Field Trips

Tectonic Settings (Structure and related sedimentary basins)


Thrust Systems


Field Trips will be held in the Southern Pyrenees, a world-class area for Thrust and Fold Belt structures. They will be mainly localized along the ECORS deep seismic profile across the Central Pyrenees and dealing with the following structures:

    1. ‣Geometries of the Thrust Front and related Triangle Zone

    2. ‣Piggy-back and break-back thrust sequences (Serres Marginals Thrust Sheet)

    3. ‣Fault related Folds in the Montsec and Boixols Thrust Sheets


  3. ✓Inversion Tectonics


  5. Early stages of the Pyrenean compression (Late Cretaceous) are characterized by the inversion of previous Early Cretaceous extensional basins. Inversion structures are very well preserved in the upper-most thrust sheets of the Southern Pyrenees:


    1. ‣Pedraforca

    2. ‣Boixols

    3. ‣Cotiella


  8. ✓Deep Water Fold and Thrust Belts


  10. Deep Water FTB structures are well preserved in the Ainsa Basin. A complete cross-section through the Ainsa DW FTB reveals structural geometries from small-scale to regional scale and their relationships with turbidite sedimentation and dispersion. Extensional collapse features are commonly developed during the growing of the thrust related anticline. Other topics to be cover are: Growth geometries in the Sant Corneli Anticline and related mass-transport deposits.


  1. ✓Fractured Carbonates

  2. Different fracture patterns in calcareous rocks can be analyzed in the following Fault Related Folds:


    1. ‣Bellmunt Anticline (Eastern Pyrenees)

    2. ‣Sant Corneli Inversion Anticline (Central Pyrenees)

    3. ‣Añisclo Anticline (Central Pyrenees)

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