Ambiente sedimentario y edad de la unidad superior de brechas de la Cuenca de Quesa (provincia de Valencia)
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https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.93495-6360Keywords:
Iberian-Betics transition, Aragonian, Syntectonic breccias, CricetidaeAbstract
The miocene deposits of the Quesa basin (Betic foreland) outcrops in the central part of the Valencia province (Spain). Quesa basin is a subsiding hanging-wall basin related to an ENE-WSW listric fault system. The deposits of this basin are formed by a 440 metres thick sequence of red clays, containing few intercalations of sandstones and micritic white limestones, and breccias. The upper 70 metres of this sequence is a wedge-shaped unit composed by breccias containing megablocks, wich interfinger with tabular limestones towards the central part of the basin. The breccias are foot-wall derived debris fiow deposits formed during normal faulting. A mammal site close to the base of the breccias (Quesa 2), has yielded a fossil micrommamal association of Middle to Upper Aragonian age. This allow us to consider as Middle Miocene the sediments and tectonic events in Quesa Basin.
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1993-12-30
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de Santisteban, C., Ruiz-Sánchez, F. J., & Lacomba Andueza, J. I. (1993). Ambiente sedimentario y edad de la unidad superior de brechas de la Cuenca de Quesa (provincia de Valencia). Estudios Geológicos, 49(5-6), 337–342. https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.93495-6360
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