Recycling an uplifted early foreland basin fill: An example from the Jaca basin (Southern Pyrenees, Spain)

Roigé, Marta; Gómez‐Gras, David; Remacha, E.; Boya, Salvador; Viaplana‐Muzas, Marc; Teixell, Antonio

doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.08.007

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“…Provenance studies of foreland basin sedimentary deposits provide critical insights into the sediment routing networks during progressive thrusting and flexural basin subsidence, unroofing history of the fold thrust belt, the interplay between foreland and hinterland sourcing, axial and transverse sediment transport, and overall source‐to‐sink dynamics (e.g. Allen, ; Fosdick et al, ; Horton et al, ; Koshnaw, Stockli, & Schlunegger, ; Laskowski, DeCelles, & Gehrels, ; Mackaman‐Lofland, Horton, Fuentes, Constenius, & Stockli, ; Malkowski, Schwartz, Sharman, Sickmann, & Graham, ; Odlum et al, ; Roigé et al, ; Romans, Castelltort, Covault, Fildani, & Walsh, ; Sharman et al, ; Thomson, Stockli, Clark, Puigdefàbregas, & Fildani, ; Whitchurch et al, ). This has traditionally been accomplished by classic basin analysis tools that combine provenance techniques such as sandstone petrographic analysis, heavy mineral analysis, clast counts, clay geochemistry and detrital geochronology with sedimentological observations from paleocurrents measurements and detailed stratigraphic analysis of foreland basin sedimentary fill (e.g.…”

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Sediment provenance and routing evolution in the Late Cretaceous–Eocene Ager Basin, south‐central Pyrenees, Spain

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This study constrains the sediment provenance for the Late Cretaceous-Eocene strata of the Ager Basin, Spain, and reconstructs the interplay between foreland basin subsidence and sediment routing within the south-central Pyrenean foreland basin during the early phases of crustal shortening using detrital zircon (DZ) U-Pb-He double dating. Here we present and interpret 837 new DZ U-Pb ages, 113 of which are new DZ (U-Th)/He double-dated zircons. U-Pb-He double dating results allow for a clear differentiation between different foreland and hinterland sources of Variscan zircons (280-350 Ma) by leveraging the contrasting thermal histories of the Ebro Massif and Pyrenean orogen, recorded by the zircon (U-Th)/He (ZHe) ages, despite their indistinguishable U-Pb age signatures. Cretaceous-Paleocene sedimentary rocks, dominated by Variscan DZ U-Pb age components with Permian-Triassic (200-300 Ma) ZHe cooling ages, were sourced from the Ebro Massif south of the Ager Basin. A provenance shift occurred at the base of the Early Eocene Baronia Formation (ca. 53 Ma) to an eastern Pyrenean source (north-east of the Ager Basin) as evidenced by an abrupt change in paleocurrents, a change in DZ U-Pb signatures to age distributions dominated by Cambro-Silurian (420-520 Ma), Cadomian (520-700 Ma), and Proterozoic-Archean (>700 Ma) age components, and the prominent emergence of Cretaceous-Paleogene (<90 Ma) ZHe cooling ages. The Eocene Corçà Formation (ca. 50 Ma), characterized by the arrival of fully reset ZHe ages with very short lag times, signals the accumulation of sediment derived from the rapidly exhuming Pyrenean thrust sheets. While ZHe ages from the Corçà Formation are fully reset, zircon fission track (ZFT) ages preserve older inherited cooling ages, bracketing the exhumation level within the thrust sheets to ca. 6-8 km in the Early Eocene. These DZ ZHe ages yield exhumation rate estimates of ca. 0.03 km/Myr during the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene for the Ebro Massif and ca. 0.2-0.4 km/Myr during the Eocene for the eastern Pyrenees. K E Y W O R D S foreland basins, geochronology, provenance analysis, source to sink, tectonics and sedimentation, thermochronology 486 | EAGE THOMSON eT al.

