The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach: Volume 3: The Alpine Cycle

589 Pages·2019·61.013 MB·English

by  Cecilio Quesada, José Tomás Oliveira

Regional Geology Reviews
Cecilio Quesada
José Tomás Oliveira
Editors
The Geology of
Iberia: A Geodynamic
Approach
Volume 3: The Alpine Cycle
Jaume Vergés · José Carlos Kullberg
Volume Coordinators
Regional Geology Reviews
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Editors
The Geology of Iberia:
A Geodynamic Approach
Volume 3: The Alpine Cycle
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Editors
Cecilio Quesada JoséTomásOliveira
Instituto Geológico y Minero deEspaña(IGME) Laboratório NacionaldeEnergia eGeologia
andFaculty of Geological Sciences Amadora,Portugal
Universidad Complutense deMadrid
Madrid,Spain
ISSN 2364-6438 ISSN 2364-6446 (electronic)
RegionalGeology Reviews
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Editors and Volume Coordinators
About the Editors
Cecilio Quesada has developed his entire professional career
atInstitutoGeológicoyMinerodeEspaña(SpanishGeological
Survey),fromwhereheretiredin2013.HeiscurrentlyHonour
Professor at the Faculty of Geological Sciences, Universidad
Complutense, Madrid, where he also served temporarily as
Associate Professor. As a “survey person”, his research
interests, past and present, include geological mapping,
regional geology, tectonics and geochronology, mainly
focused on the Variscan orogeny in its global context. He has
participated in ten IGCP projects since 1979, being currently
involved in Project 648: Supercontinent cycles and Global
Geodynamics.
José Tomás Oliveira Ph.D. and Aggregation by Portuguese
universities, is Geologist and presently Collaborator at Labo-
ratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia, former Geological
Survey of Portugal, where he acted also as Head of the Geol-
ogyandMineralResourcesdepartments.Asasurveygeologist
his main activity has been concentrated in regional geological
mapping in Portugal and Mozambique, with particular interest
in stratigraphy, clastic sedimentology, and basin analysis. He
has been Invited Professor at universities of Portugal and
Angola, Author and Editor of several geological maps and the
lastoneasCo-EditoroftherecentlypublishedGeologicalMap
of Portugal and Spain, 2015, scale 1:1,000,000.
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vi EditorsandVolumeCoordinators
About the Volume Coordinators
JaumeVergés isStructuralGeologistwithaPh.D.receivedat
the University of Barcelona and with extensive experience in
industry and scientific research, authoring 123 papers. He is
Co-LeaderoftheGroupofDynamicsoftheLithosphereatthe
Jaume Almera Institute of Earth Sciences in Barcelona
(ICTJA-CSIC). His primary research is focused on under-
standingboth extensional systems andcompressionalorogens,
byintegrationofmultidisciplinarytectono-sedimentarystudies,
mostly in the Alpine–Himalayan Belt.
José Carlos Kullberg received both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in
geologyfrom theNovaUniversity ofLisbon (UNL), Portugal.
He is Associate Professor at the Earth Sciences Department
of theFacultyofSciences and Technology (UNL) where heis
teachingfromabout30yearsago.Currently,heisHeadofthe
Department and President of the Portuguese Geological Soci-
ety. His research interest includes the tectonics of extensional
basins, salt diapirism and basin inversion, mainly in the Wes-
tern Iberian Margin.
Contributors
Isabel Abad Departamento de Geología and CEAC Tierra, Unidad Asociada al IACT
(CSIC-UGR), Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
Antonio Acosta-Vigil Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC-UGR), Armilla,
Granada, Spain
Alexandra Afilhado Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa, FCUL- Campo Grande
Edifício C1, Lisbon, Portugal;
Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
RoqueAguado DepartamentodeGeología&CentrodeEstudiosAvanzadosenCienciasde
la Tierra (CEACTierra), Campus de Linares, Universidad de Jaén, Linares, Spain;
Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Jaén, Linares (Jaén), Spain
Jacinto Alonso-Azcárate Departamento de Química-Física, Facultad de Ciencias Ambien-
tales y Bioquímica, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain
TiagoAlves 3DSeismicLab,SchoolofEarth&OceanSciences,CardiffUniversity,Cardiff,
UK
Pau Arbués Institut de Recerca Geomodels and Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de
l’Oceá, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Alfredo Arche Departamento de Geomateriales, Instituto de Geociencias, IGEO
(CSIC-UCM), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Consuelo Arias Instituto de Geociencias IGEO (CSIC-UCM), Madrid, Spain
JoséArribas DepartamentodeMineralogíayPetrología,FacultaddeCienciasGeológicas,&
Instituto de Geociencias IGEO (CSIC-UCM), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid,
Spain
María Eugenia Arribas Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Facultad de Ciencias
Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Marcos Aurell Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de
Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales (IUCA), Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Ana Cristina Azerêdo Department and Centre of Geology/IDL, Faculty of Sciences,
University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Beatriz Bádenas Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de
Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales (IUCA), Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Amel Barich Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de La Tierra (CSIC-UGR), Armilla (Granada),
