Page 274 - Carbonate Platforms Facies, Sequences, and Evolution

© 1990 The International Association of Sedimentologists ISBN: 978-0-632-02758-3 James Lee Wilson, Paul D. Crevello, J. Rick Sarg, J. Fred Read 257 Carbonate Platforms: Facies, Sequences and Evolution Edited by Maurice E. Tucker, limestones. The Lower-Middle Jurassic consists of clastics overlain by claystones, evaporites and some The Triassic is composed of thick units of red fluvial subsidence that had prevailed during the Mesozoic. movements until the late Eocene, when the first compressional were deposited from the beginn

of
between
the
the
Mesozoic-early
occurrence
Pyrenees
Tertiary
Pyrenean
of a reefal
and
fauna
the
orogeny
important
sedimentary
(1990) 9, 257-290
ended
rocks,
Cantabrian
the
reef
Ciry
and local lignite deposits.
(1983),
Spain
et
platform
Recent
sediments,
Feuillee &
Wiedmann
al.
Geodinamica y Paleontologfa,
GARCIA-MONDEJAR
carbonates
ranging
(1979),
(1967),
factor controlling carbonate facies
Wiedmann
and
carbonates.
et
contributions
from
Mondejar et al. (1985a, b).
at.
Soler et
that
Brinkman
distribution.
al.
The Upper
&
Sedimentary environments were
(1983)
Rat (1971), Ramirez del
broadly
(1981),
coarse alluvial
deep-sea turbidites.
Universidad del Pais Vasco,
and
Jurassic
and tectonic history of the Basque-Cantabrian region of
Halokinesis
The Aptian section is characterized by only small
of the
Logters
Pozo
cover
and
bidites and platform carbonates or siliciclastics.
Rat et
clastics
orogenic Tertiary consists mainly of deep-water tur­
The pre­
Garcia­
(1971),
al.
Basque-Cantabrian Basin are those of Rat (1959),
to
(1968),
the
the
Cretaceous are represented by a thick sequence of