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Depositional models of lacustrine evaporites in the SE margin of the Ebro basin (Paleogene, NE Spain)

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dc.creator Ortí Cabo, Federico
dc.creator Rosell, Laura (Rosell i Ortiz)
dc.creator Inglès i Urpinell, Montserrat
dc.creator Playà i Pous, Elisabet
dc.date 2011-03-08T09:34:51Z
dc.date 2011-03-08T09:34:51Z
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/2445/16874
dc.identifier 530535
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/20763
dc.description An important evaporitic sedimentation occurred during the Paleogene (Eocene to lower Oligocene) in the Barberà sector of the southeastern margin of the Tertiary Ebro Basin. This sedimentation took place in shallow lacustrine environments and was controlled by a number of factors: 1) the tectonic structuration of the margin; 2) the high calcium sulphate content in the meteoric waters coming from the marginal reliefs; 3) the semiarid climate; and 4) the development of large alluvial fans along the basin margin, which also conditioned the location of the saline lakes. The evaporites are currently composed of secondary gypsum in surface and anhydrite at depth. There are, however, vestiges of the local presence of sodium sulphates. The evaporite units, with individual thicknesses ranging between 50 and 100 m, are intercalated within various lithostratigraphic formations and exhibit a paleogeographical pattern. The units located closer to the basin margin are characterized by a massive gypsum lithofacies (originally, bioturbated gypsum) bearing chert, and also by meganodular gypsum locally (originally, meganodules of anhydrite) in association with red lutites and clastic intercalations (gypsarenites, sandstones and conglomerates). Chert, which is only linked to the thickest gypsum layers, seems to be an early diagenetic, lacustrine product. Cyclicity in these proximal units indicates the progressive development of lowsalinity, lacustrine bodies on red mud flats. At the top of some cycles, exposure episodes commonly resulted in dissolution, erosion, and the formation of edaphic features. In contrast, the units located in a more distal position with regard to the basin margin are formed by an alternation of banded-nodular gypsum and laminated gypsum layers in association with grey lutites and few clastic intercalations. These distal units formed in saline lakes with a higher ionic concentration. Exposure episodes in these lakes resulted in the formation of synsedimentary anhydrite and sabkha cycles. In some of these units, however, outer rims characterized by a lithofacies association similar to that of the proximal units occur (nodular gypsum, massive gypsum and chert nodules).
dc.format 16 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://www.geologica-acta.com/pdf/vol0501a03.pdf
dc.relation Geologica Acta, 2007, vol. 5, núm. 1, p. 19-34
dc.rights cc by-sa (c) Ortí 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 Evaporites
dc.subject Sedimentació fluvial
dc.subject Paleogen
dc.subject Ebre, Depressió de l'
dc.subject Evaporites
dc.subject River sediments
dc.subject Paleogene
dc.subject Ebro River Watershed (Spain)
dc.title Depositional models of lacustrine evaporites in the SE margin of the Ebro basin (Paleogene, NE Spain)
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