Spain
vii
viii Contributors
Fernando Barroso-Barcenilla CITEUC—Centro de Investigação da Terra e do Espaço,
Observatório Astronómico, Coimbra, Portugal;
Departamento de Geología y Geografía, Grupo IberCreta, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad
de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Rafael Bartolomé B-CSI, Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
María Isabel Benito Departmento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Facultad
de Ciencias Geológicas, & Instituto de Geociencias IGEO (CSIC-UCM), Universidad Com-
plutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Violeta Borruel-Abadía Departamento de Geomateriales, Instituto de Geociencias, IGEO
(CSIC-UCM), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Sylvie Bourquin UMR 6118 (CNRS/INSU), Géosciences Rennes, Université de Rennes 1,
Rennes Cedex, France
TelmBover-Arnal DepartamentdeMineralogia,PetrologiaiGeologiaAplicada,Facultatde
Geologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Patricia Cadenas Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
Pedro Miguel Callapez Departamento de Ciências da Terra, Faculdade de Ciências e Tec-
nologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;
Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Investigación en
Ciencias Ambientales (IUCA), Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Antonio Casas-Sainz Grupo Geotransfer, Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Facultad
de Ciencias, Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales (IUCA), Universidad de
Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
José Manuel Castro Departamento de Geología & Centro de Estudios Avanzados en
CienciasdelaTierra(CEACTierra),CampusLasLagunillas,UniversidaddeJaén,Jaén,Spain
Sierd A. P. L. Cloetingh Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The
Netherlands
José Emilio Cortés Departamento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Facultad
de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, IGEO (CSIC-UCM), Madrid,
Spain
Francisco Coruña Departmento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Facultad de
Ciencias Geológicas, & Instituto de Geociencias IGEO (CSIC-UCM), Universidad Com-
plutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
JuliaCuevas DepartamentodeGeodinámica,FacultaddeCienciayTecnología,Universidad
del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Leioa (Vizcaya), Spain
GinésA.deGea DepartamentodeGeología&CentrodeEstudiosAvanzadosenCienciasde
la Tierra (CEACTierra), Campus Las Lagunillas, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
RaúlDelaHorra DepartamentodeGeodinámica,EstratigrafíayPaleontología,Facultadde
Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Gerardo de Vicente Departamento de Geodinámica Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Facultad
de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, & Instituto de Geociencias
IGEO (CSIC-UCM), Madrid, Spain
José Bienvenido Díez Departamento de Geociencias Marinas, Universidad de Vigo, Vigo
(Pontevedra), Spain
Contributors ix
Pedro Morgado Dinis MARE—Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente and Departa-
mento de Ciências da Terra, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra,
Coimbra, Portugal
João Duarte Faculdade de Ciências, Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon,
Portugal
Luís Vítor Duarte Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology,
MARE—Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, University of Coimbra, Coimbra,
Portugal
María José Escudero-Mozo Indra Software Labs, Madrid, Spain
Manel Fernàndez Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera (ICTJA-CSIC), Barcelona,
Spain
Óscar Fernández Repsol Exploracion, Campus Repsol, Madrid, Spain
Gabriela Fernández-Viejo Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo,
Spain
José Fernández Barrenechea Departamento de Geomateriales, Instituto de Geociencias,
IGEO (CSIC-UCM), & Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Facultad de Ciencias
Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Juan Manuel Fernández-Soler Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Universidad de
Granada, Granada, Spain;
Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC-UGR), Granada, Spain
Marc Floquet Centre Européen de Recherche et d’Enseignement de Géosciences de
l’Environnement—CEREGE, Université Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France
Eric Font Faculdade de Ciências, Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon,
Portugal
Joan J. Fornós Department of Biology, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mal-
lorca, Spain
Marian Fregenal-Martínez Departmento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología,
Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, & Instituto de Geociencias IGEO (CSIC-UCM), Universi-
dad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
BelénGalán-Abellán DepartamentodeGeodinámica,EstratigrafíayPaleontología,Facultad
de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Carlos Galé h2ï Agua + Innovación, Zaragoza, Spain
Jesús García-Senz Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME), Tres Cantos (Madrid),
Spain
David Garófano c. Catedrático Gimeno, Oviedo, Spain
Carlos J. Garrido Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC-UGR), Armilla,
Granada, Spain
Jorge Gaspar-Escribano E.T.S.I. Topografía, Geodesia y Cartografía, Universidad Poli-
técnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Bernadí Gelabert Departament de Ciències de la Terra, Universitat de les Illes Balears,
Palma, Majorca, Spain