Journal
CRETACEOUS RESEARCH
Volume 55, Issue -, Pages 229-261Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2015.01.006
Keywords
Synrift stratigraphy; Lithostratigraphy; Stratigraphic architecture; Western Pyrenees; Basque-Cantabrian basin; Mid-Cretaceous
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Funding
- Basque Government [BFI05.398]
- Spanish Science Ministry [AP98-44159606]
- Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (MEC) - Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN) [CGL2006-05491/BTE, CGL2009-08545]
- Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) [EHU06/62, UNESCO06/03]
- University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Research Group [IT834-13]
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The tectonosedimentary study of the southern and north-western margins of the Bortziri-Cinco Villas Palaeozoic Massif, which constitute the eastern margin of the Basque-Cantabrian basin, has yielded a detailed synrift stratigraphic architecture and led to the proposal of formal lithostratigraphic units, as well as to an interpretation of the evolution of different marine depositional systems during Aptian to Cenomanian times. During this time interval, carbonate platform to deeper siliciclastic depositional systems were deposited transgressively onto the margin of the Bortziri-Cinco Villas Palaeozoic Massif. The onset and evolution of sedimentary depositional systems were controlled by strong synsedimentary tectonic activity. The analysis and interpretation of the sedimentary systems has permitted the characterization of 5 tectonosedimentary phases separated by 5 main discontinuities (D1 to D5): Phase I, early Aptian-early Albian; Phase II, middle Albian; Phase III, late Albian-latest Albian; Phase IV, latest Albian-early Cenomanian; Phase V, early Cenomanian-Campanian. The observed tectonic and sedimentary features indicate the presence of regional transtensional strain during all the tectonosedimentary phases, except for Phase IV when compressive features are recognized related to the main basement faults. All of the above-mentioned tectonosedimentary phases correlate well with major Pyrenean tectonosedimentary events related to the opening of the Bay of Biscay and the Central Atlantic during the Cretaceous. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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