Coralline algae are the main components of the Oligocene limestones in Sierra Espuna in SE Spain, one of very few localities with shallow-water marine Oligocene deposits in the Iberian Peninsula. Sierra Espuna is part of the Malaguide Complex in the Internal Zones of the Betic Cordillera which, in the Palaeogene, constituted a terrane in the western Tethys to the east of its present location. Fossil components, lithofacies, and stratigraphic patterns of the Oligocene limestones indicate that they formed on a carbonate ramp that developed on and interfingered with deltaic deposits.
Facies and coralline algae from Oligocene limestones in the Malaguide Complex (SE Spain)
BASSI, Davide
2011
Abstract
Coralline algae are the main components of the Oligocene limestones in Sierra Espuna in SE Spain, one of very few localities with shallow-water marine Oligocene deposits in the Iberian Peninsula. Sierra Espuna is part of the Malaguide Complex in the Internal Zones of the Betic Cordillera which, in the Palaeogene, constituted a terrane in the western Tethys to the east of its present location. Fossil components, lithofacies, and stratigraphic patterns of the Oligocene limestones indicate that they formed on a carbonate ramp that developed on and interfingered with deltaic deposits.File in questo prodotto:
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