El Cretácico del borde meridional del Sistema Central: unidades litoestratigráficas y secuencias deposicionales

Abstract

The Central System is an alpine rejuvenation of the hercinian base of the Iberian Plateo The landward ends of the cretaceous carbonate platforms of the Iberian Basin croup out along the southern margino Near to the Iberian Range (NE), the cretaceous sediments are composed of shallow marine and litoral carbonate deposits. They grade towards the basin boundary (Central System) into a litoral and continental terrigenous facies. An important reduction southward of the thickness of the sedimentary succession is recognized. The stratigraphic record is organized in sixteen lithostratigraphic units and in nine depositional sequence, that can be correlationed with the chart of cycles global of Haq et al. The age of the studied deposits are Cenomanian to Campanian. The stacking pattern is agradational, with a onlap not very marked in the base, a truncation and an internal uncorformity in the Santonian age. The thickness and facies changing is due to sinsedimentary faults within a distensive context, that have a little vertical displacement. They are younger outward of the sedimentary basin.