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An inventory of the marine and transitional Middle/UpperEocene deposits of the Southeastern Pyrenean ForelandBasin (NE Spain)

J. SERRA-KIEL E. MATÓ E. SAULA A. TRAVÉ C. FERRÀNDEZ-CAÑADELLP. BUSQUETS J.M. SAMSÓ J. TOSQUELLA A. BARNOLASG. ÀLVAREZ-PÉREZ J. FRANQUÈS andJ. ROMERO

In the southeastern Ebro Foreland Basin, the marine deposits of Lutetian and Bartonian age show excellent out-crop conditions, with a great lateral and horizontal continuity of lithostratigraphic units. In addition, the rich fos-sil record -mainly larger foraminifers-, provides biostratigraphic data of regional relevance for the whole Paleo-gene Pyrenean Basin, that can be used for the Middle Eocene biocorrelation of the western Tethys. Thiscontribution is a sedimentary and biostratigraphic synthesis of the basic outcrops and sections of the Lutetian andBartonian marine and transitional deposits in the southeastern sector of the Ebro Foreland Basin.

Middle/Upper Eocene. Lithostratigraphy. Biostratigraphy. Chronostratigraphy. Southern Pyrenean basin.

INTRODUCTION

This paper introduces the Middle Eocene (Lutetian andBartonian) marine and transitional outcrops and sections inthe southeastern sector of the Ebro Foreland Basin that werevisited during the Second Meeting of IGCP393, held in Vicin September 1997. The aim of this field trip was to providethe members of IGCP393 with larger foraminifer materialfrom the various Lutetian and Bartonian stratigraphic unitsthat yielded the paleontological samples used to the establishthe so called Shallow Benthic Zones (SBZ) defined by Se-rra-Kiel et al. (1998a, b). This new larger foraminifers newbiozoning of the Paleocene-Eocene of the Tethys is in partbased on the data resulting from the study of this material.The outcrops and sections presented here are groupedin three distinct areas: Empordà, Vic and Igualada (Fig. 1),and they were selected according to the following criteria:

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KEYWORDS

ABSTRACT

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ncies Marines. Grup de Recerca Consolidat de Geodin

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micai An

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lisi de Conques. Facultat de Geologia. Universitat de Barcelona.

Zona Universitària de Pedralbes, 08028 Barcelona

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Institut Cartogr

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gic de Catalunya.

Parc de Montju

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Departamento de Geodin

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mica y Paleontolog

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a, Universidad de Huelva.

Campus Universitario de La R

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bida, 21819 Palos de la Frontera, Huelva

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Instituto Geol

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os Rosas 23, 28003 Madrid

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Departament de Geologia, Area de Paleontolog

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noma de Barcelona

08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona

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Departament de Geoqu

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mica, Petrologia i Prospecci

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Geol

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gica, Facultat de Geologia. Universitat de Barcelona.

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1) They should be ideally situated with regard to boththe lithostratigraphic units and the transgressive-regres-sive cycles that constitute the Middle Eocene marine andtransitional units of this sector of the Ebro ForelandBasin.2) The samples of larger foraminifers contained in theoutcrops and sections should be representative of differentsedimentary environments. Transitional and shallowmarine environment outcrops contain porcellaneous largerforaminifers, such as

Alveolina, Orbitolites, Fabularia, Malatyna,

and

Rhabdorites

. Inner and middle shelf marineenvironments contain nummulitids (

Nummulites, Assilina,Operculina,

and

Heterostegina

) and orthophragminids(

Discocyclina, Orbitoclypeus,

and

Asterocyclina

). Afur-ther consideration was the existence of samples containinggenera of larger foraminifers such as the Bartonian genera

Pellatispira

and

Biplanispira

, whose biostratigraphiclocation had not, at that time, been clearly determined.3) Further, the samples should be, as far as possible,correlatable in the field with magnetostratigraphic dataand with previously published information on plankticforaminifers.4) Outcrops corresponding to the type-localities of species of larger foraminifers of the Middle Eocene definedin this sector of the Ebro Foreland Basin were also selected.

FIGURE 1

Geological sketch showing the situation of the described areas.

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5) Finally, the outcrops and sections selected and sam-pled should be representative of the whole range of Mid-dle Eocene marine and transitional biofacies in the Pyre-nean basin. Thus, there are outcrops and sections thatcorrespond to the outer aphotic shelf, the outer euphoticshelf, the middle and inner shelves, reefal bioconstruc-tions, and the inner carbonate shelf. These material alsoallowed the members of IGCP393 to study other taxons,such as hermatypic and ahermatypic corals, bryozoa andsiliceous sponges.Serra-Kiel et al. (in this volume) give a detaileddescription of the stratigraphic framework of the Lutet-ian and Bartonian transitional and marine units of thissector of the Ebro Foreland Basin. Figure 2, modifiedfrom Vergés et al. (1998), shows the correlationbetween (a) the magnetostratigraphic scale from Candeand Kent (1995) and the Shallow Benthic Zones of Se-rra-Kiel et al. (1998a, b), and (b) the Paleogene lithos-tratigraphic units of the Ebro Foreland Basin situatedbetween the Cadí Thrust Sheet and the Catalan CoastalRanges.The legend to the symbols used in the figures is inFigure 3, and the list of species cited in this issue isincluded as Appendix II at the end of the volume.

THE LUTETIAN MARINE RECORD IN THEEMPORD

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Pals Beach and Rac

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Beach sections

Location: The outcrops are located on the cliff-facebetween the southern end of Pals Beach and Racó Beach(1 in Fig. 4 and Fig. 5A).Lithostratigraphic Unit: Tavertet/Girona LimestoneFormation (Reguant, 1967; Pallí, 1972).Chronostratigraphic Unit: Early, Middle and LateLutetian.Biostratigraphic Unit: SBZ 13, SBZ 14 and SBZ 16.Unconformity-Bounded Units: 1

st

, 2

nd

and 4

th

LutetianCycles.Two stratigraphic sections can be visited. The first sec-tion is located on Racó Beach, and the second one is loca-ted close to the car park at the southern end of Pals Beach(Fig. 5A).

The Rac

ó

Beach Section

In this section (Fig. 5B) it is possible to observe thecontact between the continental units and the marine unitsof the 1

st

Lutetian cycle in the southeasternmost part of the

FIGURE 2

Stratigraphic panel across the Ebro Foreland Basin between the Cad

í

Thrust Sheet and the Catalan Coastal Ranges,modified from Verg

é

s et al., (1998). Biostratigraphic data combined with magnetostratigraphic information (Burbank et al.1992a,b; Verg

é

s and Burbank 1996; Serra-Kiel et al. 1994) define the chronostratigraphic framework of this area. Globalpolarity time scale from Cande and Kent (1995). Larger foraminifers Shallow Benthic Zones (SBZ) from Serra-Kiel et al.(1998a, b).

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