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AAPG Bulletin, V. 84, No. 4 (April 2000), P. 566-587.

Depositional Sequence Response to Foreland Deformation in the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Pyrenees, Spain1

Lluís Ardèvol,2 Juan Klimowitz,3 Jesús Malagón,3 and Peter J. C. Nagtegaal4

©Copyright 2000. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved.
1Manuscript received March 3, 1997; revised manuscript received September 30, 1998; final acceptance October 15, 1999.
2GeoPlay, Madrazo 32, Suite 5-3, 08006 Barcelona, Spain; e-mail: [email protected]
3Gessal, Toronga 21, 28043 Madrid, Spain; e-mail: [email protected]
4Petroleum Consultant, Postbus 92, 7700 AB Dedemsvaart, The Netherlands: e-mail: [email protected]
We are indebted to Sabine Krauss, manager of Geoprep, for providing financial support and assistance in the early research work. The paper benefited from constructive discussions with M. Eugenia Arribas, Chris Carr, Mateu Esteban, Nieves López-Martínez, Fabián López-Olmedo, Xabier Orue-Etxeberria, Eduard Remacha, and Jesús G. Senz. Steven Robinson reviewed and improved earlier versions of the manuscript. AAPG reviewers Toni Simó, Berend van Hoorn, and especially William Devlin are acknowledged. We are also grateful to Repsol Exploration SA for providing subsurface data. Field research was partly financed by the project DGICYT PB95-0398 of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. This paper is dedicated to the memory of George P. Allen.

ABSTRACT

During the initial stage of the evolution of the South Pyrenean foreland basin in the Late Cretaceous, foreland shortening resulted in the development of a major thrust sheet consisting of three main fold-thrust uplifts. As a consequence, the basin was segmented into uplift-bounded depocenters (minibasins) that were contemporaneously filled with basin-fill successions of prograding siliciclastics.

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