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Sediment provenance and routing evolution in the Late Cretaceous–Eocene Ager Basin, south‐central Pyrenees, Spain

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“…The "hybrid-clast-dominated" petrofacies (HCD) is characterized by high percentages of hybrid sandstone and/or siltstone rock fragments together with limestone rock fragments, and a low abundance of metamorphic and sandstone rock fragments (Roigé et al 2017). The "carbonate extrabasinal enriched" petrofacies (CEE) is dominated by carbonate extrabasinal components, subordinate hybrid sandstone rock fragments, and a very low siliciclastic content.…”

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“…2), "carbonate extrabasinal enriched" sediment entered the basin sourced from the east (east-central Pyrennees). During the deposition of the overlying Jaca turbidite system, this eastern source evolved to a more siliciclastic composition (Roigé et al 2017). The last turbidite sedimentation stage (the Rapitán channel) displays the first composition derived from northern sources (HCD petrofacies), evidenced by the increase in sandstone rock fragments.…”

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“…Different sediment routing systems merge in this basin, providing an example of interaction of different source areas with distinct petrographic signatures, recording several stages of exhumation of the Pyrenean belt (Puigdefàbregas 1975;Roigé et al 2016Roigé et al , 2017. The well-constrained geological setting of the Jaca the Paleozoic basement, a preorogenic Mesozoic succession, and the Cretaceous to early Miocene foreland basin.…”

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“…The Eocene-Miocene Jaca foreland basin of the Southern Pyrenees (Fig. 1) has been thoroughly studied regarding sedimentology, tectonics, and petrography (Mutti 1985;Mutti et al 1985;Remacha and Fernández 2003;Remacha et al 2005;Caja et al 2010;Fontana et al 1989;Gupta and Pickering 2008;Labaume et al 1985Labaume et al , 2016aLabaume and Teixell 2018;Roigé et al, 2016Roigé et al, , 2017Boya 2018, Garcés et al 2020 as it is an outstanding example of a basin infill evolving in an active convergent tectonic setting.…”

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Heavy-mineral provenance signatures during the infill and uplift of a foreland basin: An example from the Jaca basin (southern Pyrenees, Spain)

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Journal of Sedimentary Research

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In the Jaca foreland basin (southern Pyrenees), two main sediment routing systems merge from the late Eocene to the early Miocene, providing an excellent example of interaction of different source areas with distinct petrographic signatures. An axially drained fluvial system, with its source area located in the eastern Central Pyrenees, is progressively replaced by a transverse-drained system that leads to the recycling of the older turbiditic foredeep. Aiming to provide new insights into the source-area evolution of the Jaca foreland basin, we provide new data on heavy-mineral suites, from the turbiditic underfilled stage to the youngest alluvial-fan systems of the Jaca basin, and integrate the heavy-mineral signatures with available sandstone petrography. Our results show a dominance of the ultrastable Ap-Zrn-Tur-Rt assemblage through the entire basin evolution. However, a late alluvial sedimentation stage brings an increase in other more unstable heavy minerals, pointing to specific source areas belonging to the Axial and the North Pyrenean Zone and providing new insights into the response of the heavy-mineral suites to sediment recycling. Furthermore, we assess the degree of diagenetic overprint vs. provenance signals and infer that the loss of unstable heavy minerals due intrastratal dissolution is negligible at least in the Peña Oroel and San Juan de la Peña sections. Finally, we provide new evidence to the idea that during the late Eocene the water divide of the transverse drainage system was located in the North Pyrenean Zone, and areas constituted by the Paleozoic basement were exposed in the west-Central Pyrenees at that time. Our findings provide new insights into the heavy-mineral response in recycled foreland basins adjacent to fold-and-thrust belts.

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The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach

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Recycling an uplifted early foreland basin fill: An example from the Jaca basin (Southern Pyrenees, Spain)

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Sediment provenance and routing evolution in the Late Cretaceous–Eocene Ager Basin, south‐central Pyrenees, Spain

Sediment provenance and routing evolution in the Late Cretaceous–Eocene Ager Basin, south‐central Pyrenees, Spain

Heavy-mineral provenance signatures during the infill and uplift of a foreland basin: An example from the Jaca basin (southern Pyrenees, Spain)

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