Contexto geológico y sedimentario del yacimiento de grandes mamíferos Fonelas P-1 (Cuenca de Guadix, Cordillera Bética)

  1. C. Viseras
  2. J.M. Soria
  3. J.J. Durán
  4. A. Arribas
Revista:
Geotemas (Madrid)

ISSN: 1576-5172

Ano de publicación: 2003

Título do exemplar: V Congreso del Grupo Español del Terciario (Granada, 23-25 de septiembre, 2003)

Número: 5

Páxinas: 247-250

Tipo: Artigo

Outras publicacións en: Geotemas (Madrid)

Resumo

The large mammals palaeontological site Fonelas P-1 (late Pliocene) is included in a stratigraphic succession characterizing a meandering fluvial system running along the axial palaeovalley of the Guadix Basin (Granada province, southern Spain). Sedimentological analysis allows us to recognize five facies assemblages belonging to: A) high sinuosity channel infill, B) overbank of the channel, C) progressive abandonment of the channel, D) flood plain, and E) chaotic bioturbated fill. The fossil remains are linked mainly to facies E, interpreted as due to the stamping of the large mammals on the soft channel abandonment facies.