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
C2 - Neogene tectono-sedimentary review of the Madrid basin
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
The Neogene sedimentary record of the Madrid Basin, central Spain, comprises three major stratigraphic units (the Lower, Intermediate and Upper Miocene Units), separated by sedimentary discontinuities which were linked with variations in the tectonic activity of the basin margins. The distribution of the depositional systems that formed the Lower Unit was, to a large extent, controlled by the emplacement of the Altomira Range during the Late Oligocene and Early Miocene. The sedimentation that formed the Intermediate Unit during most of the Middle Miocene and part of the Late Miocene was mainly controlled by uplift of the Central System. Finally, the sedimentary features of the Upper Unit reveal clearly a drastic change in regional stress tensors affecting the area. The stress fields became extensional in the Late Miocene, in contrast to the compressional fields that existed during the deposition of the earlier units.
Introduction
The general evolution of the sedimentary basins and ranges of the central Iberian peninsula (see Chapter Cl) provides the context within which the sedimentary filling of the Madrid Basin may be easily related to the deformation of its borders (the Central System, Toledo Mountains, Iberian and Altomira Ranges). In this chapter, we describe briefly the main features of the Neogene sedimentary record of the Madrid Basin, placing emphasis on the distribution of major depositional systems and their control by the various macrostructures that were active during each period of regional deformation.
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- Tertiary Basins of SpainThe Stratigraphic Record of Crustal Kinematics, pp. 268 - 271Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996
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