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Cerro del Hierro, Spain: the largest exposed early Cambrian palaeokarst
José Antonio Gámez VintanedRodolfo GozaloEduardo MayoralJosé Miguel MolinaEladio LiñánMaría Eugenia Dies ÁLvarezsubject
Mediterranean climategeographyRiftgeography.geographical_feature_category010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesLithostratigraphyGeologyContext (language use)Biostratigraphy010502 geochemistry & geophysicsKarst01 natural sciencesTectonicsPaleontologyFaciesGeology0105 earth and related environmental sciencesdescription
AbstractWe study the largest exposed example of an early Cambrian palaeokarst, associated with laterites and developed during rifting of the Ossa–Morena Zone. The lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, facies and the genesis reflect episodes of sea-level fall (Cerro del Hierro Regression) related to tectonic events and palaeoclimate. This palaeokarst can be primarily considered as the result of early Cambrian polyphase karstification in an extensional tectonic regime, later modified by Neogene–Quaternary geomorphological processes. The event may correlate with other regressive events of a similar age in Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, South America and Australia. This episode also has local names (e.g. Cerro del Hierro Regression in the Mediterranean region; Woodlands Regression in the UK). It is sometimes accompanied by additional karst development outside of Spain that is compared and interpreted in a global context.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-09-22 | Geological Magazine |