Facies estuarinas en el Albiense superior de Cabo Quintres (Cantabria, región Vasco-Cantábrica occidental)

The Late Albian siliciclastic series of Cabo Quintres (Bielba'Formation) display an internal stratigraphic architecture made up of lithosomes of sandstones and silty mudstones up to ten metres thick and more than one hundred metres wide. They are arranged in coarsening and thickening upward...

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Autores: López Horgue, Mikel A., Aranburu Artano, Arantza, Fernández Mendiola, Pedro Ángel, García Mondéjar, Joaquín
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2001
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Huelva (UHU)
Repositorio:Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/9542
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10272/9542
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Channel
Estuary
Parasequence
Ichnofacies
Late Albian
Transgression
Regression
Basque-Cantabrian Region
Spain
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Sumario:The Late Albian siliciclastic series of Cabo Quintres (Bielba'Formation) display an internal stratigraphic architecture made up of lithosomes of sandstones and silty mudstones up to ten metres thick and more than one hundred metres wide. They are arranged in coarsening and thickening upward successions bounded by marine flooding surfaces, representing the advance and return of estuarine channels on estuary-mouth subtidal areas. Croups of these successions are bounded by marine flooding surfaces (characteristics of parasequences) which present hardground development and high grade of bioturbation. Those groups are considered to have formed in response to events of transgression and regression. The Rio Miera palaeogeographic deep-structure, situated to the west of the studied area, was responsible for a greater subsidence to the east (Cabo Quintres), and possibly caused relative sea-level rising pulses in the area, which were in the origin of the parasequences