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The Upper Oligocene of Montgat (Catalan Coastal Ranges, Spain): new age constraints to the western Mediterranean Basin opening

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dc.creator Parcerisa i Duocastella, David
dc.creator Gómez-Gras, David
dc.creator Roca i Abella, Eduard
dc.creator Madurell Malapeira, Joan
dc.creator Agustí, Jordi, 1954-
dc.date 2011-03-08T09:34:50Z
dc.date 2011-03-08T09:34:50Z
dc.date 2007
dc.date.accessioned 2024-12-16T10:26:15Z
dc.date.available 2024-12-16T10:26:15Z
dc.identifier 1695-6133
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2445/16873
dc.identifier 562613
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/20761
dc.description The Oligocene deposits of Montgat are integrated in a small outcrop made up of Cenozoic and Mesozoic rocks located in the Garraf-Montnegre horst, close to the major Barcelona fault. The Oligocene of Montgat consists of detrital sediments of continental origin mainly deposited in alluvial fan environments; these deposits are folded and affected by thrusts and strike-slip faults. They can be divided in two lithostratigraphic units separated by a minor southwest-directed thrust: (i) the Turó de Montgat Unit composed of litharenites and lithorudites with high contents of quartz, feldspar, plutonic and limestone rock fragments; and (ii) the Pla de la Concòrdia Unit composed of calcilitharenites and calcilithorudites with high contents of dolosparite and dolomicrite rock fragments. The petrological composition of both units indicates that sediments were derived from the erosion of Triassic (Buntsandstein, Muschelkalk and Keuper facies), Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous rocks (Barremian to Aptian in age). Stratigraphic and petrological data suggest that these units correspond to two coalescent alluvial fans with a source area located northwestwards in the adjoining Collserola and Montnegre inner areas. Micromammal fossils (Archaeomys sp.) found in a mudstone layer of the Pla de la Concòrdia Unit assign a Chattian age (Late Oligocene) to the studied materials. Thus, the Montgat deposits are the youngest dated deposits affected by the contractional deformation that led to the development of the Catalan Intraplate Chain. Taking into account that the oldest syn-rift deposits in the Catalan Coastal Ranges are Aquitanian in age, this allows to precise that the change from a compressive to an extensional regime in this area took place during latest Oligocene-earliest Aquitanian times. This age indicates that the onset of crustal extension related to the opening of the western Mediterranean Basin started in southern France during latest Eocene-early Oligocene and propagated southwestward, affecting the Catalan Coastal Ranges and the northeastern part of the Valencia trough during the latest Chattian-earliest Aquitanian times.
dc.format 15 p.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Institut de Ciències de la Terra Jaume Almera (ICTJA). Institut de Diagnosi Ambiental i Estudis de l'Aigua (IDEA). Universitat Autonònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
dc.relation Reproducció del document publicat a http://doi.org/10.1344/105.000000306
dc.relation Geologica Acta, 2007, vol. 5, núm. 1, p. 3-17
dc.relation http://doi.org/10.1344/105.000000306
dc.rights cc by-sa (c) Parcerisa et al., 2007
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/es/
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source Articles publicats en revistes (Mineralogia, Petrologia i Geologia Aplicada)
dc.subject Conques sedimentàries
dc.subject Oligocè
dc.subject Serralada Litoral Catalana
dc.subject Sedimentary basins
dc.subject Oligocene
dc.subject Catalan Coastal Range (Catalonia)
dc.title The Upper Oligocene of Montgat (Catalan Coastal Ranges, Spain): new age constraints to the western Mediterranean Basin opening
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