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
- E1 Geological setting of the Tertiary basins of Northeast Spain
- E2 The lithosphere of the Valencia Trough: a brief review
- E3 Depositional sequences in the Gulf of Valencia Tertiary basin
- E4 Neogene basins in the Eastern Iberian Range
- E5 The Tertiary of the Iberian margin of the Ebro basin: sequence stratigraphy
- E6 The Tertiary of the Iberian margin of the Ebro basin: paleogeography and tectonic control
- E7 Stratigraphy of Paleogene deposits in the SE margin of the Catalan basin (St. Feliu de Codines – St. Llorenç del Munt sector, NE Ebro basin)
- E8 Onshore Neogene record in NE Spain: Vallès–Penedès and El Camp half-grabens (NW Mediterranean)
- E9 The Paleogene basin of the Eastern Pyrenees
- E10 The Neogene Cerdanya and Seu d'Urgell intramontane basins (Eastern Pyrenees)
- E11 Eocene-Oligocene thrusting and basin configuration in the eastern and central Pyrenees (Spain)
- E12 The Late Eocene–Early Oligocene deposits of the NE Ebro Basin, West of the Segre River
- E13 Chronology of Eocene foreland basin evolution along the western oblique margin of the South–Central Pyrenees
- E14 Evolution of the Jaca piggyback basin and emergence of the External Sierra, southern Pyrenees
- E15 Long-lived fluvial palaeovalleys sited on structural lineaments in the Tertiary of the Spanish Pyrenees
- E16 Evolution of the central part of the northern Ebro basin margin, as indicated by its Tertiary fluvial sedimentary infill
- E17 The Rioja Area (westernmost Ebro basin): a ramp valley with neighbouring piggybacks
- PART W WEST
- PART C CENTRE
- PART S SOUTH
- Index
E17 - The Rioja Area (westernmost Ebro basin): a ramp valley with neighbouring piggybacks
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
- E1 Geological setting of the Tertiary basins of Northeast Spain
- E2 The lithosphere of the Valencia Trough: a brief review
- E3 Depositional sequences in the Gulf of Valencia Tertiary basin
- E4 Neogene basins in the Eastern Iberian Range
- E5 The Tertiary of the Iberian margin of the Ebro basin: sequence stratigraphy
- E6 The Tertiary of the Iberian margin of the Ebro basin: paleogeography and tectonic control
- E7 Stratigraphy of Paleogene deposits in the SE margin of the Catalan basin (St. Feliu de Codines – St. Llorenç del Munt sector, NE Ebro basin)
- E8 Onshore Neogene record in NE Spain: Vallès–Penedès and El Camp half-grabens (NW Mediterranean)
- E9 The Paleogene basin of the Eastern Pyrenees
- E10 The Neogene Cerdanya and Seu d'Urgell intramontane basins (Eastern Pyrenees)
- E11 Eocene-Oligocene thrusting and basin configuration in the eastern and central Pyrenees (Spain)
- E12 The Late Eocene–Early Oligocene deposits of the NE Ebro Basin, West of the Segre River
- E13 Chronology of Eocene foreland basin evolution along the western oblique margin of the South–Central Pyrenees
- E14 Evolution of the Jaca piggyback basin and emergence of the External Sierra, southern Pyrenees
- E15 Long-lived fluvial palaeovalleys sited on structural lineaments in the Tertiary of the Spanish Pyrenees
- E16 Evolution of the central part of the northern Ebro basin margin, as indicated by its Tertiary fluvial sedimentary infill
- E17 The Rioja Area (westernmost Ebro basin): a ramp valley with neighbouring piggybacks
- PART W WEST
- PART C CENTRE
- PART S SOUTH
- Index
Summary
Abstract
This study deals with the evolution of the Rioja area in structural and stratigraphic terms. This area is located at the western end of the Ebro basin. Field data, particularliy subsurface data from hydrocarbon exploration activity, allow a new integrated approach. The Rioja area has experienced a particular evolution at least since the Mesozoic, and can be differentiated from neighbouring Ebro basin domains. Major thrusting along the northern (Cantabrian Chain) and southern (Iberian Chain) margins of the Rioja basin lead to a reduction in the extent of the original basin of approximately 70%. Syntectonic subsidence, coeval with the major thrusting on both margins, took place during Tertiary times. On the northern thrusted domain, piggy-back basins developed. Diapirism is also a significant feature of the Cantabrian region.
Geological setting
The geology of the Rioja area is dominated by a grabenlike basin filled with continental sediments of Tertiary age (including the continental Garumnian facies). Thrust sheets form the northern and southern boundaries of the basin (see Riba and Jurado, 1993; and older papers, for example, Joly, 1922a, 1922b; Schriel, 1930; Saenz, 1942; Riba, 1955; Lotze, 1958; Colchen, 1966). The northern margin corresponds to the Montes Obarenes-Sierra de Cantabria range, a southwards-directed thrust unit which forms part of the westernmost Pyrenean thrust belt. The southern margin is bounded by the Demanda–Cameros ranges, with northwardsdirected thrusts at the western limit of the Iberian Chain.
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- Tertiary Basins of SpainThe Stratigraphic Record of Crustal Kinematics, pp. 173 - 180Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996
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