Estructura y relleno sedimentario de la semifosa neógena de Vilanova (Garraf, Barcelona)

Authors

  • E. RAMOS-GUERRERO
  • A. CASAS
  • V. PINTO
  • Jordi Agustí

Abstract

A joint study involving geological mapping, well subsurface data and gravity modelling has been carried out in the Vilanova half graben in order to define the substralum structure and the character of the sedimentary in fill.

The half graben is oriented following a regional ENE-WSW fault direction. Its structure is controlled by normal faults along the NW boundary and by an unconformity in the SE basin boundary. A perpendicular to the main direction fault system, configurate a block shaped hasement. From the residual gravity map a 3D density model, constrained with the depths infered kom bore oles, has been obtained. The sedimentary infill has been divided in four litostratigraphic units. One of them constitutes a marginal complex associated and genetically related with the main faults that bound the basin. The otber three units show a vertical evolution from continental alluvial environrnent at the bottom to marine (littoral and restricted shelf-bay) at tbe top.

The paleomastological data allow ps to attribute to the autcropping sedimentary infill a Serravallian age. Nevertheless, an Aquitanian-Early Burdigalian age to the basal conglomeratic unit can't be definitively rejected.

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1994-01-12

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