Parasecuencias T-R de los depósitos costeros de las cuencas holocenas de Almenara-Nules y Benicasim (Castellón, España)
- J.F. Mediato 1
- J.I. Santisteban 2
- B. del Moral 1
- R. Mediavilla 1
- C.J. Dabrio 2
- 1 IGME
- 2 UCM
ISSN: 1576-5172
Year of publication: 2021
Issue Title: X Congreso Geológico de España
Issue: 18
Pages: 169
Type: Article
More publications in: Geotemas (Madrid)
Abstract
Almenara-Nules and Benicasim marshes are located on the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula. The sedimentary record of the Holocene coastal deposits of the Almenara-Nules and Benicasim basins has been separated into 6 transgres- sive-regressive sequences (T-R). Parasequences have been grouped into two sedimentary system tracts. The lower, in which coastal deposits appear, corresponds to a transgressive system tract (TST) and the upper one, in which lake sedimentation dominates, to a high sea level system tract (HST). Both system tracts are limited by a maximum flood surface dating to ca. 7,000 cal. BP. Glacio-eustatic variations controlled sedimentation up to 7 ka and there after they dominated the common local factors of the western Mediterranean, especially surface sea currents governed primarily by climate.