Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Dedication to Professor Oriol Riba IArderiu
- Memorial, Etienne Moissenet 1941–1994
- PART G GENERAL
- PART E EAST
- PART W WEST
- PART C CENTRE
- C1 Structure and Tertiary evolution of the Madrid basin
- C2 Neogene tectono-sedimentary review of the Madrid basin
- C3 Sedimentary evolution of lake systems through the Miocene of the Madrid Basin: paleoclimatic and paleohydrological constraints
- C4 Paleomorphologic features of an intra-Vallesian paleokarst, Tertiary Madrid Basin: significance of paleokarstic surfaces in continental basin analysis
- C5 Tectono-sedimentary analysis of the Loranca Basin (Upper Oligocene–Miocene, Central Spain): a ‘non-sequenced’ foreland basin
- C6 Paleoecology and paleoclimatology of micromammal faunas from Upper Oligocene – Lower Miocene sediments in the Loranca Basin, Province of Cuenca, Spain
- C7 Fluvial fans of the Loranca Basin, Late Oligocene – Early Miocene, central Spain
- C8 Saline deposits associated with fluvial fans, Late Oligocene – Early Miocene, Loranca Basin, Central Spain
- C9 Shallow carbonate lacustrine depositional controls during the Late Oligocene – Early Miocene in the Loranca Basin (Cuenca Province, central Spain)
- PART S SOUTH
- Index
C9 - Shallow carbonate lacustrine depositional controls during the Late Oligocene – Early Miocene in the Loranca Basin (Cuenca Province, central Spain)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Dedication to Professor Oriol Riba IArderiu
- Memorial, Etienne Moissenet 1941–1994
- PART G GENERAL
- PART E EAST
- PART W WEST
- PART C CENTRE
- C1 Structure and Tertiary evolution of the Madrid basin
- C2 Neogene tectono-sedimentary review of the Madrid basin
- C3 Sedimentary evolution of lake systems through the Miocene of the Madrid Basin: paleoclimatic and paleohydrological constraints
- C4 Paleomorphologic features of an intra-Vallesian paleokarst, Tertiary Madrid Basin: significance of paleokarstic surfaces in continental basin analysis
- C5 Tectono-sedimentary analysis of the Loranca Basin (Upper Oligocene–Miocene, Central Spain): a ‘non-sequenced’ foreland basin
- C6 Paleoecology and paleoclimatology of micromammal faunas from Upper Oligocene – Lower Miocene sediments in the Loranca Basin, Province of Cuenca, Spain
- C7 Fluvial fans of the Loranca Basin, Late Oligocene – Early Miocene, central Spain
- C8 Saline deposits associated with fluvial fans, Late Oligocene – Early Miocene, Loranca Basin, Central Spain
- C9 Shallow carbonate lacustrine depositional controls during the Late Oligocene – Early Miocene in the Loranca Basin (Cuenca Province, central Spain)
- PART S SOUTH
- Index
Summary
Abstract
Shallow carbonate lakes with ramp-type margins were developed during the deposition of the Upper Unit of the Loranca Basin in two different sedimentary realms controlled by tectonics: restricted and extensive carbonate lacustrine environments. The restricted ones, located in the central part of the basin, were created by tectonic uplifting of compressive structures (Huete anticline) that provoked a general rise of base level in the Tórtola alluvial system. The extensive lacustrine environments were developed in isolated areas as a result of topographic threshold formation which separated these lakes from the Tórtola system and caused them to form in the southern part of the basin.
Introduction
The Upper Unit is part of the fill of the Loranca Basin (Díaze-Molina et al, 1985, 1989). This Unit was deposited during the Late Oligocene and Early Miocene and is formed by two coalescing alluvial depositional systems, the Tórtola and the Villalba de la Sierra fluvial fans (Díaze-Molina et al, 1989). Stratigraphically, the Upper Unit may be divided into three stages which reflect the rate of diastrophism and changes in the base level of the fluvial systems (Díaze-Molina et al, 1989; see also Chapter C5).
In the Upper Unit, both stages 1 and 2 display some carbonate lithosomes interbedded with the siliciclastic facies. These carbonate deposits correspond to shallow lacustrine episodes developed in different sedimentary realms in the basin.
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- Tertiary Basins of SpainThe Stratigraphic Record of Crustal Kinematics, pp. 313 - 318Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996
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