Registro sedimentario de la influencia mareal en depósitos marinos someros durante la conexión Atlántico-Mediterránea del Tortoniense Superior (Cordillera Bética)
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Se describen rasgos de influencia mareal en depósitos marinos someros
con predominio de la sedimentación mixta carbonatada-siliciclástica (Tortoniense
Superior de las Cuencas de Granada, Guadix y del Guadalquivir, Cordillera
Bética). Los rasgos mareales son jerarquizados en cuatro órdenes: 1er
orden, coset constituidos por el apilamiento de sets de estratificaciones cruzadas
interpretados como la progradación de dunas multiconstruidos; 2º
orden, set simple de estratificación cruzada ligada a la migración de barras
por corrientes mareales, puntualmente afectadas por corrientes de resaca
de tormentas, y 3er orden, haces o paquetes constituidos por la alternancia
de láminas (4º orden) siliciclásticas y bioclásticas en el frente de las barras
de 2º orden reflejo de ciclos mareales de alta frecuencia entre mareas vivas
y muertas. El escenario paleogeográfico del Tortoniense Superior en la Cordillera
Bética, caracterizado por estrechas vías marinas en la conexión Atlántico-
Mediterránea y cuencas semicerradas, favorece la aceleración de las corrientes
mareales y su consecuente registro en los sedimentos
Sedimentary signatures of tidal flow in carbonate-siliciclastic mixed deposits of shallow marine settings are recorded in Upper Tortonian Granada, Guadix and Guadalquivir Basins (Betic Cordillera). Four tidal ranges of sedimentary signatures are typified: (1) First-order, represented by progradational tidal compound dunes consisting of the vertical stacking of secondorder sets, (2) Second-order, represented by cross-stratified sands and gravels interpreted as tidal megarripples in shoreface-prodelta and ebb-tidal bars in ramp settings occasionally eroded by ebb-storm currents, (3) Third-order, bundles of alternating of siliciclastic to bioclastic laminae (fourth-order) in foresets of second-order dunes reflecting high-frequency spring to neap tidal cycles. The Upper Tortonian palaeogeographic scenario in Betic Cordillera, characterized by narrow seaways and semiclosed basins connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, encourages the amplification of the tidal flow and consequent recording of the tidal sign in the sediments
Sedimentary signatures of tidal flow in carbonate-siliciclastic mixed deposits of shallow marine settings are recorded in Upper Tortonian Granada, Guadix and Guadalquivir Basins (Betic Cordillera). Four tidal ranges of sedimentary signatures are typified: (1) First-order, represented by progradational tidal compound dunes consisting of the vertical stacking of secondorder sets, (2) Second-order, represented by cross-stratified sands and gravels interpreted as tidal megarripples in shoreface-prodelta and ebb-tidal bars in ramp settings occasionally eroded by ebb-storm currents, (3) Third-order, bundles of alternating of siliciclastic to bioclastic laminae (fourth-order) in foresets of second-order dunes reflecting high-frequency spring to neap tidal cycles. The Upper Tortonian palaeogeographic scenario in Betic Cordillera, characterized by narrow seaways and semiclosed basins connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, encourages the amplification of the tidal flow and consequent recording of the tidal sign in the sediments







