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Zamanzas-Oña

ID #110
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General Information

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Other comments Interpreted as an halokinetic structure subsequently inverted during the main Alpine compressional stage (see Cámara, 2017). Surface-exposed analogue of the Ayoluengo oil field.

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Generic Data

Unique ID 110
Name Zamanzas-Oña
Structure type Evaporite-cored anticline
Deformed/Undeformed Deformed
Buried/Outcropping Buried
Geological setting Basque-Cantabrian Basin
Geological Regional Setting Burgalesa Platform
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 Marlstone-Gypsum-Claystone-Halite
Post-kinematic unit/s (or post-evaporite units when evaporites are undeformed) Miocene (Alfaro and Tudela Fms., 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) Thrust piercement / Ductile piercement
Classification (Jackson and Talbot, 1986) Salt anticline
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 Upper Jurassic-Albian (early stage, halokinesis and salt diapirism) Upper Oligocene-Miocene (main inversion stage)
Flow or deformation triggering mechanisms Extensional tectonics (early stage) ; Alpine compression and tectonic inversion of extensional raft and roller structures (main inversion stage)
Flow-linked structures? Y
Halokinetic structures Thrust faults / anticline-syncline folding / Low-angle unconformities
Post-evaporite and pre-kinematic unit/s (overbuden) Jurassic (dolostones, marls and oolitic limestones) ; Upper Cretaceous (sandstones, marlstones, limestones, marly limestones and calcarenites) ; Palaeocene-Eocene (dolostones, sandstones, limestones, marlstones and calcarenites) ; Lower Oligocene (red claystones and sandstones)
Syn-kinematic unit/s Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous (Purbeck facies, limestones and claystones) ; Lower Cretaceous (Weald facies, shales, sandstones and conglomerates) ; Aptian-Albian (Escucha Fm., shales, sandstones and marls) Upper Oligocene-Miocene (Pancorbo Fm., red claystones, conglomerates and lacustrine limestones) ; Mid Miocene (Altabble and Buerba Fms., grey marlstones, red claystones, sandstones and conglomerates)
Available seismic profiles VAL-6 / VAL-3 / BB-1 / VAL-2 / VAL-3 / VAL-6 / VAL84-02 / PR-63 / VAL84-03 / BB-1 / VAL-4 / VAL5 / C-10 / BG-10 / VAL84-06
Available boreholes Private access (Cepsa and
Vacum Oil Co.)
Additional comments Interpreted as an halokinetic structure subsequently inverted during the main Alpine compressional stage (see Cámara, 2017). Surface-exposed analogue of the Ayoluengo oil field,

Mining Data

UNIQUE_ID 110
Minning exploitations within <2km? Y
Historical/Active Active
Exploitation name #1 ALEJANDRO II
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #1 4367
Municipality #1 Merindad de Valdivielso
Province #1 BURGOS
Company #1 ORNAMENTALES DEL NORTE DE CASTILLA, SL
Main minning Products #1 Ornamental limestone
Exploitation name #2
Exploitation ID (Spanish National Mining Cadastre) #2
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Province #2
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 110
Outcropping area (km2) Buried
Horizontal intersection area (km2) (when buried) 43.70186
Depth of intersection area (km2) (when buried) 0.2
Max. Width (Km) 19.8929066
Max. Length (Km) 4.12824349
Max. Evaporites thickness (km) 2.9
Max. Deformation age (Ma) 148
Min. Deformation age (Ma) 20
Deformation stages 2

Reference Data

UNIQUE_ID 110
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 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]
Well / Borehole availability #2 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #1 Tavani, S., Granado, P., 2015. Along‐strike evolution of folding, stretching and breaching of supra‐salt strata in the Plataforma Burgalesa extensional forced fold system (northern Spain). Basin Research, 27(4), 573-585. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #2 Tavani, S., Balsamo, F., Granado, P., 2018. Petroleum system in supra-salt strata of extensional forced-folds: a case-study from the Basque-Cantabrian basin (Spain). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 96, 315-330. [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 Cámara, P., Flinch, J. F., 2017. The southern Pyrenees: a salt-based fold-and-thrust belt. In Juan I. Soto, Joan F. Flinch, Gabor Tari (eds.): Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins, Elsevier, pp. 395-415. [link]
Available data (Stratigraphy) #5 n.a.
Available data (Stratigraphy) #6 n.a.
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 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]
Seismic data availability #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]
Seismic data availability #3 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) #1 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) #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 (Structure) #3 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 (Structure) #4 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) #5 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) #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 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) #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 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) #3 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 (Geochemistry) #4 n.a.
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 136-Oña. [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) 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]
Other related references #1 Comet, J. N., 2018. Ayoluengo’s history–Spain’s only onshore oil field. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465(1), 333-344. [link]
Other related references #2 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]
Other related references #3 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 #4 Tavani, S., 2012. Plate kinematics in the Cantabrian domain of the Pyrenean orogen. Solid Earth, 3(2), 265. [link]