Article Dans Une Revue Geodinamica Acta Année : 2015

Syn-tectonic sedimentation and thrust-and-fold kinematics at the intra-mountain Montalbán Basin (northern Iberian Chain, Spain)

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The Montalbân Basin (30 × 15 km wide) is located within the Iberian Chain (N Spain), and filled with syn-tectonic Tertiary (Eocene to Lower Miocene) deposits, with a cumulated thickness of about 2 000 m. The depth to the Palaeozoic basement is maximum at the western part and gradually shallows toward the east, as inferred from gravimetric data. The Montalbân Basin is surrounded by an E–W, N-verging, shallow-dipping thrust to the south and a NW–SE-trending anticline, involving the Palaeozoic, to the north. The southern thrust shows a minimum displacement of 8 km and results from the inversion of Mesozoic normal faults. The northern anticline is asymmetric, its southern limb being vertical in most of its length. Mesozoic extensional faults and Variscan thrusts have acted as controls on the location of the frontal limb of this anticline. The sedimentary, syn-tectonic filling of the Montalbân Basin, can be divided into five (Ml to M5) tectono-sedimentary (unconformity-bounded) units, each with a fining upwardscoarsening upwards vertical evolution. Their sedimentary environment corresponds to alluvial fans, with conglomerates at the basin margins grading to evaporites and limestones at the basin centre. The geometry and kinematics of the structures limiting the basin strongly controlled its sedimentary evolution: the Montalbân Basin was wider during Ml and M2, with a northward provenance of alluvial fans, and closed to its present-day dimensions from M3 to M5, coinciding with the largest displacement and uplift of the surrounding structures, which became the main source areas.

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insu-05202728 , version 1 (07-08-2025)

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Antonio Casas, Albert Casas, Antonio Pérez, Sylvia Tena,, Laurie Barrier, et al.. Syn-tectonic sedimentation and thrust-and-fold kinematics at the intra-mountain Montalbán Basin (northern Iberian Chain, Spain). Geodinamica Acta, 2015, 13 (1), pp.1-17. ⟨10.1080/09853111.2000.11105358⟩. ⟨insu-05202728⟩
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