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Pr
is
82
Stell
Camer
oth
tidal
Praecir
BAIX
KLAUS,
The
evaporite
ospor
culin
Catalan Basin.
Lower
transitional
EBRE-
unit
DIEBEL, Pseudofur
LINKING
apollenites thier
ites sec
dolomites,
DOMAIN
a granifer
achyceras steinm
gar
of
Paraceratites flexuosifor
LOWER
(1) Stell
down
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and
ZONE
an, Pr
the
nishius mur
into
oth
PRIORAT
Muschelkalk
ci
the
atus KESCKlK,
the
clastic-evaporitic facies above.
has
apollenites thier
g
F.
ar
uppermost
Middle
been
1955, Patin
achyceras hisp
MUS CHELKALK
part
aspor
divided
of
1964 (Soh� eta/., 1987). (2) Paraceratites hisp
Calvet, M.E.
(Leschik) KLAUS, 1960, Duplicispor
lutite-carbonate­
between the Colldejou Unit, represented by supra­
to 120 m towards the southwest. The lower boundary
The Lower Muschelkalk in the Catalan Basin varies
in thickness from 70 m in the more northeastern area
sharp contact at the top of the Lower Muschelkalk
Muschelkalk
the
Buntsandstein (Marzo, 1980). By contrast, there is a
into
anicum, Hung
ar
mis Tornsquist (Virgili, 1958). (3) Mentzeli
ites granul
(2)
1987). (5) Daonel/a lommeli (Virgili, 1958; Marquez, 1983). (6) Met
The
grey
these
Units
ites densus LESCHIK,
The
El
GAIA-MONTSENY
four units
Olesa
dolomites.
tii (Madler) CLEMENT-WESTERHOF eta/., 1974; Praecir
age
apolygn
bioturbated
lower
Brull
culin
The
dolomites.
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anus VAN DEN BOOGAARD (March, 1986) (9) Camer
�
Tucker and J.M. Henton
grey
El
A
DOMAIN
Unit
bioclastic
(Calvet &
ospor
25Km
LOW
HIGH
a granifer
tii (Madler) CLEMENT-WESTERHOF eta/., 1974; Vo/
limestones;
SENSE
of the Lower
Brull,
tzi
1955 (Sole et al., 1987).
regional
\
ites sec
ites pradoi (Virgili, 1958). (8) Met
OF
/
and
dolomites
ace
BASEMENT
Ramon,
probably
ANGLE
ANGLE
Olesa
limestones;
(4)
aespor
apolygn
from
(3)
and
STRIKE
FAULT
Muschelkalk
white Colldejou dolomites (Figs 5 & 7).
the
atus KESCKJK,
THRUST
ites heter
REVERSE
anicum Kutassy, Paraceratites evolutospinosus Tornsquist,
are partially to totally dolomitized
SLIP
corresponds
Vilella
Colldejou
to
1985,
Fig. 3. Tectonic scheme of the Catalan Mountain Range. Adapted from Anadon eta/. (1985) and Guimera, 1988a.
KLAUS, 1964 (Sole et a/.,
omor
to
BARC ELONA
ph
athus mungoensis DIEBEL (March, 1986). (7)
a
FAULT
athus mungoensis
atus (Leschik) SCHEURING, 1970 (Sole eta/., 1987). (10)
Fig. 4. [Opposite] Stratigraphical, chronostratigraphical and depositional sequences of the Lower and Middle Triassic of the
a mentzeli DuNKER, 1851 (Calzada & Gaetani, 1977). ( 4)
form
from the presence of Stellapollenites theirgartii and
the
overlying,
is Anisian.
upper part of the Lower Anisian (Sole et al., 1987)
top: (1) El Brull laminated limestones and dolomites;
Baixa
1987), from base to
discontinuity separates
white
Vilella Baixa