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Coastal salina evaporites of the Triassic-Liassic boundary in the Iberian Peninsula: the Alacón borehole
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The evaporite unit (the Lécera Formation), which was formed at the Triassic¿Liassic boundary in the Aragonian Branch of the Iberian Chain, was studied at the 01 Alacón borehole (Alacón village, Teruel province), where it is mainly constituted by a thick (>e and reflect deeper water settings, whereas in the upper part they correspond to shallower water settings. The evaporite sedimentation mainly occurred in a subsiding coastal basin of the salina or lagoon type. In this setting, the subaqueous precipitation of the carbonate and gypsum lithofacies was followed, in each cycle, by the interstitial growth of anhydrite in exposed conditions. As a whole, the evaporite succession reflects an infilling process. The conversion into anhydrite of the selenitic gypsum -probably also of the rest of depositional gypsum lithofaciesstarted under synsedimentary conditions and followed during shallow to moderate burial diagenesis.
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ORTÍ CABO, Federico and SALVANY I DURAN, Josep Maria. Coastal salina evaporites of the Triassic-Liassic boundary in the Iberian Peninsula: the Alacón borehole. Geologica Acta. 2004. Vol. 2, num. 4, pags. 291-304. ISSN 1695-6133. [consulted: 16 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/16876