RT Journal Article
T1 Diapiric Structures in the Tinto River Estuary (SW Spain) Caused by Artificial Load of an Industrial Stockpile
A1 Morales González, Juan Antonio
A1 Carro Flores, Berta
A1 Borrego Flores, José
A1 Diosdado Aragón, Antonio Jesús
A1 Aguilar, M. Eugenia
A1 González, Miguel A.
AB The mouth of the Tinto River is located on the southwest coast of the Iberian Peninsula in the northwest of the Gulf of Cadiz. The river flows into an estuarine system shared with the Odiel River, commonly known as the “Ría de Huelva”. In the 1960s, a wide area of ancient salt marshes was transformed by a stockpile of industrial wastes of phosphogypsum, reaching a height of 35 m above the level of the salt marsh at its highest point. Two surveys using high-resolution seismic reflection in conjunction with a parametric profiler were carried out in 2016 and 2018. The purpose of these geophysical studies was the realization of a 3D model of the sedimentary units constituting the most recent filling of the estuary. The records present abundant extrusion structures located on the margins of the waste stockpiles, which break the visible stratification of the surficial units of the estuary. In some sectors, these structures have reached the estuarine surface and have, therefore, a morphological expression on the estuarine floor. The origin of these structures is interpreted as a vertical escape of fluidized sediments from lower units caused by overpressure from stacking.
PB MDPI
SN 2072-4292 (electrónico)
YR 2024
FD 2024-04
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23591
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23591
LA eng
NO Morales, J. A., Carro, B. M., Borrego, J., Diosdado, A. J., Aguilar, M. E., & González, M. A. (2024). Diapiric Structures in the Tinto River Estuary (SW Spain) Caused by Artificial Load of an Industrial Stockpile. In Remote Sensing (Vol. 16, Issue 8, p. 1465). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16081465
NO This research was funded by a special action of the Andalusian Regional Government (Junta de Andalucía) for the Research Project entitled “The Huelva phosphogypsum stockpiles: solutions to a socio-environmental problem”.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 17 jun 2026