Una cubeta endorreica residual Plio-Pleistocena en la zona de relevo entre las fallas de Concud y Teruel: implicaciones paleogeográficas. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 25, 157-175. [link]
Seismic data availability #1 n.a.
Seismic data availability #2 n.a.
Seismic data availability #3 n.a.
Available data (Structure) #1 Gracia, A. C., Sainz, A. C., 2000. ¿Tiene el sistema de fosas de Teruel origen extensional?. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 13(3–4), 445-470. [link]
Available data (Structure) #2 Peiro, A., Simón, J. L., Román-Berdiel, T., 2020. Fault relay zones evolving through distributed longitudinal fractures: The case of the Teruel graben system (Iberian Chain, Spain). Journal of Structural Geology, 131, 103942. [link]
Available data (Structure) #3 Lafuente, P., Arlegui, L. E., Casado, I., Ezquerro, L., Liesa, C. L., Pueyo, Ó., Simón, J. L., 2011. Geometría y cinemática de la zona de relevo entre las fallas neógeno-cuaternarias de Concud y Teruel (Cordillera Ibérica). Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 24(1–2), 117-133. [link]
Available data (Structure) #4 Liesa, C.L., Soria, A.R., Casas, A., Aurell, M., Melendez, N., Badenas, B., Fregenal-Martínez, M., Navarrete, R., Peropadre, C., Rodríguez-Lopez, J.P., 2019. the Southiberian, central-Iberian and Maestrazgo basins. In: Oliveira, J.T., Quesada, C. (Eds.), The Geology of Iberia: a Geodynamic Approach. Springer Nature, pp. 214–228. Vol. 3 (The Alpine Cycle), (Chapter 5) (The Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Rifting). Regional Geology Reviews.
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 Alonso-Zarza, A. M., Calvo, J. P., 2000. Palustrine sedimentation in an episodically subsiding basin: the Miocene of the northern Teruel Graben (Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 160(1-2), 1-21. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #2 Dumitrescu, R., Lago, M., Cuairan, J. B., 1993. Petrología y geoquímica del magmatismo alcalino triásico del diapiro de Villel (Teruel). Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Mineralogía, 16(1), 25-26. [link]
Available data (Geochemistry) #3 n.a.
Available data (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
Available data (Petrophysics) #1 Ezquerro, L., Moretti, M., Liesa, C. L., Luzón, A., Pueyo, E. L., Simón, J. L., 2016. Controls on space–time distribution of soft-sediment deformation structures: applying palaeomagnetic dating to approach the apparent recurrence period of paleoseisms at the Concud Fault (eastern Spain). Sedimentary Geology, 344, 91-111. [link]
Available data (Petrophysics) #2 n.a.
IGME Geological Map (MAGNA50) Sheet number 589-Terriente. [link]
Other Maps #1 (source) Ezquerro, L., Luzón, A., Simón, J. L., Liesa, C. L., 2019. Alluvial sedimentation and tectono-stratigraphic evolution in a narrow extensional zigzag basin margin (northern Teruel Basin, Spain). Journal of Palaeogeography, 8(1), 1-25. [link]
Other Maps #2 (source) Gracia, A. C., Sainz, A. C., 2000. ¿ Tiene el sistema de fosas de Teruel origen extensional?. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 13(3–4), 445-470. [link]
Other related references #1 Lago, M., Dumitrescu, R., Bastida, J., Arranz, E., Gil-Imaz, A., Pocovi, A., …, Vaquer, R., 1996. Características de los magmatismos alcalino y subalcalino, pre-Hettangiense, del borde SE de la Cordillera Ibérica. Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica, 20, 159-181. [link]
Other related references #2 Gómez, J. L. S., Monné, J. L. P., Fabre, M. S., 1981. Algunos aspectos de la tectónica cuaternaria en el margen oriental de la fosa de Alfambra-Teruel. Teruel: Revista del Instituto de Estudios Turolenses, (66), 31-46. [link]
Other related references #3 Abels, H. A., Aziz, H. A., Ventra, D., Hilgen, F. J., 2009. Orbital climate forcing in mudflat to marginal lacustrine deposits in the Miocene Teruel Basin (Northeast Spain). Journal of Sedimentary Research, 79(11), 831-847. [link]
Other related references #4 n.a.