Faunas de braquiópodos ligadas a la fracturación del tránsito Liásico-Dogger en la Cordillera Bética
- José Enrique Tent Manclús 1
- José Francisco Baeza Carratalá 1
- Antonio Estévez Rubio 1
- Alfonso Yébenes Simón 1
- 1 Dpto. Ciencias de la Tierra y del Medio Ambiente, Univ. de Alicante
ISSN: 1576-5172
Year of publication: 2008
Issue Title: VII Congreso Geológico de España
Issue: 10
Pages: 1209-1212
Type: Article
More publications in: Geotemas (Madrid)
Abstract
From the Reclot Sierra, in the Alicante province, the ornamental stone "Alicante red" are quarried in levels of limestones with discontinuities of the Liassic-Dogger transition. This facies were formed in a pelagic environment heavily influenced by extensional tectonics. In the upper part of this limestones, two brachiopoda associations have been recognized inside neptunian dikes: the "Karadagithyris”, and the "Papodina". These associations are equivalent to other ones in Early Bajocian and ealiest Late Bajocian of mediterranean regions. The overlying rocks can be dated as the lattest Early Bajocian. The same as in the Early Jurassic the periods of faulting favored the fossil brachiopoda preservation because they are attached to hardgrounds and they are accumulated in the irregularities of the ground where the fosildiagenetic processes began.