Try this Geology Guide (http://www.igme.es/internet/actividadesIGME/lineas/GuiasGeo/picosdeeuropa/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html) and this article (http://www.indurot.uniovi.es/actividades/naturaliacantabricae/Revistas/numero1/art1.pdf) both with a lot of bibliography.

Thanks Javier that guide will be useful! Also Pierre, I have managed to find that article already, but thanks too!

Hi Krzysztof,

You may be interested in the following references from colleagues of my Department:

Merino-Tomé, O., Bahamonde, J.R., Fernández, L.P., Samankassou, E. & Villa, E. (2009).- Collapse breccias in phylloid algal mound cores generated by cement dissolution as a record of glacioeustatic sea-level falls during Kasimovian (Pennsylvanian, Picos de Europa Province, Cantabrian Zone, NW Spain). Abstracts Volume of the 27th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Alghero (Italy).

Merino-Tomé, O., Bahamonde, J.R., Samankassou, E. & Villa, E. (2009).- The influence of terrestrial run off on marine biotic communities: An example from a thrust-top carbonate ramp (Upper Pennsylvanian foreland basin, Picos de Europa, NW Spain): An example from a thrust-top carbonate ramp (Upper Pennsylvanian foreland basin, Picos de Europa, NW Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 278 (1-4), 1-23.

Villa, E., Merino-Tomé, O., Bahamonde, J.R., & Sanz-López, J. (2009). Note on recently discovered fossiliferous sections embracing the Moscovian-Kasimovian boundary (Andara Massif, Picos de Europa, NW Spain). Newsletter on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, 27, 25-28.

Martínez-Chacón, M.L., Merino-Tomé, O.A., Villa, E. (2010).- Brachiopod and fusulinid assemblages of Kasimovian (Pennsylvanian) age from the Ándara Massif (Picos de Europa, northern Spain). Scripta Geologica, Special Issue, 7, 53-91.

Good reading,

David

You can also get the updated geological cartography on the area in:

http://cuarzo.igme.es/sigeco/default.htm

Thanks for all of the answers! I have already managed to find all of the recommended articles as well as download geological maps for my desired area, but no less thank you! I'm particularly looking for a detailed overview of the geology around Potes and San Esteban. Maybe that would help to narrow any potential answers and recommendations down.

There is a paper concerning the stratigraphy of the Carboniferous of the Picos de Europa Province: Bahamonde, J.R., Merino, O. and Heredia N. (2007) A Pennsylvanian microbial boundstone-dominated carbonate shelf in a distal foreland margin (Picos de Europa Province, NW Spain). Sedimentary Geology, 198: 167-193.

You cand find information in the geological guide of this national park: Adrados González, L., Alonso Alonso, V., Bahamonde Rionda, J.R., Farias Arquer, P., Fernández González, L.P., Gutiérrez-Claverol, M., Heredia, N., Jimenez Sánchez, M., Meléndez Asensio, M., Merino-Tomé, O.A. y Villa Otero, E. (2010) Parque Nacional de los Picos de Europa: Guía Geológica. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME) Serie Guía Geológicas de Parques Nacionales, 337 pp.

And about the variscan deformation of the calcareous massif: Merino-Tomé, O.A., Bahamonde, J.R., Colmenero, J.R., Heredia, N., Villa, E. and Farias, P. (2009)

Título: Emplacement of the Cuera and Picos de Europa imbricate system at the core of the Iberian-Armorican arc (Cantabrian zone, north Spain): New precisions concerning the timing of arc closure. Geol. Soc. Am. Bulletin, 121: 729-751.

Finally: J.R. Bahamonde and O.A. Merino-Tomé (2005) Red-coloured phylloid-algal mounds in the margin of a steep-fronted Pennsylvanian carbonate platform (Picos de Europa Province, NW Spain). General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna. Abstrac vol.

We are still working in the area

Hi Krzystof,

It may be a bit late to answer your question, but my collegue Oscar published another paper about the geology of Picos de Europa:

Merino-Tomé, Ó., Bahamonde, J.R., Colmenero, J.R., Heredia, N., Villa, E., Farias, P., 2012. Emplacement of the Cuera and Picos de Europa imbricate system at the core of the Iberian-Armorican arc (Cantabrian zone, north Spain): New precisions concerning the timing of arc closure. Geological Society of America Bulletin 121, 729–751.

Here it is attached.

Oscar Merino-Tomé is also on researchgate, you could ask him some questions, as he recently finished to remasterized the geological map of northern Spain. He focused particularly on the Cantabrian Zone... He knows it perfectly, believe me.

Valentin.

Hi Valentin,

Just a small precision: the publication year of that paper is 2009, not 2012.

Cheers,

David

Thanks a lot. I don't know why, but this mistake carried on in my database... And this is probably why I didn't see it in your previous answer !

Cheers.