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apron corresponding to the
northern platform sedimentary
sector. Height of the cliff: 50 m.
Fig. 16. Thick ortho-megabreccia
15 m from the Baquio area. Slope
are common in the carbonate mud.
People in the foreground give scale.
with Urgonian limestone clasts up to

to the former seafloor. Irregular micritic lamination
Gandara'). Micritic clotted matrix dominates. Some
scattered floating metazoa (branching corals) lay parallel
Fig. 14. Coral wackestones. Carbonate mound core ('La
(algal?) on top of the lowermost specimen. Sponge spicules

Aptian-Albian carbonate episode, Spain

horizontal alignment of major rudist bioclasts.
and coral fragments (C). Bedding is shown by the
('La Gandara') . Densely packed fabric. Main bioclastic
constituents are: orbitolinids (0), rudist fragments (R),
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Fig. 15. Foraminiferal packstone. Carbonate mound flank